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EGI Europien Grid Initiative. Europe has invested heavily in e-science programmes over the past years both at the National and the European levels with impressive results. Grid technology is recognized as a fundamental component for e-infrastructures. Many countries have launched National Grid Initiatives (NGI) to establish National grid infrastructures. Driven by the needs and requirements of European research community, the EGI Design Study represents a project for the conceptual setup and operation of a new organizational model of a sustainable pan-European grid infrastructure. To this day already 39 National Grid Initiatives in Europe have recognised the need to link existing national grid initiatives and to support the setup and initiation of new grid initiatives. The EGI project will interact and encourage the member states to make the strategic decisions required to establish and support a sustainable grid infrastructure and initiate its implementation.
EMI - Europien Midleware Initiative
- - European Middleware Initiative (EMI) is a software platform for high performance distributed computing.
  - It is at the core of grid middleware distributions used by scientific research communities and distributed computing infrastructures all over the world.
  - Being a close collaboration among well-established grid middleware providers and other specialized software providers, EMI proposes itself as a leading platform for scientific grid computing and looks at expanding outside of its natural environment.
Migrating Desktop (MD) New generation environment for Grid Interactive Applications
Grid Computing Info Centre (GRID Infoware)
The Grid Computing Information Centre (GRID Infoware: http://www.gridcomputing.com) aims to promote the development and advancement of technologies that provide seamless and scalable access to wide-area distributed resources. Computational Grids enable the sharing, selection, and aggregation of a wide variety of geographically distributed computational resources (such as supercomputers, compute clusters, storage systems, data sources, instruments, people) and presents them as a single, unified resource for solving large-scale compute and data intensive computing applications (e.g, molecular modelling for drug design, brain activity analysis, and high energy physics). This idea is analogous to electric power network (grid) where power generators are distributed, but the users are able to access electric power without bothering about the source of energy and its location.
Legion - Worldwide Virtual Computer. Legion is an object-based, meta-systems software project at the University of Virginia. From the project's beginning in late 1993, the Legion Research Group`s goal has been a highly useable, efficient, and scalable system founded on solid principles.

- PlanetLab -- is a global research network that supports the development of new network services. Since the beginning of 2003, more than 1,000 researchers at top academic institutions and industrial research labs have used PlanetLab to develop new technologies for distributed storage, network mapping, peer-to-peer systems, distributed hash tables, and query processing.
  - PlanetLab currently consists of 1075 nodes at 525 sites.

The Globus Alliance is a community of organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the Grid, which lets people share computing power, databases, instruments, and other on-line tools securely across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy.
Grid Today -- The Leading Source for Global News and Information from the evolving Grid ecosystem, including Grid, SOA, Virtualization, Storage, Networking and Service-Oriented IT
GridClub (mainly in Russian) Internet portal on Grid technology: projects, technics, software, basic publications, news, views, etc.
Virtual Data Tool Kit - is an ensemble of many Grid middleware tools
Science grid this week - descibes stories about Grid and Grid events

- LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project (same as WLCG)

GridPP Grid activity in UK physics
Enabling Grids for E-SciencE (EGEE) The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project is funded by the European Commission and aims to build on recent advances in grid technology and develop a service grid infrastructure which is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day
RDIG (Russian, English) EGEE & RDIG. The Russian consortium RDIG (Russian Data Intensive Grid, www.egee-rdig.ru) was set up in September 2003 to create Grid infrastructure in Russia for intensive scientific data operations. Such infrastructure is necessary for the participation of Russian scientists in experiments at LHC (CMS, ALICE, ATLAS, LHCb) and other ones in high energy physics, biology, geophysics and more. The memorandum of establishing the consortium was signed by top authorities of the following eight major institutes: the Institute of High Energy Physics (Protvino, www.ihep.su), Institute of Mathematical Problems in Biology (Pushchino, www.impb.ru), Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow, www.itep.ru), Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, www.jinr.ru), Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (Moscow, www.keldysh.ru), Institue of Nuclear Physics at MSU (Moscow, www.sinp.msu.ru), St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics (www.pnpi.spb.ru), and Kurchatov Institute (Moscow, www.kiae.ru). RDIG participates in the EGEE structure as a regional federation providing Russia's full-scale participation in EGEE.
NorduGrid - another flavor for Grid - NorduGrid is a Grid Research and Development collaboration aiming at development, maintenance and support of the free Grid middleware, known as the Advance Resource Connector (ARC). The collaboration is based on the Memorandum of Understanding.

- Open Science Grid (OSG) USA Grid consorcium. The Open Science Grid is a national production-quality grid computing infrastructure for large scale science, built and operated by a consortium of U.S. universities and national laboratories. The OSG Consortium was formed in 2004 to enable diverse communities of scientists to access a common grid infrastructure and shared resources. Groups that choose to join the Consortium contribute effort and resources to the common infrastructure.
  - The OSG capabilities and schedule of development are driven by U.S. participants in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, currently being built at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The distributed computing systems in the U.S. for the LHC experiments are being built and operated as part of the OSG. Other projects in physics, astrophysics, gravitational-wave science and biology contribute to the grid and benefit from advances in grid technology. The services provided by the OSG will be further enriched as new projects and scientific communities join the Consortium.
  - The OSG includes an Integration and a Production Grid. New grid technologies and applications are tested on the Integration Grid, while the Production Grid provides a stable, supported environment for sustained applications. Grid operations and support for users and developers are key components of both grids. The core of the OSG software stack for both grids is the NSF Middleware Initiative distribution, which includes Condor and Globus technologies. Additional utilities are added on top of the NMI distribution, and the OSG middleware is packaged and supported through the Virtual Data Toolkit.
  - The OSG is a continuation of Grid3, a community grid built in 2003 through a joint project of the U.S. LHC software and computing programs, the National Science Foundations. GriPhyN and iVDGL projects, and the Department of Energy.s PPDG project.

