Synergies

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.

Regional Initiatives

The Meditteranean - EUMEDGRID-Support

The main objective of the project is to promote the deployment and usage of e-Infrastructures in the Mediterranean Area, supporting new and existing applications, awakening the interest of stakeholders and policy makers, preserving and expanding the existing e-Science human network, enlarging and training this community, and maintaining continuity to e-Infrastructures, which are operating in synergy with existing and future European e-Infrastructures.
The principle objectives and ensuing activities will be based around:

• Facilitating the deployment & usage of e-Infrastructures in the Mediterranean and
  supporting existing and new applications.
• Cooperating with existing and future e-Infrastructure projects and initiatives to establish
  sustainable e-Infrastructures in Europe and in the Mediterranean Area.
• Strengthening the existing e-Science human network built by the previous EUMEDGRID
  project and widening it to new user communities and to new countries.
• Offering training programmes in collaboration with EPKIH and EUMEDCONNECT2
  Fostering National Grid Initiatives

Website - http://www.eumedgrid.org/

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Asia - EUAsiaGrid

The EUAsiaGrid aims to 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”.

The project's main goal will be to pave the way towards an Asian e-Science Grid Infrastructure, in synergy with the other European Grid initiatives in Asia, namely EGEE-III via its Asia Federation, and both the EUChinaGRID and EU-IndiaGRID projects and their eventual follow on efforts.

Taking advantage of the existing global Grid technologies, with the specific emphasis on the European experience with the gLite middleware and applications running on top of it, the project plans to encourage federating approaches across scientific disciplines and communities. EUAsiaGrid will act as a support action, aiming to define and implement a policy to promote the gLite middleware developed within the EU EGEE project across Asian countries.

EUAsiaGrid main actions will be to spread dissemination, provide training, support scientific applications and monitor the results. The planned results of the project are to:

• Offer an effective proposal to fulfil the demanding computing and storage needs of several common EU-Asia research projects;
• Foster the induction of new user communities to the e-Science Grid infrastructure;
• Enhance the scientific communities and applications running the gLite middleware;
• Build partnerships between European and Asian scientific communities, to contribute to the scientific achievements from a global perspective and at a world class level;
• Coordinate a common policy towards a common e-Science infrastructure with the other European Grid initiatives in Asia, namely EGEE-II via its Asia Federation and both EUChinaGRID and EU-IndiaGRID, drawing on the experience of the EU EGI_DS project.

Website -http://www.euasiagrid.org/

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Latin America - EELA2

EELA-2 (E-science Grid Facility for Europe and Latin America Grid) aims to build on the current EELA e-Infrastructure, a high capacity production-quality, scalable grid facility providing round-the-clock, worldwide access to distributed computing, storage and network resources for a wide spectrum of applications from European and Latin American scientific communities. The project will provide an empowered grid facility with versatile services fulfilling application requirements and ensure the long-term sustainability of the eInfrastructure beyond the term of the project.

EELA-2 Objectives:

• Building a gird facility by expanding the current EELA eInfrastructure to consist of more production sites mobilising more computing nodes and more storage space at the start of the project, and to further increase storage over the duration of the project;
• Providing the full set of grid services needed by all types of scientific applications, in collaboration with related projects such as EGEE
• Supporting various types of applications (from classical off-line data processing up to control and data acquisition of scientific instruments), selected against well-defined criteria including grid added-value, sustainability for grid deployment and outreach/potential impact

Website - http://www.eu-eela.eu

South-Eastern Europe - SEE-Grid-Sci

eInfrastructure in Europe has reached a mature state where the GÉANT network forms a communications backbone on top of which a distributed computing infrastructure – the Grid – provides processing and storage services for eScience research. The South-East European eInfrastructure initiatives are committed to ensuring equal participation of the less-resourced countries of the region in European trends. SEEREN initiative has established a regional network and its GÉANT connection and the SEE-GRID initiative the regional Grid.

• SEE-GRID-SCI leverages the SEE eInfrastructure to enable new scientific collaborations among user communities.
• SEE-GRID-SCI stimulates widespread eInfrastructure uptake by new user groups extending over the region, fostering collaboration and providing advanced capabilities to more researchers, with an emphasis on strategic groups in seismology, meteorology and environmental protection. The initiative thus aims to have a catalytic and structuring effect on target user communities that currently do not directly benefit from the available infrastructures.
• In parallel, it aims to enlarge the regional eInfrastructure to cater for demands of the communities by increasing the computing and storage resources and involving new partner countries in the region.
• Finally, SEE-GRID-SCI targets to help mature and stabilise the National Grid Initiatives in the region, allowing them to join the new era of longer-term sustainable Grid infrastructure in Europe.

Website - http://www.see-grid-sci.eu/

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Networks

GN3 - GÉANT

Summary: Known simply as GÉANT, GN3 is the third term of the successful GÉANT network and project that lie at the heart of the EU’s e-Infrastructure strategy. Co-funded by the European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and the European Union (EU), the project seeks to shape the Internet of the future through the pan-European GÉANT network and a portfolio of advanced services for the research and education community. GÉANT also tackles the digital divide of research and education networking across Europe and fosters  technological research to assure Europe’s role at the forefront of networking and e-Science.

Objectives: The Project’s overall objectives are to:

• Deliver real value and benefit to society by enabling research communities across Europe (and the world) thus transforming the way they collaborate on ground-breaking research.
• Deliver a portfolio of network services to be delivered by the NRENs. The key focus of the GÉANT project is the development and roll out of a portfolio of advanced services to end users to ensure seamless network performance.
• Operate and expand the European backbone network by providing and managing an advanced and cost-effective networking infrastructure, interconnecting NRENs through high bandwidth links.
• Develop and support a portfolio of advanced multi-domain network support services, enabling NREN operators to manage secure and reliable networking solutions across the extended European Research Area and globally, and deliver these to end users.
• Provide users with federated accessibility services by supplying NRENs, and therefore campuses and end users, with services for mobile R&E and distributed e-infrastructures such as grid computing and to effectively support projects and users who have advanced networking requirements.
• Pursue initiatives targeted at closing the “digital divide”, through in-depth analysis of the research networking environment in developing areas and the provision of direct support.
• Examine the future of research networking and to explore the case for sustaining research and education networking.

Website - http://www.geant.net/pages/home.aspx

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TEIN3

The third generation of the Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN3) provides a dedicated high-capacity Internet network for research and education communities across Asia-Pacific. TEIN3 already connects researchers and academics in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and Australia. Bangladesh, Bhutan and Cambodia are in the process of getting connected, bringing the total number of partners involved in TEIN3 to 19.

With direct connectivity to Europe's GÉANT network, TEIN3 offers Asia-Pacific a gateway for global collaboration, enabling over 45 million users at more than 8000 research and academic centres to participate in joint projects with their peers in Europe and other parts of the world.

Website - http://www.tein3.net

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