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The Virginia Center for Grid Research is dedicated to performing research and solving issues surrounding the operation, deployment, and use of large distributed data and computing systems.

News

• June 25, 2009: Genesis II 2.0 Production Version Released. Genesis II is a standards-based high throughput computing and data sharing grid product. The distribution of Genesis II 2.0 is now available for download from the Genesis II Downloads web page. This version enhances usability for clients as well as stability for certain services. Grid queues now perform resource routing and client authentication can now be performed at the transport level.

• February 20, 2008: Genesis II 1.0 Production Version Released. Genesis II is a standards-based high throughput computing and data sharing grid product. The distribution of Genesis II 1.0 is now available for download from the Genesis II Downloads web page.

• December 2007: OGRSH Alpha Released. OGRSH is a traditional software intercept library, or shim, that intercedes itself between a user application and the backend standard C and C++ libraries so that it can give that application the illusion that the user is working on a local file system when in reality the file system shown is virtual consisting of many mounted local and grid filesystem together.. The Alpha version of OGRSH is now available for download from the OGRSH web page.

• September 2007: Genesis II Alpha Version Released. Genesis II is a standards-based high throughput computing and data sharing grid product. The Alpha version of Genesis II is now available for download from the Genesis II web page.

• September 2006: Campus-Wide Grid Update. The Campus-Wide Grid is now operational for Fall 2006 Semester Thanks to help from the staff in UVa's ITC Department, the Campus-Wide Grid is redeployed and operational for the Fall 2006 Academic session to support high throughput computing projects at the University.