Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE) (IGE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Romania,Spain,Poland,Sweden,United Kingdom,Netherlands,United States,Poland
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3692942.0
EU funding (EUR): 2350000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

In order to continuously support the European computing infrastructures and to exploit possible synergies, it is of crucial importance to coordinate the European Globus activities, drive forward the developments according to the requirements of the European users and to strengthen the influence of the European developers in the Globus Alliance. Topics like security or privacy, data privacy protection, compatibility with Grid standards used in Europe to enable interoperability, and aspects of multi-nationality are important in Europe and deserve a stronger representation in Globus. Long-standing relations with the Globus developers and recent negotiations with the Globus Alliance enable us to introduce necessary adjustments into the code base of the Globus Toolkit. Computing infrastructures like DEISA and PRACE can immediately rely on the high-quality middleware required to run these infrastructures while reducing their own efforts keeping track of new developments. With the establishment of the EGI, the IGE can take over the role of providing Globus Toolkit components to the Unified Middleware Distribution (UMD) of EGI. The Initiative for Globus in Europe serves as a comprehensive service provider for the European e-infrastructures regarding the development, tailoring, customization, provisioning, support, and maintenance of components of the Globus Toolkit. This can involve the continuous measurement of software quality, but must also include the operation of a software repository as well as participation in standardisation bodies, training, promotion, and documentation activities. In order to guarantee the sustainability of this effort the main activities are based at large European computing centres and industrial partners. The first steps will be the establishment of a European Globus User Forum and the organization of a yearly Globus Europe conference series in close cooperation with the organisers of the Globus World conference.

Keywords: grid middleware,globus toolkit,sustainability,reliability,repositories,egi,open source software
Desktop Grids for International Scientific Collaboration (DEGISCO)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Hungary,France,Spain,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Taiwan, Province of China,Ukraine,Kazakhstan,Brazil,China,Spain,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 871702.0
EU funding (EUR): 799925.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The FP7 EDGeS project has successfully set up a production-level distributed computing infrastructure (DCI) consisting of more than 100.000 PCs from several volunteer and low-cost Desktop Grids, which have been connected to existing Service Grids (including EGEE, SEE-GRID, etc. with about 150.000 processors) based on the new 3G Bridge technology and application development methodology. The main aim of the DEGISCO project is the further extension of the European DCI infrastructure that is already interconnected by EDGeS to International Cooperation Partner Countries (ICPC) in strong collaboration with on the one hand local partners in ICPC countries and on the other hand European e-Infrastructure experts (including 3G Bridge know-how) and thus, reinforce the global relevance and impact of European distributed infrastructures. The project will support the creation of new Desktop Grids in ICPC countries and the connection of these Grids to European DCIs and existing Service Grids in ICPC countries by employing 3G Bridge technology. Moreover, building on the solid expertise of the DEGISCO partners, the project will provide recommendations on best practices and define joint roadmaps for ICPC countries and Europe. The application support activities of DEGISCO support the use of the already two dozen ported applications on new connected DCI's in ICPC countries and support new applications. The dissemination and training activities will promote via various channels such interoperation between Desktop Grid and Service Grid infrastructures on a global scale, which leads to more awareness under the general public of computational science and distributed computing co-funded by the EC. As a result more citizens, students, and companies are expected to donate resources to scientific purposes. As part of these activities an International Desktop Grid Federation will be operated allowing for effective exchange of information through participation.

