Distributed and Parallel Systems Group

Previous Projects

edutain@grid

Edutain@grid is an exciting and ground-breaking project which aims to open the benfits of GRID technology to the wider public.

GRID technology enables high performance computing that until now has typically only been available to academia and large industry. Edutain@grid is developing middleware that will give other application developers access to this powerful technology without the need for Grid infrastructure management. Edutain@grid also recognises that application interactivity and responsiveness expectations will need to be maintained. Its success will be demonstrated through the development of two pilot applications for massively multi-player interactive gaming and e-learning, which the project defines as examples of Real-Time Online Interactive Applications (ROIAs). 

The Distributed and Parallel Systems group of the University of Innsbruck is coordinating this project.

 More informations can be found here.

CoreGrid

The CoreGRID Network of Excellence (NoE) aims at strengthening and advancing scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid and Peer-to-Peer technologies. To achieve this objective, the Network brings together a critical mass of well-established researchers from forty-one institutions who have constructed an ambitious joint programme of activities. This joint programme of activity is structured around six complementary research areas that have been selected on the basis of their strategic importance, their research challenges and the recognised European expertise to develop next generation Grid middleware, namely:

• knowledge & data management;
• programming models;
• architectural issues: scalability, dependability, adaptability;
• Grid information, resource and workflow monitoring services;
• resource management and scheduling;
• Grid systems, tools and environments.

The Network is operated as a European Research Laboratory (known as the CoreGRID Research Laboratory) having six institutes mapped to the areas that have been identified in the joint programme of activity. The Network is thus committed to set up this Laboratory and to make it internationally recognised and sustainable. It is funded by a European grant (8.2 M euros) assigned to the CoreGRID NoE, for a duration of four years (starting September 1st, 2004), to cover the integration costs while the network partners cover the expense required to perform the research associated with the joint programme of activities.

The DPS group of the University of Innsbruck led by Prof. Thomas Fahringer joined CoreGRID on Sept 1st, 2006.
DPS is jointly conducting research with numerous other CoreGRID partners in the area of resource management and scheduling as well as Grid information, resource and workflow monitoring.

More information can be found here.

ASG - Adaptive Services Grid

EU IST Integrated Project (IST-2002-004617). The goal of Adaptive Services Grid (ASG) is to develop a proof-of-concept prototype of an open development platform for adaptive services discovery, creation, composition, and enactment. Based on semantic specifications of requested services by service customers, ASG discovers appropriate services, composes complex processes and if required generates software to create new application services on demand.

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AURORA

AURORA Advanced Models, Applications and Software Systems Systems for High Performance Computing. Long term reseach program funded by the Austrian Science Fund. Project leader: software tools for the Grid (performance measurement/instrumentation/prediction/analysis, scheduling parameter studies, networking and testing).

CEGC

The goals of the CEGC (Central European Grid Consortium) are to:

• coordinate Grid infrastructures of partner countries within a Central-European Grid Consortium
• jointly develop a Grid infrastructure
• jointly participate in EU 6th Framework Grid projects as well in other international Grid projects.

EC-GIN

The Internet communication infrastructure (the TCP/IP protocol stack) is designed for broad use; as such, it does not take the specific characteristics of Grid applications into account. This one-size-fits-all approach works for a number of application domains, however, it is far from being optimal - general network mechanisms, while useful for the Grid, cannot be as efficient as customised solutions. While the Grid is slowly emerging, its network infrastructure is still in its infancy. Thus, based on a number of properties that make Grids unique from the network perspective, the project EC-GIN (Europe-China Grid InterNetworking) will develop tailored network technology in dedicated support of Grid applications. These technical solutions will be supplemented with a secure and incentive-based Grid Services network traffic management system, which will balance the conflicting performance demand and the economic use of resources in the network and within the Grid.
EC-GIN - factsheet

EuroNGI

(Michael Welzl)

The main target of EuroNGI - Design and Engineering of the Next Generation Internet is to create and maintain the most prominent European centre of excellence in Next Generation Internet design and engineering, leading towards a leadership in this domain.

In the IP-TV++ project, a mechanism for increasing the robustness of digital video data will be developed. This project is carried out in collaboration with Planet-Digital with funding from TransIT.

K-Wf Grid

EU IST STREP Project (*IST*-2002-511385). The goal of the project is to provide a Grid environment which assist the users in composing
workflow Grid applications, and which schedules and executes the applications on the Grid. All the phases of application processing will be
strongly based on knowledge and  semantic technologies. Applications used in K-Wf Grid belong to different fields, including scientific simulations
 (flood forecasting simulation) an industrial applications (ERP and traffic management).

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Tailor-made Congestion Control (for the Grid)

In the Tailor-made Congestion Control project, we develop a "Network Adaptation Layer" which chooses and tunes congestion control mechanisms based on requirements and traffic specifications from applications. This project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). We ensure applicability of the results to Grid Computing via the add-on project "Tailor-made Congestion Control for the Grid", which is funded by the Tyrolean Science Fund.

APART: Real Tools

EU IST APART Automatic Performance Analysis, Specification and Modeling of Cluster and Grid Architectures/Applications.

MEP-VPN

In the MEP-VPN (Middlebox End-to-end Performance Enhancements for VPNs) project, mechanisms for dynamically and transparently adapting VPN data streams to changes in the network conditions will be developed. This project is carried out in collaboration with phion Information Technologies with funding from TransIT.