Gridification and virtualization
Dietmar Sommerfeld, Thomas Lingner, Janko Heilgeist, Harald Richter · 2008
The MediGRID [1] project, which is part of the German e-Science initiative D-Grid, aims to provide a community Grid for researchers in the fields of bioinformatics, medical image processing, biomedical ontology, and clinical research applications. Users in the life science domain usually do not have a strong computer science background. Therefore, it is crucial to make the Grid solution as user friendly as possible. To achieve this goal, MediGRID is building up an infrastructure that follows two principles: gridification and virtualization.