KnowARC News Archive
2009-04-01: Emergence Tech Limited, the new KnowARC partner from UK, takes charge of the exploitation and outreach actvities.
2009-03-31: All-hands meeting of the project takes place in Uppsala, Sweden.
2009-03-05: Technology preview of ARC 0.9.3 is presented at the OGF25 tutorials, meetings and the NorduGrid booth.
2008-12-16: An important project milestone is reached with establishing of a Grid-based Content Creation And Multimedia Retrieval Framework for The Geneva University Hospital
2008-10-10: KnowARC offers a second release of its middleware components. It includes earlier announced components, as well as the final release of ARC container (HED). Also, additional runtime environments and Taverna interface for sequence, structure and pathway analysis are releases, as well as a report on strategy for shipping ARC with Linux releases.
2008-09-23: KnowARC completes implementation of a WS layer over its core component - the A-REX job execution service. More details are available in the report.
2008-09-03: KnowARC reaches another important milestone: ARC server components are shown to be portable and working on Mac OS and Solaris systems. More details are available in the report.
2008-08-13: Three new prototypes are released: new ARC batch systems back-ends, delegation policy engine and policy parser, and ARC-gLite job submission client.
2008-08-07: First protoype of the Self-Healing Flexible Grid Storage for ARC is released.
2008-05-26: A major KnowARC milestone is achieved: a Grid setup is deployed in the Geneva University Hospitals. Detailed report is available in the deliverable D4.1-2 "Deployment of a KnowARC-based Hospital Grid".
2008-05-13: Second revision of the KnowARC Standards Conformance Roadmap (deliverable D3.3-1) is released. It represents a categorised update of the earlier roadmap, based on the most recent developments in the standardisation area.
2008-05-08: KnowARC makes a step towards enabling grid on desktop computers via virtualized environments: an initial prototype of a pull-system is released.
2008-04-29: Another workflow tool is integrated with ARC: the "flowGrid initial prototype" adapts the commercial flowGuide application for use in an ARC-based Grid.
2008-04-13: KnowARC gives two talks and contributes to the NorduGrid technical meeting during the NORDUnet 2008 conference.
2008-03-31: "KnowARC integrated with Taverna" application prototype is out. It opens the possibility to use Taverna as direct interface to Grid resources running ARC.
2008-02-08: "Grid-based content creation and multimedia retrieval" application prototype is released. It addresses several medical image processing cases.
2008-01-28: "Pilot Grid System Operational Report (second release)" is made available.
2007-12-10: Report "Resource consumption profile and performance benchmark study of the early prototype release of KnowARC" is made available.
2007-11-28: KnowARC receives the top grade following the first project review.
2007-11-12:
KnowARC joins the NorduGrid booth (#173) at the Supercomputing '07 research exhibit..
2007-10-12: KnowARC makes available the first technology preview of the next generation ARC1 middleware.
2007-09-19: Milestone of cross-grid task execution between EGEE and ARC middlewares is achieved on August 31, as described in the newly released report
2007-09-13: Three new core prototype deliverables are released: D1.2-2 "The ARC container", D1.2-3 "WS-layer over the core components" and D1.2-4 "WS-based ARC clients" .
2007-08-14: Three public deliverables are released on August 13 and 14: deliverable D5.1-1 on automated Grid-based build system, Milestone M3.1 report on non-intrusive KnowARC software deployment on other Grids, and the core deliverable D1.2-1 - description of functionality and definition of interfaces (WSDLs) for the core components.
2007-07-24: The report on potential ethical issues (public deliverable D6.5-2) is released.
2007-07-06: The KnowARC Security Review (public deliverable D1.6-1) is released.
2007-05-31: Two new deliverables are made public: D1.4-1 "ARC Back-end Interface To The Additional Batch Systems" and D2.5-1 "RDF Based Semantic Runtime Environment (RE) Description And Dynamic RE Management Framework Including Creating Proof Of Concept Bioinformatics REs"
2007-05-01: KnowARC and NorduGrid co-organize the NorduGrid Conference 2007
2007-03-31: The Interoperability Minimal Service Survey (public deliverable D3.1-1) is released.
2007-01-26: The Design Document (public deliverable D1.1-1), outlining general directions of the KnowARC activities, is released.
2006-12-29: The Pilot Grid System (PGS) is set up, and available for grid job submissions. The PGS operational report is released as a public deliverable D5.6-2
2006-11-13: KnowARC participates in the SC06 research exhibit, represented by the NorduGrid and the Hungarian Grid Competence Center booths.
2006-11-10: CERN Courier publishes an article "KnowARC project gets going"
2006-10-11: KnowARC Standards Conformance Roadmap (deliverable D3.3-1) is released.
2006-10-02: 1st KnowARC Conference is organized on November 7-9, 2006, in Oslo.
2006-09-26: KnowARC organizes a dedicated session at the annual EGEE Conference.
2006-08-09: Science Grid This Week publishes an aticle KnowARC will make the grid simple
2006-08-01: KnowARC and NorduGrid organize an ARC Design Week on September 4-8, 2006, in Budapest and Sárospatak, Hungary.