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| Collaborating
Projects: completed projects |
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BalticGrid
01/11/2005 - 30/04/2008
http://www.balticgrid.org
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The Baltic Grid project is of high strategic importance to the Baltic States. It aims to i) develop and integrate the research and education computing and communication infrastructure in the Baltic States into the emerging European Grid infrastructure, ii) bring the knowledge in Grid technologies and use of Grids in the Baltic States to a level comparable to that in EU members states with a longer experience in the development, deployment and operation of Grids, iii) further engage the Baltic States in policy and standards setting activities. The integration of the Baltic States into the European Grid infrastructure will primarily focus on extending the EGEE (with which four partners are already engaged) to the Baltic States.
The project will exploit EGEE developments as well as developments in related Grid projects to avoid duplication of effort. The innovations in the BalticGrid project are primarily expected to occur in the Joint Research Activities, which are focused on Security, Accounting and support for Service Level Agreements, and tools for uniform access to Grids and performance engineering of Grid applications. |
| Category: Infrastructure, Middleware Development |
Relation with EGEE: Regional extension to the Baltic Region. JRA1 contribution on Accounting and Service Level Agreement. |
| Coordinator: KTH |
Contact: Ake Edlund - Project
Coordinator edlund@NOSPAMpdc.kth.se |
| |
Contact: Inger Karlsson - Administrative Contact
inger@NOSPAMcsc.kth.se |
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BELIEF
Bringing Europe’s eLectronic Infrastructures
to Expanding
01/11/2005 - 31/10/2007
http://www.beliefproject.org/
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BELIEF,
funded by the EU's Sixth Framework Programme,
is an international project to facilitate knowledge-exchange
on eInfrastructures, and a one-stop home for
public eInfrastructure documentation. This information
will be readily accessible to BELIEF Community
Members though the BELIEF Digital Library especially
developed to provide a central repository for
eInfrastructure Information. BELIEF brings together
not just individual experts and potential users
but also other eInfrastructure ‘communities’and
initiatives, from both research and industry
worldwide. As a home for all research infrastructure
communities and initiatives, BELIEF will help
you expand visions of future eInfrastructure
landscapes and provide a knowledge platform to
realise them.
|
| Category:
Support |
| Relation with
EGEE: EGEE signed a LoI with BELIEF to collaborate
with the BELIEF partners in the setup of a digital
library integrating EGEE documentation together
with other relevant initiatives and present it
in a way which meets users’needs. The collaboration
led to include in the BELIEF DL EGEE metadata
and documents from INDICO, EDMS and Training
Library. |
| Coordinator:
Metaware S.p.A. - Italy |
Contact:
Stephen Benians - Project Coordinator
s.benians@NOSPAMmetaware.it |
| |
Contact: Donatella Castelli
- CNR Project Leader
donatella.castelli@NOSPAMisti.cnr.it |
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BioinfoGRID
01/01/2006 - 31/12/2007
http://www.bioinfogrid.eu/
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The
BioinfoGRID project aims to promote Bioinformatics
Grid applications for Life Science, in order
to carry out Bioinformatics research based on
Grid networking technology. More specifically
the BioinfoGRID project will evaluate applications
in the fields of Genomics, Proteomics, Transcriptomics
and Molecular Dynamics, reducing data calculation
times by distributing the calculation on thousands
of computers using the European Grid infrastructure
network.
