The Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference is the annual gathering of magnetic fusion energy theory/simulation scientists in the United States. One component of The National Fusion Collaboratory project is to create a Fusion Grid where the term Grid refers to the infrastructure aimed at allowing users to securely access and/or aggregate large numbers of powerful and sophisticated distributed resources (data, codes, visualization tools). The demonstration at the Sherwood Meeting represented a first step at building the production Fusion Grid. Although the demonstration used the TRANSP code, any code can be grid-enabled and future plans outline adding more codes to the Grid.
During the three day meeting the Collaboratory Project discussed and demonstrated new capabilities. More information on this demonstration was available in a handout that was distributed at the meeting and a large poster that introduceed the Collaboratory Project and explained the demonstration.
The demonstration was composeded of six components securely interacting through a Globus-enabled implementation of the MDSplus data repository framework:
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