Italian Grid Infrastructure

The INFN Grid project, approved in late 1999, developed and deployed the first Italian Grid Infrastructure. Based on GARR, the Italian national research and education network, it became integrated with other grid infrastructures. It included more than 30 sites, such as Italian universities and, although primarily focused on physics, was open to other fields of research (such as bio-medicine and earth observation) and to industry.

With a grant received from MIUR-FIRB funds (governmental funds for investment in fundamental research) for the Grid.it project, INFN with other national research institutions led to the 2002 development of a production grid infrastructure supporting Italian research called Grid.it.{{Cite web |title= Welcome to the INFN and Grid.it Production Grid for Scientific Applications |url= http://grid-it.cnaf.infn.it/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070711162716/http://grid-it.cnaf.infn.it/ |archivedate= 11 July 2007 |accessdate= 6 June 2013 }}

In collaboration with CERN, other European countries and industries, in 2001 INFN Grid launched the largest FP5 European grid project, DataGrid, for an infrastructure supporting the European research area (ERA).

With the same partners it promoted the Data TransAtlantic Grid (DataTAG) project, which provided interoperability with a grid for science with US and Asian-Pacific areas from 2001 through 2003.{{Cite web |title= Research & technological development for a Data TransAtlantic Grid |url= http://datatag.web.cern.ch/datatag |url-status=live |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20050406080726/http://datatag.web.cern.ch/datatag/ |archivedate= 6 April 2005 |accessdate= 6 June 2013 }}

The Experiment Computing Grid Integration working group represented the Italian contribution to the development of middleware by testing the gLite software and providing user documentation.{{Cite web |title= Experiment Computing Grid Integration Working Group |url= http://infn-ecgi.pi.infn.it/ |work= Web site |accessdate= 6 June 2013 |archive-date= 21 May 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110521040859/http://infn-ecgi.pi.infn.it/ |url-status= dead }}

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INFN Grid contributed to:

Older projects include:

• GridCC, Grid enabled Remote Instrumentation with Distributed Control and Computation (2005–2007).
• EDG,{{Cite web |url=http://eu-datagrid.web.cern.ch/eu%2Ddatagrid/ |title=EDG |access-date=2008-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080313005839/http://eu-datagrid.web.cern.ch/eu-datagrid/ |archive-date=2008-03-13 |url-status=dead }} European Data Grid (2001–2004).

Software components developed within the INFN Grid project include:

• CEMon{{Cite web |url=http://grid.pd.infn.it/cemon/field.php |title=CEMon |access-date=2008-04-03 |archive-date=2006-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060622224529/http://grid.pd.infn.it/cemon/field.php |url-status=dead }} – responsible for providing information coming from the computing element (CE)
• CONStanza{{Cite web |url=http://www.pi.infn.it/constanza/ |title=CONStanza |access-date=2008-04-03 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924072856/http://www.pi.infn.it/constanza/ |url-status=dead }} – a replica consistency service that maintains consistency of writable replicated data
• CREAM{{Cite web |url=http://grid.pd.infn.it/cream/field.php |title=CREAM |access-date=2008-04-03 |archive-date=2007-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070925011832/http://grid.pd.infn.it/cream/field.php |url-status=dead }} – Computing Resource Execution And Management Service for job management operation at the computing element (CE) level
• DGAS[http://egee-jra1-wm.mi.infn.it/egee-jra1-wm/org.glite.dgas.shtml DGAS] – an accounting service that accumulates information about the usage of grid resources by the users and by groups of users, including virtual organizations as groups of users
• GLUE Schema{{Cite web |url=http://glueschema.forge.cnaf.infn.it/ |title=GLUE Schema |access-date=2008-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070529065604/http://glueschema.forge.cnaf.infn.it/ |archive-date=2007-05-29 |url-status=dead }} – a model for grid resources and mapping to concrete schemes that can be used in grid information services
• Grid2Win[http://grid2win.gilda-forge.ct.infn.it/new/index.php Grid2Win]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} – a project aiming to create a gLite user interface (UI) and a gLite computing element (CE) running on Microsoft Windows
• GriDICE{{Cite web |url=http://gridice.forge.cnaf.infn.it/ |title=GriDICE |access-date=2008-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070214051454/http://gridice.forge.cnaf.infn.it/ |archive-date=2007-02-14 |url-status=dead }} – a distributed monitoring tool designed for grid systems. It promotes the adoption of de facto standard grid information service interfaces, protocols and data models.
• WMS[http://egee-jra1-wm.mi.infn.it/egee-jra1-wm/wms.shtml WMS] – Workload Management System, middleware for distribution and management of tasks across grid resources

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• [http://www.italiangrid.it/ IGI (The Italian Grid Infrastructure) web site.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214010013/http://www.italiangrid.it/ |date=2012-02-14 }}

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