GridGuide global science
Welcome to the Global Science section of GridGuide. Here you can browse through the science articles available on the GridGuide website. Simply click to view a complete article.
About the Large Hadron Collider (CERN)
Where is the LHC? The LHC is installed in a tunnel 27 km in circumference, buried 50–150 metres below ground. Located between the Jura mountain range in France and Lake Geneva in[...]
Activities and collaborations (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre)
High level scientific activity goes on at the Centre for International collaborations in the areas of high energy physics experiments at large accelerators in other parts of the world. Our[...]
ARCS Grid (ARCS)
ARCS operates the Australian Grid linking High Performance Compute (HPC) facilities at VPAC (Melbourne,Victoria), INTERSECT (Sydney, New South Wales), QCIF (Brisbane, Queensland), iVEC[...]
ATLAS (Nikhef)
Nikhef is a Tier-1 site for ATLAS.The ATLAS experiment will produce millions of gigabytes of data per year in the quest to answer one of the most elusive scientific questions of our times: where is[...]
ATLAS (Queen Mary, University of London)
Queen Mary's Physics Department is very active in the ATLAS experiment based at CERN as part of the LHC.ATLAS is an experiment in the final stages of preparation at CERN to study proton-proton[...]
Avian flu drug discovery (Academia Sinica Grid Computing)
Computer modeling of in-silico high-throughput screening (HTS) drug discoveryASGC plays a massive role in the use of grid computing to speed the discovery of drugs active against bird flu. Members[...]
BaBar (Queen Mary, University of London)
Queen Mary has a very active role in the BaBar experiement.The BaBar experiment has been built, primarily, to measure CP-violation, a delicate asymmetry between matter and antimatter. This asymmetry[...]
BiG Grid and VL-e (Nikhef)
Nikhef is a founding partner of the BiG Grid project.BiG Grid is the Dutch national grid initiative, with a funding of roughly 30 million Euro. In involves the deployment and operation of a large[...]
Bio-informatics (Tel-Aviv University)
The Edmond J. Safra Program for Bioinformatics was established in Tel Aviv University (TAU) in the fall of 2005. The program has been made possible by a generous donation from the Edmond J. Safra[...]
Bioinformatics (Institute of Informatics SAS)
GeomCell in EGEE - Muscle Cell Modeling on the GridThis page provides information on grid implementation of GeomCell - the application for muscle cell modeling. Geometric Modeling of Muscle Cells[...]
CDF (University Of Glasgow)
The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experimental collaboration studies high energy particle collisions at the Tevatron, the world’s highest energy particle accelerator currently in[...]
CESNET Grid acitivities (CESNET)
METACentrum The project METACentrum is the activity of the research intent CESNET that covers the majority of activities concerning Grids, super-, cluster- and grid computing and/or high performance[...]
Connecting with MYREN (University Putra Malaysia)
MYREN is Malaysia's National Research and Education Network, used by academia and research institutions for collaborative research. Several of Malaysia's largest universities, including Universiti[...]
Earth science (Institute of Informatics SAS)
When a flood is going to happen, decision makers have to decide what are the most appropriate reactions: evacuation of the population, reinforcement of dykes, etc. The ANFAS project (datA fusioN[...]
EELA (REUNA)
Funded by the European Commission with 1.7 million Euro, the EELA Project aimed to build a digital bridge between the existing e-Infrastructure initiatives that are in process of[...]
EELA-2 (REUNA)
EELA-2 (E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin America) aims at building a high capacity, production-quality, scalable Grid Facility, providing round-the-clock, worldwide access to distributed[...]
EGEE (Nikhef)
The design and development of grid security middleware has been a strong point with Nikhef since the early days of the Datagrid project. Key components such as LCAS/LCMAPS and glexec have been[...]
Environmental Modeling (University of Naples Parthenope)
At the University of Napoli Parthenope, we are using grid computing to power environmental models, using the added power of computer clusters to calculate more difficult scenarios and learn more[...]
g-Eclipse - Access the power of the Grid (University of Cyprus)
g-Eclipse is a framework that allows users and developers to access Computing Grids and Cloud Computing resources in a unified way. The framework itself is independent from a certain Grid[...]
Grid activities (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
IFJ PAN is involved as a contractor in the BalticGrid-II project: This is the second phase of the BalticGrid project, which is designed to increase the impact, adoption and reach, and to[...]
