Objectif
Grid technology has achieved significant advances in the past few years with a plethora of prestigious organisations contributing to middleware that opens the horizons for new exploitation opportunities. However, this potential exploitation has not yet been seen to materialise in emerging applications. The use of Grid technology is still confined mainly within scientific applications, developed by scientific organisations, experts in Grid principles.
The majority of IT application developing organisations is still afraid to delve into the use of Grid technologies, as they still sound new and remote to them. GREDIA will address this problem with the provision of a Grid application development platform. This will effectively be a tool which will provide high level support for the development of Grid business applications through a completely graphical user interface. The common characteristics of these business applications are the central concept of a Virtual Organisation and the demand for access and sharing of large quantities of distributed annotated numerical and multimedia content. Both desktop and mobile terminals will be addressed, with advances proposed in the Symbian Operating System relating to extensions that will facilitate mobile devices to exploit Grid technologies in a seamless way.
The potential effects of the platform will be validated through two pilot applications servicing news and banking organisations, demonstrating secure access to distributed multimedia content in the first case and numerical annotated data in the second. The consortium includes key technology providers, established industrial players and leading academic institutions from 7 European countries along with a world re-known partner in the area of semantic Grid research from China.
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STREP - Specific Targeted Research ProjectCoordinateur
15233 HALANDRI - ATHENS
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