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  • CoreGRID – Sustainable European Project in the International Grid Research Arena

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, August 26, 2008 – This year’s CoreGRID Symposium marks the end of CoreGRID as a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission. Most important, it corresponds to the re-launch of CoreGRID as the self-sustained ERCIM Working Group covering research activities on both Grid and Service Computing while maintaining the momentum of the European collaboration on Grid research.

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  • The CoreGRID Symposium – A Premiere in the Spreading of European Grid Technologies Research Results

    Rennes, August 29, 2007 – CoreGRID gathered key players from European and Member States initiatives in Grid research, as well as international projects in the field, to disseminate signigificant research results in Grid Technologies. These results were presented at the CoreGRID Symposium in Rennes on August 27 and 28. More than 120 participants from Research and Industry had the opportunity to meet and exchange their experience on all aspects of Grid computing, including service infrastructures.
    Having been active for three years, CoreGRID is now committed to move further towards sustainable integration and to enhance the economic fall-outs of Grid research progress. In particular, the growing involvement of industry representatives will be essential to exploit the full potential of the latest Grid research results.

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  • GRIDS@WORK in Sophia Antipolis, France: Grid Computing Moves from Research to Industry to Increase Business Competitiveness

From 27 November to 1 December, ETSI, INRIA and the European Network of Excellence CoreGRID, led by ERCIM, co-organised at ETSI the 3rd “GRIDS@WORK” event and Grid Plugtests. Over 200 delegates, representing 25 countries from all over the world, came to Sophia Antipolis, France, to discuss research projects and industrial requirements towards the implementation of Grids as a key driver of tomorrow’s ‘Network-of-networks’.

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  • Two Years of CoreGRID, from Integration towards Sustainability

    Helsinki, November 20, 2006 –Today, at the IST Event 2006 in Helsinki, Finland, CoreGRID is presenting the primary results of its first two-year activity of integrating and coordinating Grid research efforts in close cooperation with industry, aligning both research and industry towards the construction of a sustainable European Research Area.

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The CoreGRID Symposium – A Premiere in the Spreading of European Grid Technologies Research Results

Rennes, August 29, 2007 – CoreGRID gathered key players from European and Member States initiatives in Grid research, as well as international projects in the field, to disseminate signigificant research results in Grid Technologies. These results were presented at the CoreGRID Symposium in Rennes on August 27 and 28. More than 120 participants from Research and Industry had the opportunity to meet and exchange their experience on all aspects of Grid computing, including service infrastructures.
Having been active for three years, CoreGRID is now committed to move further towards sustainable integration and to enhance the economic fall-outs of Grid research progress. In particular, the growing involvement of industry representatives will be essential to exploit the full potential of the latest Grid research results.

CoreGRID is a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development through a grant of €8.2 million assigned for a duration of four years.

Operated as the European Grid Research Laboratory, the CoreGRID Network is conducting research in the field of Grid and peer-to-peer technologies by integrating expertise and promoting scientific and technological excellence both within and beyond the Grid community.  The Network gathers more than 340 world-class researchers and PhD students into an ambitious joint programme of activities, which is structured around six strategic and complementary research areas, organised as Institutes: Knowledge and Data Management; Programming Model; Architectural Issues: Scalability, Dependability, Adaptability ; Grid Information, Resource and Workflow Monitoring Services; Resource Management and Scheduling; and Grid Systems, Tools and Environments.

Through the organisation of this Symposium, CoreGRID definitely took the lead in presenting academic research results from EU initiatives and international projects in Grid research and technologies, and in promoting commercially relevant and promising research in Grid computing.

Held in conjunction with the Euro-Par 2007 event, the CoreGRID Symposium covered the following topics:
- Service Level Agreement and Quality of Service
- Trust, Security and Virtual Organisation
- Programming with Software Components
- Communication and Networking
- Job, Information and Resource Management
- Programming Methodology
- Workflow Management
- Data Management
The relevance of the sessions and the quality of the audience reflected the joint positioning of industrial technique and academic discipline, extending not only the frontier of the state-of-the-art, but also that of the-state-of-practice.

According to Dr Thierry Priol (INRIA) in charge of CoreGRID’s scientific co-ordination and of the Symposium’s organisation, “Through this initiative, CoreGRID increases the visibility of Grid research and is more than ever aiming at integrating and coordinating Grid research efforts in close cooperation with industry, aligning both research and industry towards the construction of a sustainable European-wide Grid research lab.”

As CoreGRID now enters its fourth year of activity, it has substantially enhanced the dissemination of Grid research results, with a view to foster its scientific excellence and sustainability.

