The GridSpace technology is a platform for constructing and provisioning distributed applications. It delivers a means for integrating IT services, deployable software components and diverse data sources into consistent applications. Moreover, GridSpace provides tools for developing applications in a friendly, Ruby-based environment, as well as a runtime system and Web-based interface for executing them. Accompanying modules include version management, remote service registration and security.

GridSpace technology is being applied in several research projects from various domains:

PL-Grid

The goal of the PL-Grid project is to provide the Polish scientific community with an IT supercomputing platform and a set of advanced tools to enable e-science research in various fields. This infrastructure aims to be compatible with existing worldwide Grid frameworks. GridSpace is positioned as the basis for an advanced virtual laboratory environment for in-silico processing by Polish scientists, state authorities and crisis management teams.

ViroLab

The ViroLab Project developed a virtual laboratory for research in the area of infectious diseases. In particular, it targets the drug resistance problem in HIV anti-viral therapy, using genetic information and computer modeling. GridSpace technology is used here as the main building block of the virtual laboratory, providing the core runtime, services and tools for programmers, computational scientists and virologists, enabling them to address important issues in modern treatment of infectious diseases through collaborative in-silico research.

GREDIA

The GREDIA Project prepared a system for access to multimedia data on the Grid, in the context of business applications. GREDIA focuses on media and banking sectors. Here, GridSpace is applied as a core of the Appea platform, which enables users to quickly develop and deploy application scenarios, making use of the available Grid services and data resources. Moreover, GridSpace is capable of interfacing end users and present them with custom user interfaces, adapted to the needs of individual application domains.

ChemPo

The ChemPo project develops a computational chemistry portal which facilitates the use of numerous packages (e.g. Gaussian or GAMESS) deployed on the Grid infrastructure. All Grid-related operations, such as proxy certificate generation or LFC data catalog access, are supported. GridSpace is used to orchestrate the process of job submission and management. It also enables scientists to analyze their output data in a semi-automatic manner.