Migrating Desktop

The aim of the Migrating Desktop is to provide scientists with a framework which hides the details of most Grid services and allows working with grid application in an easy and transparent way. The graphical user interface integrates and makes use of number of middleware and integrates the individual tools into a single product providing a complete grid front-end.

The Migrating Desktop framework allows the user to access transparently the Grid resources, run sequential or interactive, batch or MPI applications, monitoring and visualization, and manage data files. MD provides a front-end framework for embedding some of the application mechanisms and interfaces, and allows the user to have virtual access to Grid resources from other computational nodes

Main features:

• Platform independent
• Support for different Grid infrastructures
• Running sequential and MPI application
• Interactive jobs support
• Easy extendable framework

Try it out

You can try to use Migrating Desktop in action. Just download this tutorial handout (which was used during 1st BalticGrid Summer School) and follow the instructions presented in it.

More information

More details can be obtained on Migrating Desktop main webpage.