About CoreGRID

Project start date:  September 1, 2004
Duration:    48 months
EU funding:  €8,200,000
Type of project:   Network of Excellence
Project reference: 004265
Programme type:  Sixth Framework Programme
Programme acronym: FP6-IST
Project co-ordinator:  Bruno Le Dantec, ERCIM

Further information on CoreGRID can be found at www.coregrid.eu

CoreGRID Annual Report 2006 available for download on /mambo/content/view/310/301/
  

Two Years of CoreGRID, from Integration towards Sustainability

Helsinki, November 20, 2006 –Today, at the IST Event 2006 in Helsinki, Finland, CoreGRID is presenting the primary results of its first two-year activity of integrating and coordinating Grid research efforts in close cooperation with industry, aligning both research and industry towards the construction of a sustainable European Research Area.

CoreGRID is a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development through a grant of €8.2 million assigned for a duration of four years.

Operated as the European Grid Research Laboratory, the CoreGRID Network is conducting research in the field of Grid and peer-to-peer technologies by integrating expertise and promoting scientific and technological excellence within and beyond the Grid community.
The Network gathers more than 300 well-established researchers and PhD students into an ambitious joint programme of activities which are structured around six strategic and complementary research areas, organized as Institutes: Knowledge and Data Management; Programming Model; System Architecture; Grid Information, Resource and Workflow Monitoring Services; Resource Management and Scheduling; and Grid Systems, Tools and Environments.
CoreGRID has now been running for two years and is helping Europe take Grids out of the research labs into industry.

Following the selection of the CoreGRID project for a research stand at the most important European event in the field of Information Society Technologies, the Network is highlighting its prototyping work at the IST Event 2006 by presenting two of its best demonstration cases.
The first one will show how Grid technologies allow to faster simulate and predict pollutant transport in groundwater with a controlled quality of service (QoS) thanks to additional distributed computing resource.
The second demonstration is called Intensive Care Grid (ICGrid), a distributed platform enabling the seamless integration, correlation and retrieval of clinically interesting episodes across intensive care units.

According to Monica Marinucci, Oracle in R&D Programme Director and Oracle representative on the CoreGRID Industrial Advisory Board, “Rated for their scientific excellence and industrial relevance, these two CoreGRID demonstration cases highlight the relevance of coordinating Grid research efforts at European level for a greater use of Grid technologies in different industrial sectors which is key for mobilizing Europe's scientific and technological capital to deliver more competitiveness and better products.”

The first two years of CoreGRID aimed at reinforcing integration and industrial links, spreading excellence, disseminating research results, and advancing the state of the art in a number of Grid research areas crucial to the development of the Next Generation Grid.
In the years to come, the Network is committed to advancing further towards sustainable integration by involving industrial stakeholders in defining the strategies to achieve economic impact, becoming the European-wide research laboratory in distributed Grid, peer-to-peer and service-oriented technologies. These endeavours will continue to increase the impact of the remarkable academic results on the competitiveness of European industry.

“The expected end result is a sustainable European research community, highly visible in the international research arena, in the fields of Grid and peer-to-peer technologies. That said, CoreGRID will continue operating after the official ending date of its EU funding. It is anticipated that after four years of existence, CoreGRID will make determinant contributions to the Next Generation Grid vision,” said Dr Thierry Priol of INRIA, in charge of CoreGRID’s Scientific Co-ordination.

The ideas driving the CoreGRID project are definitely excellence, integration, dissemination and sustainability. And CoreGRID has clearly set out the path towards making sure today’s research will address tomorrow’s market needs.

About CoreGRID

Project start date:  September 1, 2004
Duration:               48 months
EU funding:            €8,200,000
Type of project:      Network of Excellence
Project reference:    004265
Programme type:     Sixth Framework Programme
Programme acronym: FP6-IST
Project co-ordinator: Bruno Le Dantec, ERCIM

Further information on CoreGRID can be found at www.coregrid.net
CoreGRID Annual Report 2005 is available for download on /mambo/content/view/310/301/
For more information, please contact Bérengère Fally

GRIDS@WORK in Sophia Antipolis, France: Grid Computing Moves from Research to Industry to Increase Business Competitiveness


From 27 November to 1 December, ETSI, INRIA and the European Network of Excellence CoreGRID, led by ERCIM, co-organised at ETSI the 3rd “GRIDS@WORK” event and Grid Plugtests. Over 200 delegates, representing 25 countries from all over the world, came to Sophia Antipolis, France, to discuss research projects and industrial requirements towards the implementation of Grids as a key driver of tomorrow’s ‘Network-of-networks’.

