Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed SystemsHead of department- Péter Kacsuk
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH fsz. 7.Phone: +36 1 329 7864Fax: +36 1 329 7864E-mail: kacsukEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.huHomepage: www.lpds.sztaki.hu
Deputy head- Róbert Lovas
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 006Phone: +36 1 279 6064, +36 1 329 7864Fax: +36 1 329 7864E-mail: rlovasEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
Generic information
Description
Main activities
MTA SZTAKI - as a key research institute in grid technologies is a founding member of the Hungarian Grid Competence Centre and the National Grid Initiative, and coordinates several European Grid projects in the 7th Framework Programme (see the latest news in the right coloumn).
As a part of MTA SZTAKI, Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems' mission is two-fold in grid research:
- to provide efficient software development tools and high-level services together with customizable scientific gateways based on workflows (P-GRADE Grid Portal, gUSE) for harvesting the most wide-spread grid infrastructures based on gLite, Globus, BOINC, and
- to offer easy-to-maintain middleware solutions (SZTAKI Desktop Grid) and technologies for inter-operability (3G Bridge) that enables cost-efficient alternative platforms for scientific and business applications.
Main research areas
- Grid computing including Desktop Grids
- Service oriented architectures
- Cloud systems
- Interoperation and interoperability
- Resource brokering
- Graphical development environments and gateways
- Workflow based IT solutions
Main achievements
LPDS has participated in national and international Grid research projects since 2000 with outstanding results in the area of Grid middleware and in the development of high-level user interfaces.
- Improving high-level user interfaces
In this field two important products have been elaborated by LPDS.
First, the P-GRADE system enables the development of „grid workflow” applications and their parallel components. On the other hand, a P-GRADE portal version has also been created that enables the definition of grid workflows from the parallel components and their execution in the underlying Grid.
P-GRADE Grid portal offers workflow construction and execution mechanisms for grids including execution and performance visualization, advanced security features, access to information systems and resource brokers, and multi-grid support.
Currently, P-GRADE Grid portal is the official portal of HUNGRID (Hungary), SEE-GRID (South- Eastern European countries), and VOCE (Virtual Organization of Central European countries) grid infrastructures, and also available world-wide for 15 user communities; among other infrastructures, for UK National Grid Service, White Rose Grid (UK), KnowledgeGrid (Malaysia), TR-GRID (Turkey), Swiss Grid (Switzerland), Baltic Grid (EENet), ClGrid (Chile). P-GRADE portal is integrated with the GEMLCA grid legacy code architecture making the usage of legacy applications possible in grids.
The new generation of the Grid portal, the gUSE environment has been developed in the frame of CancerGrid and other projects based on Webservices and enhanced workflow execution mechanisms.
- Providing IT based solutions for more effective exploitation of our resources
The goal of SZTAKI Desktop Grid is to provide a solution to exploit the spare capacities of home PCs, or computers located at different sites of a company or an institute. A desktop grid can interconnect a large number of distributed resources to solve complex applications. With the help of its cost effective and green solution, SZTAKI Desktop Grid supports various international and national research projects from the fields of drug discovery, environmental modelling, data signal processing and so on.
Based on the gained experiences, the laboratory addressed the interoperation between desktop and service grids, and elaborated the 3G Bridge; a generic Grid-to-Grid bridge solution.
- Knowledge transfer, supporting education
Between 2004 and 2010 LPDS operated the Central-European Regional Training Centre of EGEE, and the laboratory plays an active role in providing grid trainings in Europe and world-wide. With national and international trainings, LPDS provides knowledge transfer and targets new users from industry as well as from science. LPDS organized and hosted grid summer schools in 2005, 2006, and 2007. In 2008 LPDS organized the world largest grid training event, the ISSGC08 Grid Summer School and also hosted several grid related training events. LPDS is very active in undergraduate and postgraduate education. Personnel of the laboratory conduct regular lectures/classes at graduate and postgraduate levels at universities ELTE, OE, and BME. The laboratory is the founding member of the International Desktop Grid Federation.
