News
News
14 December 2010
The French National Grid Initiative (NGI), France Grilles, has recently strenghten its collaboration with EUMEDGRID-Support project by committing new nine sites to the EUMEDGRID-Support infrastructure, thus enabling their support to the EUMEDGRID Virtual Organisation. EUMEDGRID Virtual Organization is designed to facilitate the development of new regional Grid application and communities, by expediting access to Virtual Organization services and EUMEDGRID resources.
This has globally incremented the total number of EUMEDGRID-Support Computing element to 26 available and running ones, and the number is still growing (more sites will be soon available from Egypt).
About France Grilles
The French NGI is the coordinating body acting in France and within the European Grid Initiative (EGI) as the representative of: the French Ministry of Education and Research, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (CEA), the Réseau National de télécommunications pour la Technologie l’Enseignement et la Recherche (RENATER), the French National institute for Research in computer science and control (INRIA), the French National Institute for Agricultural
Research (INRA), the Conférence des Présidents d’Université (CPU) and the Institut National de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM).
The French NGI is based on a convention signed between all these parties establishing a “Groupement d’Intêret Scientifique” and CNRS will be the French NGI legal entity. 500 researchers and engineers from over 50 laboratories are members of the French NGI.
EUMEDGRID-Support will participate at the event with a special information stand in collaboration with EU-IndiaGrid2, EGI-inSPIRE and ScienceTalk. The stand is titled "e-Infrastructure for Climate Change - a Worldwide Cooperation", and will focus on the global e-Infrastructure landscape showcasing major achievements, success stories and future perspectives from around the world with a special focus on climate change, a topic which particularly effects India, in places such as Mumbai (right), where flooding has become a problem. 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.
The research and academic communities of South East Europe have made a big step towards joining the new era of long-term sustainable eInfrastructures in Europe, thanks to the SEE-GRID-SCI eInfrastructure for regional eScience (SEE-GRID-SCI) project, which successfully reached its end in May 2010. SEE-GRID-SCI kicked-off in May 2008 and in its two-year duration it had a catalytic effect on stimulating and empowering the regional communities in the use of the next generation regional computing & storage grid infrastructure. New scientific collaborations among user groups are now feasible with the provision of advanced capabilities to more researchers, with an emphasis on strategic groups in seismology, meteorology and environmental protection.
There is no need for e-Infrastructures without a user community correspondingly exploiting them. The project has an important responsibility to support existing user’s applications and assist new applications that will run on the Mediterranean e-Infrastructure. This activity is also committed to study and deliver a strategy for the long-term sustainability of the support system that will be put in place during the project lifetime.
