GUSE
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gUSE is a grid virtualization environment providing a scalable set of high-level Grid services by which interoperation between Grids and user communities can be achieved. Incorporating a more flexible workflow concept and enabling its distribution on clusters and different Grid sites, gUSE is aimed to extend the objectives and features of P-GRADE Portal
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gUSE is developed by the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (LPDS) at MTA
-SZTAKI, Hungary.
gUSE/WS-PGRADE is aimed to solve the limitation problems of P-GRADE Portal:
The current gUSE version is 3.1. For more information on the current version see the gUSE homepage.
-SZTAKI) provides access to Grids including:
Applications include:
See also the list of application specific portals on the gUSE homepage.
Between 2007 and 2010 GASuC, the Grid Application Support Centre (http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/gasuc/) had been supported by one of the world biggest grid project: Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE). Currently in the frame of EGI-Inspire, EDGI, DEGISCO, and SHIWA projects GASuC provides support for existing Service and Desktop Grid users and for grid newcomers to get their applications running on (among others) gLite and BOINC based grids. In close collaboration with application owners, GASuC provides assistance in gridification (i.e. porting legacy applications onto Grid/Cloud/HPC infrastructures). The GASuC team identifies the suitable approaches and tools for the porting process, sets up realistic porting scenarios and organizes workshops and personalized training events for application owners.
Grid researchers, grid tool builders and grid application developers from MTA SZTAKI are involved in the GASuC activity. The GASuC team has long running experience in porting applications onto cluster and grid environments. GASuC members have been participating in numerous successful R&D collaborations since 2001 in the fields of drug discovery, meteorology, and computational chemistry.
For more success stories, see here:
http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/gasuc/?m=7
P-GRADE Portal
The P-GRADE Grid Portal is a grid portal solution that allows users to manage the whole life-cycle of executing a parallel application in a grid, enabling the creation, execution and monitoring of workflows through high-level Web interfaces....
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gUSE is developed by the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (LPDS) at MTA
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest.-History:...
-SZTAKI, Hungary.
Features
gUSE provides a high-level service set based middleware. The portal interface developed for gUse is called the WS-PGRADE Portal, featuring a graphical user interface for editing, configuring and publishing workflows as grid applications.gUSE/WS-PGRADE is aimed to solve the limitation problems of P-GRADE Portal:
- Compared to P-GRADE, gUSE features an improved workflow concept, providing recursive workflow and generic parameter sweep support
- The gUSE implementation is highly scalable: it can be distributed on a cluster, or even on different grid sites
- gUSE provides grid virtualization at workflow level: nodes of a workflow can be executed by Web Services, local resources, service grids and desktop grids.
The current gUSE version is 3.1. For more information on the current version see the gUSE homepage.
Portal installations
The public gUSE portal (operated by MTAHungarian Academy of Sciences
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest.-History:...
-SZTAKI) provides access to Grids including:
- SEE-GRID-SCI (South-Eastern European Grid)
- VOCE (Virtual Organization Central Europe of EGEE)
- NGSNational Grid ServiceThe National Grid Service , now entering its seventh year, aims to help UK academics and researchers carry out their research by providing easy to use access to computational, data and other resources...
(UK National Grid Service) - and others, listed on the gUSE homepage.
Applications
Application specific portals can be created by adding application specific portlets to WS-PGRADE portal, omitting some generic purpose portlets and hiding the underlying workflow within an application specific portlet.Applications include:
- CancerGrid: Grid systems provide increased performance for computer-aided drug design. The multidisciplinary CancerGrid research project aims to develop and refine methods for the enrichment of molecular libraries to facilitate discovery of potential anti-cancer agents. The CancerGrid port of gUSE/WS-PGRADE, designed by the LPDS, is capable of fulfilling the computational requirements of this project, providing a useful tool in anti-cancer drug design.
- ProSim: The usage of in silicoIn silicoIn silico is an expression used to mean "performed on computer or via computer simulation." The phrase was coined in 1989 as an analogy to the Latin phrases in vivo and in vitro which are commonly used in biology and refer to experiments done in living organisms and outside of living organisms,...
tools in protein molecule research facilitates the work of researchers by allowing them to visualise potential interactions and determine the best molecules to investigate in the resource-demanding wet laboratory. To speed up the time consuming in silico experiments, the ProSim project ports them to and runs them on various Grids by building on WS-PGRADE technology.
See also the list of application specific portals on the gUSE homepage.
Related Services
GASuCBetween 2007 and 2010 GASuC, the Grid Application Support Centre (http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/gasuc/) had been supported by one of the world biggest grid project: Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE). Currently in the frame of EGI-Inspire, EDGI, DEGISCO, and SHIWA projects GASuC provides support for existing Service and Desktop Grid users and for grid newcomers to get their applications running on (among others) gLite and BOINC based grids. In close collaboration with application owners, GASuC provides assistance in gridification (i.e. porting legacy applications onto Grid/Cloud/HPC infrastructures). The GASuC team identifies the suitable approaches and tools for the porting process, sets up realistic porting scenarios and organizes workshops and personalized training events for application owners.
Grid researchers, grid tool builders and grid application developers from MTA SZTAKI are involved in the GASuC activity. The GASuC team has long running experience in porting applications onto cluster and grid environments. GASuC members have been participating in numerous successful R&D collaborations since 2001 in the fields of drug discovery, meteorology, and computational chemistry.
For more success stories, see here:
http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/gasuc/?m=7
External links
See also
- Grid ComputingGrid computingGrid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common goal. The grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve a large number of files...
- South-Eastern European Grid
- Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
- National Grid Service UKNational Grid ServiceThe National Grid Service , now entering its seventh year, aims to help UK academics and researchers carry out their research by providing easy to use access to computational, data and other resources...
- MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed SystemsMTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed SystemsThe Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems is part of the Autonomous Research Division , one of the three main divisions of the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences....
- P-GRADE PortalP-GRADE PortalThe P-GRADE Grid Portal is a grid portal solution that allows users to manage the whole life-cycle of executing a parallel application in a grid, enabling the creation, execution and monitoring of workflows through high-level Web interfaces....