Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

The Research Centre Jülich (FZJ) is the largest national German research facility and part of the German Helmholtz Association. The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) is part of FZJ and operates a national HPC centre. FZJ has been involved in Distributed and Grid Computing for many years and earned a proven track record. Through ZAM, FZJ co-ordinated the German UNICORE and UNICORE Plus projects, the EU-funded projects GRIP, OpenMolGRID, and UniGrids, participated in the EUROGRID project, and is currently participating in German Grid projects, like D-Grid and VIOLA, and European projects like OMII-Europe, DEISA; EGEE-II, A-WARE, Chemomentum, CoreGRID, NextGRID, and PHOSPHORUS. They managed the standardisation efforts of projects like GRIDSTART, GRIP, and NextGRID, and actively contribute to and lead standardisation activities in the Open Grid Forum and OASIS. Approximately 20 researches and technical personnel are involved in Grid-related activities among which are UNICORE user support for production systems and coordination of and support for the UNICORE Open Source development.