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Objective:

• Enable Slicer3 to execute work in a distributed grid environment
• Enable NA-MIC algorithms to be tested in a distributed grid environment

Progress:

• Installed and updated grid infrastructure components: namic-srb submit machine, implemented configuration for Condor/Globus/GSI to allow NA-MIC users access to 64 node cluster.
• Defined Data Execution Model for Slicer3 - The purpose of this is to facilitate a "run-everywhere" philosophy for algorithm writers. If NAMIC adopts a standard for algorithm "self-description" that is followed when command line executables are written, Slicer, the grid, clusters, etc... should be able to use the executables directly in their environment.
• Defined API for the Grid Interface - based on the execution model, this API enables the running of algorithms in a distributed grid environment

Key Investigators:

• UCSD BIRN-CC: Jeffrey Grethe, Neil Jones
• GE: Dan Belzek, Jim Miller
• Isomics: Steve Pieper

Links:

• 2006 Programming Week Project Page
• Slicer3:Grid_Interface
• Slicer3:Execution_Model
• Slicer3:Large_scale_experiment_control_brainstorming