| New solution by GridwiseTech: application-oriented EGEE portal |
| Monday, 28 August 2006 | |
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Our most recently developed solution, an application-oriented portal that uses the EGEE infrastructure, enables the execution of computationally intensive simulations of advanced electronic devices. This offers global industry leaders a chance to obtain higher quality and save time, instead of spending it on building product prototypes. The solution enables easy and user-friendly access to computational resources gathered within the EGEE infrastructure, which can be reached by means of any electronic device capable of displaying Web pages. So far the extensive EGEE infrastructure has been used mainly for academic purposes. Recently a client of GridwiseTech - a commercial enterprise that reserved the right to remain anonymous at the moment - has used the resources when building a new medical device, thus saving time and reaching a higher quality level at the prototyping stage. Instead of building traditional prototypes, a mathematical model of the device has been developed and now simulations are being performed. The algorithm for such a model is computationally intensive. So far it might have taken several months on several tens of CPU's to complete a single simulation. The new solution enables running the entire set of simulations in multiple instances on many different machines. This makes it possible to utilize the EGEE resources more efficiently, however, it leads to generating multiple, and large, output files. The first algorithm, if run in 100 instances, generates around 100 files, of 1 GB each, that are further processed and merged to a single file of 80 MB. This file can be easily downloaded to a user's machine. The new solution is a milestone on the way to make the EGEE infrastructure, and Grid technology in general, more useful to businesses that need access to large computational resources. An article about the new solution will also be published in this month’s edition of the EGEE newsletter. |