The following lists Grid projects and deployments in the U.S.
- Access Grid
- The Access Grid (AG) is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments.
- AeroDB Trials
- The objective of this work, led by scientists at NASA Ames Research Lab, is to build a prototype software system to automate the process of running computational fluid dynamics (CFD) jobs on Grid resources.
- Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory
- The purpose of ASC is to build a computational collaboratory to bring the numerical treatment of the Einstein theory of general relativity to astrophysics.
- ATLAS Data Challenge 1 Full Event Simulation and Reconstruction
- The atlsim application is used to model the full response of the Atlas detector to monte-carlo-generated events.
- Avaki
- Avaki Corporation, a leader in commercial grid software solutions, and the Globus Project, a research and development project focused on enabling the application of grid concepts to scientific and engineering computing, have agreed to collaborate on the development of OGSI-conformant grid software components for integration into Avaki Data Grid software.
- Aviation Safety Project
- The goal of the NASA Aviation Safety Program (AvSP) is to "develop and demonstrate technologies that contribute to a reduction in aviation accident and fatality rates by a factor of 5 by year 2007 and by a factor of 10 by year 2022".
- BioGridRunner
- BioGridRunner is an experimental distributed computing application for bioinformatics (biogrid), incorporating directory services (data and software), grid computing methods (security, authentication, data transport and remote jobs), and gene sequence and genomic data processing methods.
- Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)
- BIRN is developing a "virtual data grid" similar to others for particle physics, earthquake engineering simulations, etc.
- Blood Flow Simulation Project
- With computers reaching a level of performance that allows to run more complex simulations on less expensive hardware technical simulation becomes interesting for more and more fields outside the traditional realm of defense and aerospace.
- Butterfly.net
- Butterfly.net, an IBM-backed company using Grid technology to run online games, was formed last year to tackle the growing logistical challenges behind hosting online games, which can have tens of thousands of concurrent players and require hundreds of servers.
- Charles Schwab
- IBM is working with Charles Schwab on Grid computing solutions at the financial services giant's headquarters in San Francisco.
- CMS Grid
- The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS, http://cmsinfo.cern.ch/) is a major experiment for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
- DataSynapse
- DataSynapse provides unique enabling technology for commercializing the Grid.
- DOE Science Grid
- The goal of the DOE Science Grid project is to provide this advanced cyber infrastructure as persistent, scalable, community standards based, Grid services to support DOE's large-scale science projects.
- Earth System Grid
- The Earth System Grid II (ESG) is sponsored by the U.S.
- EGSO
- EGSO, the ""European Grid of Solar Observations"", is a Grid test-bed that will lay the foundations of a ""virtual solar observatory"".
- Entropia
- Entropia's grid computing solutions harness and manage the untapped processing power of desktop PCs within an enterprise network to process computationally intensive jobs for business and scientific applications.
- Espresso Model Interface
- The Espresso Modeling Interface provides an intuitive graphical front end to complex scientific models.
- European Union DataGrid (aka EU DataGrid, EUDG, EDG)
- The European Union DataGrid project is one of the largest Grid projects in the world.
- EZ-Grid
- The EZ-Grid project tries to develop a transparent view of Grid resources and a simplified job submission through the EZ-Grid resource broker.
- Fusion Grid, National Fusion Collaboratory (NFC)
- The National Fusion Grid is a SciDAC Collaboratory Pilot project to create and deploy collaborative software tools throughout the magnetic fusion research community.
- Genome Analysis and Databases Upload/Gnare
- The GADU application automatices the process of function assignment to gens in genom analysis.
- GlobeXplorer
- GlobeXplorer is an image technology company based in Walnut Creek, CA, that provides the worldÕs largest online delivery system of earth imagery, with over 200 terabytes of on-line files.
- GPDK
- The Grid Portal Development Kit is designed to provide access to Grid services by using Java Server Pages (JSP) and Java Beans using Tomcat, an open source web application server developed by Sun Microsystems as the reference implementation of Java Servlets v2.2 and Java Server Pages v1.1.
