Nimrod Applications

Nimrod has been applied to a range of application areas, including Bioinformatics, Operations Research, Network Simulation, Electronic CAD, Ecological Modelling and Business Process Simulation. Further details here. Nimrod comes in a number of flavours. EnFuzion is a commercial quality solution and is available for Clusters. Nimrod/G is a research prototype and operates on a computational grid. Nimrod/E creates a statistical design to increase the efficiency of parameter exploration. Nimrod/O has been designed for performing automatic design optimisation. Active Sheets provides a spread sheet interface for Nimrod/G, EnFuzion and NetSolve, allowing spread sheets to perform parallel computations on the grid. A new Nimrod flavour, Nimrod/K, is designed to integrate the special purpose function of Nimrod/G/O and general purpose workflows from Kepler plus the IO model from GriddLeS. It gives promise of better integration with Portals and more flexible scheduling. Finally, the Nimrod Portal allows a user to specify and control a computational experiment from a browser. A testbed called the Australan Nimrod Testbed was also built to support routine parametric computational experiments amongst a range of institutions. This has now been replaced by the ARCS testbed as of 2006.

Monash University, and the Nimrod project, is proud to be an Academic Affiliate of the Globus Alliance.