The Genesis II Project
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Overview
Genesis II is an open source, standards-based grid platform designed to support both high-throughput computing and secure data sharing. The features of the Genesis II platform are designed with two communities in mind:
- User Community. The Genesis II Project is intended to provide the grid user community with free, easy-to-use tools to exploit grid technology to fulfill their computation and data management needs. The platform is designed to support a wide range of potential application domains from simple data sharing to multi-platform, multi-organizational high-throughput computing. We currently provide a production level grid environment for biomedical research here at the University of Virginia.
- Research Community. The Genesis II platform is an interoperable (via adherence to community standards), freely available, and flexible platform for developing and evaluating new grid technologies and models. Genesis II serves to vet and validate the standardization efforts within the OGF and OGSA standards communities. Grid research is a dynamic field of study, and many challenges remain. Particular areas that we focus on are data access, security (confidentiality, data integrity, access control, policy negotiation), dependability (availability, SLA’s, policy languages), and grid standards.
The Genesis II Project is brought to you by the UVa Department of Computer Science and the Virginia Center for Grid Research.
XCG
The UVa Genesis II group maintains a live grid called the XCG. In order to get the most out of this grid you will need to apply for an XCG account which can be done via our XCG user application form located at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~vcgr/userrequest. Once your account has been created, you will be able to log in to the XCG by issuing the login command from the grid shell. The syntax for this command will be:
login --username=<your username> rns:/users/<your username>
So, for example, if your login id is mmm2a, you would login using the command:
login --username=mmm2a rns:/users/mmm2a
The command will prompt you for your password. Please keep in mind that when you log in, you stay logged in for at most 24 hours. If you submit a job after 23 hours logged in, that job can only run for the next hour before it fails. If you need to log in for a longer period of time, consider using the --validDuration option with your login command.
Demonstration of XCG
Clicking on the link will take you to an MP4 movies that demonstrates some of the features of the XCG. [XCG/Genesis II Demonstration]
News
- 03/28/2008 : Enhanced production version of Genesis II avilable as Version 1.1.0.1181! New features include up-to-spec. BES, TTYs, and BES jobs with OGRSH support. See Genesis II Downloads for details.
- 02/20/2008 : First production version of Genesis II available as Version 1.0.0.1173! See Genesis II Downloads for details.
- 02/18/2008 : Genesis II Distribution Version 0.9.0.1172 available! See the Genesis II Downloads section for further details.