- Developing different grid infrastructures
LPDS has substantial experience in establishing grid infrastructures. Together with KFKI-RMKI the laboratory has established the HUNGRID infrastructure.
HUNGRID is the Hungarian Virtual Organisation of the European Grid Infrastructure and it is extended with P-GRADE Grid Portal. In the framework of different projects LPDS provided cluster technologies for meteorologists, contributed to a grid infrastructure for chemists and participated in the integration of supercomputers into grids. The laboratory co-operated with Hungarian partners as well in various application areas such as weather forecast, environmental modelling, and drug discovery. LPDS established and operates as a 24/7 service the SZTAKI Desktop Grid infrastructure, which serves as a base technology for NKTH funded grid projects, HAGRID and WEB2GRID, with the scientific coordination of LPDS and involvement of small and medium size enterprises.
International and EU-s projects
LPDS participated in the CoreGRID Network of Excellence, and has been working as a project member in all the phases of the largest European grid infrastructure project EGEE or EGI-Inspire serving as a regional training centre (from 2004), as the assistant leader in training (2007-2010), and the coordinator of appli-cation porting centers (2008-2010). The laboratory was the coordinator of the EU FP7 EDGeS infrastructure project with the aim of bridging service grid and desktop grid infrastructures and supporting their user communities from both academy and industry. From 2010 the laboratory is the leader of two follow-up projects of EDGeS; the EDGI projekt with the main aim to extend the technology towards cloud computing and other middleware solutions, and the DEGISCO project targeting new partners and application areas from non-EU countries. LPDS is the coordinator of the SHIWA project that integrates some of the major workflow systems developed in Europe and in the US. LPDS also participated in other international Grid projects such as ETICS-2, CancerGRID, and each phase of SEE-GRID.
Organising scientific conferences
The laboratory organised the bi-yearly international DAPSYS conference, which focuses mainly on grid systems, grid development, grid applications, distributed and parallel computing, and recently launched the PUCOWO workshop. The members of laboratory publish every year numerous prestigious scientific publications in the forms of international journal papers, book chapters and conference papers. LPDS significantly contributes to promoting dissemination of grid computing results and participates in the EU S-CUBE Network of Excellence. Prof. Dr. Peter Kacsuk, head of the laboratory is the editor-in-chief of Journal of Grid Computing (with Ian Foster).
Main services
The SEE-GRID-SCI and EGEE projects flagged application porting as one of the key support activities. They both set up geographically distributed application porting groups, with the leadership of Grid Application Support Centre (GASuC) . The centre consists of grid researchers, grid tool builders and grid application developers, and now supported by the DEGISCO, EDGI, SHIWA, and EGI-Inspire projects. The team has long running experience in porting applications onto cluster and grid environments. GASuC has been participating in numerous successful R&D collaborations since 2007, e.g., in the fields of drug discovery, B2B/e-Marketplace, earth science, meteorology, and computational chemistry.
Main products
Our personnel
The Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems is headed by Peter Kacsuk DSc. Altogether 25 colleagues are working here, within this, 4 persons have PhD rank and 7 persons working in part-time positions.
