The Gridbus Project to Release Toolkit for Utility Computing on Global
Grids
11 November 2004, Pittsburgh, USA (SC 2004 Conference)
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The Gridbus Project is engaged in the design and development of grid
middleware technologies to support eScience and eBusiness applications.
These include visual Grid application development tools for rapid creation
of distributed applications, competitive economy-based Grid scheduler,
cooperative economy-based cluster scheduler, Web-services based Grid
market directory (GMD), Grid accounting services, Gridscape for creation
of dynamic and interactive testbed portals, G-monitor portal for web-based
management of Grid applications execution, and the widely used GridSim
toolkit for performance evaluation. The Gridbus Project has also developed
a Windows/.NET-based desktop clustering software and Grid job web services
to support the integration of both Windows and Unix-class resources for
Grid computing.

The Gridbus Middleware is developed by The Gridbus Project, Grid Computing
and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab., Dept. of Computer Science and
Software Engineering, the University of Melbourne, Australia. The project
is supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant,
Storage Technology and the University of Melbourne.

We are grateful to, and sincerely thank all the people who contributed to
the Gridbus project.

The components of the Gridbus Toolkit include:
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Visual Parametric Modeller
Global Grid Service Broker
.NET-based Enterprise Grid System (Alchemi)
Grid Workflow Engine
Grid Market Directory
Grid Bank - Grid Accounting Services Infrastructure
Gridscape - a tool for buiding interacting Grid testbed portals
G-Monitor - grid application portal
ExcelGrid - Excel Spreadsheet processing on Enterprise and Global Grids
GridSim - Grid Simulation Toolkit
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Descriptions of each of the components and more information can be found
at the respective project pages at http://www.gridbus.org/


Gridbus Middleware USage
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The Gridbus Middleware has been used in Grid-Enabling the following
eSciece/eBusiness Applications:
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- High Energy Physics (School of Physics, UoM)
- Portfolio Analysis (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
- Natural Language Processing (Language Technology Group, UoM)
- Brain Activity Analysis (Osaka University, Japan)
- Molecular Docking for Drug Discovery (WEHI and CSIRO)
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
- Medical Imaging (Howard Florey Institute, UoM)
- Austronomy (Melbourne Uni - School of Physics)
- Natural Resource Modelling (CSIRO, Australia)
- Private Grid Initiative (The Netherlands, http://www.private-grid.nl/)

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Download information:
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The source code,binaries, documentation and manual for ExcelGrid can be
downloaded from http://www.gridbus.org/middleware/


Contact Information:
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For further details about the Gridbus project please contact:
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya (raj@...)


Licenses and Disclaimer:
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All the components of the Gridbus middleware are distributed under the GNU
General Public License (GPL) (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt).

Other libraries included in the distribution are distributed under their
own respective licenses which are also included with the distribution.
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