• Our Grid

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Grid Computing has appeared with the enticing promise of turning
computing into utility. The vision is "plug in the grid and solve your
problem". However, turning the grid vision into reality is no trivial
matter. Despite the great progress made in the last years, Grid
Computing is still far from reality to most users. In particular,
current grids are closed, in the sense that you need authorization to
join, a process that involves humans and defines rules for what the
joining receives and contributes to the grid.

The OurGrid Project aims to regain the original grid vision by creating
a free-to-join, open grid. We believe that an open grid can provide a
unique computing platform for the thousands of research labs around the
world that need non-trivial computing power. To achieve this goal,
OurGrid chooses a different trade-off compared to most grid projects. It
forfeits supporting arbitrary applications in favor of supporting only
Bag-of-Tasks applications. Bag-of-Tasks applications are those parallel
applications whose tasks are independent of each other. Despite their
simplicity, BoT applications are used in a variety of scenarios,
including data mining, massive searches, parameter sweeps, monte-carlo
simulations, fractal calculations, computational biology, and computer
imaging.

The OurGrid solution has three major components: the MyGrid broker, the
OurGrid community, and SWAN sandboxing. MyGrid is a broker for
Bag-of-Tasks applications that allows a user to run her application on
all processors she has access to. The OurGrid community is a
peer-to-peer network designed to enable worldwide resource sharing,
without relying upon grid economy infrastructure (which is not deployed
today). SWAN leverages the Bag-of-Tasks characteristic of the
application to provide sandboxing that allows sites to safely run guest
grid applications.

OurGrid has been developed in collaboration between UFCG and HP,
producing important advances to the state-of-art, an open source
implementation, and an open grid in production since December 2004.
Users can download OurGrid and join the grid at http://www.ourgrid.org/.