Grid Computing News : Project Makes Grids Work Together

Researchers from Europe, the U.S. and China are developing software that will make compute grids interoperable, which could boost computing power and collaboration on critical research projects. The two-year-old EU-funded OMII-Europe (Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute) project aims to unite the gLite, Globus and UNICORE grid computing platforms, which are widely used in major European Grid projects. The researchers, led by Alistair Dunlop of the UK's University of Southampton, will give a demonstration later this month at Open Grid Forum (OGF) 22 in Cambridge, Mass. The OMII project is built around five components — a Basic Execution Service, a Data Integration Service, a Virtual Organization Membership Service, an Accounting Service and Portal Capability.... read more