UNICORE and EUROGRID:
Grid Computing in EUROPE
Dietmar  Erwin
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
TERENA Networking Conference 2001
Antalya, Turkey

Contents

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The Web and  ....

... the Grid

The Challenge of the Grid

Challenge: Architecture

Challenge: Security

Challenge: Applications

Challenge: Deployment

Challenge: Standards

Two European Grid Projects

UNICORE Goals

UNICORE delivers

UNICORE delivers

UNICORE delivers

UNICORE delivers

UNICORE Plus
Project Partners

UNICORE Functions

UNICORE Functions

UNICORE Functions

UNICORE Functions

 UNICORE Architecture

EUROGRID Vision
Build a European Grid infrastructure
that gives users
a seamless, secure access to
 High Performance Computing resources
and that advances computational science
in Europe

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EUROGRID delivers
Application GRIDS:
application interfaces, evaluation of GRID solutions
Bio-GRID
Meteo-GRID
CAE-GRID
HPC GRID Infrastructure:
connect HPC centers using UNICORE technology
Development and integration of new components (interactive access, steering, ASP)
Dissemination and exploitation

Bio-GRID
Operate a GRID for biomolecular simulations
Develop interfaces to existing biological and
chemical codes

Meteo-GRID
Develop a relocatable version of DWD‘s weather prediction model
Goal:
‘Weather prediction-on-demand‘ as an ASP solution

CAE-GRID
Coupled simulations of aircrafts
(e.g. structure and electromagnetics)
Goal:
internal HPC portal for EADS engineers

CAE-GRID
Provide HPC portal to engineers at Daimler-Chrysler and partners
Develop Grid technology for computing cost estimates and billing

In Summary

Quo vadis clathris?

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