|
| Category:
Support |
| Relation with
EGEE: The BioinfoGRID Specific Support Action
will combine Bioinformatics services and applications
for molecular biology users with the Grid Infrastructure
created by the EGEE Project |
| Coordinator:
CNR-ITB - Italy |
Contact:
Luciano Milanesi - Project Coordinator
bioinfogrid@NOSPAMitb.cnr.it |
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CYCLOPS
01/06/2006 - 31/05/2008
http://www.cyclops-project.eu
information sheet |
CYCLOPS aims to bridge the gap between Grid and GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) communities, making Civil Protection people aware of the services provided by Grid infrastructures, and, at the same time, letting Grid researchers know about Civil Protection's specific requirements and service enhancement needs. |
| Category: Support, Application |
Relation with EGEE: CYCLOPS will bring together European Civil Protection (CP) and GRID Communities; it will create a fruitful interaction between CP agencies, geospatial information experts and the Grid (EGEE) experts. This effective synergy will guide the development of future Grid research infrastructures and study the feasibility of getting them to run on the European Grid Infrastructure. CYCLOPS will provide a support action to the EGEE-II I3 projects in order to utilize its platform in the Civil Protection community. More specifically, the project objectives are :
- To disseminate EGEE results to the CP Community, assessing EGEE infrastructure for CP applications. A variety of activities will focus on dissemination and outreach, training, workshops, possibly in close relation with EGEE events and on promoting a close collaboration between the two communities.
- To provide the EGEE Community with knowledge of the requirements that characterise the CP services. These requirements will also be used to assess the possibility for the development of an advanced Grid platform enabling Real Time and near-Real Time services and implementing a security infrastructure very close to the defence systems standards.
- To evaluate the possibility of utilising the present EGEE services for CP applications.
- To develop the research strategies to enhance the EGEE platform, considering Earth sciences resources and GMES/CP requirements.
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| Coordinator: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri Dipartimento della Protezione Civile - Italy |
Contact: Anna Scipioni - Project Manager
anna.scipioni@NOSPAMprotezionecivile.it |
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Contact: Silvia Bastia - Administrative Contact
cyclops@NOSPAMprotezionecivile.it |
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DEGREE
Dissemination and Exploitation of GRids in Earth sciencE
01/06/2006 - 30/05/2008
http://www.eu-degree.eu |
Objectives of the DEGREE project are: bridge the Earth Science and Grid communities throughout Europe; ensure that Earth Science requirements are satisfied in next Grid technology; disseminate and promote uptake of Grid in wider Earth Science community. |
| Category: Support |
| Relation with EGEE: Earth Science has been part of DataGrid, CrossGrid, EGEE and EGEEII projects. DEGREE will provide more specific Earth Science requirements to EGEEII and ensure they are satisfied in next Grid generation with integration of emerging technologies for managing Earth Science knowledge. |
| Coordinator: UISAV - Slovakia |
Contact: Ladislav Hluchy - Project Coordinator
hluchy.ui@NOSPAMsavba.sk |
| |
Contact: Monique Petitdidier - Deputy Coordinator
monique.petitdidier@NOSPAMcetp.ipsl.fr |
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DILIGENT
DIgital Library Infrastructure on Grid Enabled Technology
01/09/2004 - 30/11/2007
http://www.diligentproject.org/
information
sheet
|
The
DILIGENT project is creating an advanced test-bed
that will allow virtual e-Science communities
to share knowledge and collaborate in a secure,
coordinated, dynamic and cost-effective way.
|
| Category:
Infrastructure, Application |
| Relation with
EGEE: Study and experimentation of EGEE
infrastructure and gLite middleware. Feedback
gathering on activities performed bridging Grid
and Digital Libraries domains via EGEE NA4, TCG,
workgroups, UIG, joint meetings and technical
discussions, training and dissemination events. |
| Coordinator:
CNR-ISTI - Italy |
Contact:
Donatella Castelli - Project Coordinator
donatella.castelli@NOSPAMisti.cnr.it |
| |
Contact: Jessica Michel
- Administrative Contact
jessica.michel@NOSPAMercim.org |
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EasyGrid
Job Submission Framework for Distributed Analysis
12/06/2004 - 01/09/2007
http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/jamwer/
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EasyGrid
automates high-energy distributed analysis job
submission to EGEE grid farms. EasyGrid is an
intermediate layer between grid middleware and
user software that provides functionality to
perform data and functional parallelism. Users
without grid skills were able to use grid. The
case studies were hadronic tau decays distributed
analysis and neutral pion discrimination using
genetic programming algorithms.
