Follow-up European projects extended the functionality and worked towards providing implementations of Open Grid Forum standards.
XML documents are used to transmit platform and site independent descriptions of computational and data related tasks, resource information, and workflow specifications between client and server.
As the single secure entry point to a UNICORE site, the Gateway accepts and authenticates all requests, and forwards them to the target service.
All components of the UNICORE technology are open source software under BSD license and can be downloaded from the SourceForge repository.
Other scientific domains such as bioengineering or computational chemistry are also using UNICORE as the basis for their work and research, like in the OpenMolGRID or Chemomentum projects.
Within the European DEISA project leading HPC centers in Europe joined to deploy and operate a pervasive, distributed, heterogeneous, multi-tera-scale supercomputing platform.
The users of these resources come from a broad field of scientific domains including e.g. astrophysics, quantum physics, medicine, biology, computational chemistry, and climatology.