ShanghaiGrid in Action: The First Stage Projects towards Digital City and City Grid

Minglu Li, Hui Liu, Changjun Jiang, Weiqin Tong, Aoying Zhou, Yadong Gui, Hao Zhu, Shui Jiang, Ruonan Rao, Jian Cao, Qianni Deng, Qi Qian, Wei Jin

Abstract: The nearest goal of ShanghaiGrid is to going to connect all supercomputers in this metropolis together to form a sharing environment for massive storage and grid computing. The first stage projects of ShanghaiGrid comprise four sub-projects, including 1) research on environment, protocols and standards of information gird infrastructure; 2) development of system software for information grid and establishment of four major grid nodes; 3) development of peer-to-peer based virtual research platform; 4) research on the application of grid based traffic-jam control and guidance. This paper introduces the background of ShanghaiGrid, provides a glimpse at features and challenges of its sub-projects, and summarizes the general goal of them.