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and data collections. These architectures can be centralised or distributed. For the different
purposes the implementations will use database software, file systems structures, meta data
collection or combinations of more than one mechanism. In any case there should be a
flexible and standardised way to interface and access the information. The information
created within the LX Project has been subject of a long-term research initiative. It covers
and combines for example educationary treatises, individual and definitions and descriptions,
scientific results, as well as Point of Interest (POI) information. It is capable of handling
categorisation, ergonomic multi-lingual representations as well as information alternatives
for various different purposes. It integrates typesetting issues and publishing, including
formulas, customised sorting, indexing, and timeline functions for the information objects.
Listing 1 shows a simple example for an LX Encyclopedia entry.

1 Caldera

%-GP%-XX%---: Caldera [Vulkanologie, Geologie]:

%-GP%-DE%---: \lxidx{Schüsselkrater},

2

%-GP%-DE%---: \lxidx{Chaldera},

3

%-GP%-DE%---: \lxidx{Caldera},

4

%-GP%-DE%---: \lxidx{cauldron},

5

%-GP%-DE%---: \lxidx{Kessel}.

6

%-GP%-DE%---: ...

7

%-GP%-EN%---: \lxidx{Chaldera},

8

%-GP%-EN%---: \lxidx{Schüsselkrater}, 9

%-GP%-EN%---: \lxidx{Caldera},

10

%-GP%-EN%---: \lxidx{cauldron},

11

%-GP%-EN%---: \lxidx{Kessel}.

12

%-GP%-EN%---: ...

13

%-GP%-DE%---: s. auch Capping stage

14

%-GP%-EN%---: s. also Capping stage

15

%-GP%-XX%---: %%SRC: ...

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%-GP%-XX%---: %%NET: http://...

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Listing 1. Example LX Encyclopedia entry.

7.4 High End Computing
The integration of interactive and batch resources usage with dynamical applications does
need flexibility in terms of interfaces and configuration. Various use cases studied distributed
resources like capacity resources with Condor for example on ZIVcluster resources and on the
other hand with High Performance Computing resources for example on ZIVSMP and HLRN
(HLRN, 2011; ZIVGrid, 2008; ZIVHPC, 2011; ZIVSMP, 2011).

8. Integration framework - resources, services, disciplines
As well as analysing and separating the essential layers for building complex integrated
systems, it is essential that these allow a holistic view on the overall system, for operation,
development, and strategies level. The framework developed (Rückemann, 2010b) and
studied for integrated information and computing is the Grid-GIS house (Figure 8)
(Rückemann, 2009). An implementation of this kind is very complex and can only be handled
with a modular architecture being able to separate tasks and responsibilities for resources
(HEC, HPC), services, and disciplines. Figure 9 illustrates the logical components for
integrated monitoring, accounting, and billing architecture for distributed resources and data
usage. The legal aspects of combined usage of geo applications with services and distributed