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DCI projects

SIENA aims to break down the interoperability barriers that impede the pervasive use of grids and clouds by driving co-ordination between national and pan-European e-Infrastructure initiatives, recently funded Distributed Computing Infrastructure projects, policy bodies, as well as enterprises, with an eye to evaluating and responding to specific needs.

The Distributed Computing Infrastructure (DCI) projects are those Research & Technological Development projects which were retained for funding under the DG Information Society and Media Capacities Call, Nov. 2009,GÉANT and e-Infrastructure Unit.

Table below gives an overview of the Distributed Computing Infrastructure (DCI) projects:

Project Overview Logo & website
EDGI
European Desktop Grid Initiative		 Deploying Desktop Grid (DG) and Cloud Computing services for the European Grid Initiative (EGI) research user communities in Europe that require large-scale distributed computing resources for multi-national projects.
edgi-project.eu
EGI – InSPIRE
Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe		 Establishing the pan-European grid infrastructure by drawing on the achievements of earlier European initiatives and with the support of the national grid organisations. The central organisation, EGI.eu, will provide a co-ordinating hub for European DCIs, working to bring existing technologies into a single, integrated production e-Infrastructure for researchers in Europe.
www.egi.eu/projects/egi-inspire/
EMI
European Middleware Initiative		 EMI is a close collaboration between major European distributed middleware providers, ARC, gLite, UNICORE and dCache.
www.eu-emi.eu
IGE
Initiative for Globus in Europe		 IGE aims to support and enhance the provision of Globus Grid software to European e- Infrastructures.
www.ige-project.eu
StratusLab
Enhancing Grid Infrastructures with Virtualization and Cloud Technologies		 StratusLab aims to enhance Grid infrastructures with Cloud Computing by incorporating virtualisation and cloud technologies into existing Grid infrastructures in Europe while improving the usability of distributed computing resources.
www.stratuslab.eu
VENUS-C
Virtual multidisciplinary EnviroNments USing Cloud Infrastructures		 VENUS-C aims to develop and deploy an industry-quality cloud computing service for research and industry communities in Europe.
www.venus-c.eu