AeroGrid is based on a range of technologies and software products made available by other projects. In particular, it uses the services of the D-Grid integration project (DGI) and other D-Grid projects, e.g.:

• The software packages for the grid middleware (particularly UNICORE) and the data management systems (particularly OGSA-DAI) are incorporated and deployed with no changes.
• To ensure the security of the virtual organisation (VO) covered by the project, the results of the D-Grid gap project IVOM (Interoperability and Integration of VO Management Technologies in D-Grid) are utilised.

In addition, the following software packages from the DGI are applied for the user interfaces, and extended and configured to meet AeroGrid usage scenarios:

• The DataFinder data management client is already being developed further by DGI Area of Specialisation 1.7 (“Management of Large Data”) to add interfaces to grid storage technologies, and is available to the D-Grid as a universally usable data management client. In the AeroGrid project, the DataFinder is adapted to the engine simulation user group by customising.
• The GridSphere portal framework is provided by the DGI. A number of grid portlets for the GridSphere server are also available from the DGI (e.g. for authentication on the grid, finding resources, starting jobs and copying files). The GridSphere server and the grid portlets are used unaltered in the AeroGrid project, and form the basis of the AeroGrid portal.

The following service is not yet available as a general service within the DGI or any of the community projects, and will be brought to the D-Grid as the contribution from the AeroGrid project:

The provenance service provided in this project for recording provenance information, i.e. information on the origin and reliability of generated data, is to be integrated as a generally available higher service for the D-Grid software. The provenance service was developed as an application-independent service in the course of the “Grid Provenance” EU project and can therefore be used in all communities.