[[Image(QCG-logo_v1_small.png, width=160px, align=left)]] = !QosCosGrid = !QosCosGrid could be viewed as a ''quasi-opportunistic supercomputer'' whose computational performance exceeds the power offered by a single supercomputing or data center. !QosCosGrid is designed as a multi-layered architecture that is capable of dealing with computationally intensive large-scale, complex and parallel simulations that are usually too complex to run within a single computer cluster or machine. The !QosCosGrid middleware enables computing resources (at the level of processor cores) from different administrative domains to be combined into a single powerful computing resource via Internet. Clearly, bandwidth and latency characteristics of the Internet may have an affect on overall application performance of !QosCosGrid-enabled applications. However, the ability to connect and efficiently control advanced applications executed in parallel over the Internet is a feature that is highly appreciated by !QosCosGrid users. The !QosCosGrid framework is highly flexible as it is composed of pluggable components that can be easily modified to support different scheduling and access policies to better maximize a diversity of utility functions. Furthermore, the framework exploits novel algorithms for topology-aware co-allocations that are required by parallel programming and execution set-ups in production-level high-performance computing environments, such as the Message Passing Interfaces (MPI), !ProActive, or their hybrid extensions linking programming models like OpenMP or CUDA. [[Image(QCG-Architecture-v3.png, center, width=700px)]] == QCG BES/AR == QCG BES/AR (the successor of the OpenDSP project) is an open architecture implementation of SOAP Web service for multi-user access and policy-based job control routines by various queuing and batch systems managing local computational resources. This key service is using Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA) to communicate with the underlying queuing systems. QCG BES/AR has been designed to support a variety of plugins and modules for external communication as well as to handle a large number of concurrent requests from external clients and services. Consequently, it can be used and integrated with various authentication, authorization and accounting services or to extend capabilities of existing e-infrastructures based on Unicore, gLite, Globus Toolkit, and others. QCG BES/AR service is compliant with the OGF HPC Basic Profile specification, which serves as a profile over Open Grid Forum standards like JSDL and OGSA Basic Execution Service. In addition, it offers remote interfaces for advance reservation management, and supports basic file transfer mechanisms. QCG BES/AR was successfully tested with the following queuing systems: Sun Grid Engine (SGE), Platform LSF, !Torque/Maui, PBS Pro, Condor, Apple !XGrid and !LoadLeveler. Therefore, as a crucial component in !QosCosGrid, it can be easily set up on the majority of computing clusters and supercomputers running the aforementioned queuing systems. Currently, advance reservation capabilities in QCG BES/AR are exposed for SGE, Platform LSF and Maui (a scheduler that is typically used in conjunction with Torque). Moreover, generic extensions for advance reservation have been proposed for the next DRMAA standard release.