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The European Grid Initiative (EGI)

Towards a Sustainable Grid Infrastructure

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Remote Instrumentation and Virtual Laboratories

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Grid computing is a technology for distributed storage and processing of data, providing virtualised access to large-scale computing and other networked resources. Over the past decade, European states and the European Commission have invested heavily in grid technologies and Europe has reached a leading position in grid development and deployment. Moreover, Europe has also been highly active in accelerating the corporate and social usage of grids. Today’s European grid infrastructure already supports a wide range of applications that are being developed, from testbed projects to efforts in infrastructure deployment and management. In addition, many European countries have initiated national grid projects and e-Science projects.

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References

  1. e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG). http://e-irg.eu

  2. EGI_DS project vision paper. http://www.eu-egi.eu/vision.pdf

  3. EU FP7 Project BalticGrid Second Phase (BalticGrid-II). http://www.balticgrid.org/

  4. EU FP7 Project Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA). http://www.deisa.eu/

  5. EU FP7 Project Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE). http://www.eu-egee.org/

  6. EU FP7 Project European Grid Initiative Design Study (EGI_DS). http://www.eu-egi.eu/

  7. EU FP7 Project Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE). http://www.prace-project.eu/

  8. EU FP7 Project South Eastern European Grid-enabled e-Infrastructure development (SEE-Grid). http://www.see-grid.org/

  9. The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) Muenchen & Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Munich, Germany

    D. Kranzlmüller

  2. Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, IFCA, CSIC-UC Santander, Santander, Spain

    J. Marco de Lucas

  3. CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd., FI-02101, Espoo, Finland

    P. Öster

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  2. J. Marco de Lucas
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  3. P. Öster
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Correspondence to D. Kranzlmüller .

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  1. DIST, University of Genoa, Via Opera Pia 13, Genova, 16145, Italy

    Franco Davoli

  2. Networking Center, Poznan Supercomputing &, ul. Noskowskiego 10, Poznan, 61-704, Poland

    Norbert Meyer

  3. Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A, Strada Statale 14, Basovizza, Trieste, 34012, Italy

    Roberto Pugliese

  4. DIST, University of Genoa, Via Opera Pia 13, Genova, 16145, Italy

    Sandro Zappatore

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Kranzlmüller, D., de Lucas, J.M., Öster, P. (2010). The European Grid Initiative (EGI). In: Davoli, F., Meyer, N., Pugliese, R., Zappatore, S. (eds) Remote Instrumentation and Virtual Laboratories. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5597-5_6

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