KnowARC | Documents

ARC in headlines

General publications in English

Grid computing for the masses, a feature in the ICT Results
Release on porting Globus Grid middleware to Debian
Feature - Sharing in the Taverna, Owen Appleton, iSGTW May 2009, Taverna is a bioinformatics application using ARC
July 2008: eStrategies Projects article "The ARC solution for Grid middleware", F.Ould-Saada
KnowARC project gets going in CERN Courier, November 2006.
KnowARC will make the grid simple, in Science Grid This Week, August 2006
KnowARC in the overview of Nordic Grid Projects in CERN Courier, September 2006

Leaflets and posters

Publishing Accounting Data from Outside gLite P. Dobe, EGEE 2009, Barcelona
Grid computing inside hospitals using virtualization technology X. Zhou et al. HelthGrid 2009, Berlin
ARC middleware - current usage in the ATLAS experiment and the next generation ARC K. Pajchel, J. K. Nilsen, A. Read, NOTUR09, Trondheim
ARC middleware leaflet, design, components, implementation, June 2009
ARC technical preview poster, June 2009
KnowARC Project poster, June 2009
NorduGrid Collaboration leaflet, June 2009
ARC-Taverna poster ISC09 conference
KnowARC - Medical imaging poster at the University of Geneva (in French), September 2006
KnowARC poster at SC06 exhibit, November 2006

