Virtual EZ Grid: A Volunteer Computing Infrastructure for Scientific Medical Applications

This paper presents the Virtual EZ Grid project, based on the XtremWeb-CH (XWCH) volunteer computing platform. The goal of the project is to introduce a flexible distributed computing system, with (i) a non-trivial number of computing resources infrastructure from various institutes, (ii) a stable platform that manages these computing resources and provides advanced interfaces for applications, and (iii) a set of applications that take benefit of the platform. This paper concentrates on the application support of the new version of XWCH, and describes how a medical image application MedGIFT utilises it.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: GPC
• Authors: Mohamed Ben Belgacem, Nabil Abdennadher, Marko Niinimäki
• Keywords: EZ Grid Project, Flexible Distributed Computing, GPC 2010, Volunteer Computing Platform