SciencePAD is currently in its early design and prototyping phase. Most of the functionality of this site is under development and it is not as automated or user friendly as we plan it to be for the final production version. Your contributions to the site with new registrations of users, organizations, collaborations and software, comments and new ideas are warmly welcome. For more information make sure to check the current SciencePAD Roadmap
The European Globus Community Forum (EGCF) is the organisational body of the Globus community in Europe. Its goal is to boost an integrated approach to collaboration on Globus development and to provide an organisational platform to foster cooperation within Europe and beyond. Its members are users, administrators, and developers, who are applying the Globus Toolkit as their middleware or are interested in doing so.
The main scope of HellaGrid is the provision of High Performance Computing and High Throughput Computing services to Greek academic and research community. So, the resources of the grid infrastructure are used by Greek researches and researches involved at various European projects. The last years, an more and more increased number of researches coming from various scientific fields (high energy physics, computational chemistry, biomedicine, informatics, meteorology, seismology, etc.) uses the HellasGrid infrastructure in order to cover their needs for computational and storage resources.
The UNICORE Forum e.V. was founded in December 1999 by developers, leading European HPC centres, and supporting hardware vendors as a non-profit association to foster the distribution and use of UNICORE, to publish and maintain the specifications, to coordinate further development, certify implementations and extensions, and to support workshops.
Objectives of the UNICORE Forum e.V.
Seamless access: The UNICORE Forum is an open, non-profit association which promotes the development and distribution of the UNICORE Grid system. Membership is open to users and developers of Grid software as well as to hardware vendors.
UNICORE - The Seamless Grid Solution: UNICORE makes seamless Grid computing a reality: its user-friendly interface allows easy and uniform access to distributed computing resources, and provides support for running important scientific and engineering applications. Scientists and engineers can harness the power of today's supercomputers without having to become experts in the access and security policies at different centers.
The UNICORE Forum: To foster the distribution and use of the UNICORE system, the developers, leading European HPC Centers and supporting hardware vendors have founded the UNICORE Forum as a non-profit association. The Forum promotes development, use, and distribution of UNICORE through the following activities:
Promote UNICORE: To promote the use of UNICORE in Grid application and development projects and amongst end-users, the UNICORE Forum organizes workshops, supports presentations at conferences, and provides a discussion forum for UNICORE users and developers.
Publish UNICORE specifications: The UNICORE Forum publishes and maintains the specifications of the UNICORE software layers and of the protocols between them.
Coordinate the further development of UNICORE: As the UNICORE system is used and further developed by an increasing number of Grid projects, new functional requirements emerge and extensions to the UNICORE specifications will be necessary. The UNICORE Forum will coordinate this process and will act as clearing house.
Certify UNICORE implementations and extensions: The UNICORE specifications are open and anyone is welcome to implement all or part of the UNICORE components, and to develop extensions to the reference implementation. The UNICORE Forum offers to certify the functionality of such implementations and extensions according to the published UNICORE specifications.
iMarine is an open and collaborative initiative that will establish a data infrastructure to support the Ecosystem Approach to fisheries management and conservation of marine living resources. iMarine empowers practitioners and policy makers from multiple scientific fields such as fisheries, biodiversity and ocean observation. The iMarine infrastructure will ensure that otherwise dispersed and heterogeneous data is available to all stakeholder communities through a shared virtual environment that brings together multidisciplinary data sources, supports cross-cutting scientific analysis, and assists communication. iMarine (Data e-Infrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources) is co-funded by the European Commission under Framework Programme 7. The project was launched in November 2011 and will end in April 2014. The final aim of iMarine is to contribute to sustainable environmental management with invaluable direct or indirect benefits to the future of our planet, from climate change mitigation and marine biodiversity loss containment to poverty alleviation and disaster risk reduction.
The NorduGrid Collaboration coordinates the development of Advance Resource Connector (ARC) - an open source Grid middleware. The Collaboration goals are:
The European Middleware Initiative project (EMI) is a collaboration among European grid middleware providers to develop and maintain a software platform for high performance distributed computing. It is at the core of grid middleware distributions used by scientific research communities and distributed computing infrastructures all over the world including EGI - the leading European grid computing infrastructure - and WLCG - the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid - which supports, for example, the search for the Higgs boson and new types of matter searches of the physicists at LHC, together with other large scientific challenges in astronomy, biology, computational chemistry and other sciences. Being a close collaboration among well-established grid middleware providers and other specialized software providers, EMI proposes itself as a leading platform for scientific grid computing in diverse scientific research fields.
