CCS Seminar
Friday - March 23, 2007
12:00 noon
Physics Research Building - Room 595
Professor Saul Youssef - Center for Computational Science - Boston University

"Cyberinfrastructure with EGG"

In examining some of the limitations of contemporary grid computing, we have come upon a surprising combination of ideas related to environment computing and economic mechanism design. These lead to a simplification of the overall problem, resulting in systems, which are substantially more flexible, responsive and comprehensible than contemporary grids. The EGG project is a collaboration between physicists and computer scientists to take these ideas further and to produce a production quality core system suitable both for long-term development and for short-term practical use. We give the motivation and central concepts of EGG, describe the resulting overall distributed computing landscape and show the core system in action.