5th RTD Framework Programme

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IST (Information Society Technologies)

Project details

Project reference:	IST-2000-25182
Acronym:	DATAGRID
Title:	Research and Technological Development for an International Data Grid
Subject Index:	Information Processing, Information Systems; Scientific Research; Telecommunications
Objectives:	Objective: The DATAGRID project will develop and implement a large-scale data-oriented computational grid. This will allow distributed data-intensive scientific computing models, drawn from three scientific disciplines, to be demonstrated on a worldwide testbed. The project will develop the necessary middleware software, in collaboration with some of the leading centres of competence in Grid technology, leveraging practice and experience from previous and current grid initiatives in Europe and elsewhere. The project will complement, and help to coordinate at a European level, several on-going national data grid projects. The testbed will use advanced research networking infrastructure provided by another Research Network initiative. The project will extend the state of the art in international, large-scale data-intensive grid computing, providing a solid base of knowledge and experience for exploitation by European industry. Objectives: The objective of this project is to enable next generation scientific exploration, which requires intensive computationand analysis of shared large-scaled databases, from hundreds of TeraBytes to PetaBytes, across widely distributedscientific communities. We see these requirements emerging in many scientific disciplines, including physics, biology, and earth sciences. Such sharing is made complicated by the distributed nature of the resources to beused, the distributed nature of the communities, the size of the databases and the limited network bandwidthavailable. To address these problems we propose to build on emerging computational Grid technologies to establisha research Network that will enable the development of the technology components essential for the implementationof a new worldwide Data Grid on a scale not previously attempted. Work description: The structure of the programme of work is as follows: - WP1 Grid workload Management, WP2 Grid Data Management, WP3 Grid monitoring Services well defined parts of the Grid middleware. Each of these can be viewed as a small project itself. - WP6 Integration Testbed - Production Quality International Infrastructure is central to the success of the project. It is this workpackage which will collate all of the developments from the development workpackages (WPs 1 - 5)and integrate into successive software releases. It will also gather and transmit all feedback from the end -to-endapplication experiments back to the developers thus linking development, testing, and user experiences. - WP7 Network Services will provide testbed and experiment workpackages with the necessary infrastructure to enable end-to-end application experiments to be undertaken on the forthcoming European Gigabit/s networks.- WP8 High Energy Physics Applications, WP9 Earth Observation Science Application, and WP10 BiologyScience Applications will provide the end-to-end application experiments, which test and feedback their experiencesthrough the testbed workpackages to the middleware development workpackages. - WP11 Information Dissemination and Exploitation and WP12 Project Management will ensure the active dissemination and results of the project and its professional management. Each of the development workpackages will start with a user requirements gathering phase, followed by an initial development phase before delivering early prototypes to the testbed workpackage. Following the delivery of these prototypes a testing and refinement phase will continue for each component to the end of the project. Milestones: Project month 12: deployment of core service testbed on multiple test-sites. Project month 24: delivery of complete infrastructure. Project month 36: demonstration of distributed science with three different classes of applications.
Start date:	2001.01.01
End date:	2003.12.31
Duration:	36 months
Project status:	Execution
Project cost:	12.82 million euro
Project funding:	9.23 million euro
Programme type:	5th FWP (Fifth Framework Programme)
Subprogramme area:	RN2: End-to-End Application Experiments
Contract type:	CSC (Cost-sharing contracts)
Prime contractor:	European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Information Technology Division
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	FRANCE
Region:	CENTRE-EST, RHÔNE-ALPES, Ain
City:	Prevessin
Post Code:	01631
Address:	Rue Moens, 1280
Contact person:	GAGLIARDI, Fabrizio
Telephone:	+41-22-7672374
Fax:	+41-22-7677155
E-mail:	fabrizio.gagliardi@cern.ch
Contractor:	Datamat Ingegneria dei Sistemi S.p.a.
Organisation type:	Other
Organisation size:	> 500
Country:	ITALY
Region:	LAZIO, Roma
City:	Roma
Post Code:	00143
Address:	Via Laurentina 760
Contact person:	GRANDINETTI, Ugo
Telephone:	+39-06-50274543
Fax:	+39-06-5020775
E-mail:	ugrand@datamat.it
Contractor:	Swedish Natural Science Research Council, Center for Parallel Computing
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	SWEDEN
Region:	STOCKHOLM
City:	Stockholm
Post Code:	100 44
Address:
Contact person:	GIDEFELDT, Lars
Telephone:	+46-8-4544254
Fax:	+46-8-4544210
E-mail:	lars.gidefeldt@nfr.se
Contractor:	Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg, Kirchhoff-Institut fur Physik
Organisation type:	Education
Country:	GERMANY
Region:	BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG, KARLSRUHE, Heidelberg, Stadtkreis
City:	Heidelberg
Post Code:	69120
Address:	Schroederstrasse 90
Contact person:	LINDENSTRUTH, Volker
