EGEE-II TECHNICAL PAGES

AssessGrid
01/04/2006 - 31/12/2008
http://www.assessgrid.eu
information sheet

Baltic Grid Second Phase (BalticGrid-II)
01/05/2008 - 30/04/2010
http://www.balticgrid.eu

Relation with EGEE: The collaboration in the framework of

• the e-Infrastructure interoperability (the BAlticGrid-II e-Infrastructure, based on the successful BalticGrid project, will be fully interoperable with the pan-European e-Infrastructure established by EGEE),
• dissemination and educational issues: participation in the EGEE events (conferences, user forums and exhibitions) and providing input for relevant EGEE initiated dissemination activities (e.g. press releases, newsletters, brochures, success stories, posters, web-based publications, multimedia material, etc.),
• network resource provisioning - investigating requirements of joining the global European monitoring infrastructure of the EGEE project - NPM (Network Perfomance Monitoring); the appropriate software and hardware will be obtained and deployed to participate in these infrastructure and to contribute to the global measurement databases with measurements describing connectivity from BalticGrid-II clusters to CERN and other important Grid centres in Europe.

D4Science
DILIGENT 4 Science
01/01/2008 - 31/12/2009
http://www.d4science.eu/

The project will deploy, progressively consolidate and expand the e Infrastructures built so far by the EGEE and DILIGENT projects so that they address the needs of two major target disciplines (which have challenging differences but also interesting commonalities): Environmental Monitoring and Fishery Resources Management. As a result, thousands of scientists will obtain increasingly more facilities for creating Virtual Research Environments based on shared computation, storage, and generic service resources offered by EGEE and DILIGENT at a European level, as well as on data and domain-specific service resources offered by large international organizations, such as the European Space Agency, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research.

Relation with EGEE: D4Science makes available to scientists the facilities for creating Virtual Research Environments based on shared computation, storage, and generic service resources. To achieve this D4Science:

• exploits EGEE services for computational intensive tasks requested by its user communities through the d4science.research-infrastructures.eu VO;
• integrates gLite job submission to the workflow definition process as part of new services for specific Virtual Research Environments;
• links to and extend the EGEE worldwide grid infrastructure with project's partners gLite nodes.
  

DORII
Deployment of Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure
01/02/2008 - 31/07/2010
http://www.dorii.eu/

The DORII project is supported by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme(FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. RI-211693. The project aims to deploy e-Infrastructure for new scientific communities, where on the one hand ICT technology is still not present at the appropriate level today, while on the other hand it is demanded to empower the communities’ daily work. The main focus of the DORII project is on groups of scientific users with experimental equipment and instrumentation that are currently not or only partially integrated in the European e-Infrastructures. At present, following selected scientific areas are represented in the project:

• Earthquake community (with various sensor networks)
• Environmental science community
• Experimental science community

Working closely with end-users, solutions will be put in place that build upon the success of past and ongoing projects in such areas as remote instrumentation GRIDCC, RINGrid, interactivity int.eu.grid, software frameworks for application developers, g-Eclipse and advanced networking technologies (GN2) with EGEE based middleware.

Relation with EGEE: DORII relies on the EGEE gLite middleware for all standard Grid components, extending it and building on top of it. This concern components like UI,WMS,CE,WN,SE. The added value are for example Instrument Element(IE) or the Virtual Control Room(VCR), which respectively introduce the control of the instrumentation and a specific collaborative tool. The IE is a web-service-based element that gives access the instruments under its control. The IE, integrated into the EGEE e-infrastructure, extends its functionality to the interactive control and monitoring of remote instrumentation.

Most of DORII computing resources are provided by partners that will share their sites with EGEE, and that’s why the interoperability with EGEE is a key point. This means that our middleware will be available for download and installation on top of glite allowing the users to interact with instruments and also to profit from a more interactive and parallel oriented Grid infrastructure.

