UNICORE will become the Middleware of the Japanese Grid-InitiativeMunich 15 April 2003 As ZAM (Central Institute of Applied Mathematics) of Research Centre Juelich reported in its April edition of ZAM aktuell, that Dr. Makoto Furunishi of MEXT, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture,Sports, Science and Technology, announced during the Global Grid Forum (GGF7) in Tokyo that UNICORE has been selected as the Grid middleware for the new National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI).
Dr. Makoto Furunishi of MEXT, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, announced during the Global Grid Forum (GGF7) in Tokyo that UNICORE has been selected as the Grid middleware for the new National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI). It is led by Dr. Kenichi Miura, Fujitsu Laboratories. This initiative plans to build an infrastructure making over a hundred Teraflops available for scientific applications. It will be funded with 10 Billion Yen (100 Million euro) over five years. The idea to develop UNICORE created ZAM and realised it with partners from reserach and academia in the BMBF (German Ministry of Research) UNICORE project, starting in 1997. Together with industrial partners they realised the follower UNICORE Plus. UNICORE is the base of the European Eurogrid. Some informations about NAREGI can be found in the powerpoint slides of the keynote talk of the 3rd PRAGMA 2003 conference. Websites: http://www.unicore.de (English) and http://www.apgrid.org/pragma3/slides.html 3rd PRAGMA 2003
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