Ibis is an open source software framework, developed at the Vrije
Universiteit, Amsterdam, that drastically simplifies the process of
programming and deploying high-performance parallel and distributed
(grid) applications. Ibis supports a range of programming models that
yield efficient implementations, even on distributed sets of
heterogeneous resources. Also, Ibis is specifically designed to run
in hostile (grid) environments that are inherently dynamic and faulty,
and that suffer from connectivity problems.

One of the main features of the Ibis system is that it allows multiple
grid systems, clusters, clouds, mobile devices, and stand-alone machines
to be applied concurrently and transparently from within a single
application (even under real-time constraints). Ibis has been applied
successfully in a number real-world applications, and has won prizes in
several international competitions, including the First IEEE International
Scalable Computing Challenge (at CCGrid 2008), and the First International
Data Analysis Challenge for Finding Supernovae (at IEEE Cluster/Grid 2008).
Future research goals of the Ibis project include support for efficient
and transparent use of multi-core systems and hardware accelerators (incl.
GPUs, FPGAs, CELLSs, etcetera).