ECHOGRID will foster collaboration in Grid research and technologies by defining short, mid, and long-term vision in the field. The project will: – develop a collaboration roadmap that identifies common areas of interest and opportunities for collaboration on Grid technologies between the EU and China; – consolidate this vision and…
HPC-Europa2: Pan-European Research infrastructure on High Performance Computing for 21st century Science
1 Jan 2009 – 31 Dec 2012 Title: Pan-European Research infrastructure on High Performance Computing for 21st century Science Acronym: HPC-Europa2 URL: http://www.hpc-europa.org Abstract: HPC-Europa2’s Transnational Access programme offered European-based computational scientists the opportunity to travel to another country to work in collaboration with researchers in a similar field, while…
iTACITUS: Intelligent tourism and cultural information through ubiquitous services
1 Sep 2006 – 28 Feb 2009 iTACITUS aims to provide a bespoke experience for the individual cultural traveller, based upon a dispersed repository of cultural (e.g. historical, scientific and archaeological) resources, enabling both location-based and context-based interface paired with location-independent services. The services provided will include audio-visual, mixed reality…
BEinGRID: Business Experiments in GRID
1 Jun 2006 – 30 Nov 2009 Title: Business Experiments in Grid Acronym: BEinGRID URL: http://www.beingrid.eu/ Abstract: BEinGRID focused around two complementary activities. Firstly, the project undertook a series of targeted business experiment pilots designed to implement and deploy Grid solutions in a broad spectrum of European business sectors. Eighteen…
CHALLENGERS: Support action on challenges in Grids
1 Jan 2006 – 31 Jan 2008 CHALLENGERS SSA aims to provide the framework that will support the gathering and consultation work of a group of experts from the research and business community with well established experience and deep knowledge in the area of Grid technologies. The focus of the…
POLYMNIA: Personalised Leisure and Entertainment over Cross Media Intelligent Platforms
1 Oct 2004 – 30 March 2007 Title: Personalised Leisure and Entertainment over Cross Media Intelligent Platforms Acronym: POLYMNIA URL: http://polymnia.pc.unicatt.it/index.html Abstract: POLYMNIA aimed at developing an intelligent cross-media platform for personalised leisure and entertainment in thematic parks or venues. The developed system allowed the visitor to be the real…
NextGRID: The Next Generation Grid
1 Aug 2004 – 31 Aug 2007 The goal of NextGRID is to develop architectural components that will lead to the emergence of the Next Generation Grid. This will prepare the way for the broader use of Grid technologies and their widespread adoption by organisations and individuals from the business…
AKOGRIMO: Access to knowledge through the Grid in a mobile world
1 Jul 2004 – 30 Nov 2007 Title: Access to knowledge through the Grid in a mobile world Abstract: The vision of Akogrimo was a world in which: •Grid services, pervasively available, eventually meet the ‘everywhere at any time in any context’ paradigm; •Grid services (comprising personalised knowledge and semantics)…
FIDIS: Future of Identity in the Information Society
1 April 2004 – 30 June 2009 Title: Future of Identity in the Information Society Acronym: FIDIS URL: http://www.fidis.net/ Abstract: This project introduced an approach to the general term of identity from different sectors, including technology, economy, law and sociology. Technologies such as RFIDs, biometric systems as well as various…
APSN: Network of Excellence on Advanced Passive Safety
1 Apr 2004 – 31 Mar 2008 Following the mobilisation of critical R&D mass on vehicle passive safety in EU Thematic Network projects like PSN & EVPSN2, this Network of Excellence (NoE) on aims at a durable integrated European vehicle passive safety research & implementation program and creation of a…
HPC-Europa: Pan-European Research Infrastructure on High Performance Computing
1 Jan 2004 – 31 Dec 2007 Title: Pan-European Research Infrastructure on High Performance Computing Acronym: HPC-Europa URL: http://www.hpc-europa.org Abstract: HPC-EUROPA was an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative operated by six leading HPC centres and five centres of excellence working on research on HPC tools and methods. The fundamental aim of the…
EGEE: Enabling grids For E-science
1 Jan 2004 – 31 Jan 2006 EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe) aims to integrate current national, regional and thematic computing and data Grids to create a European Grid-empowered infrastructure for the support of the European Research Area, exploiting unique expertise generated by previous EU projects (DataGrid, Crossgrid,…