Other publications

NIIF Hírlevél (NIIF Newsletter) 04/2006, presents a project commence report (in Hungarian)
Lübecker Nachrichten (Lübeck local newspaper) 9.7.2006, presents a summary of the above (in German)
University of Lübeck, Pressemitteilung (in German)
Pubication in the Newsletter of the Innovationsstiftung Schleswig-Holstein (in German), July 2006
An item concerning KnowARC in the National (Slovak) IT journal INFOWARE 7/2006 (in Slovak)
Publication in 'Reutlinger Generalanzeiger', Tübingen local newspaper (in German), August 2006.
University of Geneva announces KnowARC participation, September 2006.
KnowARC in doIT onine magazine (in German)
Nordic Data Grid Facility - for storing and analysis of scientific data - an article that mentions NorduGrid and KnowARC in relation to NDGF (in Norwegian), October 2006
Release in Internet Journal L'extension (in French), October 2006.
Release in Internet Journal skool.ch (in French), October 2006.
Statistical Response to the Point Defect of Magnetic Dot Array Simulated on a Grid Platform, P. Balaz, D. Horvath, and M. Gmitra, pp. 44-51, 2nd International Workshop on Grid Computing for Complex Problems-Proceeding, GCCP2006, November 27-29, 2006, Bratislava, Slovakia
Simulation of Avalanche Dynamics in a Computational Grid, J. Cernak and A. Dirner, pp.192-197, 2nd International Workshop on Grid Computing for Complex Problems-Proceeding, GCCP2006, November 27-29, 2006, Bratislava, Slovakia
KnowARC announce on the web side of the EPFL technology transfer newsletter (in French), January 2007.
Faciliter l'utilisation des grilles de calcul dans le domaine biomédicale: Le projet KnowARC, H. Müller, A. Depeursinge, A. Geissbuhler, Proc. of Journées francophones d'informatique médicale (JFIM), Bamako, Mali, 2007 (in French):
Article about KnowARC in forskning.no, a Norwegian research web service (in Norwegian), March 2007.
KnowARC: Enabling Grid networks for the biomedical research community, H. Müller, M. Pitkanen, X. Zhou, A. Depeursinge, J. Iavindrasana, A. Geissbuhler, Proc. of 5th international Healthgrid conference, Geneva, Switzerland, April 2007:
S. Möller, D. Bayer, A. Gebhardt, D. Eddelbüttel: Scientific Grid Computing with Debian: Community or VO-Controlled Autobuilding of Software Packages Across Architectures In proceedings of the Nettab 2007 conference:
H. Müller, X. Zhou, A. Depeursinge, M. Pitkanen, J. Iavindrasana, A. Geissbuhler, Medical Visual Information Retrieval: State of the art and challenges ahead, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME), Beijing, China, 2007.
A. Depeursinge, D. Sage, A. Hidki, A. Platon, P.-A. Poletti, M. Unser and H. Müller, Lung Tissue Classification Using Wavelet Frames, in Proceedings of International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Lyon, France, 2007 .
Information about KnowARC and D3.1-1 in National Slovak IT journal INFOWARE 9/2007 (in Slovak), September 2007.
Towards GLUE 2: Evolution of the Computing Element Information Model, S.Andreozzi, S.Burke, L.Field, B.Kónya, in Proceedings of CHEP'07: poster, September 2007.
October 10th, 2007: Apollon (the popular science magazine of the University of Oslo). Article about Grid where KnowARC is mentioned and explained. http://www.apollon.uio.no/vis/art/2007_3/Artikler/cern_grid
D. Bayer, T. Bhimdi, G. Öchsler, F. Orellana, A. Wäänänen, B. Kónya, and S. Möller: Dynamic Runtime Environments for Grid Computing, in Proceedings of the Cracow Grid Workshop '07, in press (old version: )
M. Kočan: Dynamic runtime environment and its usage for workflow submission, 3rd International Workshop on Grid Computing for Complex Problems, 22 -23.10.2007 (Bratislava, Slovakia), Book of Abstracts
D. F. Schwarz, O. Hädicke, A. Ziegler, D. Bayer and S. Möller: SNPtoGO: Chracterising a List of SNPs by Associated GO Terms, Bioinformatics, 2008 24(1):146-148. Direct access or
A. Depeursinge, J. Iavindrasana, A. Hidki, G. Cohen, A. Geissbühler, A. Platon, P.-A. Poletti and H. Müller: A classification framework for lung tissue categorization SPIE Medical Imaging 2008, San Diego, CA, USA
X. Zhou, M. J. Pitkanen, A. Depeursinge, H. Müller: A Medical Image Retrieval Application Using Grid Technologies To Speed Up Feature Extraction submitted to ICT4Health 2008 conference in Philippines
March 2008: Grid-related article in Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish) ()
March 2008: Article in Skånska Dagbladet (in Swedish) ()
X. Zhou, A. Depeursinge, H. Müller: Hierarchical classification using a frequency-based weighting and simple visual features Pattern Recognition Letters 29(15) (2008) 2011-2017, direct access or
April 2008: Lundagård (Lund students newspaper) article "They develop future supercomputer in the cellar" (in Swedish) ()
H. Krabbenhöft, S. Möller, D. Bayer, "Integrating ARC grid middleware with Taverna workflows", Bioinformatics, 2008 24(9):1221-1222. direct access or
B. Kónya, M. Ellert, T. Frågåt, A. Konstantinov, M. Nordén, W. Qiang, G. Rőczei, O. Smirnova, P. Stefán, F. Szalai, Ch. U. S?ttrup, A. Taga and A. Wäänänen, "Grid Standardization Landscape: The NorduGrid Path". Submitted to LNCS (proceedings of PARA08)
T. Frågåt, D. Bayer, J. Černák, M. Ellert, B. Kónya, A. Konstantinov, S. Möller, H. Müller, Zs. Nagy, M. Norde'n, F. Orellana, F. Ould-Saada, W. Qiang, A. Read, O. Smirnova, P. Stoll, F. Szalai, A. Taga, H. Thostrup Jensen and A. Wäänänen, "From classic NorduGrid ARC to the next generation ARC middleware". Submitted to LNCS (proceedings of PARA08)
A. Depeursinge, J. Iavindrasana, G. Cohen, A. Platon, P.-A. Poletti and H. Müller: Lung Tissue Classification in HRCT data Integrating the Clinical Context 21th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) 2008, Jyväskylä, Finland
M. Juhani Pitkanen, X. Zhou, Antti E. J. Hyvärinen and H. Müller: Using the Grid for Enhancing the Performance of a Medical Image Search Engine 21th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) 2008, Jyväskylä, Finland
M. Juhani Pitkanen, X. Zhou, M. Tuisku, T. Niemi, V. Ryynänen and H. Müller: How Grids are Perceived in Healthcare and the Public Service Sector 6th Annual HealthGrid 2008 International Conference, Chicago, U.S.A
M. Niinimaki, X. Zhou, A. Depeursinge, A. Geissbuhler, and H. Müller : Building a Community Grid forMedical Image Analysis inside a Hospital, a Case Study, Proceedings of Grid Workshop at MICCAI 2008 (Medical imaging on grids: achievements and perspectives), pp 3-12, New York, USA, September 6, 2008.
M. Grønager; D. Johansson; J. Kleist; C. Søttrup; A. Wäänänen; L. Field; D. Qing; K. Happonen; T. Linden: "Interoperability between ARC and gLite – understanding the grid-job life cycle". Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on eScience, 2008, , Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, pp. 493 - 500 . .
J. Černák and G. Helgesen,Aggregation of magnetic holes in a rotating magnetic field,Phys. Rev. E 78, 061401 (2008)

