Northern Ugrid
The term NorduGrid stands for a grid (a network of many individual computers) under the control of the NorduGrid Collaboration . About 35,000 processors ( CPUs ) can currently be reached in this way. Many people associate the name with the collaboration between five Scandinavian countries on the basis of a memorandum of understanding by the Nordic Council to promote grid computing .
The agreement includes the development of our own free grid middleware (the software necessary for the control and monitoring of distributed computing), the Advanced Resource Connector (ARC), which has been in use since August 2002. The main areas of use are in Scandinavia and Switzerland . But there are also some clusters of the grid in Eastern Europe , Russia and Australia . The NorduGrid initiated some spin-off projects that enable further research and development work. This includes in particular the EU project KnowARC and the Nordic Data Grid Facility.
Goal setting
The NorduGrid Collaboration is constantly improving its infrastructure in order to become even more robust, scalable and easier to port to other platforms. The possibilities of the middleware are also being expanded and refined. The aim is to win over new user groups for sharing their resources who cannot yet benefit from the technology today. All developments are distributed as free software . It also supports the further development of the grid standard through contributions to the Open Grid Forum (OGF).
Computing Resources and the Community
Public or private organizations from industry or science with an interest in grid computing are invited to actively participate in the NorduGrid. For this purpose, a virtual organization ( community virtual organization ) was set up, through which the grid can also be accessed by bringing in own computing capacities.
See also
Web links
- NorduGrid homepage
- KnowARC EU project for the further development of the ARC middleware
- Nordic DataGrid Facility