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Brief description of legal entity
The Grid Computing Competence Center (GC3), established at the University of Zürich under the lead of OCI and the IT Services, approved and designated by Administration and Math and Natural Sciences faculty, with support from Biochemistry, Genomics, Physics, Banking, and Informatics. The GC3 provides an organizational framework to coordinate the grid computing efforts at UZH, and is intended to encompass broadly grid research and usage efforts on several fronts. The GC3 activities span from building grid infrastructure to applications integration and user support. The mission of GC3 is:
Foster research, education, infrastructure, and usage of grid computing at UZH through a collaborative coordination of corresponding human and technical resources.
Provide a single point of contact and collaboration platform for grid computing activities at UZH.
Promote grid computing activities and enhance their visibility at UZH.
Represent grid computing interests of UZH in local, national, and International initiatives.
Activities
GC3 is actively involved in several national and international Grid projects. The most prominent are:
Swiss National Grid Association (SwiNG); established a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration of Swiss scientists using a sustainable grid infrastructure.
Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid (SMSCG); aims to build the first multi- science grid in Switzerland that will provide the computational resources to the Swiss academic community.
UZH Grid aims to enable several research units at the University of Zürich to have a Campus Grid.
Pacific Rim Applications and grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA); formed by the leading institutions of the countries around the Pacific Rim to establish a sustained collaboration and advancement of the grid technologies.
Competences
GC3 draws its strength and competence in grid computing and user support from being involved in various grid related activities and has established the expertise in multiple areas, for example:
EGEE and WLCG
COST initiative.
Support for computational chemistry projects through tight collaboration with the “Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Grid Research Group” of Kim Baldridge at the Organic Chemistry Institute.
Workflow engine integration with the grid infrastructures.
Porting and adapting workflows of chemistry applications to the grid environment.
Porting and installing computational chemistry applications.
Support users in migrating projects to grid environments.
Middleware and application integration and maintenance.