The Grid Infrastructure Project

The Grid Infrastructure Project is a three-year (2002 - 2005) projectinvolving, in conjunction with the Multi-Scale Modeling Project, severalCanadian National Research Council (NRC) institutes in the development ofscientific applications and middleware forsmoothly and effectively executing applications on the Grid. The Gridproject is a collaborative effort between the Research Computing SupportGroup of IMSB and the High Performance Computing Group of IIT.

Grid technologies are also used at NRC to provide controlled remote accessto Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy instruments located atseveral sites. The Research Computing Support Group at NRC is developing acomprehensive software product that provides access to the NMR resources:the SpectroGrid Portal.

In addition, NRC staff have contributed to other projects such as thelargest metacomputer in Canada and the construction of the Global GridCollaboration testbed (GGCT). GGCT is the winner of the HPC ChallengeCompetition at SC2002. GGCT uses Grid techniques to enhance theeffectiveness and user interface of large scale simulations. It contains 70machines on 5 continents and 14 countries, combining a variety ofarchitectures and operating systems, from Sony Playstation 2 to 1024processor Linux clusters.

For more information:
www.grid.nrc.ca