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The
CrossGrid project is divided into four workpackages which deal with the
technical aspects of the project, and one workpackage dealing with
management, dissemination, and exploitation:
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WP1
CrossGrid Application Development, |
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WP2
Grid Application
Programming Environments develops, integrates
and tests tools that facilitate the development and tuning of parallel
distributed, interactive applications on the Grid. |
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WP3
New Grid Services and Tools develops
the new, generic CG services and software infrastructure to support
the Grid users, applications and tools as defined in the workpackages
WP1 and WP2. |
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WP4
International Testbed Organisation collects all of the
developments from the workpackages WP1-3 and integrates them into
successive software releases. It also gathers and transmits all
feedback from the end-to-end application experiments back to the
developers, thereby linking development, testing, and user experience. |
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Project Management ensures the professional management of the project
and active dissemination and exploitation of its results. |
The local WP web sites deliver not only the general
descriptions of their tasks but also the current status of all tasks
within the given WP.
All the technical tasks are
coupled and they form one logical structure, with applications at one
end and the infrastructure at the other, and with intermediate
programming environment and software tools in-between. The whole project
is factorised into a number of individual tasks, each of which has one
or a few institutions attached. The technical and managerial
responsibilities for the four workpackages lie primarily with their
leaders, who are the top experts in their fields, and who originate from
the principal contractors of the Consortium.
It is up to these managers
to prepare the work plan for these workpackages and to report periodically on the progress
(deliverables). All these tasks have to be synchronised by
the central management.
Detailed information on the
project can be found in "Annex1 - Description of Work"
containing the overall project presentation and its implementation plan.
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