CoreGRID Fact Sheet
The CoreGRID Network of Excellence is funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development through a grant of €8.2 million assigned for a duration of four years. This support allows the Network to focus on creating a strong and durable integration of Grid research expertise in Europe to facilitate the creation of future Grid systems in both academic and industrial environments.
CoreGRID aims at strengthening and advancing European scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid and peer-to-peer technologies, encouraging the mobility of researchers and addressing long-term Grid research to build the foundations for Next Generation Grids, from 2010 and beyond.
To achieve this objective, the Network gathers a critical mass of well-established researchers (155 permanent researchers and 168 PhD students) from forty research centers and universities into an ambitious joint programme of activities.
Operated as a European Grid Research Laboratory, the joint programme is structured around six strategic and complementary research areas, organized as research Institutes.
- Knowledge and Data Management
- Programming Model
- Architectural Issues: Scalability, Dependability, Adaptability
- Grid Information, Resource and Workflow Monitoring Services
- Resource Management and Scheduling
- Grid Systems, Tools and Environments
Each one of these Institutes is dedicated to a particular domain identified as of strategic importance to ensure the durable development and deployment of Grid infrastructure.
CoreGRID not only invests in Grid research. It is also developing more effective routes for the industrial exploitation of the Grid in order to successfully translate research results into economic benefits. CoreGRID drives collaboration between research organizations, funding bodies and industry at all levels of the value chain and across national borders, making sure that industrial needs and commercial ambitions are taken into account while Grid research is conducted.
The CoreGRID Network will contribute to helping Europe take Grids out of the research labs and into industry – a critical step in ensuring Europe realizes the benefits of the Information Society. In this perspective, CoreGRID is recognized to best represent the activity of integrating and coordinating Grid research efforts across Europe and promoting close cooperation with industry, aligning both research and industry towards the construction of a sustainable European Research Area.
The ideas driving the CoreGRID project are definitely excellence, integration, dissemination and sustainability. And CoreGRID has clearly set out the path towards accomplishing its grand vision for a feasible Next Generation Grid.
CoreGRID Partners:
| 1 |
European Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics |
GEIE ERCIM |
France |
| 2 |
Centre d’Excellence en Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication |
CETIC |
Belgium |
| 3 |
Institute for Parallel Processing |
IPP-BAS |
Bulgaria |
| 4 |
Information Science and Technologies Institute |
CNR-ISTI |
Italy |
| 5 |
French National Research Council |
CNRS |
France |
| 6 |
Delft University of Technology |
TUD |
Netherlands |
| 7 |
Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology |
EPFL |
Switzerland |
| 8 |
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft |
FhG |
Germany |
| 9 |
Forschungszentrum Jülich |
FZJ |
Germany |
| 10 |
High Performance Computing Centre |
USTUTT |
Germany |
| 11 |
Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas |
ICS-FORTH |
Greece |
| 12 |
Imperial College |
IC |
UK |
| 13 |
National Institute for Research in Nuclear Physics |
INFN |
Italy |
| 14 |
National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control |
INRIA |
France |
| 15 |
Royal Institute of Technology |
KTH |
Sweden |
| 16 |
Masaryk University Brno |
MU |
Czech R. |
| 17 |
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre |
PSNC |
Poland |
| 18 |
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - Central Laboratory of the Research Councils |
RAL – CCLRC |
UK |
| 19 |
Swedish Institute of Computer Science |
SICS |
Sweden |
| 20 |
Computer and Automation Research Institute |
SZTAKI |
Hungary |
| 21 |
The Queen’s University of Belfast |
QUB |
UK |
| 22 |
University of Muenster |
WWU Muenster |
Germany |
| 23 |
University of Calabria |
UNICAL |
Italy |
| 24 |
University of Cardiff |
UWC |
UK |
| 25 |
University of Chile |
UCHILE |
Chile |
| 26 |
University of Coimbra |
UCO |
Portugal |
| 27 |
University of Cyprus |
UCY |
Cyprus |
| 28 |
University of Dortmund |
UNI DO |
Germany |
| 29 |
Université catholique de Louvain à Louvain-la-Neuve |
UCL |
Belgium |
| 30 |
Victoria University of Manchester |
UoM |
UK |
| 31 |
The University of Newcastle Upon Tyne |
UNCL |
UK |
| 32 |
University of Passau |
UNI PASSAU |
Germany |
| 33 |
University of Pisa |
UNIPI |
Italy |
| 34 |
Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale |
HES-SO |
Switzerland |
| 35 |
University of Westminster |
UoW |
UK |
| 36 |
Technical University of Catalonia |
UPC |
Spain |
| 37 |
Vrije Universiteit |
VUA |
Netherlands |
| 38 |
Technical Research Centre of Finland |
VTT |
Finland |
| 39 |
Zuse Institute Berlin |
ZIB |
Germany |
| 40 |
CYFRONET |
CYFRONET |
Poland |
| 41 |
University of Innsbruck |
UIBK |
Austria |
Associate Members
Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking - CNR-ICAR - Italy
New University of Lisbon - UNL - Portugal
CATNETS project is represented by Torsten Eymann (at Bayreuth
University) and Omar F Rana (Cardiff University) - CATNETS - Germany
University of Sannio - UOS - Italy
Umeå University - UMEA - Sweden
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