The aim of the NorduGrid project is to build and operate a production grid infrastructure in Scandinavia and Finland. By developing innovative middleware solutions, it enables a 24/7 production-level test bed. Through a common access layer, NorduGrid connects a dynamic set of computing resources, ranging from small test clusters at academic institutions to large farms at several supercomputer centers. This article reviews the architecture and describes the grid services implemented via the NorduGrid middleware. The authors describe a case study of a demanding high-energy physics application.
Index Terms:
Grid, distributed computing, testbed, middleware, Globus
Citation:
Paula Eerola, Bal?zs K?nya, Oxana Smirnova, Tord Ekel?, Mattias Ellert, John Renner Hansen, Jakob Langgaard Nielsen, Anders W??n?nen, Aleksandr Konstantinov, Farid Ould-Saada, "Building a Production Grid in Scandinavia," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 27-35, July/Aug. 2003, doi:10.1109/MIC.2003.1215657 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||