The
added value was a user’s transparent
framework for reliable data gridification (support
execution and results’recovery of many
copies of the same binary code running independently
and at same time in many computers with different
data files) and functional gridification (one
binary code running distributed in many grid
computers at same time). Data gridification
can be used to run Monte Carlo Events generation,
raw data analysis, any Root application, or
any other generic software. Functional parallelism
is done through a library with several functions
to run conventional software on the grid with
minor changes in the source code. It provides
an efficient and secure communication mechanism
to allow data transfer between jobs in different
worker nodes. If any node goes down, the master
program re-submits the task to another worker
node. In case some job fails, the necessary
information will be recovered automatically
and stored in a file for further analysis.
The project was funded by GridPP/UK - PPARC.
|
| Category:
Infrastructure, Application |
| Relation with
EGEE: EasyGrid is an intermediate level
between EGEE and user's application. Users aree
able to use grid without knowing what grid is. |
Coordinator:
University of Manchester/GridPP - UK
|
Contact:
James Cunha Werner - Project Coordinator
jamwer2000@NOSPAMhotmail.com |
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Contact: |
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EELA
01/01/2006 - 31/12/2007
http://www.eu-eela.org/
information
sheet
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Presented
in May to the 6th Framework Programme for Research,
Technological Development and Demonstration,
of the European Commission (EC), "E-Infrastructure
shared between Europe and Latin America" -EELA-
further more than a project that speaks about
a powerful and useful technological infrastructure
(Grids, E-Infrastructure, Grid Applications,
Training, etc.), is an enormous challenge of
collaboration that, because of its approval,
will be traduced in the union of two continents
and 21 institutions by means of a powerful human
network.
Using pilot resources available in some centers of Europe (Spain,
Portugal and Italy, already integrated within the framework
of the European project EGEE) and Latin America (Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela), EELA will
create a human network dedicated to work in Grids, e-Science
and e-Infrastructure.
EELA's primary goal is: Through specific support actions, to
position the Latin American countries at the same level of
the European developments in terms of E-Infrastructure.
|
| Category:
Infrastructure, Support |
| Relation with
EGEE: Extension and adoption of the EGEE
middleware in Latin America. |
| Coordinator:
CIEMAT - Spain |
Contact:
Ramon Gavela Gonzalez - Project Coordinator
ramon.gavela@NOSPAMciemat.es |
| |
Contact: Roberto Barbera
- Technical Coordinator
roberto.barbera@NOSPAMct.infn.it |
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EUChinaGRID
01/01/2006 - 31/03/2008
http://www.euchinagrid.eu/
information
sheet |
EUChinaGRID
will provide specific support actions to foster
the integration and interoperability of the Grid
infrastructures in Europe (EGEE) and China (CNGrid)
for the benefit of eScience applications and
worldwide Grid initiatives, in line with the
support of the intercontinental extension of
the European Research Area (ERA).
The project will study and support the extension of a pilot intercontinental
infrastructure using the GRID EGEE-enabled applications and will
promote the migration of new applications on the Grid infrastructures
in Europe and China by training new user communities and supporting
the adoption of grid tools and services for scientific applications. |
| Category:
Infrastructure, Support |
Relation
with EGEE: Interoperability and interoperation
between EGEE and CNGRID (European and Chinese
Infrastructures), at the middleware level and
the network level (interoperability and IPv6
compliance of the the two softwares). |
| Coordinator:
INFN - Italy |
Contact:
Federico Ruggieri - Project Manager
federico.ruggieri@NOSPAMroma3.infn.it |
| |
Contact:
Giuseppe Andronico - Technical Manager
giuseppe.andronico@NOSPAMct.infn.it |
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EGRID
01/01/2004 - 30/04/2007
http://www.egrid.it/ |
Setup
an italian GRID infrastructure for finance and
economic research. |
| Category:
Infrastructure |
| Relation with
EGEE: EGRID was accepted as "pilot
application" in April 2005 and is now a
Virtual Organization within the EGEE infrastructure. |
Coordinator:
ICTP and DEMOCRITOS CNR/INFM
|
Contact:
Stefano Cozzini - Project Manager
cozzini@NOSPAMdemocritos.it |
| |
Contact: Alvise Nobile -
Project Manager
alvi@NOSPAMictp.it |
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EUMEDGRID
01/01/2006 - 31/12/2007
http://www.eumedgrid.eu/
information
sheet |
The