Grid activities (Institute of Physics Belgrade)
The research at SCL conforms with overall aim to be on the forefront of the development of scientific computing as a novel research tool. All the research activities being pursued share the same[...]
Grid computing (NDGF office)
The Nordic Data Grid Facility, NDGF, is a collaboration between the Nordic contries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden). The motivation for NDGF is to ensure that researchers in the[...]
Grid computing (Lund University)
Modern high-energy physics projects can not succeed without very substantial computational and data storage facilities. Our division takes a very active part in development of Grid[...]
Grid middleware development (University of Naples Parthenope)
Grid computing has matured well over the past years, with its capabilities, not relegated to scientific applications, but also finding their way into business products. Today, grid computing[...]
GRID-CSIC (Institute of Physics of Cantabria)
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has deployed a distributed computing infrastructure to facilitate CSIC researchers the accomplishment of scientific projects requiring computing resources[...]
GRID@IFCA (Institute of Physics of Cantabria)
The year 2001 is when IFCA got involved in the field of distributed computing and grid techniques. First of all IFCA took part in the proposal of one European Project within the V Framework Programme[...]
gridBench - Benchmarking Grid resources (University of Cyprus)
GridBench is a tool for evaluating the performance of Grids and Grid resources through benchmarking. It facilitates the easy definition of parameterized execution of benchmarks on the Grid, while at[...]
Health-e-Child (HealthGrid)
Health-e-Child uses the Gateway, a grid-based platform developed by maat Gknowledge together with other European partners, to store, retrieve and manipulate medical records. One of the most[...]
HEP (Tel-Aviv University)
LHC is the large Hadron Collider. The ATLAS detector in LHC is a particle physics experiment that will explore the fundamental nature of matter and the basic forces that shape our universe. The ATLAS[...]
High Energy Physics (Lund University)
High-energy physics investigates the basic constituents of matter, and the interactions between them. The present main research activities at the division are to take part in the ALICE and ATLAS[...]
Human Language Technologies (SAGrid)
Human Language Technology (HLT) makes it easier for people to interact with machines. This can benefit a wide range of people - from illiterate farmers in remote villages who want to obtain[...]
Hungarian Grid Competence Center (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Hungarian Grid Competence Center (MGKK) BME is a founding member of Hungarian Grid Competence Center. MGKK was established in 2003 by the five most active Grid centres of Hungary in order to[...]
Hungrid Virtual Organization (KFKI RMKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics)
The Hungrid VO is the first official Hungarian Virtual Organization of EGEE. The aim of this VO is to collect all those users of the Hungarian LCG sites who cannot be registered in any of the other[...]
IFCA&CMS Tier-2 (Institute of Physics of Cantabria)
CMS Tier-2The Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva is the largest scientific instrument on the planet. When it begins operations, it will produce roughly 15 Petabytes (15 million Gigabytes) of[...]
IFCA&DORII (Institute of Physics of Cantabria)
Deploying of Remote Instrumentation Infrastructures - DORII The DORII project is supported by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme. The project aims to deploy[...]
IFCA&EGEE (Institute of Physics of Cantabria)
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE - EGEE Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) is the largest multi-disciplinary grid infrastructure in the world, which brings together more than 140 institutions to[...]
IFCA&EUFORIA (Institute of Physics of Cantabria)
EU Fusion for ITER Applications - EUFORIA EUFORIA (EU Fusion fOR Iter Applications) is a project funded by European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) which will provide a[...]
IISAS Grid activities (Institute of Informatics SAS)
International projects: SEMCO-WS - Semantic composition of Web and Grid Services (1.2.2007-31.12.2009), APVV project APVV-0391-06 INTAP - Application framework for interactive Grid[...]
Intensive Care Window(ICW) (University of Cyprus)
ICW is a front-end stand alone application equipped with essential interface points and intercommunication functions that enable sustainable and uninterrupted real-time medical information[...]
IS (University of Naples Parthenope)
Instrument Service In order to abstract different kinds of instruments (weather stations, surface current radars and wind profilers) a design leveraging on a plug-in based framework is needed[...]
JFSS (University of Naples Parthenope)
Job Flow Scheduler Service To enhance the flexibility and to minimize the impact on the grid configuration, we implemented a custom job flow scheduler service (JFSS). Using this tool the entire[...]
