Project Name: Grid Ireland

Initiation Date: 09/2005

Description:

The aim of GRID Ireland is to provide a research platform for scientists allowing them to construct virtual organisations removing the boundaries of their home institutes. It operates in support of research projects such as Cosmogrid, which involves Grid computing across many scientific disciplines.

The infrastructure consists of 17 Grid gateways which connect sites (Universities, Colleges, Research Insitutions) to the Grid, allowing local users access to computing resources throughout Ireland and worldwide. National services such as resource brokerage, virtual organisation management, data replica management a software repository are also provided, making Grid-Ireland a self-sufficient Grid.
HEAnet is a partner in Cosmogrid and works with Grid Ireland in building the infrastructure of Grid gateways. We are working closely with Grid Ireland to provide the optimum service to Grid researchers, contributing skills and experience in systems and network engineering and operations.

Participating Organisations:

• Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin

• Department of Computer Science, University College Cork

• IT Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway

• Department of Computer Science, Queens University Belfast

• Department of Mathematical Physics, University College Dublin

• Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

• Dublin City University

• National University of Ireland, Maynooth

• Armagh Observatory

• University of Limerick

• Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland

• Dublin Institute of Technology

• Institute of Technology, Athlone

• Institute of Technology, Carlow

• Institute of Technology, Tralee

• Waterford Institute of Technology

• Institute of Technology, Tallaght

Virtual Organisations

There are currently 6 virtual organisations established within Grid-Ireland

• CosmoGRID - Grid-enabled Computational Physics of Natural Phenomena

• WebCom-G - a new non-von-Neumann execution architecture for the grid

• Marine Grid - Data mining of a strategic resource for Ireland: the National Seabed Survey

• GeneGrid - A fledgling VO for Irish bioinformaticians

• SoloVO - The VO for the unaligned grid user

• TestGrid - A test VO for Grid-Ireland research and development

International Links

• EGEE: Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe

• GGF: Global Grid Forum

• European DataGrid Homepage

• European CrossGrid Homepage

• Cactus Grid Homepage

• Globus Project

Related research

Participants in Grid-Ireland are involved in research into or using grid technologies via the European DataGrid, CrossGrid and EGEE projects.