Keywords: dekstop grid,service grid,bridge,science for citizen
Virtual multidisciplinary EnviroNments USing Cloud infrastructures (VENUS-C)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Spain,Sweden,Greece,Israel,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Greece
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8306364.0
EU funding (EUR): 4500000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Several research communities in Europe exploit e-Infrastructures, sharing data and computing resources with Grid and Supercomputing technology. However the inherent complexity of these technologies has limited their wider adoption and their long term sustainability: designing, developing and operating a computing infrastructure for an e-Science community remains challenging and costly. VENUS-C will develop and deploy an industrial-quality service-oriented platform based on virtualisation technologies to serve research and industrial user communities, leveraging previous experiences and competences of grids & supercomputing, while investigating new sustainable business models. For Europe to remain at an international competitive edge, it needs to continue investing aggressively in new computing technologies such as those proposed by VENUS-C. These could develop into an essential infrastructure of the information economy. VENUS-C will foster the development of Cloud Computing service offerings taking advantage of existing international opportunities and European industrial potential. Ten years ago, Europe successfully applied a similar approach with Grid computing, importing key technology from the US to quickly become a world-wide leader. By exploiting commercial solutions, but avoiding vendor lock-in with effective interoperability, VENUS-C will provide an easy way to deploy end-user services, dynamically extending e-infrastructures capabilities, addressing all aspects of a sustainable infrastructure. VENUS-C is a Europe-driven industry-led consortium with skilled partners and a strong, international advisory committee formed by worldwide experts in distributed computing and scientific applications. The user communities involved are: Bioinformatics, System Biology, Drug discovery, Civil Protection, Civil Engineering, and Digital Libraries. Twenty short-term experiments will be supported in the second year of VENUS-C through a competitive selection process.

Keywords: e-infrastructures,virtualisation,cloud computing
Standards and Interoperability for eInfrastructure Implementation Initiative (SIENA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 548099.0
EU funding (EUR): 410000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Interoperability, which brings major benefits for enterprise and science, is key for the pervasive adoption of grids & clouds. Interoperability between existing grids and clouds is of primary importance for the European Union today. Many of the policy issues required to achieve interoperability with DCIs across the world are already being explored through the Infrastructure Policy Group (IPG) that meets regularly and which has representation from major production e-Infrastructures globally. SIENA, in 2 years, shows how Europe, which has already invested heavily on building e-infrastructures, addresses issues regarding the adoption of grid, cloud and distributed computing infrastructure standards. SIENA starts at a strategic point in time when the development of standards and interoperability is a key priority to be addressed, especially in RTD activities, and where it is evident that the ICT standardisation landscape is dramatically making more of an impact than ever in the last decade. While the grid concept developed to support the federation of research computing resources, the cloud concept developed to support the dynamic provisioning of computation, storage and communications with attractive business models. Given the scope of these developments, it is recognized that no one organization can manage the entire landscape of potential activities. The need to augment community building across user groups with community building across standards organizations to drive specification adoption forward in order to achieve these goals is key. In detail: - Drive forward the development and adoption of Interoperability and Standards in relation to the European DCI community & SDOs; - Elaborate the future research infrastructure scenario through roadmapping connecting into relevant SDOs to drive forward production of relevant standards & best practices. - Support, plan & organise a series of outreach events viz: 2 roadmap international events in Europe, 2 Cloudscape workshops.

Keywords: standards,interoperability,e-infrastructure,sdo
Towards EXaflop applicaTions (TEXT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Greece,United Kingdom,France,Spain,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3459528.0
EU funding (EUR): 2470000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

With top systems reaching the PFlop barrier, the next challenge is to understand how applications have to be implemented and be prepared for the ExaFlop target. Multicore chips are already here but will grow in the next decade to several hundreds of cores. Hundreds of thousands of nodes based on them will constitute the future exascale systems. TEXT is centered on the vision that the key component to support high productivity and efficient use of a system is the programming model, and we defend that MPI/SMPSs is a hybrid approach that can today be demonstrated and show the way to follow on the path to exascale. The SMPSs model provides the necessary support for asynchrony and heterogeneity as well as enabling incremental parallelization, modularity and portability of applications. By integrating it within MPI we can propagate its characteristics to the global application level. This is also a way to leverage and provide a smooth migration path for the huge number of applications today written in MPI. The focus of the TEXT project is to install the MPI/SMPSs environment at several HPC facilities of partners and demonstrate how seven real and relevant applications/libraries can be improved using it. The codes fall in the areas of basic linear algebra libraries, geophysics, plasma physics, engineering and molecular dynamics. They have been selected considering the impact in their respective scientific communities. We will actually validate our claim by evaluating the ported applications with different end users and collect their feedback to further improve the technology. We will also promote the use of the model to other application developers beyond what is feasible to integrate as committed project partners. In order to exploit the opportunity window and really achieve global impact the project proposal is for 2 years. The TEXT proposal is composed of three networking activities, three service activities and two joint research activities.

