Brussels Expo, Belgium – 27-29 September .2010

ICT2010 is Europe's most visible forum for ICT research and innovation, this biennial event has become a unique gathering point for researchers, business people, investors, and high level policy makers in the field of digital innovation. EUIndiaGrid2 participated to the event with a special information stand in collaboration with EUMEDGRID-Support, EGI-inSPIRE and ScienceTalk. The stand was titled "e-Infrastructure for Climate Change - a Worldwide Cooperation", and was focus on the global e-Infrastructure landscape showcasing major achievements, success stories and future perspectives from around the world. This includes activities of past and future projects such as Africa ROC, EELA-2, e-IRGSP2, EMI, EPIKH, HP-SEE, SEE-GRID-SCI, IGE, EUAsiaGrid, SEE-GRID-SCI, GISELA and CHAIN with emphasis on the synergy among network, grids, high performance computing and data repositories, and their impact on large scale applications and collaborative research.

Presentations of projects:

• HP-SEE - High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe’s Research Communities. Core European eInfrastructure for large-scale eScience research consists of backbone GÉANT network; distributed storage & computing infrastructure - European Grid Initiative (EGI); and PRACE initiative providing tier-0 High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure.
• SEE-GRID-SCI- SEE-GRID-SCI(SEE-GRID eInfrastructure for regional eScience). eInfrastructure in Europe has reached a mature state where the GEANT 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 GEANT connection and the SEE-GRID initiative the regional Grid.
• GISELA - The GISELA Project (Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America) aims at:Implementing the Latin American Grid Initiative (LGI) sustainability model rooted on National Grid Initiatives (NGI) or Equivalent Domestic Grid Structures (EDGS), in association with CLARA , Latin American NRENs and collaborating with the European Grid Initiative (EGI); Providing Virtual Research Communities (VRCs) with the e-Infrastructure and Application-related Services required to improve the effectiveneww of their research.
• IGE - The initiative for Globus in Europe, IGE, serves as a comprehensive service provider for the European e-­‐infrastructures regarding the development, customisation, provisioning, support including training, and maintenance of components of the Globus Toolkit.
• EUMEDGRID-Support - Sustainability of e-Infrastructures across the Mediterranean
• EMI - The European Middleware Initiative brings together the major middleware providers in Europe – in particular ARC, gLite, UNICORE and dCache - to deliver a consolidated set of middleware components for deployment in EGI, PRACE and other Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs); extend the interoperability between grids and other computing infrastructures; strengthen the reliability of services; and establish a sustainable model to maintain and evolve the middleware for the benefit of its user communities.
• e-ScienceTalk - Bringing the success stories of Europe's e-Infrastructure to policy makers in government and business, to the scientific community and to the general public.
• EUASIAGRID - Enabled the collaboration between the scientific communities in the AsiaPacific region and Europe by building on a common EGEE middleware platform now inherited by EGI. This document highlights the results of the project.
• EPIKH - The strategic aims of the EPIKH project are to: Reinforce the impact of e-Infrastructures in scientific research defining and delivering stimulating programme of educational events, including Grid Schools and High Performance Computing courses;Broaden the engagement in e-Science activities and collaborations both geographically and across disciplines.
• Eela - EELA-2 aims at building a high capacity, production-quality, scalable Grid Facility, providing round-the-clock, worldwide access to distributed computing, storage and network resources needed by the wide spectrum of Applications from European - Latin American Scientific Collaborations.
• e-IRGSP2 - The main objective of the e-Infrastructure initiative is to support the creation of a political, technological and administrative framework for an easy and cost-effective shared use of distributed electronic resources across Europe. Particular attention is directed towards grid computing, storage, and networking.
• CHAIN - The CHAIN project aims to coordinate and leverage the efforts made over the past years to extend the European e-Infrastructure (and particularly Grid) operational andorganisational principles to a number of regions in the world. CHAIN uses their results with avision of a harmonised and optimised interaction model for e-Infrastructure and specifically Grid interfaces between Europe and the rest of the world.
• Africa Roc - The Africa Regional Operation Centre (Africa ROC) has been created as a coordination and support point for all sites in the Continent wanting to participate in the stimulating and challenging endeavour of creating a common Grid infrastructure to foster e-Science.
• EGI - EGI.eu coordinates the European Grid Infrastructure with National Grid Initiatives, European International Research Organisations and other parties, to provide a generic e-infrastructure for all European researchers.