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Projects and Initiatives
- DutchGrid
- The platform for grid and large-scale distributed
computing amongst multiple independent organizations.
The platform organizes periodic events (DutchGrid Days)
to foster collaboration amongst researchers and end-users
in the Netherlands.
- DutchGrid Certification
Authorities
- The DutchGrid CA provides authentication services to the DutchGrid
community. Go here to apply for X.509 certificates for "Globus"
and grid use. The DutchGrid CA serves the Dutch Grid research
community only.
- DutchGrid Events
- Many Grid-related events are organised by
GridForum Nederland, the
Virtual Laboratory for e-Science
and the DutchGrid Platform. Tutorials, admin events, etc. are
open for Grid enthousiasts in the Netherlands.
- The EU DataGrid project
- DataGrid is a project funded by European Union. The
objective is to enable next generation scientific exploration
which requires intensive computation and analysis of shared
large-scale data sets, from hundreds of TeraBytes to
PetaBytes, across widely distributed scientific communities.
Local workgroups of the DataGrid
project maintain their information repository
here.
- EU DataTAG
- The DataTAG project is there to create a large-scale intercontinental
testbed for data-intensive Grids. Focus is on networking and
interoperability. The University of Amsterdam IvI AIR group
participates.
- EGEE
- The vision of the EGEE Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (III)
is to create and deploy Grid technologies to enable the widespread
uptake of e-Science applications throughout the European Research Area.
- ICES/KIS Virtual Lab (VLAM-G)
- The Virtual Lab (an ICES/KIS 2 WTCW project) builds a collaborative
analysis environment for applied experimental science. It was the
first to build a user-oriented grid infrastructure in the Netherlands.
- NCF Grid Investment Project
- The National Computer Facilities
Foundation (NCF) supports Grid development and deployment
in the Netherlands through their "Grid investment Project".
Project partners include SARA,
NIKHEF and
ASCI.
- SecureGrid
- A Road Towards Industrial-grade Security for Grid.
- DAGGR
- Dynamic Authorisation for Grids, Groups and Resources. In this
project (when approved) for four key concepts for interoperation
are addressed: credential management, managing authorisation
attributes, taking the authorisation decisions, and the enforcement
thereof. A fifth task addresses the specifics of federating
multiple 'ad-hoc' virtual organisations in order to give a
user-centric view on the entire Grid.
- The Virtual Laboratory
for E-Science (VL-E)
- The proposed VL-E project will develop the necessary knowledge
for the E-Science infrastructure in the Netherlands.
- Other projects
- A multitude of other Grid and Grid-related projects exists
world-wide. A list of references is provided for further
browsing.
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DutchGrid and DutchGrid CA are operated as a courtesy service
of NIKHEF by
David Groep.