Open Overlays
The Open Overlays project was a collaboration between Lancaster University and Oxford Brookes University. The project explored network and middleware support for distributed collaborative visualisation in the Grid; providing integrated middleware and networking support for future Grid applications that are: highly heterogeneous; highly collaborative; employ multiple media-types; are large scale, complex and dynamic; and are QoS-sensitive (i.e., need to react to changes in environmental conditions).
Project Dates
February 2004 to January 2007
Selected Publications
P. Grace, D. Hughes, B. Porter, G. Blair, G. Coulson, F. Taiani, "Experiences with Open Overlays: A Middleware Approach to Network Heterogeneity", Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International EuroSys Conference '08, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2008. pdf
Geoff Coulson, Paul Grace, Gordon Blair, Laurent Mathy, David Duce, Chris Cooper, Wai Kit Yeung, Wei Cai. "Towards a component-based middleware framework for configurable and reconfigurable grid computing". In Proceedings of Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next Generation Grid (ETNGRID-2004). Modena, Italy, June 2004.
Project Web Site
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/reseacrh/mpg/projects/openoverlays/
Investigators
- Gordon Blair (Lancaster)
- Geoff Coulson(Lancaster)
- Laurent Mathy(Lancaster)
- Paul Grace (Lancaster)
- Barry Porter (Lancaster)
- Wai Kit Yeung (Lancaster)
- Chris Cooper (Oxford Brookes)
- David Duce (Oxford Brookes)
- Musbah Sagar (Oxford Brookes)
- Jason Li (Oxford Brookes)
Principal Contact
Geoff Coulson (Email: geoff - add @comp.lancs.ac.uk)