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Abstract. The UNICORE Grid-technology provides a seamless, secure and intuitive access to distributed Grid resources. In this paper we present the recent evolution from project results to production Grids. At the beginning UNICORE was developed as a prototype software in two projects funded by the German research ministry (BMBF). Over the following years, in various European-funded projects, UNICORE evolved to a full-grown and well-tested Grid middleware system, which today is used in daily production at many supercomputing centers worldwide. Beyond this production usage, the UNICORE technology serves as a solid basis in many European and International research projects, which use existing UNICORE components to implement advanced features, high level services, and support for applications from a growing range of domains. In order to foster these ongoing developments, UNICORE is available as open source under BSD licence at SourceForge, where new releases are published on a regular basis. This paper is a review of the UNICORE achievements so far and gives a glimpse on the UNICORE roadmap.

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Semiconducting iron disilicide (β-FeSi2) precipitates in silicon were fabricated by ion beam synthesis. The samples were characterized by Raman spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and photoluminescence spectroscopy. By comparison with a β-FeSi2 single crystal, the silicide precipitates are found to be unstrained in all cases, so there is no correlation between strain and photoluminescence efficiency. Our results indicate that carrier recombination at silicon dislocations is sufficient to explain the photoluminescence in our samples.

Today, many scientific disciplines heavily rely on computer systems for in-silico experimentation or data management and analysis. The employed computer hard-and software is heterogeneous and complies to different standards, interfaces and protocols for interoperation. Grid middleware systems like UNICORE 6 try to hide some of the complexity of the underlying systems by offering high-level, uniform interfaces for executing computational jobs or storing, moving, and searching through data. Via UNICORE 6 computer resources can be accessed securely with different software clients, e. g. the UNICORE Commandline Client (UCC) or the graphical UNICORE Rich Client (URC) which is based on Eclipse. In this paper, we describe the design and features of the URC, and highlight its role as a flexible and extensible Grid client framework using the QSAR field as an example.