item UNICORE@SourceForge contains the UNICORE software and further information.



Uniform Interface to Computing Resources


The UNICORE project created software that allows users to submit jobs to remote high performance computing resources without having to learn details of the target operating system, data storage conventions and techniques, or administrative policies and procedures at the target site. Existing Web-based technologies was exploited wherever possible.

Following partners worked together at this project.

item Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
item DWD- Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach
item RUS - Rechenzentrum der Universität Stuttgart
item Genias Software GmbH, Regensburg
item Pallas GmbH, Brühl

The project was funded in part by the BMBF.
It started 01.08.1997 and with the support of further collaborators the project has been successfully completed 31.12.1999.

More Information about UNICORE and its goals:
item Description and status
item UNICORE Open Source Distribution
item JSC Publications on Grid Computing and UNICORE

The results have been presented at the Symposium on Metacomputing and Distributed Computing in September 1999.
The work on UNICORE was continued in a follow-on project called
UNICORE Plus.



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