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Grid Infrastructure

The NRC Institute for Information Technology (NRC-IIT) is co-leading, with the NRC Information Management Services Branch, the NRC Inter-Institute Program on High Performance Computing (iHPC) eScience project, Grid Infrastructure. The project began in the fall of 2002 and is expected to continue until the fall of 2005.

Researchers will build the grid infrastructure that will allow NRC to conduct cross disciplinary and geographically distributed collaborations using both current and future computer resources installed at NRC labs across Canada.

NRC expects to work with other national and international initiatives to establish a Grid infrastructure that will leverage the computing power of both current and future equipment in NRC labs in order to create a powerful computational and data network.

The NRC grid will be used a test-bed for the development of distributed applications, as well as an arena for co-operative work among NRC partners. The ultimate objective of the Grid Infrastructure project is two-fold:

1. integration of full production systems in the Grid
2. close collaboration among different sites in solving major scientific challenges, using the computational resources distributed on a NRC/Canada-wide scale

Ultimately the NRC Grid will facilitate a collaborative, multi-scale modelling project being conducted by six other NRC research institutes, in partnership with CANARIE, Inc., C3.ca and a number of Canadian universities. NRC-IIT will provide the technical support for the multi-scale modeling project.

The NRC Grid will be built using Open Source software and will incorporate the best practices and emerging standards from the international community, especially the Global Grid Forum.

Research Contact

Dr. Roger Impey
Group Leader
High Performance Computing
NRC Institute for Information Technology
1200 Montreal Road
Building M-50, Room 272A
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
Telephone: +1 (613) 991-6974
E-mail: Roger.Impey@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Dr. Gabriel Mateescu
Systems and Applications Analyst
High Performance Computing
NRC Institute for Information Technology
100 Sussex Drive
Sussex, Room 2025
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
Telephone: +1 (613) 998-6795
Fax: +1 (613) 993-3127
E-mail: Gabriel.Mateescu@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Business Contact

Dr. George Forester
Business Development Officer
Business Development Office, NCR
NRC Institute for Information Technology
1200 Montreal Road
Building M-50, Room 203
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
Telephone: +1 (613) 993-3478
Fax: +1 (613) 952-0074
E-mail: George.Forester@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca