The resources to ensure a sustainable Grid infrastructure are provided by four work packages: Six community projects participated in the D-Grid Initiative: AstroGrid-D, also referred to as the German Astronomy Community Grid (GACG), is a joint research project of thirteen astronomical institutes and grid-oriented computer science groups, supported by supercomputing centers.
The goal is to improve the efficiency and usability of hardware and software resources including computer clusters, astronomical data archives, and observational facilities such as robotic telescopes.
At the Collaborative Climate Community Data and Processing Grid (C3-Grid) scientific researchers are trying to understand the earth system including their subsystems like oceans, atmosphere and biosphere.
On the one hand, due to rapid rise in computing power scientists are now able to use models with higher resolution and perform long term simulations.
The scientists are able to couple models for the mentioned subsystems in complex cumulative simulations producing petabytes of output which is collected in distributed data archives.
(For further information www.c3grid.de) The GDI-Grid ("Geodateninfrastrukturen-Grid" - "Spatial Data Infrastructure Grid") project focuses on solutions for efficient integration and processing of geodata based on GIS and SDI technologies.
The project will integrate GDI and Grid technologies in a working GDI-Grid infrastructure and thus demonstrate the complementarity of both fields of science.
Five typical applications (foundry technologies, metal forming technologies, groundwater flow and transport, turbine simulation and fluid-structure interaction) are considered as showcases to cover the three central areas of computationally intensive engineering applications, that are coupled multi-scale problems, coupled multi-discipline problems, and distributed simulation-based optimization.
The main goal of MediGRID is the development of agGrid middleware integration platform enabling eScience services for biomedical life science.
The project formed four modules (middleware, ontology, resource fusion and eScience), and developed a grid infrastructure for biomedical users.
TextGrid promised to create a grid-based infrastructure for the collaborative editing, annotation, analysis and publication of specialist texts for researchers in philology, linguistics, and related fields.
The e-Science project WISENT (Wissensnetz Energiemeteorologie) promised to optimize cooperation of scientific organizations in energy meteorology employing grid technologies.