Supporting new generation community WEB services and applications by GRID platform

Lovas Róbert Dr. <>
MTA SZTAKI

Bencsik Attila <>
Glia Számítástechnikai és Tanácsadó Kft.

Garami Gábor <>
E-Group Zrt.

Kacsuk Péter Prof. <>
MTA SZTAKI

Szeberényi Imre Dr. <>
BME Informatikai központ

The main aim of the new project is to facilitate the commercial and non-profit exploitation of the EDGeS EU FP7 Desktop Grid project (coordinated by MTA SZTAKI) and the HAGRID project (coordinated by ECONET) focusing on the Desktop Grid and WEB2 technologies. On one hand the WEB2 technologies assist to assure the resources in the desktop grid community on voluntary or settlement bases. On the other hand, the developed platform which is extended with many Hungarian desktop grid systems (BUTE, Econet, SZTAKI) offers back-end infrastructure for the operational requirements of WEB2 portals (large number of users/connections/file processing/large file conversion), for security requirements (watermark, periodic revision of digital signature, etc.), for systems requiring large IT capacity, and for tasks defined by community member end-users. The combination of the WEB2 and Desktop Grid technologies provides advantages for both sides. In such combination WEB2 can extend its capabilities from the community contents towards to shared services with the help of grid technologies. Main aims of the project are the examination of the above mentioned targets and development of the tools, interfaces, methodologies to establish the above mentioned targeted services both in closed (local desktop grid), and in open (global desktop grid) environments. The project heavily focusing on security and accounting based on E-Groups solutions to facilitate the usage of service and commercial Grid systems. To demonstrate the developed system solution, the project consortia creates WEB2 based demo applications from different fields, and provides easy-to-use interfaces and recommendations to facilitate the potential usage of the technologies.