P-GRADE Portal


The P-GRADE Grid Portal was software for web portals to manage the life-cycle of executing a parallel application in grid computing.
It was developed by the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary.

Features

By building onto the GridSphere portal framework, the P-GRADE Portal hides details of Grid systems with high-level interfaces that can be integrated with middleware. It offers portlet based access to the following services:
The P-GRADE Portal allows multi-user development and execution of workflows, and also provides support for workflow level grid interoperation.
The portal supports various middleware technologies including Globus Toolkit, EGEE and Advanced Resource Connector.

License and support

The P-GRADE Portal is developed under the GNU General Public License.
Online tutorials videos and documents are available on the P-GRADE Portal site.
A release of P-GRADE Grid Portal is version 2.10.
The 2.9 version introduced features such as Portable Batch System and Platform LSF cluster support, EDGes 3G Bridge resource support, local PS port support and extended NorduGrid support.

Installations

The P-GRADE Portal served grid communities in research and industry, providing access to Grids including:
Application specific portals can be created by adding application specific portlets to P-GRADE portal, omitting some generic purpose portlets and hiding the underlying workflow within an application specific portlet.
Applications include:
The Grid Application Support Centre was established in 2008 within the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems and supported as part of the European Grid Infrastructure.
GASuC provides assistance in porting legacy applications onto grid infrastructures.