Use Case
Remote Control: Investigating crystal structures across continents
July 2012. The use case presents how scientists in India use the TEIN3 high-speed network to operate a ‘super-microscope’ in France for innovative drug design. The experiment was facilitated by EU-IndiaGrid2, the Grid/distributed computing infrastructure between Europe and India providing interoperability between the networks, allowing researchers to virtualise the experiments, and providing data access, data processing and analysis.
The Use case was published by TEIN3, the third generation of the Trans-Eurasia Information Network, one of EUIG2 strategic partners.
Article
Helping scientists undertake research published by eGov Magazine ICT Policy 2011: November 2011
Interview
A national highway for a faster science: the role of NKN in India. Interview with P.S. Dhekne, BARC
September 2011. P.S. Dhekne is A renowned expert, nationally as well as internationally, and officer of the Principal Scientific Adviser to Indian Government. During the EU-IndiaGrid2 Workshop on Research Applications of High Speed Connectivity Across Europe, India and the Asia-Pacific Area, 24 August 2011, he provided an overview of latest status of NKN, its current applications, various Grid initiatives in India and it’s migration to NKN, describing few collaborative applications deployed using NKN through GEANT & TEIN3.
Press release
High speed connectivity, common networks and Internet. August 2011 press release
August 2011. In Autumn 2010 a group of researchers of the Homi Bhabha National Institute carried out an experiment for protein crystallography in Grenoble, France directly from their laboratories in Mumbai, by operating robots in a French laboratory almost 10,000 km away from their lab in Mumbai. On 24 August at the APAN32 2011 conference, New Delhi, a CHAIN - EU-IndiaGrid2 Workshop will showcase this and a number of other experiments carried out thanks to the cooperation established under the umbrella of the EU-IndiaGrid2 EC funded project.
Opinion piece
Advancing scientific research across Europe and India. Opinion piece by Dipak Singh, ERNET India
August 2011. Dipak Singh, Director of ERNET India, Department of Information Technology, and EU-IndiaGrid2 Principle Project Coordinator, gives his opinion about the steps undertaken towards a worldwide connectivity of eInfrastructures.
Press release
The role of e-Infrastructures for climate change
May 2011. With climate change high on the political agenda, the “Conference on the role of e-Infrastructures for Climate Change Research”, held in Trieste at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) 16-20 May 2011, addressed this theme bringing together scientists, policy makers and international actors to address climate change from scientific, economic and political perspectives.
Article
Climate change: does computer science have the answers?April 2011. The article was published by iSGTW few days before the conference on "The Role of e-infrastructures for climate change reasearch" in Trieste, Italy, in May 2011. iSGTW was also media partner of the conference together with eScienceTalk and GridCast.
Article
EU-IndiaGrid2 Connecting Scientists
June 2010. The June 2010 release of eGov Indian magazine published a two pages article on EU-IndiaGrid2: the Indian ladscape of research, ICT infrastructures and the impacts of grid computing.
Press release
Advancing the Frontiers of Scientific Research
Launch Event – Indian Institute of Technology Delhi – 11/1/2010
Climate change and world-wide health threats are two of the grand global challenges which can only be effectively addressed through co-operation on a worldwide level. Investment in e-Infrastructures is enabling collaborative research across national boundaries.
Article
Widening the Grid Benefits across Continents
International Collaboration is a must for effective global research and Grid technologies have a key role. Read this article from the eStrategies magazine.
Article
iSGTW Feature - National, regional, global, industrial feature on EU-IndiaGrid.
EU-IndiaGrid takes its place in the grid computing world - This article looks at the success of the first EU-IndiaGrid project
Case Study: High-speed networking: saving lives by typhoon forecasting. Typhoons are major natural killers. High winds and extreme rainfall damage property, while collapsing buildings, flood waters and disruption to food supply, sanitation and communications cause injury and death.
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Typhoon TEIN3
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International co-operation has always been at the core of the European Union e-Infrastructures strategy. EU-IndiaGrid2 is funded within the FP7 Framework INFSO Research Infrastructures Programme, coordinating with the Pan European Network Infrastructure, GEANT, EMI. EU-IndiaGrid2 collaborates with projects in supporting cooperation on e-Infrastructures between Europe and different regions of the World. Collaborations include EUMEDGRID-Support, EELA, EUAsiagrid, SEE-GRID-SCI, GISELA, CHAIN.
July 2012
EUIndiaGrid2 is playing an important role in enhancing and increasing Euro-India cooperation on e-Infrastructures through collaboration with key policy players both from the Government of India and the European Commission. EUIndiaGrid2 also works closely with policy initiatives such as e-IRGSP2 and Euro-India SPIRIT
Global networks are the glue that holds together Scientific Research Communities around the world. Networks such as GÉANT (The Pan-European Education and Research Network), TEIN3 (The Trans-Eurasia Information Network) and the NKN (National Knowledge Network of India) are all key to this process.
Two main grids exist in India – the Regional component of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG ) and GARUDA, the India National Grid Initiative. Both initiatives strongly rely on the development of national and international connectivity. In this respect fundamental steps have been taken and impressive targets have been achieved.
