HAGRID

The main goal of the project is to elaborate a new generation of Desktop Grid (DG) systems based on the results of other DG projects.
Participants are about to create a so-called Global Desktop Grid (GDG) environment in Hungary, which is the first attempt to apply the DG technology not only for academic/research purposes or using the intranet infrastructure of companies. In the project, a GDG system will be built involving a large amount of computational resources from three sites: SZTAKI, OMSZ (HUNGARIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE) and econet.hu. GDG will provide an execution environment for numerical weather prediction and climate models developed by OMSZ.
Later, this GDG will be the prototype for a national GDG service which aims to integrate home PC owners who are become insterested on a financial basis. In this way, a service provider based Hungarian Grid market will be born, which leads to a new kind of internet service in the long-term.

SZTAKI has gained valuable experiences in the Hungarian GRID project supported by IHM (Ministry of Informatics and Communications) on the field of building BOINC based Local Desktop Grids (LDG). In this project based on these results SZTAKI aims at developing a GDG system that enables the usage of LDG systems as basic building blocks. Novel application deployment methods are going to be researched and developed, while parallel to this work application development is also performed. The application development covers parallelisation for LDG deployment of ultra-short range weather prediction algorithms developed and used by OMSZ.