The Genesis II Project
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Overview
Genesis II is an open source, standards-based grid platform designed to support both high-throughput computing and secure data sharing. The features of the Genesis II platform are designed with two communities in mind:
- User Community. The Genesis II Project is intended to provide the grid user community with free, easy-to-use tools to exploit grid technology to fulfill their computation and data management needs. The platform is designed to support a wide range of potential application domains from simple data sharing to multi-platform, multi-organizational high-throughput computing. We currently provide a production level grid environment for biomedical research here at the University of Virginia.
- Research Community. The Genesis II platform is an interoperable (via adherence to community standards), freely available, and flexible platform for developing and evaluating new grid technologies and models. Genesis II serves to vet and validate the standardization efforts within the OGF and OGSA standards communities. Grid research is a dynamic field of study, and many challenges remain. Particular areas that we focus on are data access, security (confidentiality, data integrity, access control, policy negotiation), dependability (availability, SLA’s, policy languages), and grid standards.
The Genesis II Project is brought to you by the UVa Department of Computer Science and the Virginia Center for Grid Research.
XCG
The UVa Genesis II group maintains a live grid called the XCG. In order to get the most out of this grid you will need to apply for an XCG account which can be done via our XCG user application form located at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~vcgr/userrequest.
News
- 03/28/2008 : Enhanced production version of Genesis II avilable as Version 1.1.0.1181! New features include up-to-spec. BES, TTYs, and BES jobs with OGRSH support. See Genesis II Downloads for details.
- 02/20/2008 : First production version of Genesis II available as Version 1.0.0.1173! See Genesis II Downloads for details.
- 02/18/2008 : Genesis II Distribution Version 0.9.0.1172 available! See the Genesis II Downloads section for further details.
