What is CAG, TCD?

The Computer Architecture and Grid Group (CAG) at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has been active in Grid Computing projects since 2002. CAG is currently involved in a variety of EU Framework 7 projects including Helio, StratusLab, SCI-BUS, Mantychore and EMI. Many people within the CAG group are also active members of the Grid Operations Centre which is part of Grid-Ireland. 

The aim of Grid-Ireland is to enable communities of users, for example, astrophysicists, geneticists or linguists, to construct virtual organizations above Grid-Ireland. The guiding principle is that there may be many virtual organizations, but there only needs to be one grid layer. The benefit is a research platform for scientists and an object of research for computer scientists, and a natural symbiosis between the two.

Grid-Ireland involvement in the LHC: The Grid-Ireland Operations Centre [3] is involved in data storage and processing for the Atlas and LHCb experiments. 4th July 2012: Higgs Boson disovered! See press coverage [4].

[5] The Grid-Ireland Operations Centre is a partner in the e-INIS [5] project to develop a national e-Infrastructure for Ireland. e-INIS is funded by HEA under PRTLI cycle 4 as part of the National Development Plan and with support from EU structural funds.

[6] To learn more about grid computing you can visit the Grid Café [6] at CERN [7]. Find out how grid computing works, what grid computing can do, what it could mean for you, and much more.

The Grid-Ireland Operations Centre [8] participates in:

• e-INIS [5], the Irish National e-Infrastructure [5]
• EGI [9], the European Grid Infrastructure [9]
• EMI [10], the European Middleware Initiative [11]
• StratusLab [12], with the aim of enhancing grid infrastructures with virtualization and cloud technologies [12]
• HELIO [13], the Heliophysics Integrated Observatory [13]
• Mantychore [14], IP Networks as a Service [14]
• SCI-BUS [15] Scientific gateway-based user support [15]
• ER-Flow, Scientific workflows

 

Scientific domains

Computer Science [16]

Grid [17]

CLOUD Expt [18]

 

Legal form

Research organization or institute [19]

 

Web sites

Grid-Ireland Website [20]

 

Contact addresses

Contact Us here [20]