Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI)

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is the leading organization of institutes of applied research and development in Europe. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is a non-profit registered association, which currently maintains 58 research institutes in locations throughout Germany.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI), Sankt Augustin, led by Prof. Ulrich Trottenberg is working in the areas of Simulation, Numerical Software, Bioinformatics, and Optimization. The Department for Bioinformatics hosts a Grid Group that is working in the area of job scheduling for massive parallel machines since 1994 and does research and development in the domain of Resource Management and Scheduling for Grids since 2000.
Since 2003 the Grid-related work is focusing on: co-allocation of arbitrary resources for running complex jobs in the Grid, implementation of a resource allocation protocol supporting multi-site SLAs and advance reservation; development and evaluation of a flexible local scheduling system implemented as Grid-service.