objective of the EUMEDGRID project is to, through
Specific Support Actions, bring the less-experienced
and less-resourced countries of the Mediterranean
region to the level of European developments
in terms of the eInfrastructures. With the networking
infrastructure reaching stability through the
EUMEDCONNECT project, the focus of the EUMEDGRID
will be on Grid infrastructure and related eScience
applications. A broad range of activities will
focus on dissemination and outreach, hands-on
workshops and close collaboration with related
projects such as EUMEDCONNECT / GEANT, EGEE and
SEE-GRID. |
| Category:
Infrastructure, Support |
| Relation
with EGEE: The project will extend the European
Grid Infrastructure to the Mediterranean Area. |
| Coordinator:
INFN - Italy |
Contact:
Federico Ruggieri - Project Manager
federico.ruggieri@NOSPAMroma3.infn.it |
| |
Contact:
Roberto Barbera - Technical Manager
roberto.barbera@NOSPAMct.infn.it |
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ETICS
01/01/2006 - 31/12/2007
http://www.eu-etics.org/
information
sheet |
ETICS
stands for "eInfrastructure for Testing, Integration
and Configuration of Software". It provides
a service to help software developers, managers
and users to better manage complexity and improve
the quality of their software. Using cutting
edge Grid software and best practices, our service
allows you to fully automate the way your software
is built and tested. In other words, ETICS provide
software professionals with an "out-of-the-box" build
and test system, powered with a build and test
product repository.
ETICS is multi-platform and open source.
The client is designed to be simple to install. Results from daily, nightly and
continuous builds and tests can be monitored via the web.
Users can also browse and edit project data via a secured web
application.
The project is funded by the European Commission. The
ETICS consortium consists of CERN (coordinator), INFN, Engineering
Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A, 4D Soft Ltd. and the University
of Wisconsin/Madison. |
| Category:
Support |
| Relation with
EGEE: Many development and certification
tasks within the JRA1 and SA3 activities of the
EGEE project uses services provided by ETICS
to build, test and validate the gLite software
components. |
| Coordinator:
CERN - Switzerland |
Contact:
Alberto Di Meglio - Project Manager
alberto.di.meglio@NOSPAMcern.ch |
| |
Contact: Marc-Elian Begin
- Deputy Project Manager
marc-elian.begin@NOSPAMcern.ch |
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GRIDCC
Grid enabled Remote Instrumentation with Distributed Control
and Computation
01/09/2004 - 31/08/2007
http://www.gridcc.org
information
sheet |
Recent developments
in Grid technologies have concentrated on providing
batch access to distributed computational and
storage resources. GRIDCC will extend this to
include access to and control of distributed
instrumentation. One of the main GRIDCC tasks
is to incorporate the new middleware into a few
significant applications that will allow software
to be validated, both in terms of functionality
and quality of service aspects. The final goal
of the GRIDCC project is to build a widely distributed
system that is able to remotely control and monitoring
complex instrumentation. |
| Category: Infrastructure,
Application |
| Relation with EGEE: GRIDCC
both develops new software for architectural components
(e.g., the Instrument Element or the Virtual Instrument
Grid Service) and adopts architectural elements
and related middleware that are being developed
within the EGEE framework. This is the case with
StoRM, CREAM, and others. Moreover, GRIDCC enables
the gLite middleware to interface and control instrumentation. |
Coordinator: INFN, Legnaro
- Italy
|
Contact: Gaetano Maron -
Project Coordinator
gaetano.maron@NOSPAMlnl.infn.it |
| |
Contact: Franco Davoli - Dissemination/Exploitation
Manager
franco@NOSPAMdist.unige.it |
| |
Contact: Roberto Pugliese
- Technical Board Chair
pugliese@NOSPAMelettra.trieste.it |
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ICEAGE
International Collaboration to Extend
and Advance Grid Education
01/03/2006 - 29/02/2008
http://www.iceage-eu.org/ |
ERA
is investing heavily in e-Infrastructure (e-I)
to stimulate industry, improve the lives of
citizens, accelerate research and gain international
competitive advantage. For Europe to realise
this expectation, there needs to be a diverse,
knowledgeable, creative community, skilfully
exploiting e-Infrastructure. ICEAGE will catalyse
the necessary infrastructure and skills by
establishing a world-wide initiative to inspire
innovative and effective Grid Education (GE)
. By Grid Education we mean not only education
in the use of the Grid, but also the use of
the Grid in education. We use the term "Grid" in
a broad sense to include computing and communications
technology, working practices and policies
that underpin e-Infrastructure.
