2006
Backofen, Rolf; Borrmann, Hans-Gunther; Deck, Werner; Dedner, Andreas; De Raedt, Luc; Desch, Klaus; Diesmann, Markus; Geier, Martin; Greiner, Andreas; Hess, Wolfgang R.; Honerkamp, Josef; Jankowski, Stefan; Krossing, Ingo; Liehr, Andreas W.; Karwath, Andreas; Klöfkorn, Robert; Pesché, Raphaël; Potjans, Tobias C.; Röttger, Michael C.; Schmidt-Thieme, Lars; Schneider, Gerhard; Voß, Björn; Wiebelt, Bernd; Wienemann, Peter; Winterer, Volker-Henning
A Bottom-up approach to Grid-Computing at a University: the Black-Forest-Grid Initiative Journal Article
In: Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 81-87, 2006.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: data mining, HPC
@article{backofen2006,
title = {A Bottom-up approach to Grid-Computing at a University: the Black-Forest-Grid Initiative},
author = {Rolf Backofen and Hans-Gunther Borrmann and Werner Deck and Andreas Dedner and De Raedt, Luc and Klaus Desch and Markus Diesmann and Martin Geier and Andreas Greiner and Wolfgang R. Hess and Josef Honerkamp and Stefan Jankowski and Ingo Krossing and Andreas W. Liehr and Andreas Karwath and Robert Klöfkorn and Raphaël Pesché and Tobias C. Potjans and Michael C. Röttger and Lars Schmidt-Thieme and Gerhard Schneider and Björn Voß and Bernd Wiebelt and Peter Wienemann and Volker-Henning Winterer},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/PIKO.2006.81},
doi = {10.1515/PIKO.2006.81},
year = {2006},
date = {2006-01-01},
journal = {Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation},
volume = {29},
number = {2},
pages = {81-87},
abstract = {Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the need for highperformance computing. These demands come from disciplines such as particle physics traditionally relying on High Performance Computing (HPC) but lately also from the various branches of life science that have matured into quantitative disciplines. The classical infrastructure of university computer centres results to be unsuited to cope with the new requirements for a multitude of reasons. Here we discuss the causes of this failure and present a solution developed at the University of Freiburg in a collaborative effort of several faculties. We demonstrate that using state of the art grid computing technology the problem can now be addressed in a bottom-up approach. The organizational, technical, and financial components of our framework, the Black Forest Grid Initiative (BFG) are described and results of its implementation are presented. In the process, a number of new questions have emerged which the next phase of our project needs to address.},
keywords = {data mining, HPC},
pubstate = {published},
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}
Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the need for highperformance computing. These demands come from disciplines such as particle physics traditionally relying on High Performance Computing (HPC) but lately also from the various branches of life science that have matured into quantitative disciplines. The classical infrastructure of university computer centres results to be unsuited to cope with the new requirements for a multitude of reasons. Here we discuss the causes of this failure and present a solution developed at the University of Freiburg in a collaborative effort of several faculties. We demonstrate that using state of the art grid computing technology the problem can now be addressed in a bottom-up approach. The organizational, technical, and financial components of our framework, the Black Forest Grid Initiative (BFG) are described and results of its implementation are presented. In the process, a number of new questions have emerged which the next phase of our project needs to address.