EU-IndiaGrid Kick-off meeting
The EU-IndiaGrid2 Kick-off meeting took place at IIT New Delhi 14-15 January. Attended by members of the EC e-Infrastructures delegation to India, the event set the agenda for the next two years of work for the 15-partner strong consortium who aim to enhance and increase the cooperation between European and Indian e-Infrastructures for the benefit of E-Indian collaboration in eScience and in particular in the fields of Biology, Climate Change Science, High Energy Physics and Material Science.
Members of the EC-delegation gave important input to the meeting covering areas such as European Policies for research and e-Infrastructures, EU-India collaboration and EU-India connectivity. Insight was also offered into the transition from EGEE to EGI, the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group, and Supercomputing in Europe with PRACE and DEISA. Furthemore, vital Indian perspectives were also heard with presentations focussing on the National Knowledge Network and the GARUDA National Grid Initiative.
Following this, the EU-IndiaGrid consortium laid out its plans for the following two years, establishing key goals and challenges ahead.
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The EUIndiaGrid Consortium and members of the EC e-Infrastrcutures delegation to India
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.