Good education in rapidly advancing scientific domains is particularly
labour intensive. It must draw on the expertise of a small community
of pioneers. A major objective of ICEAGE is to provide an effective
mechanism for distilling their knowledge and rapidly propagating
it across Europe . ICEAGE will create a forum to bring together
experts world-wide to expand and advance Grid Education. Building
on EGEE, ICEAGE will enable students and educators to obtain and
develop Grid Education via sustained, large-scale, multi-purpose
e-Infrastructures. ICEAGE will demonstrate the wide potential of
Grids, revealing new creative and business opportunities which
will lead to the inclusion of social, ethical and economic issues
in educational programmes. ICEAGE will show clearly how education
can benefit from e-Infrastructure.
ICEAGE will deliver a programme of educational events. Its outcome
will be the adoption by European Universities of courses in many
disciplines to support the deployment and exploitation of e-Infrastructure.
ICEAGE will ensure that citizens are well prepared to use e-Infrastructure
in their private and professional lives. It will stimulate European
educators by closely coupling the ICEAGE forum with a pioneering
educational system, based on e-Infrastructure, involving a dynamic
programme of events, shared strategies, information and material.
The actions on Education and Training in ICEAGE are to be understood
as actions on dissemination of knowledge (in the broader sense). |
| Category:
Education |
| Relation
with EGEE: ICEAGE is developing the educational
aspects of the training program that were generated
by the first phase of the EGEE project, in
particular ICEAGE has taken over the support
for the International Summer School in Grid
Computing series which provides an international
showcase for grid software and infrastructure
such as that created by EGEE. |
| Coordinator:
National e-Science Centre, Univ.of Edinburgh |
Contact:
Morgane Artacho - Project Officer
martacho@NOSPAMnesc.ac.uk |
| |
Contact:
David Fergusson - Project Manager
dfmac@NOSPAMnesc.ac.uk |
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Interactive European Grid
01/05/2006 - 30/04/2008
http://www.interactive-grid.eu
information sheet |
The goal of the project is to deploy and operate an interoperable production-level e-Infrastructure for demanding interactive applications that will impact the daily work of researchers. The main features of this scientific initiative are:
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Distributed Parallel (MPI) Interactive Computing and Storage at the Tera level
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User Friendly Access through a Grid Interactive Desktop with powerful visualization
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Supporting Virtual Organizations at all levels: setup, collaborative environment, grid enhancement of applications, execution and monitoring tools, discussion of results.
|
| Category: Infrastructure |
| Relation with EGEE: The relation of the project with EGEE starts at the operational level, where we guarantee interoperability with the EGEE infrastructure. The software from int.eu.grid to support interactive and MPI parallel jobs will then be a downloadable set for those sites interested in these features. We plan to work hand to hand with the MPI working group of EGEE in order to deploy a consistent middleware for parallel computing on the Grid. |
| Coordinator: IFCA-CSIC |
Contact: Jesus Marco de Lucas - Project Coordinator
marco@NOSPAMifca.unican.es |
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Contact: Jorge Gomes - Deputy Project Coordinator
jorge@NOSPAMlip.pt |
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ISSeG
Integrated Site Security for Grids
01/02/2006 - 31/03/2008
http://www.isseg.eu/
information
sheet |
Integrated
Site Security for Grids (ISSeG) aims to contribute
to the consolidation of the European Grid infrastructure
in the field of computer security, by creating
and disseminating practical expertise on the
deployment of Integrated Site Security (ISS),
as a complementary action to EGEE Grid Security.
