BalticGrid

What is the goal of the BalticGrid project?

The goal of the BalticGrid project is to extend the European Grid by integrating new partners from the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) in the European Grid research community and to foster the development of Grid infrastructure in these countries. To this end, the BalticGrid consortium has enlisted the help of experienced EU Grid computing centers whose aim will be to guide our new partners through the process of deploying Grid resources and applications at their respective institutions.

How is the BalticGrid project financed?

The main supporter of the project is European Framework Programme.

Who are the partners of the BalticGrid project?

• Estonia
  • Estonian Educational and Research Network, EENet
  • Keemilise ja Bioloogilse Füüsika Instituut, NICPB
• Latvia
  • Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, IMCS UL
  • Riga Technical University, RTU
• Lithuania
  • Vilnius University
  • Institute of Theoretical Physic and Astronomy, ITPA
• Poland
  • Posznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, PSNC
  • Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej, im. Henryka Niewodniczanskiego, Polskiej Akademii Nauk, IFJ PAN
• Sweden
  • Parallelldatorcentrum at Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, KTH PDC
• Switzerland
  • CERN

You can find more information from the official web page of the BalticGrid.

Web page of the BalticGrid?

http://www.balticgrid.org/

What is the aim of the continuation phase of the Baltic Grid project, called as the BalticGrid II project?

On 1 May 2008, the BalticGrid Second Phase (BalticGrid-II) project has started. It is designed to increase the impact, adoption and reach, and to further improve the support of services and users of the recently created e-Infrastructure in the Baltic States.

This will be achieved by an extension of the BalticGrid infrastructure to Belarus; interoperation of the gLite-based infrastructure with UNICORE and ARC based Grid resources in the region; identifying and addressing the specific needs of new scientific communities such as nano-science and engineering sciences; and by establishing new Grid services for linguistic research, Baltic Sea environmental research, data mining tools for communication modelling and bioinformatics.

The e-Infrastructure, based on the successful BalticGrid project, will be fully interoperable with the pan-European e-Infrastructures established by EGEE, EGEE associated projects, and the planned EGI, with the goal of a sustained e-Infrastructure in the Baltic Region.

The e-Infrastructure of 26 clusters built in five countries during the first phase of the BalticGrid is envisaged to grow, both in capacity and capability of its computing resources.

The BG-II consortium is composed of 13 leading institutions in seven countries, with 7 institutions in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, 2 in Belarus, 2 in Poland, and one each in Sweden and Switzerland.

The overall vision is to support and stimulate scientists and services used in the Baltic region to conveniently access critical networked resources both within Europe and beyond, and thereby enable the formation of effective research collaborations.

Does the project have short and illustrated materials about the activities?

Yes, it has the general brochure of the project.