The UNICORE Grid-technology provides a seamless, secure and intuitive access to distributed Grid resources. In this paper we present the recent evolution from project results to production Grids. At the beginning UNICORE was developed as a prototype software in two projects funded by the German research ministry (BMBF). Over the following years, in various European-funded projects, UNICORE evolved to a full-grown and well-tested Grid middleware system, which today is used in daily production at many supercomputing centers worldwide. Beyond this production usage, the UNICORE technology serves as a solid basis in many European and International research projects, which use existing UNICORE components to implement advanced features, high level services, and support for applications from a growing range of domains. In order to foster these ongoing developments, UNICORE is available as open source under BSD licence at SourceForge, where new releases are published on a regular basis. This paper is a review of the UNICORE achievements so far and gives a glimpse on the UNICORE roadmap.
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@article{arxiv.cs/0502090,
title = {UNICORE - From Project Results to Production Grids},
author = {A. Streit and D. Erwin and Th. Lippert and D. Mallmann and R. Menday and M. Rambadt and M. Riedel and M. Romberg and B. Schuller and Ph. Wieder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0502090},
year = {2007}
}