Abstract
Internet computing and Grid technologies promise to change the way we tackle complex problems. Harnessing these new technologies effectively, it will transform scientific disciplines ranging from high-energy physics to life sciences. This paper describes a metropolitan-scale Grid computing platform named TIGER Project (standing for Taichung Integrating Grid Environment and Resource), which basically interconnects universities and high schools’ Grid computing resources and sharing available resources among them, for investigations in system technologies and high performance applications. This novel project shows the viability of implementation of such project in a metropolitan city.
This work is supported in part by National Science Council, Taiwan R.O.C., under grants no. NSC95-2213-E-029-004 and NSC95-2218-E-007-025.
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Yang, CT., Han, TF., Shih, WC., Chiang, WC., Chang, CH. (2006). Metropolitan-Scale Grid Environment: The Implementation and Applications of TIGER Grid. In: Min, G., Di Martino, B., Yang, L.T., Guo, M., Rünger, G. (eds) Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking – ISPA 2006 Workshops. ISPA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4331. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11942634_59
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