| FireGrid: An e-Infrastructure for Next-Generation Emergency Response Support FireGrid: An e-Infrastructure for Next-Generation Emergency Response Support (2009) | |||||||||||||||||
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| The FireGrid project aims to harness the potential of advanced forms of computation to support the response to large-scale emergencies (with an initial focus on the response to fires in the built environment). Computational models of physical phenomena are deployed on High Performance Computing (HPC) resources to interpret live sensor data from an emergency in real-time – or, in the case of predictive models, faster-than-real time. These interpretations are accessed over a Grid from an agent-based system, of which the human responders form an integral part. This paper describes the FireGrid architecture and discusses the results of its application to a large-scale fire experiment. | |||||||||||||||||
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