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I was suprised that someone wanted to take over the vgrid project. I did not accept because I have some ideas for vgrid that I would like to implemet in the near future. Anyway if someone has his own ideas or plans for vgrid, he/she is greatly invited to participate in that project. We could even split the project into different branches

Tasks I would like to finish in the near future:

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About

Vgrid is a grid computing system that allows to connect computers to share their computing power and form a virtual supercomputer. The computers may be common business computers and they might be connected by widely available networks like LANs or the internet. Of course it does not matter if you use one or more powerful computers or high speed connections.

Vgrid may be used in different scenarios. If you have some computers connected by intra net (E.g. your company or institute) you may install a vgrid plodder program on each of your computers and a server on one of the machines. You may then deploy tasks on the server and all your computers that are running at the moment would start executing these tasks in the background.

Another scenario would be to set up a server that can be accessed over the internet. Then you would have to find as many volunteers that agree to provide their computers as plodders for your tasks. Existing grids of that kind are seti@home or the zeta grid project. Using vgrid for such a program has the benefit that no extra programs have to be written concerning the organization of the grid. All you have to think about would be how to implement your problem as vgrid task.

Combinations of the above introduced scenarios are also conceivable.

Features:

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Testdeployment

Try it out: GO

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Downloads

Go to the vgrid download page to get the latest version: GO

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Sample Implementations

For testing purposes and to show that vgrid is really working I tried to integrate third party algorithms in vgrid. Currently the following projects are integrated:

Gridaligner Implementation of the Smith-Waterman algorithm for biological local pairwise sequence alignment.

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Contact

Wolfgang Wagner / Vienna / Austria

Mail: wolfgang.wagner@iname.com

ICQ: 171259816

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Forums

Help Ask a question if you have problems running vgrid or if you want extra information not provided on that homepage.
Discussion Post on that forum if you have suggestions how to improve vgrid.

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Development

To get an overview about the development state of vgrid refer to the sourceforge project summary page.

If you want to learn what new features or improvements are planned for the next release see the projects TODO list.

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Links

This site is hosted on sourceforge http://www.sourceforge.net
Seti@home Another grid computing project http://www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
ZetaGrid Another grid computing project http://www.zetagrid.net/
jaligner JAligner project http://jaligner.sourceforge.net
gridaligner JAligner running in a distributed environment. http://vgrid.sourceforge.net/gridaligner

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