KFKI RMKI (KFKI RMKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics)
At our institute the following fields are covered: Experimental Particle Physics electron-positron physics in the 100-200 GeV energy range; neutrino physics; low energy antiproton physics;[...]
LHCb (University Of Glasgow)
LHCb is the B physics experiment of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which is currently being built at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN). The collaboration performing the[...]
LOFAR (Nikhef)
LOFAR is a low frequency array of many simple antennae distributed over a large area. Together, they form a radio telescope of unprecedented scale that will shed new light to the field of radio[...]
Main research directions (University of Latvia)
- Mathematical foundations of computer scienceIn this area the research focuses on quantum algorithm theory: the methods of evaluating algorithm complexity will be developed and search for efficient[...]
MDDDS (University of Naples Parthenope)
Multi Dimensional Data Distribution Service We developed a grid aware component leveraging on our Resource Broker Service implementing a wrap over the world-wide spread OpenDAP scientific data[...]
Medicinal Herb Analysis with Grid Technology (Kasetsart University)
The use of medicinal herb in curing the disease is part of Thai’s way of life since the ancient time. This is especially true in the remote rural area where the drug is expensive and the ancient[...]
National e-Science Programme (REUNA)
On year 2006 REUNA stated: "An e-Science Programme does not thrust a nation's development. It makes development possible". Following this statement, actually REUNA's vision of e-Science, ever since[...]
Neutrinos (University Of Glasgow)
The Universality of Glasgow's physics group has extensive experience in neutrino physics and has carried out neutrino factory R&D research since 1999. They are members of the UK Neutrino Factory[...]
NIHAM (National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering)
The Hadronic Physics Department (HPD) of the “Horia Hulubei” National Institute of R&D for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, although recently founded, is based on the existing structure of[...]
Other activities (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
IFJ PAN is involved a wide variety of projects funded by the European Commission. These projects include: 1. Programme: CAPACITIES - Research Infrastructures Project: "SPIRAL2 Preparatory[...]
RBS (University of Naples Parthenope)
Resource Broker Service The discovery and selection of needed resources, taking into account optimization criteria, local policies, computing and storage availability, resource reservations, and[...]
RINGrid (REUNA)
RINGrid - Remote Instrumentation on Next Generation GridsThe principal aim of the RINGrid project was to provide recommendations concerning the usage of scientific instrumentation in a Grid[...]
RMKI Virgo Group (KFKI RMKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics)
The VIRGO collaboration was set up between Italian and French research teams, for the realization of an interferometric gravitational wave detector. The Virgo detector for gravitational waves[...]
SCL Active Projects (Institute of Physics Belgrade)
1. CX-CMCS: EU Centre of Excellence for Computer Modeling of Complex Systems http://cx-cmcs.phy.bg.ac.rs/ European Commision, FP6 project 2006-2009 2. EGEE-III:[...]
SCL facilities (Institute of Physics Belgrade)
High performance computing at Scientific Computing Laboratory (SCL) consist of the servers and worker nodes making up the AEGIS01-PHY-SCL and AEGIS07-PHY-ATLAS Grid sites. The sites supports the[...]
Seismology (TUBITAK ULAKBIM)
Seismology is the study of seismic phenomena that appear in the form of earthquakes and vibrations of the Earth either due to natural or artificial causes. Scientists in the seismology field need[...]
Study for a Chilean VO (REUNA)
The Chilean necessity of a technological infrastructure to support collaborative research in Astronomy (KAWAX - Astronomy)Years of implementation: 2007 - 2008Financing Fund: Bicentennial Program of[...]
T2K (Queen Mary, University of London)
The newest experiment being worked on a Queen Mary is the new Neurino experiment based in Japan, T2K. The most important measurement for the neutrino community in the next few years will be the[...]
The Hellasgrid Project (Greek Research & Technology Network)
The Hellasgrid Project: Building a National Grid Infrastructure Hellasgrid's goals: Promote Grid technologies in Greece, with particular emphasis on the public sector e-Government benefits to[...]
UCRAV (REUNA)
UCRAV is a scientific instruments grid grid which allows you to visualize the analyses of the samples you have sent to our laboratories online and in real time in a secure, reliable and[...]
