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[[File:University of Maryland (5354729497).jpg|thumb|The Lattice Project was developed and administered at the [[wikipedia:University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland, College Park]].]]
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'''The Lattice Project''' was a discontinued grid computing and [[wikipedia:volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] system operated by the Laboratory of Molecular Evolution at the [[wikipedia:University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]], College Park.<ref name="wikipedia">{{Cite web |title=The Lattice Project |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lattice_Project |work=Wikipedia |access-date=2026-07-14}}</ref> Rather than being a single program, Lattice combined several distinct computing resources, including dedicated [[wikipedia:HTCondor|Condor]] pools, [[wikipedia:Portable Batch System|PBS]] compute clusters, and a public [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] volunteer pool, into one production Grid system built on the [[wikipedia:Globus Toolkit|Globus Toolkit]].<ref name="bazinet2009thesis">{{Cite thesis |last=Bazinet |first=Adam L. |title=The Lattice Project: A Multi-model Grid Computing System |type=Master's thesis |publisher=University of Maryland, College Park |year=2009 |url=https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstreams/82bde2fc-1831-47c1-95ad-00ca88268e46/download |access-date=2026-07-14}}</ref> Its best-known use was distributing maximum-likelihood [[wikipedia:phylogenetics|phylogenetic]] analyses through the Genetic Algorithm for Rapid Likelihood Inference (GARLI) program, letting researchers worldwide reconstruct evolutionary relationships from DNA and protein sequence data.<ref name="wikipedia" /> Because the project offered two distinct, separately administered instances, "the Lattice Grid" and "the Lattice BOINC Project", it is described here in both of its forms below.
'''The Lattice Project''' was a discontinued grid computing and [[wikipedia:volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] system operated by the Laboratory of Molecular Evolution at the [[wikipedia:University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]], College Park.<ref name="wikipedia">{{Cite web |title=The Lattice Project |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lattice_Project |work=Wikipedia |access-date=2026-07-14}}</ref> Rather than being a single program, Lattice combined several distinct computing resources, including dedicated [[wikipedia:HTCondor|Condor]] pools, [[wikipedia:Portable Batch System|PBS]] compute clusters, and a public [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] volunteer pool, into one production Grid system built on the [[wikipedia:Globus Toolkit|Globus Toolkit]].<ref name="bazinet2009thesis">{{Cite thesis |last=Bazinet |first=Adam L. |title=The Lattice Project: A Multi-model Grid Computing System |type=Master's thesis |publisher=University of Maryland, College Park |year=2009 |url=https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstreams/82bde2fc-1831-47c1-95ad-00ca88268e46/download |access-date=2026-07-14}}</ref> Its best-known use was distributing maximum-likelihood [[wikipedia:phylogenetics|phylogenetic]] analyses through the Genetic Algorithm for Rapid Likelihood Inference (GARLI) program, letting researchers worldwide reconstruct evolutionary relationships from DNA and protein sequence data.<ref name="wikipedia" />  


== History ==
== History ==