Development of Grid e-Infrastructure in South-Eastern Europe

Balaz, Antun and Prnjat, Ognjen and Vudragovic, Dusan and Slavnic, Vladimir and Liabotis, Ioannis and Atanassov, Emanouil and Jakimovski, Boro and Savic, Mihajlo (2011) Development of Grid e-Infrastructure in South-Eastern Europe. Journal of Grid Computing, 9 (2). p. 135. ISSN 1570-7873 (FP7- 211338 )

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Abstract

Over the period of 6 years and three phases, the SEE-GRID programme has established a strong regional human network in the area of distributed scientific computing and has set up a powerful regional Grid infrastructure. It attracted a number of user communities and applications from diverse fields from countries throughout the South-Eastern Europe. From the infrastructure point view, the first project phase has established a pilot Grid infrastructure with more than 20 resource centers in 11 countries. During the subsequent two phases of the project, the infrastructure has grown to currently 55 resource centers with more than 6600 CPUs and 750 TBs of disk storage, distributed in 16 participating countries. Inclusion of new resource centers to the existing infrastructure, as well as a support to new user communities, has demanded setup of regionally distributed core services, development of new monitoring and operational tools, and close collaboration of all partner institution in managing such a complex infrastructure. In this paper we give an overview of the development and current status of SEE-GRID regional infrastructure and describe its transition to the NGI-based Grid model in EGI, with the strong SEE regional collaboration.

Keywords

Grid; e-Infrastructure; Distributed computing

Item Type:	Article
FP7 Grant Agreement Number:	211338
FrameWork Programmes:	SP4-Capacities
Scientific Areas:	Research Infrastructures
Contact Email Address:	antun@ipb.ac.rs
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2012 12:11
Access rights:	Open access
URI:	http://eprints.kobson.nb.rs/id/eprint/12

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