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About CGT
The goal of the Center
for Grid Technologies is to foster a collaborative, multi-disciplinary research
environment dedicated to the development, application and dissemination
of advanced Grid infrastructure and applications. Grids are an emerging
computational paradigm in which community based problem solving is facilitated
by the cross-organizational sharing of diverse, distributed resources such
as scientific instruments, displays, computational servers and data collections.
Participants in the
CGT are drawn from diverse communities including several branches of
computer science, physics, engineering, and economics. The scope of
activities of the center will include:
- Research into
the basic protocols, services, and techniques for constructing
scalable, high-performance, global Grid infrastructures. This will
include all aspects of Grid infrastructure such as: security, policy
specification and enforcement, end-to-end resource management,
high-performance computing and data movement, network embedded
application oriented services, etc.
- Research into
the tools and methods for developing Grid enabled applications.
This includes application frameworks, programming languages and
programming preparation systems, debuggers and performance tools,
libraries, development and software engineering methodologies.
- Investigation
into new types of applications, including community modeling, collaborative
engineering, virtual data grids, virtual organizations.
- Collaboration
with application groups, exploring the application of Grid infrastructure
to a wide range of application domains.
- Development
of high-quality Grid middleware with the goal of advancing the
use of Grid technologies to a broader community.
Operation of specialized
facilities that advance our research agenda including storage and visualization
clusters, on-demand computational clusters, and advanced collaboration
environments.
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