Name:Grid2Win
Description:Nowadays, many research domains are capitalizing on grid computing, from engineering to medicine, from Financial Services to High Energy Physics. However, to be able to properly use the current Grid infrastructures, usually it is required that the user has advanced skills on Unix based systems, since all available middleware are based on such platform. Even if the Linux distributions are in full growth, many users still prefer to use Microsoft Windows.
The Grid2Win project aims at opening the grid services to Microsoft applications and integrating MS Windows clusters into existing Grid e-Infrastructures. Such initiative may involve the Windows’ users in the huge computational power offered by Grid computing. To do so, the Grid2Win group is working on porting the gLite middleware to Windows platforms.
The gLite middleware is a collection of software tools and services developed by the EGEE project. gLite is built on top of Globus Toolkit (GT) in order to solve issues related to the security of grid, data management and many other aspects.
The Grid2Win project is still in development state, but many features are already implemented.
The User Interface (UI) is fully functional with a Graphical Interface built on it. Also the Torque/MAUI based Computing Element is implemented and the Compute Cluster Server (CCS) - the first native Windows batch system - was integrated into the gLite middleware.^
Abstract:Nowadays, many research domains are capitalizing on grid computing, from engineering to medicine, from Financial Services to High Energy Physics. However, to be able to properly use the current Grid infrastructures, usually it is required that the user has advanced skills on Unix based systems, since all available middleware are based on such platform. Even if the Linux distributions are in full growth, many users still prefer to use Microsoft Windows.<BR/> The Grid2Win project aims at opening the grid services to Microsoft applications and integrating MS Windows clusters into existing Grid e-Infrastructures. Such initiative may involve the Windows’ users in the huge computational power offered by Grid computing. To do so, the Grid2Win group is working on porting the gLite middleware to Windows platforms. <BR/>The gLite middleware is a collection of software tools and services developed by the EGEE project. gLite is built on top of Globus Toolkit (GT) in order to solve issues related to the security of grid, data management and many other aspects.<BR/> The Grid2Win project is still in development state, but many features are already implemented.<BR/> The User Interface (UI) is fully functional with a Graphical Interface built on it. Also the Torque/MAUI based Computing Element is implemented and the Compute Cluster Server (CCS) - the first native Windows batch system - was integrated into the gLite middleware.^
Created:2010-05-01
Last updated:2012-05-24
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