Objective
In Ireland, the universities and other institutions of advanced education and research are represented in Government by the Higher Education Authority (HEA), and computing systems at these institutions are interconnected by the HEAnet. Grid-Ireland is a managed layer above HEAnet that provides grid services.
The aim is to enable communities of users, for example, astrophysicists, geneticists or linguists, to construct virtual organizations above Grid-Ireland. The guiding principle is that there may be many virtual organizations, but there only needs to be one grid layer. The benefit is a research platform for scientists and an object of research for computer scientists, and a natural symbiosis between the two.
Structure
The Grid-Ireland infrastructure is managed from the Operations Centre hosted by the Computer Architecture Group at Trinity College Dublin. The infrastructure consists of 17 Grid gateways which connect sites 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 by the Operations Centre, making Grid-Ireland a self-sufficient Grid.Participating Organizations
The Grid-Ireland sites are:
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Department of Mathematical Physics, University College Dublin |
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Dublin City University |
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National University of
Ireland, Maynooth |
IT Manager |
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Armagh Observatory |
IT Manager |
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University of Limerick |
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Royal College of
Surgeons, Ireland |
IT Manager |
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Dublin Institute of Technology |
IT Manager |
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Institute of Technology,
Athlone |
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Institute of
Technology, Carlow |
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Institute of
Technology, Tralee |
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Waterford Institute of
Technology |
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Institute of Technology,
Tallaght |
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The results of twice-daily tests of the sites can be seen here.
Virtual Organisations
There are currently 11 virtual organisations established within Grid-Ireland. You can find out more about them on this page.Also see CA Acceptance Matrix.
Related Research
After the initial seed research under Enterprise Ireland strategic research grant ST/2000/099, a national project to extend Grid-Ireland to nine sites and to form the first Virtual Organization in Ireland (CosmoGrid) received HEA funding approval in DEC-2001. Subsequently the participants in Grid-Ireland have been involved in research into or using grid technologies via a series of national projects and EU FP5, FP6 and FP7 projects.
The relevant projects were and are:
- Enterprise Ireland [Grid-Ireland]
- Higher Education Authority [CosmoGrid, MarineGrid, e-INIS]
- Science Foundation Ireland [WebCom-G]
- The European Commission [CrossGrid, EGEE-I, EGEE-II, EGEE-III, Int.EU.Grid, EGI-InSPIRE, EMI, StratusLab, Mantychore]
Current Status
All 17 Grid-Ireland sites are running gLite 3.1 grid middleware and TCD, and DIAS are registered in LCG/EGEE.
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