Early Experiences with the EGrid Testbed

The Testbed and Applications working group of the European Grid Forum (EGrid) is actively building and experimenting with a grid infrastructure connecting several research-based supercomputing sites located in Europe. This paper reports on our first feasibility study: running a self-migrating version of the Cactus simulation code across the European grid testbed, including "live" remote data visualization and steering from different demonstration booths at Supercomputing 2000, in Dallas, TX. We report on the problems that had to be resolved for this endeavour and identify open research challenges for building productiongrade grid environments.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: CCGRID
• Authors: Gabrielle Allen, Thomas Dramlitsch, Tom Goodale, Gerd Lanfermann, Thomas Radke, Edward Seidel, Thilo Kielmann, Kees Verstoep, Zoltán Balaton, Péter Kacsuk, Ferenc Szalai, Jörn Gehring, Axel Keller, Achim Streit, Ludek Matyska, Miroslav Ruda, Ales Krenek, Harald Knipp, André Merzky, Alexander Reinefeld, Florian Schintke, Bogdan Ludwiczak, Jarek Nabrzyski, Juliusz Pukacki, Hans-Peter Kersken, Giovanni Aloisio, Massimo Cafaro, Wolfgang Ziegler, Michael Russell
• Keywords: CCGRID 2001, Distributed And Parallel Computing, European Grid, European Grid Forum, Research-based Supercomputing Sites