South Eastern European GRid-enabled eInfrastructure Development
SEE-GRID aims to provide specific support actions to assist the participation of the SE European states to the pan-European and worldwide Grid initiatives by establishing a seamless and interoperable pilot-Grid infrastructure that will expand and support the European Research Area (ERA) in the region. The SEE-GRID vision is to pave the way towards the provision to distributed research communities in the region with the independent of geographic location, round-the-clock, common market of computing resources. The interconnection of the regional infrastructure to the pan-European and worldwide Grid initiatives will translate into benefits for the smaller, less-well resourced sites in SE Europe to access computing power that would otherwise be unaffordable.
In this perspective, the proposed initiative will ease the digital divide and release the scientific & productive talents of the region and will allow equal participation of the targeted countries in pan-European Grid Efforts in the immediate future. The aim and vision will be accomplished through the following objectives:
- Create a human network in the area of Grids, eScience and eInfrastructures in SE Europe.
- Integrate incubating and existing National Grid infrastructures in all SEE-GRID states.
- Capture eScience user requirements for Grid middleware and services in the region.
- Support feasibility studies and provide roadmaps and cookbooks for the rapid integration of the SEE Grid area to the ERA.
- Build upon and exploit the infrastructure provided by the Gigabit Pan-European Research and Education Network (GEANT) and the South-East European Research and Education Networking (SEEREN) initiative in the region.
- Migrate and test Grid middleware components and APIs developed by pan-European (e.g. EGEE, etc) and national (e.g. Hungarian ClusterGrid, etc) Grid efforts in the regional infrastructure.
- Deploy (adapt if necessary) and test Grid applications developed by EGEE.
- FP6
Phone:+31-02-107474243
Fax:+31-02-107474490
Address:Project coordinator: Greek Research and Technology Network, Technical Department Contact Person: Jorge Andres Sanchez-Papaspiliou S.A PO Box 11527 Athens
Country:Greece
- Albania
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croatia
- International; Other
- Montenegro
- Republic of North Macedonia
- SEE
- Serbia
- Social Sciences
Entry created by Elke Dall on July 20, 2009
Modified on April 4, 2012
