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Fura Project

The Fura Project is the community-oriented open-source version of the Fura middleware family. Like the other versions, the Fura project is also a self-contained grid middleware that allows the grid enablement and distribution of applications on heterogeneous computational resources, and its architecture is based on plug-ins that allow grid services to be extended or replaced, and new ones developed, reusing existing components.

GridSystems launched the Fura Project in 2007, adopting an open-source business model in order to lower the barriers, ease the adoption of Grid technology, and create a community. Its current license is GPL 2.

The Fura Project is hosted at SourceForge. You will find there all the technical information you may need and our community of Fura users and developers. Notice that by following the previous link you will abandon the GridSystems web site and enter the Fura Project web page (hosted at SourceForge).

The Fura Project is for developers or highly technical enthusiasts who want the open and latest grid technology early and often to use it in non-critical computing environments. For production environments, where stability, support, maintenance, and training are valued, there is either Fura Commercial Enterprise Edition (FCEE) or the Fura Open Enterprise Edition (FOEE).

GridSystems follows a dual licensing model. FCEE is released under a commercial license for people that prefer not to use open source or want to develop plug-ins and connectors that could be distributed without the GPL restrictions.

Fura Open Enterprise Edition (FOEE) is GPL licensed, and as such, the source code and the freedom to modify it are provided; yet, FOEE also includes the compiled files for an easier and faster Grid platform deployment. Because of the nature of GPL, any plug-in or connector developed to work with Fura open source or with FOEE must be also distributed under the GPL license.

If you do not own the infrastructure needed to deploy your own grid platform, you can try Fura in the cloud. So far deployed in Amazon's EC2, you can use this cloud computing capacity to run your grid-enabled applications and only pay for the computing capacity you use.

All editions of Fura are architected as a set of modular web services based upon open industry standards and can seamlessly interoperate with other elements of a business core infrastructure, including systems management, application servers, data-caching, and distributed databases. You should select the right Fura version taking into account the environment where it will be deployed and whether or not you need the added-value services.