EDGeS
Enabling Desktop Grid for e-Science
01/01/2008 - 31/12/2009
http://www.edges-grid.eu/

The targets of the project are user communities that require large computing power not available or accessible in current scientific e-Infrastructures. In order to support the specific needs of these scientific and other communities the consortium will interconnect the largest European Service Grid, the EGEE infrastructure with existing Desktop Grid systems. Service Grids are more flexible and can accommodate a broader variety of applications than Desktop Grids, however, their setup and maintenance require more efforts, highly skilled IT specialist, and dedicated resources. On the other hand, Desktop Grids are currently restricted solely to a subclass of compute-intensive applications but these easy-to-scale systems are able to collect 1-2 orders of magnitude more compute power by utilizing the involved spare and volunteer IT resources at a fraction of the cost. Making a bridge between these two types of Grid systems will enable the users to transparently execute applications on any arbitrary platform involved in the new infrastructure.

Edutain@Grid
01/09/2006 - 31/08/2009
http://www.edutaingrid.eu

Online gaming is characterised by the high rate of interaction between the users, requiring very fast updates of information being passed from one computer to another. The faster the updates, the more immersive the game becomes and consequently adds significantly to the whole gaming experience. At present, online games run in static way that is dependant upon tight coupling of computer resources that are not flexible to strong fluctuations in the number of players. Users are very sensitive to interrupted game play, affecting their decision to play and ultimately their decision to purchase. Edutain@Grid seeks to meet these challenges through development of a Grid-based framework allowing responsive and interactive applications to exploit technology that has previously been applied to “big science”.

EGI_DS
European Grid Initiative Design Study
01/09/2007 - 30/11/2009
http://www.eu-egi.eu

The European Grid Initiative (EGI) Design Study represents an effort to establish a sustainable grid infrastructure in Europe. Driven by the needs and requirements of the research community, it is expected to enable the next leap in research infrastructures, thereby supporting collaborative scientific discoveries in the European Research Area (ERA). The main foundations of EGI are the National Grid Initiatives (NGI), which operate the grid infrastructures in each country. EGI will link existing NGIs and will actively support the setup and initiation of new NGIs. The goal of the EGI Design Study (EGI_DS) is to evaluate use cases for the applicability of a coordinated effort, to identify processes and mechanisms for establishing EGI, to define the structure of a corresponding body, and ultimately to initiate the construction of the EGI organization. The EGI Design Study is a project funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme.

EU-IndiaGrid
01/10/2006 - 30/09/2008
http://www.euindiagrid.eu/
information sheet

EU-IndiaGrid is funded by the European Commission, Research Infrastructure Unit, and is the first European and Indian Grid-focused project. EU-IndiaGrid supports interconnectivity between the European Grid infrastructure, EGEE, and the Indian Grid infrastructures, Garuda India Grid and Department of Atomic Energy Grid, to build a common infrastructure to support data processing for e-Science application areas, with a particular focus on Biology, High Energy & Condensed Matter Physics and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

EUAsiaGrid
01/04/2008 - 31/03/2010
http://www.euasiagrid.org

The EUAsiaGrid project contributes to the aims of the EU Research Infrastructures FP7 Programme by “promoting international interoperation between similar infrastructures with the aim of reinforcing the global relevance and impact of European e-Infrastructures”.
Taking advantage of existing global Grid technologies, with the specific emphasis on the European experience with the gLite middleware and applications, the EUAsiaGrid project plans to encourage federating approaches across scientific disciplines and communities. Acting as a support action and composed of 15 partners from 12 countries, EUAsiaGrid aims to define and implement a policy to promote the gLite middleware developed within the EU EGEE projects, across Asian countries. To enable regional collaboration, as well as collaboration with European scientific communities building on top of a common EGEE middleware platform, its main action is to:

• support scientific communities through help with application porting and deployment,
• provide training to widen dissemination of the technology know-how
• monitor the results and feed back into policy definition
  

