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UABgrid is a pilot project of UAB IT.
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Background
Development of UABgrid has gone through several stages since its inception. A brief time-line provides an overview of this history:
- 2003 - Concept for campus grid infrastructure emerges from participation in NMI Testbed
- 2004-2006 - NSF project to explore construction of federated systems environments leads to development of myVocs and openidp.org
- 2007 - Launch of UABgrid Pilot to explore production use of federated systems environment
- 2008 - Testing migration large-scale HPC work flows to the grid; expanding pilot users
- 2009 - Development expands to support key technology initiatives of caBIG and CTSA
Presentations
During this time, UABgrid and several aspects of its system environment have been documented in a variety of venues: (to be completed)
Related Activities
Development of this system environment has benefited through our engagement in several external projects. (to be completed)