EUIG2 March 2011 Newsletter
23 March 2011
The EU-IndiaGrid2 newsletter offers an overview of project achievements in 2010 and looks forward to a full year of events and activities in 2011 including the EU-IndiaGrid2 Conference on the Role of e-infrastructure for Climate Change Research which takes place in 21-25 May at The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste, Italy. The conference will see a keynote presentations from Dr. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India and member of the Government Cabinet and Professor Van Ypersele, vice-chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Just before this conference, EU-IndiaGrid2 will also hold a Biology Grid and Cloud Workshop & Smodlyn Tutorial on 29-30 March at Cambridge University, UK. Key insight will be given into the benefits of Grid computing and the full potential of Cloud computing for the Biology research community.
EU-IndiaGrid2 also plays an important role in supporting EU-Indian policy alignment. In this edition we also have an interview with Professor S. V. Raghavan, Scientific Secretary, Office of PSA to Government of India and Chief Architect and Chairman, Technical Advisory Committee of NKN. Professor Raghavan speaks in detail about the progress of the Indian National Knowledge Network.
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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.