F. Orellana, M. Niinimaki, X. Zhou, P. Rosendahl, H. Müller, A. Wäänänen: Running Medical Image Analysis on GridFactory Desktop Grid, HealthGrid2009, July, Berlin, 2009.
X. Zhou, H. Krabbenhöft, M. Niinimäki, A. Depeursinge, S. Möller and H. Müller: An Easy Setup for Parallel Medical Image Processing: Using Taverna and ARC, HealthGrid2009, July, Berlin, 2009.
K. Pajchel, J. K. Nilsen, A. Read: "ARC middleware - current usage in the ATLAS experiment and the next generation", poster and abstract for NOTUR09 conference, 18-20 May 2009, Trondheim, Norway: Abstract, Poster
Th. Frågåt et al.: "The European KnowARC Project", TNC09, 8-11 June 2009, Málaga, Spain, in proceedings.
Papers presented at MICCAI 2009 London 20th - 24th September 2009
- T. Glatard, X. Zhou, S. Camarasu–Pop, O. Smirnova and H. Müller, "A comparison between ARC and gLite for medical image processing on Grids", submitted to MICCAI 2009 Grid workshop .
- M. Niinimaki, X. Zhou, A. Depeursinge, and H. Müller, "Plug–in Grid: A Fully Virtualized Grid Cluster", submitted to MICCAI 2009 GRID workshop .
X. Zhou, A. Depeursinge, M. Niinimaki, A. Geissbuhler and H. Müller, "Grid Computing Inside Hospitals Using Virtualization Technology: A Secure Solution for Heavy Computing Tasks", presented at SSIM 2009 .
M. Niinimaki, X. Zhou, E. de la Vega, M. Cabrer, H. Müller, "A Web Service for enabling Medical Image Retrieval Integrated into a Social Medical Image Sharing Platform", submitted to medinfo 2010 .

Public deliverables

Many public deliverables represent oficial project milestones. For the correspondance between reports and milestones, see the periodic overview of milestones.

