Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Canadian Forest Service Service canadien des forêts Natural Research Council Canada Conseil national de recherches Canada CANARIE Network Enabled Platform (NEP) Project Service Oriented Scientific Grid Computing for the SAFORAH Forestry Data Grid February Review Project Collaboration NRCan Pacific Forestry Centre (D. Goodenough, H. Chen, A. Guan, B. Moa, S.Perkins) University of Victoria (R. Sobie, P. Armstrong, A. Agarwal, I. Gable, R. Desmarais) NRC Ottawa (R. Impey, W. Podaima, A. Charbonneau)

Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Canadian Forest Service Service canadien des forêts Natural Research Council Canada Conseil national de recherches Canada Introduction n NEP02 Project started in July 2008 n 2-year contract with a sub-contract with NRC, Ottawa Extended to Jan n Extension allowed us to develop new features and improve the robustness of the infrastructure 50% reduction in the manpower in this period Limited NRC participation (no funds allocated to NRC) n Final claim and reports submitted to CANARIE All funds spent

Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Canadian Forest Service Service canadien des forêts Natural Research Council Canada Conseil national de recherches Canada Activities Reports: n Patrick on the grid middleware n Susan and Hao on the parallelization of the forestry applications n Demo

Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Canadian Forest Service Service canadien des forêts Natural Research Council Canada Conseil national de recherches Canada Summary n Project completed successfully n Faced challenges due to changing technologies that were beyond our control Grid computing is moving to the clouds Technology has rapidly evolved since the beginning of the project n Acknowledge the strong support of CANARIE