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CHARON System

CHARON is a generic system for utilization of application programs in the EGEE/VOCE Grid environment - the CHARON system. Charon was developed by computational chemistry community in the Czech republic to provide easy manageable, comfortable and modular environment to fulfill specific requirements of computational chemistry application users. It currently offers an alternative to standard LCG/EGEE environment in application-generic Virtual Organization for Central Europe (VOCE).

Present-day implementation of Charon system is completely compatible with scripting roots of the EGEE Grid environment, provides comfort computational jobs management by encapsulation of available LCG/EGEE middleware enviroment, support for smooth administration of large amount of computational jobs and enables easy retracing of already finished calculations. Compared to widely-spread graphical user interfaces (i.e. portals) Charon is oriented towards users requiring simple but feature-rich and powerful command line and scripting interface that offers support for tens and hundreds of jobs withing a single research project.

Taking into account the cornerstones on which the system is built up - modularity and generality - it is not targeted only for molecular modelling purposes but represents a generic application framework easily adoptable for broad set of generic application areas and their specific programs. Moreover Charon also permits to utilize resources from non-EGEE Grids as well. Therefore Charon is expected to be one of useful tools available for promoting utilization of Grid environment for general public purposes.

If want to know more, visit pages of CHARON System or check one of CHARON presentations:

• Plsek, V., Kuba, M., Kmunicek, J., Matyska, L.: Charon GUI: Feature Rich Interface to Distinct Grid Niches, February 11-14, 2008, 3rd EGEE User Forum, Clermont-Ferrand, France (poster) [ PDF (EN)]
• Kmunicek, J., Plsek, V., Kuba, M.: Graphical User Interface for Charon Extension Layer System and Application Dashboards, Computational Chemistry Workshop, December 3-4, 2007, d'Orsay, Paris, France (lecture) [ PDF (EN), PPT (EN)]
• Kmunicek, J.: Charon Extension Layer: Modular environment for Grid jobs and applications management, Joint EGEE and SEE-GRID Summer School on Grid Application Support, June 25-30, 2007, Budapest, Hungary (lecture) [ PDF (EN), PPT (EN)]
• Kulhanek, P., Petrek, M., Kmunicek, J.: Utilizing E-SciencE through Charon Extension Layer (CEL) Toolkit, GCCP 2006 Conference, November 27, 2006, Bratislava, Slovakia (hands-on) [PDF (EN), SXI (EN)]
• Kulhanek, P., Petrek, M., Kmunicek, J.: Utilizing E-SciencE through Charon Extension Layer (CEL) Toolkit, GCCP 2006 Conference, November 27, 2006, Bratislava, Slovakia (lecture) [PDF (EN), PPT (EN)]
• Kmunicek, J., Petrek, M., Kulhanek, P.: Charon Extension Layer - Universal Toolkit for Grid Applications and Computational Jobs Maintenance, Cracow Grid Workshop 2006, October 15-18, 2006, Cracow, Poland (poster) [PDF (EN)]
• Petrek, M., Kmunicek, J., Kulhanek, P.: Computational Chemistry Achievements within VOCE Environment, EGEE 2006 Conference, September 25-29, 2006, Geneve, Switzerland (poster) [PDF (EN)]
• Kulhanek, P., Petrek, M., Kmunicek, J.: Charon Extension Layer, Joint Regional CE EGEE and SEEGRID-2 Summer School on Grid Application Support, July 3-8, 2006, Budapest, Hungary (hands-on) [PDF (EN), SXI (EN)]
• Kulhanek, P., Petrek, M., Kmunicek, J.: Charon Extension Layer, Joint Regional CE EGEE and SEEGRID-2 Summer School on Grid Application Support, July 3-8, 2006, Budapest, Hungary (lecture) [PDF (EN), PPT (EN)]
• Kmunicek, J., Kulhanek, P., Petrek, M., CHARON System - Framework for Applications and Jobs Management in Grid Environment, Proceedings of CGW05, (2006) [PDF (EN)]
• Kulhanek, P.:CHARON System, Seminar for Users of EGEE Grid, December 13, 2005, Prague, Czech republic (lecture) [PDF (EN), PPT (EN)]
• Kmunicek, J., Kulhanek, P., Petrek, M.: CHARON System - Framework for Applications and Jobs Management in Grid Environment, Cracow Grid Workshop 2005, November 20–23, 2005, Cracow, Poland (poster) - obtained "Award for the Best Poster of the Cracow ´05 Grid Workshop" [PDF (EN)]
• Kmunicek, J., Kulhanek, P., Petrek, M.: CHARON System, EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-SciencE) Fourth Conference, NA3 CE Meeting, October 24–28, 2005, Pisa, Italy (lecture) [PDF (EN), PPT (EN)]
• Kulhanek, P., Petrek, Kmunicek, J.: CHARON System - A Framework for Comfortable Grid Applications & Jobs Management, EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-SciencE) Fourth Conference, October 24–28, 2005, Pisa, Italy (poster & demo presented by PK and JK) [PDF (EN)]