EDGES

Enabling desktop grids for e-science

Coordinatore	MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA SZAMITASTECHNIKAI ES AUTOMATIZALASI KUTATO INTEZET    more  Organization address address: KENDE U. 13-17 city: BUDAPEST contact info Cognome: FEUER, EVA Email: send email Telefono: -2796250 Fax: -2095234
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Hungary [HU]
Totale costo	2˙871˙480 €
EC contributo	2˙450˙000 €
Programma	FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES Specific Programme "Capacities": Research infrastructures
Anno di inizio	2008
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2008-01-01   -   2009-12-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA SZAMITASTECHNIKAI ES AUTOMATIZALASI KUTATO INTEZET  Organization address address: KENDE U. 13-17 city: BUDAPEST contact info Cognome: FEUER, EVA Email: send email Telefono: -2796250 Fax: -2095234	HU (BUDAPEST)	coordinator	0.00
2	CARDIFF UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: 30 - 36 NEWPORT ROAD city: CARDIFF postcode: CF24 0DE contact info	UK (CARDIFF)	participant	0.00
3	CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE  Organization address address: 3, RUE MICHEL-ANGE city: PARIS CEDEX 16 contact info	FR (PARIS CEDEX 16)	participant	0.00
4	CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES ENERGETICAS, MEDIOAMBIENTALES Y TECNOLOGICAS  Organization address address: AVENIDA COMPLUTENSE 22 city: MADRID postcode: 28040 contact info	ES (MADRID)	participant	0.00
5	FACULDADE CIENCIAS E TECNOLOGIA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA  Organization address address: RUA SILVIO LIMA, POLO II - UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA city: COIMBRA contact info	PT (COIMBRA)	participant	0.00
6	FUNDACION PARA EL DESARROLLO DE LA CIENCIA Y LA TECNOLOGIA EN EXTREMADURA  Organization address address: RECTORADO DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE EXTREMADURA, CAMPUS UNIVER * city: BADAJOZ postcode: 6002 contact info	ES (BADAJOZ)	participant	0.00
7	INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE  Organization address address: DOMAINE DE VOLUCEAU city: LE CHESNAY postcode: 78153 contact info	FR (LE CHESNAY)	participant	0.00
8	STICHTING ALMEREGRID  Organization address address: JAMES STEWARTSTRAAT 248 city: ALMERE postcode: 1325JN contact info	NL (ALMERE)	participant	0.00
9	THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER  Organization address address: REGENT STREET 309 city: LONDON contact info	UK (LONDON)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

Grid systems are currently being used and adopted by a growing number of user groups and diverse application domains. However, there still exist many scientific communities whose applications require much more computing resources than existing Grids like EGEE can provide.

The main objective of this project is to support these new communities: - by providing the necessary extensions for existing Grid infrastructures to address the specific needs in these new scientific communities within a coherent pan-European model, regardless of the location of their research facilities - with the adaptation of their applications to the enhanced Grid infrastructure - through the provision of standard APIs and Grid application development tools that facilitate the adaptation of their application to the enhanced Grid infrastructure.

In order to support the specific needs of these scientific communities EDGeS will interconnect the existing EGEE Grid infrastructure with existing Desktop Grid (DG) systems in a strong partnership with EGEE. Service Grids (SGs) like EGEE are more flexible than DGs and can accommodate a broader variety of applications, however, they are much more expensive to maintain. Desktop Grids are currently restricted solely to Master/Worker-style compute-intensive applications but can scale very easily and are able to collect 1-2 orders of magnitude more compute power than most SGs are able to, and at a fraction of the cost. The interconnection of these two types of Grid systems will enable more advanced applications and provide extended compute capabilities to more researchers.

One other objective of EDGeS is to extend the potential user communities for both Grids and Desktop Grids beyond traditional scientists and current volunteer computing participants to further involve ordinary citizens, secondary school students, and company employees, giving them an opportunity to become involved in science and to apply Grid technology in their every day life.