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The Australian GlobalGrid Project
- Integrating Australia into Global e-Science
The Australian GlobalGrid Project is a collaborative
research program in the areas of Integrative Biology and e-Health, in
association with projects within the UK e-Science program. The project
is proudly supported by DEST grant CG050091 of the International
Science Linkages program established under the Australian Government's
innovation statement, Backing Australia's
Ability.
Aims of the GlobalGrid Project
The term ‘e-Science’ refers to collaborative,
and typically multidisciplinary science undertaken using distributed
computing and data resources. The infrastructure to enable e-Science
is generally referred to as the Grid. The aim of Grid technologies is
to provide the ability to share resources in a secure, dynamic fashion.
The resources may be specialists, physical facilities such as computers,
data storage, instruments and equipment, or information such as commercial
and scientific databases and software repositories.
The GlobalGrid project will enable Australian researchers to access
global research and technologies, and to assist in the development of
technologies to support that global access. Australian researchers will
be directly linked into the global forum through this project and specifically
into the UK e-science projects. The project involves three subprojects
being: Telemedicine, Integrative biology, and deployment of Nimrod-G
on the UK e-Science Grid.
- Telemedicine
Led by Dr Jane Hunter (Distributed
Systems Technology Cooperative Research Centre, DSTC), this
subproject will work with the e-Science Telemedicine project in
the UK to further develop digital image annotation technology.
This technology will allow clinicians using the AccessGrid for distributed
meetings to capture annotations from remote sites.
- Nimrod-G
Nimrod-G is a piece of middleware developed in Australia
that provides an easy interface to large scale simulations on grid
resources. Led by David
Abramson (Monash University), this subproject will focus on
implementing Nimrod-G on the UK e-Science Grid working with e-Scientists
in the UK.
- Integrative Biology
This subproject is led by Prof.
Kevin Burrage, (University of Queensland) and is closely related
to activity at the Manchester and Oxford e-Science Centres. In particular
it has close links with the myGrid and Integrative Biology projects
at those Centres. The aim of the project is twofold – to integrate
myGrid technologies into the BioPortal
being constructed by the Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Foundation
(QPSF), and to collaborate on computational simulation algorithms
with the group in Oxford.
e-Science
projects at ACMC
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