Keywords: scientific applications,exaflop computing,parallel programming models
IPv6 Deployment Support (6DEPLOY-2)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Switzerland,Netherlands,France,Greece,United Kingdom,Norway,Bulgaria,Mauritius,Portugal,Hungary,Spain,Uruguay
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 953414.0
EU funding (EUR): 800000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The overall purpose of the 6DEPLOY-2 project is to (i) support the deployment of IPv6, in Europe and developing regions, (ii) sustain the wealth of 6DEPLOY training material (e-learning package with subtitles in national languages, presentation material, exercises, etc.), and (iii) create a catalyst of global IPv6 expertise through the installation of strategically-placed sustainable IPv6 training labs. In order to support the deployment of IPv6, in Europe and developing regions, 6DEPLOY-2 includes LACNIC and AfriNIC as partners in the Consortium. These partners have their own IPv6 training schedules and 6DEPLOY-2 will liaise with these organisations (and APNIC) to exploit training opportunities cost effectively in Africa, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region. Partners will maintain and update the existing 6DEPLOY material and include new training media, and multiply its training effectiveness through courses which educate other trainers about the key messages to pass on IPv6, so that they can teach others (“training trainers”). 6DEPLOY-2 exploits the expertise and high quality training material from the 6DEPLOY project, including presentations, the e-learning course and especially the growing number of IPv6 Labs These testbeds will not only be accessed remotely for “hands-on” exercises during the IPv6 training workshops, but they will also form centres of IPv6 expertise in the countries where they are situated. The current/planned 6DEPLOY IPv6 Labs will be extended to: - be used in 6DEPLOY-2 training workshops (giving access to more testbeds for “hands-on” configuration exercises), - create centres of IPv6 competence in countries around the world, - form a sustainable human network of expertise to train others 6DEPLOY-2 will also revive the IPv6 Cluster,to encourage the exchange of information between FP7 projects with IPv6 implementations (and offer support). Furthermore, 6DEPLOY-2 will describe step-by-step real practical deployment scenarios on its Website.

Keywords: ipv6 training,deployment,e-learning,testbeds
Diagnostic Enhancement of Confidence by an International Distributed Environment (DECIDE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Italy,France,United Kingdom,Poland,France,Luxembourg,Italy
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3004531.0
EU funding (EUR): 2399998.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

DECIDE (Diagnostic Enhancement of Confidence by an International Distributed Environment), aims at creating a e-Infrastructure to enhance the diagnostic confidence in chronic brain diseases such as Alzheimer and dementia. Proper management of these neurodegenerative diseases are thought to be very important in terms of health-economical point of view. The DECIDE infrastructure will provide the medical community with neuroimaging applications that can take advantage of the use of large reference databases and advanced, computationally intensive algorithms to detect disease biomarkers in individual patients based on structural Magnetic Resonance (MR), functional Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Single Photon Emission Tomography (SPECT), and electroencephalographic (EEG) images. The DECIDE infrastructure will be built on different layers: networks, GRID and storages, neuroimaging applications, user-friendly customized GUI. The workplans of RTD and SVC activities explain how the e-Infrastructure will be deployed and validated, whilst the NAs activities will take care of dissemination, training and outreach to the medical community. This infrastructure will enable clinicians from hospitals across the Eeurope not owning large sets of normal subject images or/and not equipped with high computation resources or/and not providing computer-aided sophisticated algorithms to support neurological diagnosis, to carry out analyses, remotely and efficiently, by the use of a centralized, user friendly, web-Grid service. The project would like to exploit the state-of-the-art neuroimaging data acquisition, analysis and grid based technology to reduce the burden of huge cost for the management of the neurodegenerative diseases.

