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Successful STREP proposals from Call 5
The STREP proposals invited to negociations (and listed below) address a broad range of new functionality and enhancement of present Grid technologies and services, including research on and development of: knowledge and data sharing in Grid environments, methods and metrics to support service level agreements (SLA) negotiations, interfaces and portals to access Grid resources, trust, security and privacy policy enforcement, Grid economies and business models, pervasive and network-centric middleware, agent-based approaches for service orchestration and configuration, network-aware scheduling, self-healing and adaptive enterprise service Grids, Grid-enabled workflows and collaboration in virtual organisations, new Grid architectures, distributed approaches to resource publishing and retrieval, real-time aspects and Quality of Service in Grid environments, Grid programming models, licensing schemes for the Grid, generic Grid application components, and Grid services for Ambient Intelligence applications. The Grid architectures, systems, tools, models methods and solutions to be developed will be tested and applied in many application cases in business, industrial and scientific domains. These include healthcare, business supply chains, collaborative learning, home multimedia, on-line gaming, biochemistry, seismic imaging, genetics research, and simulations in the automotive industry.
KnowARC: The proposal develops a high performance, robust and easy to use Grid-based solution for know-how sharing between virtual organizations, based on the Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) middleware. The work focuses on building industrial quality, standards-compliant, interoperable Grid foundations for know-how sharing services for business and society. The work will be validated in applications in healthcare, genetics research, and simulations in the automotive industry.
Project coordinator: University of Oslo
Contact person: Prof. Farid OULD-SAADA
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AssessGrid: This proposal fosters the adoption of risk management into the Grid, focusing on the development and integration of methods, metrics and analysis tools enabling Service Level Agreement (SLA) negotiations. The proposal addresses risk awareness and management, self-organising, fault-tolerant actions and capacity planning, closing the gap between the development of SLAs as concept and as a widely accepted tool for commercial Grid uptake. The results will support all Grid actors by increasing the transparency, reliability, and trustiness as well as providing a solid foundation for planning and management of Grid activities.
Project coordinator: Universität Paderborn (Germany)
Contact person: Dr Odej KAO
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A-WARE: The proposal develops a stable and commercially exploitable technology able to give easy access to Grid resources via a web thin-client approach based on user-friendly interfaces, hiding the complexity of the underlying Grid middleware. The proposal is based on the Grid portal EnginFrame and on Unicore/GS technologies. Particular care will be put on simplifying the deployment of the Grid under typical industrial scenarios, including issues such as Intranet security, AAA, SLAs, QoS, single-sign-on systems, etc. Validation will be undertaken in the fluid dynamic applications (automotive, aerospace, oil and gas), defence, and electronics.
Project coordinator: CINECA - High Performance System Division
Contact person: Mr Paolo MALFETTI
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QosCosGrid: This proposal develops core Grid technology capable of providing quasi-opportunistic supercomputing (QOS) Grid services and technology that will enable users to develop applications with supercomputing requirements without the need to deploy supercomputers themselves. The proposal covers the topics of Grid middleware and services, Grid access and use, Grid-based applications, and Grid economics. Validation will be undertaken in the application areas stellar dynamics and evolution, biochemistry, ecological evolution, gene regulation networks, and business supply chains.
Project coordinator: University of Ulster
Contact person: Dr Stephen ROBINSON
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GridTrust: The objective of this proposal is to develop the technology to manage trust and security for the Next Generation Grid from the requirement level down to the application, middleware and foundation levels. The work will focus on linking trust, security and privacy requirements with policies, trust and security properties in dynamic virtual organisations, and trust-based autonomic security management, taking into account aspects such as self-organisation, self-management, self-adaptation and evolvability. The emphasis will be on models and tools to assist in reasoning about trust and security properties along the Next Generation Grid architecture. Inter-enterprise knowledge management and distributed authoring will be used as test cases to validate the results.
Project coordinator: CETIC (Centre d'excellence en technologies de l'information et de la communication)
Contact person: Mr Philippe MASSONET
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GridEcon: This proposal addresses Grid business models and Grid economics, working on the development of solutions and extensions to Grid technology for economics-aware Grid applications so that Grid business models can be implemented. It will advance the state-of-the-art in the financial and economic aspects related to large-scale Grid deployment. The proposal defines micro-economic models for resource sharing across organisations and analyse new paradigms of accounting and settlement in the utility service model. Business applications, seismic imaging, and storage Grids will be used to validate the results.
