Applications:
GRIDBUS TOOLKIT TO SUPPORT UTILITY COMPUTING ON GLOBAL GRIDS
The Gridbus Project is engaged in the design and development of Grid
middleware technologies to support eScience and eBusiness applications. These
include visual Grid application development tools for rapid creation of
distributed applications, competitive economy-based Grid scheduler,
cooperative economy-based cluster scheduler, Web services-based Grid market
directory (GMD), Grid accounting services, Gridscape for creation of dynamic
and interactive testbed portals, G-monitor portal for Web-based management of
Grid applications execution, and the widely used GridSim toolkit for
performance evaluation. The Gridbus Project has also developed a
Windows/.NET-based desktop clustering software and Grid job Web services to
support the integration of both Windows and Unix-class resources for Grid
computing.
The components of the Gridbus Toolkit include:
- Visual Parametric Modeller.
- Global Grid Service Broker.
- .NET-based Enterprise Grid System (Alchemi).
- Grid Workflow Engine.
- Grid Market Directory.
- Grid Bank - Grid Accounting Services Infrastructure.
- Gridscape - a tool for building interacting Grid testbed portals.
- G-Monitor - Grid application portal.
- ExcelGrid - Excel Spreadsheet processing on Enterprise and Global Grids.
- GridSim - Grid Simulation Toolkit .
Descriptions of each of the components and more information can be found
at the respective project pages at www.gridbus.org/.
Gridbus Middleware Usage
The Gridbus Middleware has been used in Grid-Enabling the following
eScience/eBusiness Applications:
- High Energy Physics (School of Physics, UoM).
- Portfolio Analysis (Technical University of Madrid, Spain).
- Natural Language Processing (Language Technology Group, UoM).
- Brain Activity Analysis (Osaka University, Japan).
- Molecular Docking for Drug Discovery (WEHI and CSIRO).
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool.
- Medical Imaging (Howard Florey Institute, UoM).
- Astronomy (Melbourne Uni - School of Physics).
- Natural Resource Modelling (CSIRO, Australia).
- Private Grid Initiative (The Netherlands, www.private-grid.nl/.)
Download information:
The source code,binaries, documentation and manual for ExcelGrid can be
downloaded from www.gridbus.org/middleware/.
Sponsors
Our research and innovation sponsors include: Australian Research Council,
Storage Technology Corp, Sun Microsystems, VPAC, IBM and Singapore Computer
Systems.
The Gridbus Middleware is developed by The Gridbus Project, Grid Computing and
Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab, Dept. of Computer Science and Software
Engineering, the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Contact Information
For further details about the Gridbus project please contact Rajkumar Buyya at
raj@cs.mu.oz.au.
Licenses And Disclaimer
All the components of the Gridbus middleware are distributed under the GNU
General Public License (GPL), www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.
Other libraries included in the distribution are distributed under their own
respective licenses which are also included with the distribution.
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