The 7th Annual Meeting on High Performance Computing and Infrastructure in Norway

NOTUR2008 - ABSTRACTS

The European Grid Initiative Design Study

Per Öster

The European Grid Initiative (EGI) has as goal to ensure a long-term sustainability of grid infrastructures in Europe. This is to be done through establishment of a new federated model bringing together National Grid Infrastructures to build the EGI Organisation. For this purpose, the European Commission has funded a specific project, the EGI Design Study (EGI_DS), to in 27 months make the conceptual setup and operation of a new organisational model of a sustainable pan-European grid infrastructure. The goal of the EGI Design Study (EGI_DS) is to evaluate use cases for the applicability of a coordinated effort, to identify processes and mechanisms for establishing EGI, to define the structure of a corresponding body, and ultimately to initiate the construction of the EGI Organisation. The project started in September 2007 and a very important milestone is the Blueprint of the EGI Organisation. In this talk the work of the EGI_DS project will be presented together with a discussion of the role of EGI in the European "HPC Ecosystem".

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