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New Research Project: Distributed Atmospheric Science
One of the most exciting promises of Computational Grids are their ability to execute “virtual applications”, ones that involve more than one applications spanning multiple organisations. This increases computing power for complex analysis whilst appearing to be a single application. The Distributed Atmospheric Science (DAS) project, which is funded by GrangeNet and commenced in January 2005, plans to explore issues associated with these virtual applications.

In order to allow virtual applications to be built:
  • The network performance between the organisations must be comparable to performance within an organisation;
  • Middleware must mask the heterogeneity of the underlying platform technologies, such as differences in operating systems, security policies, resource configuration, etc and
  • Software tools and development environments must be created to allow rapid specification and creation of virtual applications, particularly where legacy codes are involved.

Leveraging off the DSTC funded Nimrod/G and the ARC funded GriddLeS projects, the DAS project team is exploring current challenges in building a virtual atmospheric sciences application. The team will deploy three existing atmospheric science models across GrangeNet which, when combined, can provide detailed air pollution control strategies to be performed under a variety of different climatic and weather conditions

GrangeNet is a Government funded high performance research network that provides the enabling technology for the development of grid and advanced communications services.

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