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GRIDSTART and European activities

GRIDSTART and European activities. Dr Francis Wray EPCC The University of Edinburgh. What is GRIDSTART?. Accompanying Measure (cluster) project The project partners are Coordinating Partners of established EU Grid projects:

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GRIDSTART and European activities

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  1. GRIDSTART and European activities Dr Francis Wray EPCC The University of Edinburgh

  2. What is GRIDSTART? Accompanying Measure (cluster) project The project partners are Coordinating Partners of established EU Grid projects: AVO, CROSSGRID, DAMIEN, DATAGRID, DATATAG, EGSO, EUROGRID, GRIA, GRIDLAB and GRIP GRIDSTART is looking to expand the cluster to involve new EU Grid projects

  3. GRIDSTART Objectives (1) Consolidation of EU advances in the GRID in both technical work and development of standards; Encourage interaction amongst similar activities; Make EU GRID projects aware of each other and of other projects around world; Get projects talking and sharing ideas/issues/tools and so avoid reinventing the wheel.

  4. GRIDSTART Objectives (2) Stimulate the early take-up of Grid technologies by industry and research; Encourage Grid applications to move from the testbed to use by early adopters in industry; Disseminate the benefits of the GRID to industry; Inform all potentially interested parties what’s on the horizon? how can it help them in their research or business.

  5. GRIDSTART Dissemination Principal dissemination mechanisms are: Newsletters (GRID, technical, business); An extensive website; Press stream, Flyers and Posters; Participation at events. An important role of GRIDSTART is to: support EU Grid projects in their dissemination activities (templates, advice and other resources)

  6. Gridstart Background • European Commission funded Grid projects very early • €15 million in 2000, €20 million in 2001 • 10 projects funded and running to date • 8 more 2002 under negotiation • Many have a strong scientific focus • EPCC leads the GRIDSTART cluster project with goals of: • maximising impact of EU Grid projects • consolidation of technical advances • providing a coherent European voice

  7. Pre-2001 projects (1) • 3 projects pre-2001 • DAMIEN • 5 partners • Middleware building blocks for simulation and visualisation • CAE (aerospace) and industrial simulations • DATAGRID • 21 partners • European scale testbed and middleware development • Particle physics, Earth observation and Biology

  8. Pre-2001 projects (2) • EUROGRID • 11 partners • Testbed linking EU HPC centres with industry • Biology, Meteorology, Industrial design, ASP • Total funding of €15 million in 2000

  9. 2001 projects(1) • 7 projects in 2001 • CROSSGRID • 21 partners • Grid infrastructure component development • Large CERN centric project • DATATAG • 4 partners • Transatlantic Grid networking testbed • CERN networking focus

  10. 2001 projects (2) • EGSO • 10 partners • European Solar Observatory virtual archive • Strong focus on astronomy • GRIA • 5 partners • Testbed for industrial applications – focus on eBusiness • One of the most commercially focused projects

  11. 2001 projects (3) • GRIDLAB • Application toolkit for simulation codes • 11 partners • Dynamic exploitation of resources • GRIP • Interoperability between UNICORE and GLOBUS • 7 partners • Increasing interest in UNICORE • Total funding €20 million in 2001

  12. Applications GRIA EGSO AVO EUROGRID CROSSGRID GRIP GRIDLAB DATAGRID DAMIEN DATATAG Middleware & Tools Industry/business Science GRIDSTART

  13. 2002 projects(1) • 9 projects in 2002 (last call of FP5) • FLOWGRID • Establishment of a CFD virtual organisation using GRID infrastructure • 6 partners • OPENMOLGRID • Development of a unified environment for solving molecular design/engineering tasks • 5 partners

  14. 2002 projects (2) • GRACE • Development of a just-in-time distributed search and categorization engine • 6 partners (including CERN) • COG • Use of Grid technologies in industry. Ontologies of modelling of data in dispersed locations. • 4 partners

  15. 2002 projects (3) • MOSES • Enabling content providers to build modular and scalable Knowledge Grid management tools • 7 partners • GEMSS • Testbed for medical computing and resource/service provision in a clinical environment. • 10 partners

  16. 2002 projects (4) • BIOGRID • Perform a trial for the introduction of the Grid approach in biotechnology industry. • 6 partners • SELENE • Bridging the gap between semantic web technology and peer-to-peer computing. • 5 partners

  17. 2002 projects (5) • MAMMOGRID • Using Grid technology to develop an EU-wide database of mammograms. • 12 partners • We hope to cluster these new projects with GRIDSTART - discussions are ongoing.

  18. Gridstart Status • Project started on 1 April, 2002 (3 years); • Vigorous standards and technical activities; • First plenary meeting held on 25 July, 2002; • Extensive website live since 1 August 2002; • First dissemination material available; • First newsletters in preparation; • Possibility of a global role.

  19. Conclusions • Europe has a rich landscape of GRID projects involving many disciplines; • GRIDSTART already provides an active, polyvalent focus for a growing core of projects; • GRIDSTART’s success depends on: • Involving a critical mass of EU activities; • Broadening its scope to influence global activities.

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