EU-India Grid 2 at the EGI Technical Forum
21 September 2011
EU-India Grid 2 at the EGI Technical Forum 2011
On 21 September EU-IndiaGrid2 was present at the workshop organized by the CHAIN project, in cooperation with EUIndiaGrid2, EUMEDGRID-Support and GISELA, in Lyon, France, during the EGI Technical Forum 2011.
The workshop analysed the progress made since the Vilnius User Forum, April 2011, in the matching of User Communities’ requirements and Resource Providers’ plans. It helped to pinpoint the remaining critical issues and the necessary technical developments, if any, that still need to be addressed in order to fulfil the requirements of the VRCs.
EGI, CHAIN, GISELA, EUIndiaGRid2 and EUMEDGRID-Support will make use of the outcomes of the workshop to better solve the issues related to the involvement of Virtual Research Communities in the usage of Grid infrastructures.
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.