- Grid Application Framework for Java (GAF4J)
- Grid Application Framework for Java (GAF4J) is a lightweight framework that abstracts all grid semantics from the application logic and provides a simpler programming model that lines up smoothly with common JavaTM programming models.
- GRid Interoperability Project (GRIP)
- The GRid Interoperability Project (GRIP) is part of the Information Society Technologies Programme (IST), and the project began in January 2002.
- Grid-based Visualization Framework
- They are currently developing a grid-based visualization framework that will enable scalable visual browsing of spatially and temporally large datasets using Grid resources as back-ends.
- GridFTP User Community
- EU DataGrid: The EU DataGrid project uses GridFTP extensively in their testbeds and in their Monte Carlo production.
- Gridlab
- The GridLab project is a Grid application toolkit and testbed funded by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Programme of the Information Society Technology, contract number IST-2001-32133.
- GridPort
- GridPort is a collection of services, scripts and tools that allow developers to connect Web-based interfaces to the computational grid behind the scenes.
- GridSolve
- GridSolve is a project that aims to bring together disparate computational resources connected by computer networks.
- IBM
- The Globus Toolkit is available across all IBM systems running AIX or Linux.
- Illinois BioGrid
- The Illinois Bio-Grid is a consortium of academic institutions, national labs, and private and public sector organizations.
- Indiana-NCSA Science Portal
- The Science Portal is designed as a personal web server that the user runs on his/her workstation.
- Java CoG Box
- The CogBox is a java tool built on ANL's CoG Kits effort, wrapping up much of the functionality under one unified GUI.
- Laser Gravitational Wave Observatory
- LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) is a distributed network of three-km-scale interferometers occupying two sites in the U.S.
- MGrid
- The MGRID initiative is intended to create a cooperative center of faculty and staff from participating units, with a central core of technical staff, led by a nationally recognized leader in grid computing.
- Molecular Science Software Suite MS3 (Note ""3"" in ""MS3"" should be superscript)
- Molecular Science Software Suite (MS3) is a unique, comprehensive, integrated suite of software that enables computational chemists to focus their advanced techniques on finding solutions to complex issues involving chemical systems.
- MyProxy CoG *
- MyProxy allows to maintain a certificate store that can be used as part of a Grid portal accessible through Web browsers.
- NASA Information Power Grid (IPG) Infrastructure
- NASA's Information Power Grid (IPG) is a high-performance computing and data grid built primarily for use by NASA scientists and engineers.
- NASA IPG Launch Pad
- The IPG LaunchPad was designed using the Grid Portal Development Kit (GPDK).
- National Digital Mammography Archive
- This project was #1 on the 2002 list of InfoWorld's top 100 innovations (http://archive.infoworld.com/features/fe2002iw100.html).
- NEESgrid
- NEESgrid is linking earthquake researchers across the U.S.
- Neuroscience: Assembling Visible Neurons for Simulations
- This project uses Globus technologies to enhance the process of very large-field 3D laser-scanning light microscopy and electron tomography of neurological structures.
- NINF-G
- Ninf-G is a Grid RPC system built on top of Globus Tookit.
- NPACI ROCKS
- NPACI Rocks provides turn-key software installation and update for Linux clusters, as well as standard cluster tools such as the Portable Batch System (PBS), Sun Grid Engine (SGE), Maui Scheduler, and MPICH for Ethernet and Myrinet.
- NPACI-Grid
- The NPACI-Grid's goal is to provide an advanced cyber-infrastructure for the scientific computing requirements of the NPACI community.
- NSF Alliance Grid Infrastructure
- The Alliance's Grid infrastructure is a high-performance computing and data grid built for use by NSF-sponsored researchers at universities and research laborories.
