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National Governments are realizing the importance of new e-infrastructures to enable scientific progress and enhance research competitiveness. Making e-infrastructures available to the research community is crucial and is important to researchers and development teams in India. C-DAC launched the Indian National Grid Computing Initiative-GARUDA with the support of Government of India. GARUDA is a collaboration of science researchers and experimenters, on a nationwide grid of computational nodes, mass storage and scientific instruments. GARUDA aims to provide the technological development required to enable data and compute intensive, collaborative applications for the 21st century. In the PoC Phase of this project, a nation-wide grid test bed was enabled to its partners. In GARUDA Foundation Phase, an open standards based production grid, i.e. both a service grid as-well-as interoperable grid is built and enabled. Partners are grid enabling applications of societal and national importance. The authors in this paper present the GARUDA architecture, its evolution, the applications, and the deliverables of the project.
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Prahlada Rao, B.B., Ramakrishnan, S., Raja Gopalan, M.R. et al. e-Infrastructures in IT: A case study on Indian national grid computing initiative – GARUDA . Comp. Sci. Res. Dev. 23, 283–290 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00450-009-0079-3
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