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| 28/May/2009 | P-GRADE Portal 2.8 released
SZTAKI is happy to announce the next release of P-GRADE Grid Portal, version 2.8.
In order to support collaborative development (sharing workflows) and for the effective building of user communities the P-Grade Portal has been integrated with a repository of well known and established DSpace technology. Every user of the portal can download the workflows have been created and published by the others. However only trusted users (have been registered with the DSpace repository) are entitled to publish (upload) workflows.
By default the P-Grade Portal installation package links the repository access to the P-Grade Portal Community of the DSpace server maintained by the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems of the MTA SZTAKI (see https://Pgrade-DSpace.sztaki.hu ). However any organization installing the P-Grade portal may decide to use an own or a third party DSpace server where a P-Grade Portal Community has been created.
As the DSpace is highly indexed by the Google authors of workflows have been published in a DSpace repository may attract extended audience.
For futher details and downloads please consult the SourceForge site available at
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| | 14/May/2009 | The EGEE and
EDGeS
projects organize a joint summer school on grid application support between 29th of June and 4th of July in Budapest.
EGEE operates the largest service grid in Europe. EDGeS integrates service grids with PC based desktop grids.
The subject of the summer school is to give insights to the grid technologies used by these projects (gLite, BOINC, XtremWeb and EDGeS)
as well as to the tools and programming environments by which user can develop and run applications on this enhanced grid infrastructure.
P-GRADE Portal is one of the grid programming tools that are used at the school.
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| | 11/Feb/2009 | Basic Introduction to Grid Computing and the EGEE Project
A lecture and hands-on tutorial on Grid computing and P-GRADE Portal is organized at the 4th EGEE User Forum
in Catania on the 2th of March. The free training event provides a good opportunity to learn about the concepts of grids, scientific and industrial grids based on the
gLite technology and about the development and usage of grid applications.
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What is the P-GRADE Grid Portal?
The P-GRADE Grid Portal is a web based, service rich environment for the development,
execution and monitoring of workflows and workflow based parameter studies on various grid platforms.
P-GRADE Portal hides low-level grid access mechanisms by high-level
graphical interfaces, making even non grid expert users capable of defining and executing
distributed applications on multi-institutional computing infrastructures.
Workflows and workflow based parameter studies defined in the P-GRADE Portal are
portable between grid platforms without learning new systems or re-engineering program code.
Technology neutral interfaces and concepts of the P-GRADE Portal help users cope with the large variety
of grid solutions. More than that, any P-GRADE Portal installation can access multiple
grids simultaneously, which enables the easy distribution of complex applications on several platforms.
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Main features and releases
- Interoperability with Globus Toolkit 2, Globus Toolkit 4, LCG and gLite grid middlewares
- Secured grid access mechanisms using X.509 certificates and proxy credentials
- Built-in graphical editor to design and define grid workflows and grid parameter studies
- Integrated workflow manager that orchestrates the fault tolerant execution of grid applications
- On-line workflow and job monitoring and visualization facilities
- Multi-grid access mechanism to utilize multiple grid implementations simultaneously
- MPI execution in Globus and gLite grid environments
- Graphical MDS and BDII grid information system browser
- Support to include local and remote storage files into grid applications
- User level storage quota management to protect against server overloading
- Legacy application publish and reuse capabilities by the GEMLCA mechanism
- Workflow import-export-archive service
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Current status
P-GRADE Grid Portal is the official portal and serves the user communities of several
multi-institutional grid infrastructures all over the world. It is extensively used in training
and education by international grid research projects to demonstrate the capabilities of state of the art grid infrastructures
and the concepts of grid application development. Several P-GRADE Portal installations are available for production and training purposes.
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Developers
The GPL licensed P-GRADE Portal is developed by an open consortium coordinated by the
Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems at MTA-SZTAKI, Hungary.
The development of P-GRADE Grid Portal is supported among others by the EU financed SEE-GRID,
Coregrid and EGEE projects.
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