About
SIENA, the Standards and Interoperability for eInfrastructure Implementation Initiative
(2010-2012), is a Support Action (CSA-SA of the INFRA-2010-3.3: Coordination Actions,
conferences and studies supporting policy development, including international cooperation
for e-Infrastructures.
SIENA will contribute to defining a future eInfrastructures roadmap focusing on
interoperability and standards, in close collaboration with the European Commission,
Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCI) projects and Standard Development Organisations
(SDOs) to gain an in-depth understanding of how distributed computing technology
is being developed in this context. The roadmap will define scenarios, identify
trends, investigate the innovation and impact sparked by cloud and grid computing,
and deliver insight into how standards and the policy framework is defining and
shaping current and future development and deployment in Europe and globally.
SIENA & OGF-Europe
SIENA continues the commitment made through the OGF-Europe project [2008-2010] while
expanding co-ordination for the adoption and evolution of interoperable Distributed
Computing Infrastructures across related Standard Development Organisations through
the reinforcement of the Open Standards message.
SIENA is aligned with the recommendation of the e-IRG Roadmap 2010 to improve the
interoperability of e-Infrastructure components by pursuing global standardisation
efforts to ensure long-term interoperability of different implementation technologies
used for providing eInfrastructure services.
Objectives
The main strategic objective of SIENA is to accelerate and co-ordinate the adoption
and evolution of interoperable DCIs through engagement with other SDOs and major
stakeholders to forge community agreements on best practices and standards for distributed
computing.
Specifically, SIENA seeks to:
- Drive forward the development and adoption of interoperability and standards for
eInfrastructure implementation in relation to the European DCI community.
- Develop the future research infrastructure scenario through roadmapping exercises
in line with requirements from both academia and industry, connecting into relevant
SDOs to drive forward the production of relevant standards and best practices.
- Support, plan and organise a series of outreach events comprising two roadmap
workshops in Europe and two Cloudscape events.
The main output of the project will be the roadmap on “Grids and Clouds for Research
and for Public Services” through close liaison with the EC.
SIENA Consortium
The SIENA Consortium brings together top research centres and academic institutes
from around EU27, and key enterprise companies, experts in Distributed Computing
Infrastructures, representing different disciplines and having complementary skills.
The table below briefly describes project Consortium members:
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Partner Name & Logo |
Competences & Inputs |
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Barcelona Supercomputing Center |
www.bsc.es |
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BSC is the National Supercomputing Facility in Spain and coordinator Spanish supercomputing network (RES). The mission of BSC-CNS is to investigate, develop and manage information technology in order to facilitate scientific progress. With this aim, special dedication has been taken to areas such as Computational Sciences, Life Sciences and Earth Sciences. All these activities are complementary to each other and very tightly related. In this way, a multidisciplinary loop is set up: the exposure to industrial and non-computer science academic practices improves the understanding of the needs and helps BSC focusing its basic research towards improving those practices.
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OGF.eeig |
www.ogfeurope.eu |
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OGF.eeig combines both communication and marketing expertise with technical
skills to provide a wide range of services from marketing & communication
services, event organisation, international community development and awareness
raising activities to development and distribution of web-centred, multichannel
communication solutions. Oxford e-Research Centre |
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Oxford e-Research Centre |
www.oerc.ox.ac.uk |
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The OeRC is one of the core programme regional UK e-Science centres. Through the
application of innovative computational and information technologies, the Centre
enables the exploration of new research areas in the sciences, humanities and
social sciences, and the development of multidisciplinary collaborations. OeRC
personnel will provide SIENA with a broad range of expertise in distributed and
collaborative computing across research and industry. They have strong links
into user and research communities with further experience working with
standardisation bodies and commercial interoperability activities for production
systems. |
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ATOS |
www.atos.net |
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ATOS brings to SIENA its expertise in the uptake and commercial exploitation of
cutting edge technology, particularly Grid and Cloud Computing, SOA, virtual
hosting environments and virtualization. Thanks to its many years experience in
business modelling and strategic consultancy with clients employing innovative
technologies and exploring new business paradigms, ATOS will provide
SIENA with a strong link to the industry. Acting from a R&D department of a
company of client-focused operations, ATOS is in a key position to evaluate user
requirements among industry sectors, in addition to fosterling links between its
technical research in EC funded initiatives and the eScience community
interoperability. |
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare |
www.infn.it |
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INFN is a governmental research organisation, which promotes, co-ordinates and
funds nuclear and high-energy physics related researches. Considerable
experience on high performance distributed computing. Ludwing Maximilians
Universitàt München |
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Ludwing Maximilians Universitàt München |
http://www.mnm-team.org/ |
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Through its strong links to Grid projects in Europe and around the world, LMU
will thus emphasize their contribution into SIENA. LMU is participating in FP7
projects in the field of Grid Computing with the focus on standardization,
interoperable e-Infrastructures and Remote Instrumentation in Grids. |