Synergies

International co-operation has always been at the core of the European Union e-Infrastructures strategy. EU-IndiaGrid2 is funded within the FP7 Framework INFSO Research Infrastructures Programme, coordinating with the Pan European Network Infrastructure, GEANT, EMI. EU-IndiaGrid2 collaborates with projects in supporting cooperation on e-Infrastructures between Europe and different regions of the World. Collaborations include EUMEDGRID-Support, GISELA, EUAsiagrid, HP-SEE, CHAIN.

The Mediterranean

EUMEDGRID-Support

The main objective of the project is to promote the deployment and usage of e-Infrastructures in the Mediterranean Area, supporting new and existing applications, awakening the interest of stakeholders and policy makers, preserving and expanding the existing e-Science human network, enlarging and training this community, and maintaining continuity to e-Infrastructures, which are operating in synergy with existing and future European e-Infrastructures.
The principle objectives and ensuing activities will be based around:

• Facilitating the deployment & usage of e-Infrastructures in the Mediterranean and
  supporting existing and new applications.
• Cooperating with existing and future e-Infrastructure projects and initiatives to establish
  sustainable e-Infrastructures in Europe and in the Mediterranean Area.
• Strengthening the existing e-Science human network built by the previous EUMEDGRID
  project and widening it to new user communities and to new countries.
• Offering training programmes in collaboration with EPKIH and EUMEDCONNECT2
  Fostering National Grid Initiatives

Website - http://www.eumedgrid.org/

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Asia

EUAsiaGrid

The EUAsiaGrid aims to the EU Research Infrastructures FP7 Programme by promoting international interoperation between similar infrastructures with the aim of reinforcing the global relevance and impact of European e-Infrastructures”.

The project's main goal will be to pave the way towards an Asian e-Science Grid Infrastructure, in synergy with the other European Grid initiatives in Asia, namely EGEE-III via its Asia Federation, and both the EUChinaGRID and EU-IndiaGRID projects and their eventual follow on efforts.

Taking advantage of the existing global Grid technologies, with the specific emphasis on the European experience with the gLite middleware and applications running on top of it, the project plans to encourage federating approaches across scientific disciplines and communities. EUAsiaGrid will act as a support action, aiming to define and implement a policy to promote the gLite middleware developed within the EU EGEE project across Asian countries.

EUAsiaGrid main actions will be to spread dissemination, provide training, support scientific applications and monitor the results. The planned results of the project are to:

• Offer an effective proposal to fulfil the demanding computing and storage needs of several common EU-Asia research projects;
• Foster the induction of new user communities to the e-Science Grid infrastructure;
• Enhance the scientific communities and applications running the gLite middleware;
• Build partnerships between European and Asian scientific communities, to contribute to the scientific achievements from a global perspective and at a world class level;
• Coordinate a common policy towards a common e-Science infrastructure with the other European Grid initiatives in Asia, namely EGEE-II via its Asia Federation and both EUChinaGRID and EU-IndiaGRID, drawing on the experience of the EU EGI_DS project.

Website -http://www.euasiagrid.org/

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Latin America

GISELA Grid

The GISELA Project (Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America) aims at ensuring the long-term sustainability of the Latin American component of its e-Infrastructure (the Latin American Grid Initiative (LGI) sustainability model) in association with CLARA , the Latin American NRENs and collaborating with the European Grid Initiative (EGI). GISELA provides Virtual Research Communities (VRCs) with the e-Infrastructure and Application-related Services required to improve the effectiveness of their research.


GISELA establishes a self-sustainable Grid infrastructure from the one inherited from EELA-2, providing and supporting the basic (CORE) operation services. The Project affords network support by coordinating the internal networking related tasks and developing inter-operation agreements to consolidate the relationship with GÉANT2, CLARA, the NRENs and the NGIs, in Europe and Latin America.

Altogether GISELA:

• Ensures the proper access of GISELA users to the e-Infrastructure resources;
• supports Application developers and users over the whole process from deploying an Application up to running it in production; organises the training best adapted to each VRC;
• supports the use of the e-Infrastructure and Application-related Services already developed in EELA-2 and helps the users in the validation of these services in the context of their Application;
• participates in the development of new services requested by the VRCs and helps in the test and validation of these services for user’s Applications.

GISELA website: http://www.gisela-grid.eu/

South-Eastern Europe

HP-SEE

HP-SEE, High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe’s Research Communities will link existing and upcoming HPC facilities in South East Europe in a common infrastructure, and it will provide operational solutions for it. As a complementary action, the project will establish and maintain a GÉANT link for Southern Caucasus. The initiative will open the South East European HPC infrastructure to a wide range of new user communities, including those of less-resourced countries, fostering collaboration and providing advanced capabilities to researchers, with an emphasis on strategic groups in computational physics, computational chemistry and life sciences. HP-SEE receives EC support through FP7 under the "Research Infrastructures" action.

The HP-SEE initiative builds on the lasting cooperation in the SEE region, embodied in a number of eInfrastructure EC-funded initiatives, aiming at equal participation of less-resourced countries of the region in European trends. The SEEREN initiative established a regional network and the SEE-GRID initiative the regional Grid, while BSI project has established GÉANT link to Caucasus. The SEE-LIGHT project is working towards establishing a dark-fibre backbone that will interconnect most National Research and Education Networks in the Balkan region.

HP-SEE aspires to contribute to the stabilisation and development of South-East Europe, by overcoming fragmentation in Europe and stimulating eInfrastructure development and adoption by new virtual research communities, thus enabling collaborative high-quality research across a spectrum of scientific fields.

HP-SEE website: http://www.hp-see.eu/

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Worldwide

CHAIN - Co-ordination and Harmonisation of Advanced eINfrastructures

The CHAIN project  (Co-ordination and Harmonisation of Advanced eINfrastructures) will elaborate a strategy, define the instruments and deploy them in order to ensure coordination and interoperation.  To achieve this aim the project will define and deploy a coherent operational and organisational model, where a number of EU countries and regions will act, in collaboration with EGI.eu, as bridges and gateways to other regions and continents. Furthermore, the project will validate this model by supporting the extension and consolidation of worldwide virtual communities, which increasingly require distributed facilities (large instruments, distributed data and databases, digital repositories, etc.) across the regions for trans-continental research. Finally, the project will act as a worldwide policy watch and coordination instrument, by exploring and proposing concrete steps for coordination with other initiatives as well as studying the evolution of e-Infrastructures.

CHAIN website: http://www.chain-project.eu/

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