Nabil Abdennadher, Peter Engel, Derek Feichtinger, Dean Flanders, Placi Flury, Sigve Haug, Pascal Jermini, Sergio Maffioletti, Cesare Pautasso, Heinz Stockinger, Wibke Sudholt, Michela Thiémard, Nadya Williams, Christoph Witzig
8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), Lyon, France, pp. 169-176
May 2008
Abstract
In addition to multi-national Grid infrastructures, several countries operate their own national Grid infrastructures to support science and industry within national borders. These infrastructures have the benefit of better satisfying the needs of local, regional and national user communities. Although Switzerland has strong research groups in several fields of distributed computing, only recently a national Grid effort was kick-started to integrate a truly heterogeneous set of resource providers, middleware pools, and users. In the following article we discuss our efforts to start Grid activities at a national scale to combine several scientific communities and geographical domains. We make a strong case for the need of standards that have to be built on top of existing software systems in order to provide support for a heterogeneous Grid infrastructure.
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- Nabil Abdennadher, Peter Engel, Derek Feichtinger, Dean Flanders, Placi Flury, Sigve Haug, Pascal Jermini, Sergio Maffioletti, Cesare Pautasso, Heinz Stockinger, Wibke Sudholt, Michela Thiémard, Nadya Williams, Christoph Witzig, Initializing a National Grid Infrastructure Lessons Learned from the Swiss National Grid Association Seed Project, Proc. of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), Lyon, France, May 2008, pp. 169-176