Speaker
Dr
Peter Malzacher
(Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI))
Description
The German Ministry for Education and Research announced a 100 million euro German
e-science initiative focused on: Grid computing, e-learning and knowledge management.
In a first phase started September 2005 the Ministry has made available 17 million
euro for D-Grid, which currently comprises six research consortia: five community
grids - HEP-Grid (high-energy physics), Astro-Grid(astronomy and astrophysics),
Medi-Grid (medical/bioinformatics), C3-Grid(Collaborative Climate Community),
In-Grid(engineering applications) - and an integration project, providing the
horizontal platform for the vertical community grids. After an overview of the D-Grid
initiative, we present the research program and first results of the HEP community
grid. Though rather late compared to similar national grid initiatives, HEP-Grid
enables us to learn from early developments and to look for gaps we want to focus on
in three workpackages: datamanagement, automated user support and interactive
analysis, all on the Grid.
Author
Dr
Peter Malzacher
(Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI))
Co-author
Dr
Kilian Schwarz
(Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI))