GridTalk
01/05/2008 - 30/04/2010
http://www.gridtalk-project.eu

GridTalk bring the success stories of Europe's e-infrastructure to a wider audience. The project co-ordinate the dissemination outputs of EGEE and other European grid computing efforts, ensuring their results and influence are reported in print and online.

g-Eclipse
01/07/2006 - 30/06/2008
http://www.geclipse.eu
information sheet

The g-Eclipse project aims to build an integrated workbench framework to access the power of existing Grid infrastructures. The framework will be built on top of the reliable eco-system of the Eclipse community to enable a sustainable development. The framework will provide tools to customize Grid users' applications, to manage Grid resources and to support the development cycle of new Grid applications.

Health-e-Child
01/01/2006 - 31/12/2009
http://www.health-e-child.org/
information sheet

The Health-e-Child project aims at developing an integrated healthcare platform for European pediatrics, providing seamless integration of traditional and emerging sources of biomedical information.

KnowARC
01/06/2006 - 31/05/2009
http://www.knowarc.eu/
information sheet

The KnowARC project aspires to improve and extend the existing state-of-the-art technology found in the Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) middleware, which provides a set of reliable, robust, non-intrusive, well-tested core services. KnowARC aims to significantly increase awareness and usage of such next generation ARC middleware. The resulting high performance and popular Grid solution will increase productivity in many areas of human activities through efficient resource and expert know-how sharing. ARC focuses on intensive computational tasks and associated security and data handling issues, and since it is powerful and efficient, yet simple to deploy, maintain and use, the KnowARC solution is expected to become widely accepted.

The vision of KnowARC is of an application expert sharing procedural knowledge with other members of the extended team by the creation of a specific software tool and associated data. The expert then uses Grid technology to create a know-how sharing environment, provides a characterisation of the field of application, specifies who is allowed to use it, and what kinds of data are available. The efficient clients will facilitate access to such environments. On a larger scale, the KnowARC Grid solution will foster the sharing of know-how between virtual organisations of providers and users.

The result of the project will be extension of ARC to be a standards-compliant, interoperable Grid software, offering foundations for know-how sharing services for business and society. KnowARC will transform ARC into coherent, functional next-generation Grid software of industrial quality, ready for deployment on a variety of computing platforms and included into various operating systems distributions.

UK National Grid Service
http://www.ngs.ac.uk

The National Grid Service (NGS) aims to provide coherent electronic access for UK researchers to all computational and data based resources and facilities required to carry out their research, independent of resource or researcher location.

Relation with EGEE: The NGS aims to provide access to research resources outside the UK through partnership arrangements with organisations such as EGEE and Teragrid in the US.It is in the provision of user support and training that the NGS and EGEE currently work most closely together.  The NGS provides the EGEE helpdesk and user support in the UK.  The two organisations also collaborate on training and outreach to the UK community.

OMII-UK
01/01/2004 - 31/12/2009
http://www.omii.ac.uk/

OMII-UK aims to provide software and support to enable a sustained future for the UK e-Science community and its international collaborators. Through our website we provide mechanisms for you to share information about the software you have found useful to support your e-Science work, and share the software that you have produced during your e-Science activities. We support open-source software development by investing in community developers to produce the functionality required by our user community. We draw upon this and other software to provide an easy to install and use open-source software distribution that provides a secure web service hosting environment, web services and the necessary tools and environments to access these services. This software is supported through comprehensive documentation and training.

SIMDAT
01/09/2004-01/09/2008
http://www.simdat.eu/

Grids for Industrial Product Development

Relation with EGEE: SIMDAT targets end-users in industry and services sectors that consider using Grid technology.
SIMDAT will improve collaborative design processes and increase the competitive advantage in strategic European industrial sectors. Specific benefits expected include the improvement of car safety, reduction of noise and vibrations in cars, low-noise aircraft able to use short runways, faster and targetted drug discovery and development, enhancement of weather prediction and climate analysis.