DSG Research Projects

Current Research Projects

• Grid Resource Monitor (GridRM): A resource information management system for the Grid.
• Tycho: An extensible wide-area messaging framework.
• Message Passing in Java (MPJ) : A message passing system in pure java which includes Java New I/O device driver, point-to-point communications , collective communications and a secure runtime that helps starting a parallel MPJ program on a cluster or network computers.
• Sakai VRE Portal Demonstrator: A project to extend the Sakai open source and open standards portal framework. It will host a number of integrated tools and robust distributed services and become the principal user interface for a fully-functional Virtual Research Environment (VRE).
• Semantic Log Analysis: A project investigating the use of semantic web technologies to unify distributed system logs and thus provide more comprehensive post-mortem capabilities than may be possible through a naive merge. A web based demonstration is available through rdfx.org (requires login).

Past Projects

• The e-Science OGSA Testbed: An investigation to Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) middleware, in collaboration with a number of UK universities.
• Universal Information Service Brower (UISB): The overall aim of the UISB project is to provide a means to access and interact with the information services used by a range of distributed environments.
• Java Embedded Micro-kernel (JEM): A framework capable of dynamically loading Java-based service modules at runtime onto devices with limited system resources, such as intelligent network cards or PDAs.
• mpiJava: A Java interface to MPI.
• Grid : An investigation of Grid and portal technologies, in collaboration with the CLRC, UK e-Science programme. Research includes:
  • The creation of prototype services portals and application portals (for example, Liquid Crystal Structure Modelling),
  • Grid operation through firewalls,
  • Grid resource monitoring (of Globus Toolkit MDS).
• JAMT : A Java Analysis and Monitoring tool based on JAMPI.
• JavaGrande: An effort to set up a similar organisation to the US JavaGrande activity.
• Jini and Grid: An investigation into Jini and Grid integration.
• MPI on NT: An investigation and review of the various efforts to produce MPI environments for Windows NT.