Application support

09 November 2009

There is no need for e-Infrastructures without a user community correspondingly exploiting them. The project has an important responsibility to support existing user’s applications and assist new applications that will run on the Mediterranean e-Infrastructure. This activity is also committed to study and deliver a strategy for the long-term sustainability of the support system that will be put in place during the project lifetime.

The existing user community exploiting the Mediterranean e-Infrastructure built upon the EUMEDGRID project still requires to be supported in order to manage: generic usage troubles, middleware or application changes, new middleware services, security issues like VO/CA changes,
etc.

The most important applications deployed during the EUMEDGRID project were: ArchaeoGrid, Codesa 3D, LHC experiments, WISDOM plus the applications coming from the 1st Grid School (EGSAP-1)20 held in Cairo (Egypt). A special care must be dedicated to the identification and support of new applications belonging to different research domains, especially in strategic fields (e.g., Earth Sciences, Agriculture, HPC, Cultural Heritage, etc.). The creation of local Competence Centres managed by partners’ members will ensure the correct support to all applications running on the e-Infrastructure; moreover they can contribute locally to find new applications that will exploit the e-Infrastructure.

The Mediterranean region is of strategic importance to the EU, in both economic (trade, energy, migration) and political (security, stability) terms.” In the economic domain, the area is still standing both fast demographic and labor force expansion, while a slow economic growth is resulting in high unemployment and stagnating incomes.

With the rapid advancement of technology in the world of science calls for a demand for more and more computing power. The implementation and co-ordination of a grid infrastructure at a national (or larger) level opens up important opportunities to optimise the usage of existing, limited storage and computing resources, improve their accessibility and empower research groups from several domains.

EUMEDGRID-Support is developing and deploying a training program in synergy with the EPIKH project, EUMEDCONNECT2 and other initiatives, to increase the awareness in the region regarding e-Infrastructures and will contribute to enlarge and educate the user communities through training events. Collaboration opportunities are also available to engage the project through a variety channels such the Online Community and as and establish agreements with strategic e-Infrastructure projects and initiatives.

News

Presentations are available for download on the Programme Agenda for the launch event of both EUMEDGRID-Support and EUMEDCONNECT2. The high impact agenda included speakers from the EC Delegation in Cairo, Project Coordinators and Egyptian invited speakers with more than 50 participants on hand.