The e‐Infrastructure Ecosystem: Providing Local Support to Global Science
Erwin Laure, A˚ke Edlund · 2011
Europe is playing a leading role in building multinational, multidisciplinary e-infrastructures. Initially, these efforts were driven by academic proof-of-concept and test-bed projects, such as the European Data Grid Project, but have since developed into large-scale, production e-infrastructures supporting numerous scientific communities. To establish a production-quality e-infrastructure in a greenfield region like the Baltic region, a dedicated project was established, the BalticGrid project. According to the principle of think globally, act locally, the aim of the project was to build a regional e-infrastructure that seamlessly integrates with the international e-infrastructure of Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE). The establishment of a European e-infrastructure ecosystem is currently progressing along two distinct paths: European Grid Initiative (EGI) and the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) infrastructures. Controlled Vocabulary Terms internetworking; smart grids