EGEE'06

Applications development on the European Interactive Grid

26 Sept 2006, 11:25

10m

Conf. Room 3 (CICG)

Oral Users & Applications Grid Applications (NA4)

Speaker

Dr Isabel Campos Plasencia (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria - CSIC)

Description

The applications team of the int.eu.grid project is dedicated to promote the use of the Grid for those demanding scientific applications involving interativity and powerfull visualization needs. Grid added value in the int.eu.grid project means not only porting the application to a Grid infrastructure. It also implies to make profit of the development of an interactive environment for job submission, providing powerful graphics and visualization solutions. Being such services expensive from the point of view of Network connectivity we need to define some measure of Quality of Service to asses the reliability of the Network connection when facing this kind of challenges. So far we have engaged a number of applications which cover different aspects of needs in concerning the grid implementation of job submission, interactive steering, and visualization. We have catalogued the applications according to four area groups: High Energy Physics, Nuclear Fusion, Medical Applications and Environment. We have also included a section regarding prospective new applications which are currently under consideration, in particular collaborative environments with applications to medical diagnosis and Astrophysics.

Summary

The project int.eu.grid has started the first of May 2006, and will extend
over the next two years with the purpose of deploying a stable infrastructure
for interactive support of applications on the Grid.

During the first months of the project the applications team has
identified a total of seven applications in four research areas:
High Energy Physics, Nuclear Fusion, Medicine and Environment.
We describe here one application belonging to each research area in
terms of computing needs and interactive grid added value, in particular
what concerns steering, graphical display and visualization needs. The
High Energy Physics application is devoted to checking Quality of Service.
On the environmental sector we have included applications analysing
environmental risk related to climate change scenarios, flooding situations
and dispersion of pollutant agents in the atmosphere. In what concerning
Medical applications we have analysed the use of the interactive Grid to
speed up image reconstruction from data coming from a Ultra Sound Tomography
device.

Finally, the Nuclear Fusion application dedicated to visualize the
plasma particles movement inside fusion devices will be the pilot
application of the project. In this sense it is interesting to define a
common policy in the form of Memorandum of Understanding
with EGEE related to the interactive support to users of the Fusion VO.