"D5.6-1 KnowARC CVS Repository, Bug Tracking System, Help-desk and Download Area" report, September 2006
"D3.3-1 KnowARC Standards Conformance Roadmap", October 2006
"D5.6-2 Pilot Grid System Operational Report", December 2006
"D1.1-1 Design Document", January 2007
"D3.1-1 Interoperability Minimal Service Survey", March 2007
"D1.4-1 ARC Back-end Interface To The Additional Batch Systems" (see also prototype code and interface guide), May 2007
"D2.5-1 RDF Based Semantic Runtime Environment (RE) Description And Dynamic RE Management Framework Including Creating Proof Of Concept Bioinformatics REs" (see also prototype code and code documentation), May 2007
"D1.6-1 KnowARC Security Review", July 2007
"D6.5-2 Report on potential ethical issues", July 2007
"D5.1-1 Automated Grid-based build system for "middleware nightlies" including a monitoring component" (see also prototype code and code documentation), August 2007
Milestone report: "M3.1 Non-intrusive deployment of KnowARC software over a set of production sites used in different Grids", August 2007
Milestone report: "M3.2 Cross-Grid tasks execution is performed via the ARC-EGEE gateway", August 2007
"D1.2-1 Extensive description of functionality and definition of interfaces (WSDLs) for the core components", August 2007
"D3.5-1 Annual report from international policy-making groups", August 2007 (bonus deliverable)
"D1.2-2 The ARC container (first prototype)" (see also prototype code and code documentation), September 2007
"D1.2-3 WS-layer over the core components (first prototype)" (see also prototype code and code documentation), September 2007
"D1.2-4 WS-based ARC clients (first prototype)" (see also prototype code and code documentation), September 2007
"D7.1-3 Periodic advisory board report (first period)", October 2007
"D5.1-2 Tested & certified KnowARC releases (first release)" (see also ARC1 release package and additional ARC0 patch and its documentation), October 2007
"D5.4-1 Resource consumption profile and performance benchmark study of the early prototype release of KnowARC", December 2007
"D5.6-2 Pilot Grid System Operational Report (second release)", January 2008
"D4.1-1 Grid-based content creation and multimedia retrieval" (see also prototype code and code documentation), February 2008
"D2.6-1 KnowARC integrated with Taverna and interfaced to the WEKA machine learning library" (see also prototype code and code documentation), March 2008
"D2.7-1 flowGrid initial prototype" (see also prototype code and code documentation), April 2008
"D1.5-1 A Pull-system For Virtualized Environments On Desktop Computers, First Prototype" (see also prototype code and code documentation), May 2008
"D3.3-1 KnowARC Standards Conformance Roadmap" (second release), May 2008
"D4.1-2 Deployment of a KnowARC-based Hospital Grid", May 2008
"D2.1-1 Self-healing flexible Grid storage for ARC (first prototype)" (see also prototype code and code documentation), August 2008
"D1.4-2 ARC Back-ends with Enhanced Manageability and Resource Control Capabilities" (see also prototype code and code documentation), August 2008
"D1.6-2 Integration of a delegation policy engine and policy parser into KnowARC" (see also prototype code and code documentation), August 2008
"D3.2-1 KnowARC-EGEE middleware gateways" (see also prototype code and code documentation), August 2008
"D6.5-2 Report on potential ethical issues", August 2008
"D5.3-2 Solaris and Mac OS port of the server-side ARC resource services" (see also README.Solaris, README.OSX and README files for installation details and code repository for the ARC middleware), September 2008
"D1.2-3 WS-layer over the core components, final release" (see also prototype code and code documentation), September 2008
"D1.2-4 WS-based ARC clients, final release" (see also prototype code and code documentation), October 2008
"D1.2-2 The ARC container, final release" (see also prototype code and code documentation), October 2008
"D5.2-1 Strategy to ship ARC with major Linux distributions", October 2008
"D2.6-2 Grid Runtime Environment and Taverna interface for sequence, structure and pathway analysis" (see also prototype code and code documentation), October 2008
"D5.1-2 Tested and Certified KnowARC Releases (second release)" (see also release code, testing notes and release notes), October 2008
Milestone report: "M4.2 Grid-based Content Creation And Multimedia Retrieval Framework for The Geneva University Hospital", December 2008
"D1.5-1 A pull-system for virtualized environments on desktop computers, final release" (see also prototype code and code documentation), December 2008
"D2.3-2 The Brokering Module of Arclib" (see also prototype code and code documentation), April 2009
"D2.2-1 Job resubmission and migration capability of arclib, support for job persistency " (see also prototype code and code documentation), April 2009
"D6.5-1 Report on the experience with enabling Grid in the Geneva University Hospitals via an image retrieval web service as diagnostic aid", April 2009
"D2.1-1 Self-Healing Flexible Grid Storage For ARC", final release (see also prototype code, code documentation and the manual), May 2009
"D2.4-1 Fine-grained scalable accounting service for ARC (see also prototype code and code documentation), May 2009
"D6.5-2 Report on potential ethical issues" (for the 3rd project period), June 2009
"D3.3-1 KnowARC Standards Conformance Roadmap" (3rd release), July 2009
"D4.2-1 Grid-enabled calculation and Grid-based interpretation of expression QTL", July 2009
"D2.2-2 Advanced graphical client with easy-to-use job creation module and support for bulk job management and monitoring" (see also prototype code and code documentation), July 2009
"D2.3-1 Next Generation Information Indexing Service (see also prototype code and code documentation), July 2009
"D5.3-1 Native client interface on MS Windows and Mac OS X (see also prototype code, ARC Client Windows installer and Globus Toolkit 4.2.1 Windows installer), October 2009
"D5.4-1 Resource consumption profile and performance benchmark study of the final release of KnowARC", November 2009
"D6.1-2 Report on raising public participation and awareness", December 2009
"D5.1-2 Tested and Certified KnowARC Releases (final release)" (see also release code, testing notes and release notes), December 2009
"D5.5-1 Usability test procedure, questionnaire and evaluation report", December 2009