Keywords: e-infrastructure,e-services,telemedicine,e-health,research,neuroimaging,databases,grid computing,brain disease,medical community,biomarkers,alzheimer,dementia,clinicians,hospitals,socio
Secured Urban Transportation - European Demonstration (SECUR-ED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of infrastructures and utilities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Italy,Italy,Germany,France,Spain,Belgium,Portugal,Sweden,Germany,European organisations area,Romania,Germany,France,Norway,Netherlands,Germany,Finland,Germany,Türkiye,Spain,Germany,Israel,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 39996659.2
EU funding (EUR): 25468072.0
Participants: 43
Project status: CLOSED

SECUR-ED Project federates, with a delegated management and in a balanced manner, major operators and top industrial integrators to enhance the security of urban public transportation in medium and large cities, through live demonstrations. Based on the best practices, in a very diverse societal and legacy environment, SECUR-ED will aggregate a consistent and interoperable mix of technologies and processes, covering all aspects, from risk assessment to complete training packages. SECUR-ED rationale is to create a global European improvement in mass transportation security through the development of packaged modular solutions validated through the demonstrations, and made available to the full community of operators. The process will follow a strict methodology to translate the threats into a system-of-systems architecture and interoperability language, as well as in assessing the results obtained. The different modules (made up of best practices, procedures, training and hardware and software) are selected and packaged with standard interfaces, ready to be integrated. Similarly standard interfaces are developed to host such modules in the legacy transport infrastructures. With a good coverage of the diverse priorities, integration is performed in the networks of four cities (Madrid, Paris, Milan and Berlin), validating the security enhancement packages, becoming a showcase of this unique European initiative. This is only the start point: a set of medium size cities will then use the above tool-kit to assess their risks and design their own solutions through adapted demonstrations, staff training to best practices, technical upgrades … To amplify the process, with the support of the professional associations, the Advisory Groups (Operators, First responders and Authorities) will conduct an active dissemination of the project results to the community of urban transport stakeholders in Europe.

Keywords: public mass transportation,system-of-systems,interoperability,urban transport security
European Middleware Initiative (EMI)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Switzerland,Spain,Czechia,Italy,Spain,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Greece,Sweden,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Ireland,Germany,Denmark,Finland,Norway,Slovakia,Sweden,Poland,Korea, Republic of,Taiwan, Province of China,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 24952658.0
EU funding (EUR): 12000000.0
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

The European Middleware Initiative is a collaboration of the three major middleware providers in Europe, ARC, gLite and UNICORE, and other consortia. EMI aims to deliver a consolidated set of middleware components for deployment in EGI, PRACE and other DCIs; extend the interoperability between grids and other computing infrastructures; strengthen the reliability of the services; and establish a sustainable model to maintain and evolve the middleware, fulfilling the requirements of the user communities. European scientific research has benefited recently from the increasing availability of computing and data infrastructures with unprecedented capabilities for large scale distributed initiatives. These infrastructures are largely defined by enabling middleware. After the necessary initial period of research and consolidation that has taken place in the past several years, the growing usage of these resources now requires the transformation of the computing infrastructures into a professionally managed and standardized service. It is of strategic importance for the establishment of permanent, sustainable research infrastructures to lower the technological barriers still preventing resource owners from federating the resources, and potential communities of tens of thousands of researchers from using grids as a commodity tool in their daily activities. The EMI project will make the realization of this vision possible by addressing a number of problems that still prevent users from easily accessing and using the whole capacity of the existing computing infrastructures. It will focus on improving the usability and accessibility for scientific users and the interoperability and manageability for service providers. The sustainability of the grid services will be directly addressed by replacing wherever possible proprietary technology with off-the-shelf components, improving their standardization and implementing industry standard quality assurance methodologies.

Keywords: grid,middleware,research support,htc,hpc,quality assurance