Global Grid Forum The Global Grid Forum (GGF) is the community of users, developers, and vendors leading the global standardization effort for grid computing. The GGF community consists of thousands of individuals in industry and research, representing over 400 organizations in more than 50 countries. Together we work for the pervasive adoption of grid computing worldwide because we believe grids will lead to new discoveries, new opportunities, and better business practices. The work of GGF is carried out though community-initiated working groups, which develop best practices and specifications in cooperation with other leading standards organizations, software vendors, and users. GGF is funded through its Sponsor Members, including technology producers and consumers as well as academic and government research institutions. GGF meets as a worldwide community three times annually to share best practices and further develop grid-related specifications.
GRIDS Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory. The Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory is a software research and development group within the Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The GRIDS Lab is actively engaged in the design and development of next-generation computing systems and applications that aggregate or lease services of distributed resources depending on their availability, capability, performance, cost , and users' quality-of-service requirements. The lab is working towards realising this vision through its flagship project called Gridbus. The project name GRIDBUS is derived from its research theme: to create next-generation GRID computing and BUSiness technologies that power the emerging eScience and eBusiness applications. The Gridbus project builds on our founder's early work in grid economy and distributed resource management to realise its full potential to serve as an enabler for the creation of service-oriented computing industries.
SETI@HOME -- SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.
Einstein@Home -- is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational wave detector. Learn about this search at einsteinathome.org, Einstein Online and in our S3 report.
LHC@Home What is LHC@home? Help scientist at CERN to simulate particles travelling in the LHC.
Folding@Home -- distributed computing facility for medicine purposes [Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases].
NanoHive@HOME is a distributed computing system used for large-scale nanotech systems simulation and analysis that draws its computing power from otherwise idle computers sitting in people's homes. Users download and install a special client program onto their computer. When the computer's screensaver comes on, the client program requests some work from a NanoHive@Home server, calculates it with the NanoHive-1 simulator, then sends the results back to the server.
The goal of NanoHive@Home is to perform large-scale nanosystems simulation and analysis that is otherwise too intensive to be calculated via normal means, and thereby enable further scientific study in the field of nanotechnology.
Here are some key points about NanoHive@Home with links to more detailed explanations:
- - Completely open-source and free (as in beer)
  - Not-for-profit, and with all results made available to the public
  - domain, free and clear
  - Benefits humanity by advancing our knowledge and understanding of
  - nanotechnology
  - Calculations are performed with state-of-the-art simulation software
  - making the most use of your donated computing power
  - Attention to security and safety so that you can run our software
  - without worrying that it will damage your computer
  - Interesting and interactive graphics and screensaver that shows more of
  - the simulation results as they become available
  - Uses the popular Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
  - (BOINC) platform so you can contribute via a familiar interface
Genome@Home The Human Genome Project is nearing completion, and scientists are working hard to develop the understanding needed to use this wealth of genetic information in ways that will be significant to medicine and humankind. One of the most important ways to do this is to study the other genomes and individual gene sequences that are already available to us. By understanding how these genomes work, we will be able to put the huge amounts of data (over 50, 000 genes and 3 billion nucleotide base pairs) from the Human Genome Project into biological and medical context, giving it real meaning.
fightAIDS@Home FightAIDS@Home is the first biomedical distributed computing project ever launched. It is run by the Olson Laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. We provide free software that you download and install. The software uses your computer's idle cycles to assist fundamental research in discovering new drugs, building on our growing knowledge of the structural biology of AIDS. In addition, this research helps us study the mechanisms of multi-drug-resistance that the "super bugs" of HIV use to escape the current anti-AIDS drugs. And this research helps us create, test, refine, and share the tools and protocols that thousands of other labs use in their research against other diseases.
MilkyWay@Home - The goal of Milkyway@Home is to use the BOINC platform to harness volunteered computing resources in creating a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This project enables research in both astroinformatics and computer science.
gridRepublic GridRepublic members run a screensaver that allows their computers to work on public-interest research projects when the machines are not otherwise in use. This screensaver does not affect performance of the host computer any more than an ordinary screensaver does.
By aggregating idle resources from users around the world, we create a massive supercomputer.
GridRepublic is built on BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), a proven, secure, and reliable platform for distributed computing using volunteered resources.
In other words this site is good source of information about projects of type something@home.
BOINC -- The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a distributed computing infrastructure intended to be useful to fields beyond SETI. It is being developed by a team based at the University of California, Berkeley led by the project director of SETI@home, David Anderson.
Grid @ IBM Grid continues IBM's history of IT innovation for business, offering a full line of solutions backed by deep expertise.
Grid @ HP Imagine linking your IT components into one virtual resource that can be shared across your global enterprise and provided as a service, on demand. That's the promise of grid computing.
Grid @ Oracle Grid computing enables you to create a single IT infrastructure that can be shared by all your business processes. Oracle 10g software is specifically designed for grid computing, delivering a higher quality of service to those business processes at a much lower cost.
Grid @ SGI It's about maximal utilization of your most precious corporate resources. It's about enabling users to interact visually with their data and to collaborate with each other across organizations and across the globe.
Grid @ SUN Experienced engineers from Sun and its partners will assess, design, implement and support a grid solution that addresses your unique business needs. Built from standardized and interoperable building blocks, it offers leading performance, scalability and resilience, while still remaining cost-effective.

Andrey Ye. Shevel