Project coordinator: International University in Germany
Contact person: Dr Jörn ALTMANN
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GREDIA: The proposal creates a platform for design and deployment of secure applications support for mobile devices to be integrated in the Grid. The work will advance the SYMBIAN mobile operating system to exploit Grid opportunities. Both desktop and mobile terminals will be addressed. The focus is on business services which mainly demand access to and sharing of large amounts of distributed annotated numerical and multimedia content, referred to as media-rich content. As an application, integration of media-rich content devices to Grid will be considered.
Project coordinator: ATC - Athens Technology Center
Contact person: Dr Nikos SARRIS
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ARGUGRID: The proposal addresses the development of an agent based approach to the configuration and orchestration of resources and services in Grids environments. The work will provide a new model for programming the Grid at a semantic, knowledge-based level of abstraction. Validation of the intended models will be undertaken against e-business application scenarios. The proposal employs virtual organisation representation, utility maximisation, web services, and agent architectures.
Project coordinator: Imperial College
Contact person: Dr Francesca TONI
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SORMA: This proposal deals with the development of methods and tools for an efficient market-based allocation of resources, through a self-organising resource management system, using market-driven models supported by extensions for Grid infrastructures. Topics addressed include open Grid markets, economics-driven Grid middleware, and intelligent tools. Brokerage of resources over the Grid will benefit Grid consumers, resource owners, outsourcing providers, and new intermediaries.
Project coordinator: Universität Karlsruhe
Contact person: Dr Dirk NEUMANN
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Chemomentum: This proposal seeks to develop a Grid services based environment to enable innovative research by providing a Grid-enabled workflow centric workbench to support decision making processes. Based on UNICORE enhancements, the work will focus on a workflow engine for execution of complex, multi-step, multi-site workflows on the Grid. A web service enabled user database will provide for simple remote management of users and roles, and Grid complexity will be hidden by providing an easy to use user interface. Applications in biochemistry, drug design, and eco-toxicology will be used for validation.
Project coordinator: Warsaw University
Contact person: Dr Piotr BALA
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Edutain@Grid: The proposal focuses on the development of real-time online interactive applications, aiming at reducing the development and hosting costs, fostering business and societal uptake of the Grid. Applications in online gaming and e-learning will be used for validation. The proposal will devise and implement a development, hosting and run-time environment for the full value chain: application developer, provider, distributor, host, customer, and market broker. An innovative architecture will separate the business level from the Grid management functionality, bridging the gap between them.
Project coordinator: Universität Innsbruck
Contact person: Prof. Thomas FAHRINGER
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g-Eclipse: This proposal aims to provide an integrated environment for Grid users, operators and developers on top of the Eclipse framework, and to allow for easy adaptation by new Grid applications. Compared to the world-wide-web, g-Eclipse will be the "web-browser" for the more complex "world wide Grid", thus helping to make Grid less complex and to broaden its take-up. The developed software platform will consist of underlying Grid components and integrated plug-ins. The proposal fosters an open source community to ensure the sustainability of the g-Eclipse framework.
Project coordinator: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
Contact person: Dr Harald KORNMAYER
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Grid4All: The objective of this proposal is to bring Grid computing to millions of users beyond the academic and industrial communities. It combines elements of peer-to-peer and Grid technologies in a form of an open Grid middleware framework. Secure peer-to-peer techniques will be used to federate large numbers of small-scale resources into large-scale Grids. The proposal addresses the areas of autonomic software, Grid economics, and semantics. The result will be a Grid system pooling the offerings available within large amounts of cheap resources that are able to satisfy demand spikes. Proof-of-concept applications are foreseen in such domains as collaborative learning, home multimedia, SMEs and supply chains, and virtual organisations.
Project coordinator: France Telecom R&D MAPS/AMS
Contact person: Ms Ruby KRISHNASWAMY
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GridCOMP: This proposal aims to develop a standard and domain-independent Grid component platform for developing efficient Grid applications, supporting dependability and security. Non-functional aspects will be covered that allow components to be seamlessly executed with minimal programmer intervention, thus implementing the invisible Grid concept. A prototype implementation, based on existing open source Grid-enabled middleware, will be used to experiment, demonstrate and assess the platform features through some relevant case studies. Compatibility and interoperability with existing standards will be addressed.
Project coordinator: GEIE-ERCIM
Contact person: Mr Bruno LE DANTEC
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