2006

KnowARC presentaton in Brussels, Belgium, February 8, 2006
The KnowARC Project, F. Ould-Saada, European Grid Technology Day, Brussels, Belgium, September 19 2006: ,
NorduGrid and related Projects, F. Ould-Saada, IHEPCCC Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, September 22, 2006: ,
KnowARC session at EGEE06, Geneva, Switzerland, September 26, 2006

The KnowARC Project, F. Ould-Saada: ,
Status of the ARC middleware, M. Ellert: ,
Investigating interoperability in production grid middleware solutions, P.Stefán: ,
Status of ARC - gLite interoperability, Ch.U. Søttrup: ,
KnowARC applications in medicine, bioinformatics and industry, H. Müller: ,

The KnowARC Project, F. Ould-Saada, 23rd Nordunet Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 27, 2006: ,
Presentation of KnowARC on the SwissGrid Day, H. Müller, Geneva, Switzerland, September 28, 2006: ,
1st KnowARC Conference, Olso, Norway, November 8, 2006

Introduction to KnowARC, F. Ould-Saada: ,
Standards landscape and ARC development plans, P.Stefán: ,

Developing the next generation Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) Grid Middleware, B. Kónya, Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing Interactions meeting, November 21, 2006, Lund, Sweden: ,
Simulation of avalanche dynamics in a computational grid, J. Cernák, A. Dirner, 2nd International Workshop on Grid Computing for Complex Problems, 27-29 November 2006, Bratislava Slovakia: ,

2007

Grid Applications Installed on Demand, D. Bayer, G. Oechsler, S. Möller, Virutalisation Users Workshop, January 16-17, 2007, Hamburg, Germany:
From WWW to WWG, T. Frågåt, Open day at University of Oslo, Norway, March 8, 2007 (in Norwegian): ,
KnowARC – serving research and innovation, T. Frågåt, Norwegian Physics Society meeting, Tromsø, Norway, August 8, 2007 (in Norwegian): ,
NorduGrid 2007 conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 24-28, 2007

NorduGrid and related Projects, F. Ould-Saada: ,
KnowARC - Towards the next generation ARC middleware, B. Kónya: ,
Glite/ARC interoperability, Ch. Søttrup: ,
Using Taverna as a dynamic RTE within ARC, M. Kočan: ,
Storage System design by KnowARC, Z. Nagy:
The HED framework of the new ARC, M. Nordén:
Core services of the new ARC, A. Konstantinov:
Next generation back-ends, T. Frågåt: ,
Security framework of new ARC, W. Qiang: ,

EGEE07, Budapest, Hungary, October 4, 2007

Towards the next generation ARC middleware, B. Kónya: ,
The new web-service oriented Hosting Environment Daemon (HED), F. Szalai: ,
Grid run-time environment solutions in KnowARC, D. Bayer:
Standards and interoperations - the KnowARC approach, B. Kónya: ,
The ARC -> gLite, gLite -> ARC interoperation, P. Stefán: ,

