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Flood Forecasting in a Grid Computing Environment

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This paper presents a prototype of a flood forecasting system based on Grid computing. Flood forecasting is a complex problem that requires cooperation and coupling of many simulation models. To enable this coupling in an effective way, a part of the CrossGrid project is aimed towards developing a Grid Computing Environment (GCE) for flood forecasting, as described here. The Grid computing environment consists of a cascade of simulation models, a storage system for computed and measured data and other used datasets, a web-based portal with collaboration tools and a powerful computation facility. The whole system is tied together by Grid technology and is used to support a virtual organization of experts, developers and users.

This work is supported by EU 5FP CROSSGRID IST-2001-32243 RTD project and the Slovak Scientific Grant Agency within Research Project No. 2/3132/23.

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Hluchý, L., Astaloš, J., Dobrucký, M., Habala, O., Šimo, B., Tran, V.D. (2004). Flood Forecasting in a Grid Computing Environment. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Paprzycki, M., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3019. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24669-5_108

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