D4Science - Deploying Virtual Research Environments
by Donatella Castelli and Jessica Michel
The D4Science (DIstributed colLaboratories Infrastructure on Grid-ENabled Technology for Science) project aims to continue the path that the GÉANT (a multi-gigabit pan-European data communications network), EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe), and DILIGENT (A Digital Library Infrastructure on Grid Enabled Technology) projects have initiated towards establishing networking, Grid-based, and data-centric e-Infrastructures. These e-Infrastructures are expected to accelerate multidisciplinary research by overcoming several crucial barriers that stand in the way, primarily those related to heterogeneity, sustainability and scalability. In order to achieve this objective a D4Science production quality e-Infrastructure has been created, and will be progressively enriched and consolidated. It will provide facilities for creating Virtual Research Environments based on shared computational, data and service resources offered by many different providers like EGEE and large international organizations.
Euro-India ICT Cooperation Initiative
by Florence Pesce
ERCIM is a partner in the Euro-India ICT Cooperation Initiative ('EUROINDIA'), a Support Action under the Seventh Framework Programme. It aims to reinforce collaborative research and innovation activities between Indians and Europeans in various ICT domains targeted under FP7.
First CRM-INRIA-MITACS Workshop
by Mark Thiriet
Members of the ERCIM Working Group on 'IT and Mathematics Applied to Interventional Medicine' (IM2IM) recently participated in the first joint workshop of the Centre de recherches mathématiques at the Université de Montréal (CRM), INRIA and the Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence for the Mathematical Sciences (MITACS). This workshop was held in Montreal, Canada on 5-9 May, 2008.