PrintEDGI - European Desktop Grid Initiative
The Project
EDGI develops middleware supporting European Grid Initiative (EGI) and National Grid Initiative user communities that are heavy users of Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) and require an extremely large number of CPUs and cores. EDGI will go beyond existing DCIs that are typically cluster Grids and supercomputer Grids and will extend them with public and institutional Desktop Grids and Clouds. EDGI will integrate software components of ARC, gLite, UNICORE, BOINC, XWHEP, 3G Bridge, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus. The project will deploy a production infrastructure that integrates ARC-, gLite- and Unicore-based Grids with Desktop Grids based on the bridge middleware developed in EDGI.
Our Mission
As a member of the UNICORE community involved in many UNICORE and D-Grid related projects, PC2 will work on the integration of UNICORE-based Grids with Desktop Grids. The corresponding UNICORE user communities are an important part of the European e-science ecosystem and will benefit from our Desktop Grid extension. It means, e.g. that parameter sweep applications that run millions of sequential jobs can be directed from the expensive cluster and supercomputer resources to cheaper desktop resources.
Partners
- MTA SZTAKI (Project Coordinator)
- AlmereGrid
- Cardiff University
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
- Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra
- University of Copenhagen
- University of Paderborn (Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing)
- University of Westminster
- University of Zaragoza
Funding
FP7 Capacities Programme under grant agreement nr RI-261556