Telephone:	+49-6221-544304
Fax:	+49-6221-544345
E-mail:	lindenstruth@kip.uni-heidelberg.de
Contractor:	Stichting Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie, National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	NETHERLANDS
Region:	WEST-NEDERLAND, UTRECHT
City:	Utrecht
Post Code:	3502 GA
Address:	Van Vollenhovelann 659, PO Box 3021
Contact person:	BOS, Kors
Telephone:	+31-20-5925083
Fax:	+31-20-5925155
E-mail:	k.bos@nikhef.nl
Contractor:	IBM United Kingdom Limited
Organisation type:	Industry
Country:	UNITED KINGDOM
Region:	SOUTH EAST (UK), HAMPSHIRE, ISLE OF WIGHT, Hampshire
City:	Portsmouth, Hampshire
Post Code:	PO6 3AU
Address:	North Harbour, PO Box 41
Contact person:	TUREK, David
Telephone:	+1-845-4338082
Fax:
E-mail:	david_turek@us.ibm.com
Contractor:	Cesnet, Zajmove Sdruzeni Pravnickych Osob, Supercomputing Centre Brno
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	CZECH REPUBLIC
Region:	Region Desc. N/A(CZECH REPUBLIC)
City:	Praha
Post Code:	160 00
Address:	Zikova 4
Contact person:	MATYSKA, Ludek (Associate professor)
Telephone:	+420-5-41512310
Fax:	+420-5-41212568
E-mail:	Ludek.Matyska@muni.cz
Contractor:	CS Systemes d'Information
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	FRANCE
Region:	ÎLE DE FRANCE, Hauts-de-Seine
City:	Clamart
Post Code:	92140
Address:	1 Avenue Newton, BP 4042
Contact person:	MUSSO, Jean-Francois
Telephone:	+33-47-6859902
Fax:	+33-47-6859920
E-mail:	jean-francois.musso@c-s.fr
Contractor:	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IN2P3
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	FRANCE
Region:	ÎLE DE FRANCE, Paris
City:	Paris
Post Code:	75794
Address:	3, Rue Michel-Ange
Contact person:	WORMSER, Guy
Telephone:	+33-1-44964754
Fax:
E-mail:	wormser@in2p3.fr
Contractor:	Hungarian Academy of Science - Computer and Automation Research Institute, Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	HUNGARY
Region:	Region Desc. N/A(HUNGARY)
City:	Budapest
Post Code:	1111
Address:	Kende U. 13 - 17, PO Box 63
Contact person:	KACSUK, Peter
Telephone:	+36-1-3297864
Fax:	+36-1-3297864
E-mail:	kacsuk@sztaki.hu
Contractor:	Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam (SARA)
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	NETHERLANDS
Region:	WEST-NEDERLAND, NOORD-HOLLAND, Groot-Amsterdam
City:	Amsterdam
Post Code:	1098 SJ
Address:	Kruislaan 415, PO Box 94613
Contact person:	WIELINGA, Paul
Telephone:	+31-20-5923000
Fax:	+31-20-6683167
E-mail:	wielinga@sara.nl
Contractor:	Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Centro Elaborazione Dati (data Processing Center/Computer Cent.)
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	ITALY
Region:	LAZIO, Roma
City:	Roma
Post Code:	00185
Address:	Piazzale Aldo Moro 7
Contact person:	MASCARI, Giovanni Francesco
Telephone:	+39-064-9933688
Fax:	+39-064-4236544
E-mail:	mascari@src.cnr.it
Contractor:	Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Departement d'Astrophys.
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	FRANCE
Region:	ÎLE DE FRANCE, Paris
City:	Paris
Post Code:	75752
Address:	31-33 Rue de la Federation, BP 510
Contact person:	LE FOLL, Joseph
Telephone:	+33-1-69083298
Fax:	+33-1-69083147
E-mail:	lefoll@dapnia.cea.fr
Contractor:	University of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute of Physics
Organisation type:	Education
Country:	FINLAND
Region:	MANNER-SUOMI, UUSIMAA
City:	Helsinki
Post Code:	00014
Address:	Yliopistokatu 4, P.O. BOX 9
Contact person:	HAMERI, Ari-Pekka
Telephone:	+41-22-7679596
Fax:	+41-22-7673600
E-mail:	ari-pekka.hameri@cern.ch
Contractor:	Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin, ZIB Computer Science Research
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	GERMANY
Region:	BERLIN
City:	Berlin-Dahlem
Post Code:	14195
Address:	Takustrasse 7
Contact person:	REINEFELD, Alexander
Telephone:	+49-308-4185130
Fax:	+49-308-4185311
E-mail:	ar@zib.de
Contractor:	Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, KNMI - Observations and Modelling Department
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	NETHERLANDS
Region:	WEST-NEDERLAND, UTRECHT
City:	De Bilt
Post Code:	3730 AE
Address:	Wilhelminalaan 10
Contact person:	BARLAG, Sylvia
Telephone:	+31-30-2206344
Fax:	+31-30-2210407
E-mail:	barlag@knmi.nl
Contractor:	PPARC - Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	UNITED KINGDOM
Region:	SOUTH WEST (UK), AVON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, WILTSHIRE, Wiltshire
City:	Swindon
Post Code:	SN2 1SZ
Address:	Polaris House, North Star Avenue
Contact person:	MIDDLETON, Robin
Telephone:	+44-1235-446348
Fax:	+44-1235-446733
E-mail:	R.P.Middleton@rl.ac.uk
Contractor:	Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies, Experimental Physics Division - IFAE
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	SPAIN
Region:	ESTE, CATALUŃA, Barcelona
City:	Bellaterra-Barcelona
Post Code:	08193
Address:	Campus U.A.Barcelone, Edif. CN
Contact person:	BOSMAN, Martine
Telephone:	+34-93-5812840
Fax:	+34-93-5811938
E-mail:	bosman@ifae.es
Contractor:	INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, CNAF
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	ITALY
Region:	LAZIO, Roma
City:	Frascati Roma
Post Code:	00044
Address:	Via Enrico Fermi 40, CASELLA POSTALE 56
Contact person:	RUGGIERI, Federico
Telephone:	+39-051-6092761
Fax:	+39-051-6092746
E-mail:	Federico.Ruggieri@cnaf.infn.it
Contractor:	Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	ITALY
Region:	NORD EST, TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE, Trento
City:	Trento
Post Code:	38100
Address:	Via S. Croce 77
Contact person:	SERAFINI, Luciano
Telephone:	+39-04-61314318
Fax:	+39-04-61314591
E-mail:	serafini@itc.it

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