gUSE (grid User Support Environment) is a grid virtualization environment providing a scalable set of high-level Grid services by which interoperation between Grids and user communities can be achieved. Incorporating a more flexible workflow concept and enabling its distribution on clusters and different Grid sites, gUSE is aimed to extend the objectives and features of P-GRADE Portal.[1]
gUSE is developed by the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (LPDS) at MTA-SZTAKI, Hungary.
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gUSE provides a high-level service set based middleware. The portal interface developed for gUse is called the WS-PGRADE Portal, featuring a graphical user interface for editing, configuring and publishing workflows as grid applications.
gUSE/WS-PGRADE is aimed to solve the limitation problems of P-GRADE Portal:
The current gUSE version is 3.1. For more information on the current version see the gUSE homepage.
The public gUSE portal (operated by MTA-SZTAKI) provides access to Grids including:
Application specific portals can be created by adding application specific portlets to WS-PGRADE portal, omitting some generic purpose portlets and hiding the underlying workflow within an application specific portlet.
Applications include:
See also the list of application specific portals on the gUSE homepage.
GASuC
Between 2007 and 2010 GASuC, the Grid Application Support Centre (http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/gasuc/) had been supported by one of the world biggest grid project: Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE). Currently in the frame of EGI-Inspire, EDGI, DEGISCO, and SHIWA projects GASuC provides support for existing Service and Desktop Grid users and for grid newcomers to get their applications running on (among others) gLite and BOINC based grids. In close collaboration with application owners, GASuC provides assistance in gridification (i.e. porting legacy applications onto Grid/Cloud/HPC infrastructures). The GASuC team identifies the suitable approaches and tools for the porting process, sets up realistic porting scenarios and organizes workshops and personalized training events for application owners. Grid researchers, grid tool builders and grid application developers from MTA SZTAKI are involved in the GASuC activity. The GASuC team has long running experience in porting applications onto cluster and grid environments. GASuC members have been participating in numerous successful R&D collaborations since 2001 in the fields of drug discovery, meteorology, and computational chemistry.
For more success stories, see here: http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/gasuc/?m=7