Projects

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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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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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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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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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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Chemomentum

OMII-Europe

A-WARE

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.