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UNICORE represents a vertically integrated solution focusing on uniform access to distributed computing resources. It was developed by a consortium of German universities, research laboratories and companies. It has benefited from development efforts provided by several European projects. The UNICORE service is running in production for example in DEISA Grid.

Unicore is a Java based grid environment consisting of three main components: UNICORE Client and a UNICORE site/Gateway which may have multiple virtual sites (connections to local resources).

Besides the UNICORE WS-RF port in the UnicoreGrids (see UNICORE6) project extensions or enhancements for UNICORE are developed today by:

OMII–Europe (http:www.omii-europe.org), A-Ware (http:www.aware-project.org) and Chemomentum   (http:www.chemmomentum.org)

Maintained By

Forschungszentrum Jülich, ZAM

Available from Sourceforge

or www.unicore.eu/download/unicore5

License

BSD

Status

In production at many site infrastructures, for example Deisa Grid or D-Grid.

Security

Authentication is based on X.509 certificates for the user and for jobs. An explicit trust delegation model is implemented.

TLS/SSL is used for communication

SLA

Not supported

Data Management

UNICORE provides data staging to transfer files from and to a client.
Gridftp is also possible by a Unicore/Globus Interface.There is no data management in sense of an abstraction layer.

User Integration

UNICORE provides an easy to use client (GUI) with features for job monitoring and user certificate management.

The client application plugin and the workflow editor gives users the possibility to built their own application dependent interface used by a variety of user communities like Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Automotive, etc. in different national and European projects.

Core Functionalities