- NSF GrADS
- The goal of the Grid Application Development Software (GrADS) Project is to simplify distributed heterogeneous computing in the same way that the World Wide Web simplifed information sharing over the Internet.
- NSF Middleware Initiative GRIDS Center
- NMI funds the GRIDS center to design, develop, deploy and support a national middleware infrastructure for science and engineering.
- NVO
- The goal of NVO is to enable astronomers to discover data and conducted sophisticated analysis on the Grid.
- Open Bioinformatics Grid
- OBIGrid is a nationwide Japanese system based on the Globus Toolkit and VPN networking.
- Oracle
- Oracle provides substantial Globus Toolkit-based technology to help customers capitalize on the Grid.
- Petascale Data Quest (PDQ)
- The NCSA Alliance Expedition ÒA PACI Petascale Data QuestÓ (PDQ) aims to achieve the technical advances, technology deployment, and application integration required to enable data-intensive applications to harness Alliance and TeraGrid resources, thus transforming these systems from potential Grid resources into demonstrably effective Grid powerhouses.
- Purdue University
- United Devices is linking 2,300 computers at Purdue University to create a computational grid to perform research that previously was performed on supercomputers.
- Scientific Portal: Alliance Expedition
- The NCSA Alliance Expedition ""Scientific Portal"" is the gateway to the Grid on the TeraGrid.
- Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
- SCEC/ITR is an interdisciplinary project that has been awarded $10 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a Community Modeling Environment (CME), an integrated environment in which a broad range of users such as geoscientists, engineers, educators and disaster response teams can have access to first principle physics-based simulations for seismic hazard analysis.
- Storage Resource Broker (SRB)
- SRB is a client-server middleware that provides a uniform interface for connecting to heterogeneous data resources over a network and accessing replicated data sets.
- Subsurface Science and Simulation for Environmental Cleanup
- The Universal Inverse Code (UCODE) is designed to simulate the movement of contaminants and groundwater in the subsurface to estimate environmental and health risks.
- Symphony
- The Symphony framework is a Java based software abstraction layer for Grids.
- TeraGrid Applications
- TeraGrid has a suite of initial applications that are heavily dependent on the Globus Toolkit, as follows: PPM: GT2, MPICH-G2, GASS, GridFTP, GSI-OpenSSH ENZO: GT2, GridFTP, MPICH-G2 NVO Montage: GT2, GRAM, GSI, MPICH-G2, Condor-G Cactus: Globus APIs, GridFTP, MPICH-G2, GSI-OpenSSH RTBM: GT2, GT3, Condor-G, MPICH-G2 EOL: GT2, GT3, GRAM, MPICH-G2 LSMS: GT2, GT3, GridFTP, MPICH-G2, GSI-OpenSSH, Condor-G QUAKE: GT2, GT3, GridFTP, MPICH-G2, GSI-OpenSSH, Condor-G NekTar: GT2, GT3, GRAM, GridFTP, GRIP, MPICH-G2, GSI-OpenSSH GADU: GT2, GT3, GridFTP, GRAM, MPICH-G2, GSI-OpenSSH, Condor-G, Chimera MM5: GT2, GT3, GridFTP, GRAM, MPICH-G2, GSI-OpenSSH.
- The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
- The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is a research facility at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) reporting to the Office of the Vice President for Research.
- TIGRE Testbed Portal
- The Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education (TIGRE) project seeks to build a computational grid that integrates computing systems, storage systems and databases, visualisation laboratories and displays, and even instruments and sensors across Texas.
- United Devices
- United Devices Grid MP platform is used to aggregate compute resources on a network to create an enterprise grid capable of running a wide range of high-performance computing applications in life sciences, geosciences, manufacturing, financial services, chemical engineering and other industries.
- XCAT
- XCAT provides an implementation of a standard suggested by the Common Component Architecture Forum defining a minimal set of standard features that a High-Performance Component Framework has to provide, or can expect, in order to be able to use components developed within different frameworks.
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