Infrastructure

09 November 2009

A series of European initiatives are involved in deploying and operating the European-wide e-Infrastructure. These initiatives cooperate with national programs at European and extra-European level.Eu-IndiaGrid looks forward to support and foster collaboration between researchers from Europe and India in a wide range of scientific areas.

The ICT infrastructure for science is called e-Infrastructure and is the elementary building block of the e-Science.

e-Infrastructure is an environment where resources  such as hardware, software and content  can be readily shared and accessed by the research community This will improve research processes and utlimately  lead to more effective research, boost international cooperation and increase international collaboration.

This new research environment will see researchers from Delhi to Brussels and from Peking to New York, having shared access to unique or distributed scientific facilities (including data, instruments, computing and communications), whether they are working in the context of their home institutions or in national or multinational scientific initiatives.

EUIndiaGrid is one of a number of global initiatives are working to make this vision a reality by connecting research communities around the globe.

EU-IndiaGrid is a collaborative effort to integrate the EGEE and the Indian GARUDA Grid by bringing together over 500 multidisciplinary organisations to build a Grid-enabled e-Science Community; developing a sustained base of potential users from key science domains and business, bringing the advantages of Grid technology and boosting R&D innovation across Europe and India; mobilising a hardware infrastructure of about 1200 core processors and 50 TB of disk for the benefit of EU-India Grid applications.