Grid Computing at the PSC

	PSC is actively involved with the Grid computing community. Our staff regularly participate in working groups and research groups of the Global Grid Forum (GGF), a rapidly growing, international standards body defining protocols and operational standards for Grid computing. GGF documents (co)authored by PSC staff include: Distributed Accounting on the Grid Resource Accounting - Current Practices



	The Globus Project^TM at Argonne National Laboratory has produced an implementation of Grid middleware and services based on the protocols and standards established by the GGF. At PSC, Globus software is deployed on the Terascale Computing System (lemieux.psc.edu), and rachel.psc.edu.


	The SuperComputing Science Consortium is a partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory, West Virginia University, Carnegie Mellon University, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the University of Pittsburgh, and the West Virginia Governor's Office of Technology. As a member of this partnership, PSC is developing regional projects to develop, test and utilize Grid technologies for advanced computational research.


	We are working with Compaq Computer Corporation to deploy Grid middleware on the TCS and make it available to CASP5 contestants. CASP5 is the fifth in a series of bi-annual competitions in the structural biology community to develop computational models used to predict the structure of complex proteins.