This page contains a list of organizations implementing GIR and a brief description and status of each project.

Arctic Region Supercomputing Center

ARSC at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is working to implement multisearch technology, addressing the problem of merging result sets from different search engines. They are working under Apache web services as well as Globus. Work from ARSC's efforts is part of PI Gregory Newby's annual contributions to TREC.

Contact: Gregory Newby; Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks; newby at arsc.edu. (July, 2005)

Etymon

Etymon is developing prototype GIR software over web services as part of the Sarcomere information retrieval project.

Contact: Nassib Nassar; Etymon Systems, Inc.; nassar at etymon.com. (July, 2005)

MCNC/CNIDR

CNIDR demonstrated a proof-of-concept GIR implementation at GGF8 and subsequently. See the release announcement and download instructions in the Globus discuss mailing list archives. (June, 2004)

Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment (DAME)

DAME implements a subset of the GIR specification and are developing generic services for a wide range of data sets.

Contact: Andy Palsey; Department of Computer Science, University of York; arp at cs.york.ac.uk. (May, 2004)

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