UNICORE Plus
The goal of UNICORE Plus was to develop a grid infrastructure together with a computing portal for engineers and scientists to access supercomputer centers from anywhere on the Internet. This had to be done with strong authentication in a uniform and easy to use way. The differences between platforms was hidden from the user thus creating a seamless interface for accessing supercomputers, compiling and running applications, and transferring input/output data. Research areas in UNICORE Plus was resource modeling, application specific interfaces, data management, job control flow, and metacomputing.
The project was based on the work done in the UNICORE project. UNICORE Plus started in January 2000 with the implementation of the revised architecture. The system has been fully implemented in Java with the exception of the target system interface (TSI) which has been implemented in Perl.
During the project phase the certification authority (CA) which issues certificates for UNICORE had been established at LRZ. The UNICORE CA policy was based on the DFN-PCA WWW-policy .
Partners
- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
- DWD- Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany
- RUS - Rechenzentrum der Universität Stuttgart, Germany
- Pallas GmbH, Germany
- ECMWF - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom
- LRZ - Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Germany
- PC2 - Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, Germany
- Rechenzentrum der Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
- ZIB - Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin, Germany
Project Term
January 2000 until December 2002
Funding
