The UNICORE Forum e.V. is an organizational member of the Open Grid Forum (OGF).

Forschungszentrum Jülich is a member of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

UNICORE is part of the European Middleware Initiative.

UNICORE Features

Eclipse based graphical client: Grid browser, workflow support, remote system browser, extensible through GridBeans and Eclipse plugins

Commandline client: Job execution, data transfer, scripting, batch mode, extensible

HiLA client API: Java library for elegant programming of UNICORE client applications

Gateway: Web services routing, firewall traversal. Supports AJP. Supports protocol tunneling.

WS(RF): Service container supports WSRF 1.2 and plain web services.

Complete set of Grid services: Job execution(native and OGSA-BES), storage access, file transfer, service registry.

Pluggable filetransfer mechanisms: OGSA-ByteIO and HTTP by default. Optional UDT, GridFTP

Flexible execution backend (XNJS): support for JSDL and HPC-BP. Highly extensible.

Target system interface: support for most common batch systems (LSF, LoadLeveler, SGE, Torque, SLURM, ...)

XUUDB: User database, web services interfaces, shareable between Grid nodes, supports multiple logins and projects, optional DN-only mode

Based on open standards: X.509 Public key infrastructure, TLS, SAML, XACML

Many authorisation options: XUUDB and/or UVOS, ...

GSI proxy certficates: support available as an extension

Powerful workflow features: graphs, loops, conditions

Two-layer architecture: support for custom workflow languages

Service orchestrator: resource brokering, task execution, scalable through deployment of multiple instances

Common information service: GLUE2-compliant, Google Maps frontend.

UVOS: VO Management server, SAML compliant, administration GUI, many features such as VO history