The edutain@grid project

  • Authors:

  • Thomas Fahringer;Christoph Anthes;Alexis Arragon;Arton Lipaj;Jens Müller-Iden;Christopher Rawlings;Radu Prodan;Mike Surridge

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute for Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria;Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing, University of Linz, Austria;Darkworks S.A., France;Amis d.o.o., Slovenia;Institute of Computer Science, University of Münster, Germany;BMT Cordah Ltd., UK;Institute for Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria;IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton, UK

  • Venue:
  • GECON'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Grid economics and business models
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

edutain@grid is an exciting and ground breaking new project making use of Grid technology. The project will identify and define a new class of applications that are highly significant for Grid computing but have not been studied in the past, which we characterise as Real-Time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA). The distinctive features that make ROIA unique include large user concurrency to a single application instance, ad-hoc connections, competition-oriented Virtual Organisations, real-time interactive response, dynamically changing control and data application flows whilst maintaining high Quality of Service (QoS), user friendly security, and novel Business-to-Consumer market models. In order to meet these challenges, the project team will develop a new middleware layer that will allow ROIA to exploit Grid computing and validate the system using two pilot applications from online gaming and e-learning domains.