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Life sciences grid in EUROGRID and GRIP projects. (English) Zbl 1102.68385

Summary: We describe deployment of most important life sciences applications on the grid. The build grid is heterogeneous and consist of systems of different architecture as well as operating systems and various middleware. We have used UNICORE infrastructure as framework for development dedicated user interface to the number of existing computational chemistry codes and molecular biology databases. Developed solution allows for access to the resources provided with UNICORE as well as Globus with exactly the same interface which gives access to the general and functionality such as single login, job submission and control mechanism.

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68M10 Network design and communication in computer systems
68M20 Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems
68U35 Computing methodologies for information systems (hypertext navigation, interfaces, decision support, etc.)
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