NorduGrid booth slide show at Supercomputing 07, November 10-16 2007, Reno NV, USA:

2008

NORDUnet 2008 conference, Espoo, Finland, April 9-11, 2008

Security Design and Solution in ARC1, W. Qiang: ,
Resource consumption profile and performance benchmark study of ARC Classic and early prototype of ARC1, M. Kočan: ,

PARA 2008 conference, Trondheim, Norway, May 13-16, 2008

From classic NorduGrid ARC to the next generation ARC middleware, A. Taga:
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Grid standardization landscape: the NorduGrid path, O. Smirnova: ,

The KnowARC Project, 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Lyon, May 19-22,2008: ,
GIN:JSDL/BES feedback from KnowARC/NorduGrid, OGF23, June 2-6, 2008, Barcelona, Spain:
- B.Kónya, "GIN:JSDL/BES feedback from KnowARC/NorduGrid"
- A.Konstantinov "ARC Resource-coupled Execution Service (A-REX)"
ARC Meets SwiNG June 25, 2008, Bern, Switzerland
- B.Kónya, "NorduGrid's ARC middleware: status and future"
- F.Ould-Saada, The NorduGrid Collaboration
GRID'2008 June 30 - July 4, 2008, Dubna, Russia O.Smirnova, "ARC Middleware and its deploymet in the distribued Tier1 center by NDGF"

2009

Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting - FOSDEM 2009 February 7-8 2009, Brussels, Belgium, M. Ellert, "Grid Computing with Debian, Globus and ARC"
CHEP09 March 21-27, Prague, Czech Republic
- O. Smirnova "ARC middleware:evolution towards standards-based interoperability"
- J. Klem "Grid Interoperation with ARC Middleware for CMS Experiment"
- B. Samset, "Performance of an ARC enabled computing grid for ATLAS/LHC physics analysis and Monte Carlo production under realistic conditions"
HEPiX 2009 Spring May 25-29, Umeå, Sweden M.Ellert "Packaging Grid software for Linux distributions"
HelthGrid 2009 29 June - 1 July, 2009, Berlin,
- X. Zhou "Running Medical Image Analysis on the GridFactory Desktop Grid"
- X. Zhou "An Easy Setup for Parallel Medical Image Processing: Using Taverna and ARC"
BOSC 2009, Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC), Stockholm, 29. June - 2. Jyly 2009
- Ann-Kristin Grimm (talk given by Steffen Möller) "Grid-based expression QTL analysis", slides, abstract
- Joel Hedlund "The Nordic BioGrid project -- Bioinformatics for the grid",
  slides, abstract
- Hajo N. Krabbenhöft "Taverna workflows across Grids, web services and the command line", abstract
Preparing SSCs for EGI - Workshop July 1, Orsay, France O. Smirnova, "ARC User Community"
Joint EGEE and EDGeS Summer School on Grid Application Support June 29 - July 4, Budapest, Hungary K. Pajchel "NorduGrid and ARC"
Japan-Switzerland Seminar on Bridging Community Grids for Medical Image Processing , Switzerland, 6 - 9 July 2009

A. Depeursinge, "Lung Image Analysis on the Grid",
H. Muller, "Goalsof hospital Grid projects in Geneva",
M. Niinimaki "The ARC Grid middleware and its interfaces",
X. Zhou "Fracture Image Retrieval Using Taverna and ARC",

Grid Computing: a new tool for Science and Innovation (ECSAC09) August 25-29 2009, Veli Lošinj, Croatia. A. Filipcic "The NorduGrid project and the ARC middleware" ,
NORDUnet Conference 2009, September 16-18, Copenghagen, Denmark

B. Kónya "ARC: role, objectives and migration plans to EMI"
J. Nilsen "Chelonia - A distributed cloud storage prototype"
A. Filipcic "ARC performance for LHC experiments"

Cracow Grid Workshop 09 October 12 - 14, 2009 S. Toor, "Chelonia:A Self-healing Storage Cloud"

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