GRID Web Resources

You can find here a collection of Grid Web resources. Starting from an overview of the different activities going on in the definition of the Grid technology and implementation of a Grid infrastructure to the major project's Web sites. Particular attention has been devoted to the European DataGrid project and Semantic Grid activities.

	Global Grid Forum: information about Grid-related events. The Global Grid Forum (GGF) is a community-initiated forum of 5000+ individual researchers and practitioners working on distributed computing, or "grid" technologies.  GGF's primary objective is to "promote and support the development, deployment, and implementation of Grid technologies and applications via the creation and documentation of "best practices" - technical specifications, user experiences, and implementation guidelines".
	GridForge GridForge is the working respository for GGF Working and Research Groups. It also houses the GGF Document Series, various Steering Group activities, and the activities of the GGF Secretariat. An open public comment process for GGF documents is provided here. The GGF document and recommendations series is described at www.ggf.org/documents.
	Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA) The Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) represents an evolution towards a Grid system architecture based on Web services concepts and technologies.
	The Grid Computing Information Center: international Grid activities. The Grid Computing Information Centre aims to promote the development and advancement of technologies that provide seamless and scalable access to wide-area distributed resources.
	Grid Technology Repository (GTR) The Grid Technology Repository (GTR) is designed as a place for people to publish and discover work related to Grid Technology. The GTR is an international, community-driven effort, with contributions welcome from academia, industry and individuals without institutional affiliation.
	GridCafé The place for everybody to learn about the Grid
	Globus The Globus Project is developing fundamental technologies needed to build computational grids.   training resources  documentation and support  globusWORLD  WS-Resource Framework, a further convergence of Grid services and Web services.
	The European DataGrid Project DataGrid is a project funded by European Union. The objective is to build the next generation computing infrastructure providing intensive computation and analysis of shared large-scale databases, from hundreds of TeraBytes to PetaBytes, across widely distributed scientific communities (more links).
	EGEE  The vision of the EGEE Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (III) is to create and deploy Grid technologies to enable the widespread uptake of e-Science applications throughout the European Research Area (more links).
	GENIUS A Grid Enabled web eNvironment for site Independent User job Submission. A presentation of the Genius Grid portal is available here.
	GRIDSTART a portal to a diverse collection of activities. GRIDSTART is an initiative sponsored by the European Commission with the specific objective of consolidating technical advances in Europe, encouraging interaction amongst similar activities both in Europe and the rest of the world and stimulating the early take-up by industry and research of Grid-enabled applications. The initiative brings together technologists, scientists and industry in multi-disciplinary approach to developing the GRID infrastructure. The clear goal is to develop sustainable, effective and universal solutions addressing the needs of science, industry and the public.
	DataTAG The goal of the project is to create a large-scale intercontinental testbed for data-intensive Grids.
	e-Science "e-Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it." Dr John Taylor, Director General of Research Councils
	Condor The goal of the Condor Project is to develop, implement, deploy, and evaluate mechanisms and policies that support High Throughput Computing (HTC) on large collections of distributively owned computing resources. Condor-G is the marriage of technologies from the Condor project and the Globus project
	OGSA-DAI The OGSA-DAI project is concerned with constructing middleware to assist with access and integration of data from separate data sources via the grid. It is engaged in identifying the requirements, designing solutions and delivering software that will meet this purpose.
	LCG LHC Computing Grid Project. The goal of the LCG project is to meet the unprecedented computing needs of the LHC project by deploying a worldwide computational grid service, integrating the capacity of scientific computing centres spread across Europe, America and Asia into a virtual computing organisation.
	ARDA: Architectural Roadmap toward Distributed Analysis.
	Semantic Grid Our vision is of a generically useable e-science infrastructure, comprised of easily deployed components whose utility transcends their immediate application, providing a high degree of easy-to-use and seamless automation and in which there are flexible collaborations and computations on a global scale. In the Semantic Grid we apply Semantic Web technologies in Grid computing developments, from the machinery of the Grid infrastructure  up to the Grid applications. It is important to note that the 'semantics' permeates the full vertical extent of the Grid and is not just a semantic (or knowledge) layer on top: it is semantics in, on and for the Grid (more links).
	The EU Infrastructures Initiative
	NextGrid The goal of NextGRID is to develop architectural components that will lead to the emergence of the Next Generation Grid. This will prepare the way for the broader use of Grid technologies and their widespread adoption by organisations and individuals from the business and public domains. This widespread use will be a significant step towards meeting the vision of ERA and the goals of the e-Europe Action Plan.

Documents

A list of related articles and seminars is provided here(external link to CERN).