Speaker
Jan Kmunicek
(CESNET)
Description
This contribution describes a grid environment of the Virtual Organization for
Central Europe (VOCE). VOCE infrastructure currently consists of computational
resources and storage capacities provided by Central European resource owners. Unlike
majority of other virtual organizations VOCE tends to be generic VO providing
application neutral environment especially suitable for Grid newcomers allowing them
to get quickly first experience with Grid computing and to test and evaluate Grid
environment towards their specific application needs. VOCE facilities currently
provide base for Central European t-infrastructure. The main goal of VOCE is to
assist in adapting a software for use on a fully production Grid, not within a closed
"teaching" environment, even for applications that do not have any Grid / cluster
/remote computing experience. The VOCE application neutrality can be seen as an
important feature that allows to provide an environment where different application
requirements meet and expectations are to be fulfilled. All technical aspects related
to the supported middleware (LCG, gLite), computing environments (MPI support),
specific user interface support (Charon and P-GRADE portal) will be discussed and
preliminary users experiences evaluated.
Author
Jan Kmunicek
(CESNET)
Co-authors
Daniel Kouril
(CESNET)
Ludek Matyska
(CESNET)
