The gridify is an application integration environment that enables the implementation and configuration of composite services requiring the use of substantial computer and data resources. Here are some examples of portals built using gridify:

• The European Space Agency Earth Observation Grid Processing on-Demand
  
  The ESA G-POD is a generic GRID-based operational environment for Earth Observation applications where specific data handling applications can be seamlessly plugged into system. Coupled with high-performance and sizeable computing resources managed by GRID technologies, it provides the necessary flexibility for building an application virtual environment with quick accessibility to data, computing resources and results.
  
  The gridify web portal component used in G-POD delivers a flexible, secure, generic and distributed platform where the user can easily manage all its tasks. From the creation of a new task to the result publication, passing by the data selection and the job monitoring, the user goes trough a friendly and intuitive interface accessible from everywhere.
  Using this infrastructure, ESA also delivers a regular sustained opportunity available to scientists. This opportunity, referred to as the "G-POD CAT-1", creates a partnership opportunity for conducting Earth Science research activities through grid technology. Within this framework, ESA offers on-line access to data, together with the G-POD attached computing infrastructure to host and run the partner’s applications.
  



• The BEinGRID Project
  
  The main objective of the Business Experiments in Grid (BEinGRID) project, funded by the European Commission’s Grid Technologies F2 Unit, is to foster the adoption of the so-called Next Generation Grid technologies by the realization of a series of targeted business experiment pilots designed to implement and deploy Grid solutions in a broad spectrum of European business sectors (entertainment, financial, industrial, chemistry, gaming, retail, textile, etc).
  gridify is used in Business Experiment 7 dedicated to Earth Observation. The objective of this experiment is the implementation of an example of a class of services which require large and near real time data access and complex processing. The products are global Earth coverage products that respond to emerging science and institutional environmental needs. The gridify creates a application environment where near real time operation can be controlled, monitored and accessed.
  
  
• Ionia GlobCover Data Distribution Center
  
  The GlobCover Portal provides access to the results of the GlobCover project. The GlobCover project is an European Space Agency initiative in partnership with JRC, EEA, FAO, UNEP, GOFC-GOLD and IGBP. The GlobCover project has developed a service capable of delivering global composite and land cover maps using as input observations from the 300m MERIS sensor on board the ENVISAT satellite mission. The GlobCover service has been demonstrated over a period of 18 months [Januray 2005 - June 2006], for which a set of MERIS Full Resolution (FR) composites (bi-monthly and annual) and a Global Land Cover map have been produced.
  The high volume of total file size of 4.4 TeraBytes and the expected high number of user data access requests the Portal was built using gridify technology of geo-spatial discover and publishing services together with BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology. This system ensured an automatic method allowing users to discover and download the different pieces of the requested files simultaneously from multiple computers in collaborative environment removing the strain of the Agency’s computer and network resources. As off the official announcement of the data availability the Agency was prepared to resist and sustain peak requests windows of data transfer.
  
  
• GENESI-DR Web Site
  
  GENESI-DR (Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations - Digital Repositories), an ESA-led, European Commission (EC)-funded two-year project, is taking the lead in providing reliable, easy, long-term access to Earth Science data via the Internet. This project will allow scientists from different Earth Science disciplines located across Europe to locate, access, combine and integrate historical and fresh Earth-related data from space, airbourne and in-situ sensors archived in large distributed repositories.
  
  GENESI-DR aims at building a federated collection of heterogeneous digital Earth Science repositories to establish a dedicated infrastructure providing transparent access to all this and allowing Earth Science communities to easily and quickly derive objective information and share knowledge based on all environmentally sensitive domains. The federated digital repositories, seen as services and data providers, will share access to their resources (catalogue functions, data access, processing services etc.) and will adhere to a common set of standards / policies / interfaces. The end-users will be provided with a virtual collection of digital Earth Science data, irrespectively of their location in the various single federated repositories.