The centre piece of the GRIDS@WORK week has been the two-day conference addressed by European Grid researchers and many industrial representatives. One of the themes was how Grids will drive the creation of jobs and commercial products, targeting the Enterprise market, promoting Grid sharing principles towards the creation of a service-oriented, utility-like infrastructure for business, industry and society.

Talking about the rate of progress, Franco Accordino, of the European Commission, spoke of Europe’s achievement in creating a Grid ‘lighthouse’ for the world:

“Projects like CoreGRID have made significant contributions to develop European excellence in Grids and achieve a European Research Area for the Grid. Projects like EGEE provide world-class infrastructures and support European researchers in their work. Now we are in an evolutionary phase where industrial partnerships have been established to exploit the economic potential of the Grid beyond research labs. This consistent portfolio of FP6 Grid research and deployment projects funded by the European Commission will significantly contribute to further advance European Excellence in Grid and boost Grid technology adoption and exploitation by industry and business."
A Roadmap to Grid Standardization to Solve Interoperability Issues
As Grid computing steps up as a key driver of tomorrow’s ‘Network-of-networks’, ETSI GRID Technical Committee has started to work on defining formal European standards and test specifications for Grid interoperability. Standardization is essential to enable so many different pieces of hardware, software, operating systems, data bases etc, potentially spread all over the world, to interoperate and deliver a service as a unique resource.

Mike Fisher, BT, ETSI GRID Chairman, said during his industrial keynote address:
“There are many Grid stakeholders in the ETSI Membership, our challenge is to provide a bridge between the Grid standards and NGN (Next Generation Network) standards within the framework of the convergence of communications and IT networks. ETSI is the place to build that bridge.”
Grid Plugtests – A Contest to Demonstrate the Power of the Grid
Prizes have been awarded to the ‘Eight Samurai’ team from the University of Tokyo as the winner of the 3rd N-Queens Plugtests and to ‘Kanban System’, also from the University of Tokyo, as the winner of the FlowShop Contest. Both events ran on specially configured Grid infrastructure composed of more than 4.000 CPUs grouped into various places, from a handful of CPUs to hundreds in a site, many of them provided by the Grid’5000 testbed of the French ACI GRID. This Grid was organized and hosted by experts from ETSI Plugtests Service and INRIA OASIS joint team (INRIA-University of Nice Sophia Antipolis-CNRS I3S).

As explained by Denis Caromel, head of the OASIS team:
“Using the Open Source middleware ProActive, member of the ObjectWeb consortium, the competitors have been able to deploy over a very heterogeneous Grid, demonstrating strong progress of Grid technologies, both in efficiency and interoperability."
INRIA Plays a Major Role in Grid Development
INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science and control, runs several projects on Grids: design of software enabling the use on a large scale of desktop equipment infrequently used; build software to access applications at Internet scale while optimizing data transfer with regards to the capacity of available networks; design models to program these infrastructures and be able to efficiently use very high-speed networks.

As stated by Thierry Priol, Senior Scientist at INRIA:
“At a national level, INRIA is deeply involved in the ACI GRID initiative and especially in the Grid’5000 project aiming at building a Grid testbed. At a European level, INRIA is the Scientific Coordinator of 3 projects: CoreGRID, the only Network of Excellence in Europe on Grids and peer-to-peer technologies; XtreemOS, an integrated project aiming at adding new mechanisms to Linux to facilitate deployment of Grids; and GridCOMP, whose objective is to design a programming model based on software components for Grids.”
CoreGRID, the Grid European Research Laboratory
CoreGRID, as the Network of Excellence on Grids and peer-to-peer technologies, has been funded by the European Commission through a grant of €8.2 million assigned for a duration of four years. As part of its objective to align both research and industry towards the construction of a sustainable Grid environment, the Network held its first CoreGRID Industrial Conference in Sophia Antipolis. To reinforce CoreGRID's commitment to take Grids out of the research labs and into industry, a new CoreGRID Industrial Fellowship Programme was launched, stimulating knowledge transfer.

"Through the organization of such an event, our Network of Excellence is advancing further towards sustainable integration by involving industrial stakeholders in defining strategies to achieve economic impact, becoming the European-wide research laboratory in distributed Grid, peer-to-peer and service-oriented technologies", said Bruno Le Dantec from ERCIM, in charge of CoreGRID's
Administrative and Financial coordination.

GRIDS@WORK has been co-organised by ETSI, INRIA and CoreGRID/ERCIM, with the support of the European Commission and of HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Platform, Red Flag Linux and SUN.

More information is available on: http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/Upcoming/GRID2006/GRID2006.htm

Last Updated ( Monday, 01 September 2008 )
 
 
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