More information about the laboratory:
Staff- Gábor Bacsó
Address: 1111 Budapest, Kende u. 13-17.Room number: K 523Phone: +36 1 279 6110E-mail: bacsoEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Ákos Balaskó
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 009Phone: 329 7864E-mail: balaskoEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Zoltán Farkas
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 019Phone: +36 1 279 6007, +36 1 329 7864Fax: +36 1 329 7864E-mail: zfarkasEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Márk Gergely
- Tibor Gottdank
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 030E-mail: gottdankEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Ákos Hajnal
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH fsz. 30E-mail: ahajnalEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Gábor Herman
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 0019Phone: +36 1 279 6007Fax: +36 1 329 7864E-mail: ghermannEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Krisztián Karóczkai
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 027Phone: +36 1 279 6073E-mail: krisztian.karoczkaiEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Gábor Kecskeméti
- Attila Kertész
- Péter Kotcauer
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 026Phone: +36 1 279 6067, +36 1 329 7864 Fax: +36 1 329 7864 E-mail: kotcauerEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- József Kovács
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 010Phone: +36 1 279 6066, +36 1 329 7864Fax: +36 1 329 7864E-mail: smithEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Miklós Kozlovszky
Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 20Phone: +36 1 279 6072Fax: +3613297864E-mail: m.kozlovszkyEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Réka Mária Makkos
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH. fsz. 6.Phone: +36 1 279 6064, +36 1 279 6809, +36 1 329 7864Fax: +36 1 329 7864E-mail: makkosEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Attila Marosi
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 020Phone: +36 1 279 6072E-mail: atisuEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- István Márton
Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 027Phone: +36 1 279 6073, +36 1 329 7864Fax: +36 1 329 7864E-mail: imartonEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Zsolt Németh
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH fsz. 9Phone: +36 1 279 6065, +36 1 329 7864E-mail: zsnemethEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Gergely Sipos
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH fsz. 0009Phone: +36 1 279 6065Fax: +36 1 329 7864E-mail: siposEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu, gergely.siposEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIegi.eu
- Ágnes Szeberényi
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Mail address: 1111 Budapest, Kende utca 13-17.Room number: VH fsz. 29Phone: +36 1 279 6075E-mail: szeberenyiEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Kitti Varga
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 029Phone: +36 1 279 6075E-mail: vargakiEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Sándor Ács
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 026Phone: +36 1 279 6067E-mail: acsEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
Students- Zsófia Jávor
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 025Phone: +36 1 279 60 66Fax: +36 1 329 78 64E-mail: javorEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Csaba Krányecz
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 010Phone: +36 1 279 6066, +36 1 329 7864Fax: +36 1 329 7864E-mail: kranyeczEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
- Ádám Visegrádi
 Address: 1132 Budapest, Victor Hugo u. 18-22.Room number: VH 025Phone: +36 20 958 7090, +36 1 329 7864Fax: +36 1 329 7864E-mail: a.visegradiEZT_TOROLJE_KI@EZT_TOROLJE_KIsztaki.hu
2011.- Parameter sweep job submission to clouds.
- SEE-GRID eInfrastructure for regional eScience.
 Authors: Prnjat, Ognjen; Balaz, Antun; Vudragovic, Dusan; Liabotis, Ioannis; Sener, Cevat; Marovic, Branko; Kozlovszky, Miklós; Neagu, GabrielDate: 2011.
- Multi-level brokering solution for interoperating service and Desktop Grids.
- EDGeS bridge technologies to interconnect service and desktop grids.
- Workers in the clouds.
- Towards a powerful European DCI based on desktop grids.
- Using a private desktop grid system for accelerating drug discovery.
- Integrating service and Desktop Grids at middleware and application level.
2010.- Numerical modeling of mantle convection in 3D on the SEE-GRID-SCI infrastructure.
- Application and middleware transparent checkpointing with TCKPT on ClusterGrids.
- Job scheduling in hierarchical desktop grids.
- From grid islands to a World Wide Grid.
- SZTAKI desktop grid: adapting clusters for desktop grids.
- GMBS: a new middleware service for making grids interoperable.
- Efficient graph partitioning algorithms for collaborative grid workflow developer environments.
- Gridification of regional Fault Plain Solution (FPS).
- Virtual appliances: a way to provide automatic service deployment.
2009.- Towards a World Wide Grid: integration service grids and desktop grids.
Authors: Kacsuk, PéterEditor: Topping, B.H.V.; Iványi, P.Date: 2009.
- Grid interoperability solutions in grid resource management.
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