Projects

MMM@HPC

With the accelerating materials development cycles, the development of simulation approaches for predictive, de-novo characterization and optimization of materials and device properties emerges as a grand challenge to European R&D. A unified multi-disciplinary approach towards the deployment of models, tools, algorithms and simulation and visualization techniques is required to transform isolated solutions for specific problems into comprehensive, industry-ready platforms, which are capable of predicting the properties of complex materials on the basis of their constitutive elements.
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PRACE

The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, PRACE, is a unique persistent pan-European Research Infrastructure for High Performance Computing (HPC). Supercomputers are indispensable tools for solving the most challenging and complex scientific and technological problems through simulations. PRACE forms the top level of the European HPC ecosystem which will build on DEISA work. UNICORE and EMI middleware will be used for service provisioning.
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DEISA

In the EU-funded DEISA project the leading national supercomputing centres in Europe joined to deploy and operate and operate a persistent, production quality, distributed supercomputing environment with continental scope. Currently the DEISA Supercomputing Environment consists of about 140000 cores capable of more than 1 PetaFlop/s. As Grid middleware UNICORE is used in DEISA to establish an easy, intuitive, and secure access to the heterogeneous supercomputing e-Infrastructure. UNICORE is enhanced e.g. by an enhanced programming API to fulfill the needs of particular application users.
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D-Grid Integration Project

The BMBF-funded D-Grid Integration Project (or short: DGI) is part of the German eScience intiative named D-Grid. The DGI aims at the provision and support of a Grid infrastructure for e-Science in Germany. In particular, the partners in this project will focus on the integration of applications from the community projects into this emerging Grid infrastructure. UNICORE is one of the three Grid middleware technologies deployed and operated in the D-Grid Infrastructure.
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European Middleware Initiative

The European Middleware Initiative brings together the major European middleware providers - in particular ARC, gLite and UNICORE - to deliver a consolidated set of services that will provide the European and global research communities with unprecedented computing power. EMI components are deployed in the European Distributed Computing Infrastructures, in particular EGI and PRACE. The project will extend the interoperability between grids and other computing infrastructures, strengthen the reliability of services, and solidify a model of comprehensive middleware services for all user communities.
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WisNetGrid - Networks of Knowledge in the Grid

In most scientific fields the term "knowledge" is understood as cross-linked information. According to this definition information becomes knowledge if it is found in a context that makes the information adequately usable. The information is derived from data by assigning a structure and meaning which is originating from the sum of experience of the people. The project WisNetGrid wants to create a common "knowledge space" within the D-Grid infrastructure by developing a service layer for content. It will be based on the technical layer of the shared hardware and middleware resources of D-Grid including UNICORE.
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MoSGrid

The key focus of the project Molecular Simulation Grid (MoSGrid) is on setting up and providing grid services for performing molecular simulations. MoSGrid makes the D-Grid infrastructure available for high-performance computing in the area of molecular simulations, including the annotation of metadata results and its provision for data mining and knowledge generation. MoSGrid will offer a web-based, graphic user interface, which will enable the transparent use of the installed applications. UNICORE6 will be the middleware of choice used to integrate the computing resources.
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Chemomentum

The EU-funded Chemomentum project enhances UNICORE for the usage in the bio-computational science application domain in particular adapting and extending the workflow capabilities while relying on the achievements of the successfully completed OpenMolGRID project.
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A-WARE

In the EU-funed A-WARE project the major focus was on developing a user-focussed workflow orchestration and management system combining the EngineFrame portal technology as a front end and the target systems services (TSS) of the UNICORE Atomic Services (UAS) layer.
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BIS-Grid

The BIS-Grid workflow engine is a set of service extensions to the UNICORE Grid middleware that allows WSRF compliant Grid services to support workflow execution in Service Grids based on the WS-BPEL standard. The service extensions enable UNICORE to act as a proxy for a standard WS-BPEL workflow engine in the backend, making WS-BPEL workflows accessible via hot-deployed WSRF interface services. The key features of the engine do not only comprise workflow execution support for Grids, but also strong authentication and authorization mechanisms based on X.509 certificates, credential delegation, and SAML and XACML support. More information can be found here.

OMII-Europe

The focus of the EU-funded OMII-Europe project was to facilitate the development and porting of a common set of application level services to a number of major Grid software distributions, and further to develop tighter interoperability between the most accepted Grid middleware systems Globus, gLite, UNICORE, and CROWNGrid. Interoperability was achieved by integrating commonly used components for e.g. database access, virtual organisation management, job submission and monitoring, accounting, and portal solutions in all Grid middleware systems.
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VIOLA

The BMBF-funded VIOLA project aimed at the testing of advanced optical networking equipment and network architectures. UNICORE was used as the Grid middleware in this testbed to provide the basis for new advanced applications (e.g. Remote Visualisation and Steering, Virtual Reality), utilizing the enhanced bandwidth possibilities. To achieve this a Meta-Scheduler for scheduling meta-computing applications based on advanced resources was developed in VIOLA, which was integrated in the UNICORE Middleware.
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UniGrids

In the EU-funded UniGrids project the next generation of the UNICORE software based on the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) was developed. This software, called UNICORE 6.0 alpha is compatible with the Web Services Resource Framework (WS-RF) standard to ensure interoperability with other OGSA compliant Grid systems.
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