ISS
advocates developing technical, administrative
and educational security solutions in a consistent
and coordinated way. This integration ensures
policies, rules, awareness and training all
evolve in step with technological developments.
ISSeG
is a 26-month project co-funded by the EU
FP6 Programme. The consortium comprises three
large scientific centres: the European Organization
for Particle Physics (CERN) in Switzerland,
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK) in Germany,
and the Science and Technology Facilities
Council (STFC), formerly known as the Council
for the Central Laboratory of the Research
Councils (CCLRC) based in the United Kingdom.
|
| Category:
Support |
| Relation
with EGEE: The project will disseminate
generalised recommendations for Integrated Site
Security to Grid communities. In order to maximize
synergies with other EU-funded initiatives, ISSeG will
exploit the structure put in place by EGEE
in particular through designated liaisons and
the Operational Security Coordination team. |
| Coordinator:
CERN |
Contact:
Morgane Artacho - Project Officer
martacho@NOSPAMnesc.ac.uk |
| |
Contact:
Denise Heagerty - Project Technical Coordinator
denise.heagerty@NOSPAMcern.ch |
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OMII-Europe
01/05/2006 - 30/04/2008
http://www.omii-europe.org/
information sheet |
OMII-Europe is an Open Systems project that endorses both the use of open standards and open source. OMII-Europe has chosen particular open standards for the Grid that it believes are essential to interoperability across global resources. The OMII-Europe vision is:
* to harvest open-source, Web-Services-based, Grid software components from across Europe and
* to supply these Grid services in a form that will enable them to interoperate across the platforms: gLite, UNICORE and Globus.
The emphasis is on the re-engineering of software components rather than on the development of new technology. OMII-Europe will develop a repository of quality-assured Grid services running on these existing major Grid infrastructures. The drivers for OMII-Europe are interoperability, quality-assurance and establishing itself as an impartial broker, giving advice on heterogeneous Grid solutions. |
| Category: Support, Infrastructure |
| Relation with EGEE: Working with the gLite middleware and ETICS. |
| Coordinator: University of Southampton |
Contact: Alistair Dunlop - Project Manager
a.dunlop@NOSPAMomii-europe.org |
| |
Contact: Steven Newhouse - Technical Committee Chair
s.newhouse@NOSPAMomii.ac.uk |
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SEE-GRID-2
South Eastern European GRid-enabled elnfrastructure Development
01/05/2006 - 30/04/2008
http://www.see-grid.eu/
information sheet |
SEE-GRID-2
(South Eastern European GRid-enabled elnfrastructure
Development 2) aims to further advance and
integrate the existing SEE Grid infrastructure
and services, capitalize on the existing
SEE-GRID human network to further strengthen
scientific collaboration and cooperation
among participating SEE communities, and
ultimately achieve sustainability for regional
and national eInfrastructures that will endure
beyond the project’s lifetime. |
| Category: Infrastructure, Application, Support |
| Relation with EGEE:
SEE-GRID established and maintained close ties
with other key eInfrastructure projects, such
as EGEE that has the pivotal role in creating
and deploying Grid technologies for the widespread
uptake of eScience applications throughout
the European Research Area. SEE-GRID-2 will
pursue an already successfully tested and matured
approach of, on the one hand, building on and
migrating technology achievements, middleware
components, and applications from other international
Grid projects (in particular EGEE/EGEE-II),
and on the other hand, maintaining an independent
test bed environment. This strategy offers
to the SEE region a balance of ensuring interoperability
and avoiding duplicating effort, while simultaneously
guaranteeing sufficient flexibility in the
region to allow for innovation and prospering
of new endeavours –which
eventually helps feed back to other regions
and grid projects novel ideas and results. |
| Coordinator: GRNET - Greece |
Contact: Ognjen Prnjat - Project Admin/Technical Coord.
oprnjat@NOSPAMgrnet.gr |
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Contact: Valia Athanasaki - Project Admin/Financial Coord.
eathan@NOSPAMgrnet.gr |
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