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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]].]]

'''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" />

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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]].]]
-'''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 ==