DORII

The DORII project aims to deploy e-Infrastructure for new scientific communities, where on the one hand the ICT technology is still not present at the appropriate level, but on the other hand it is demanded to empower its daily work. We deal with a group of scientific users, and this is a reference for DORII, with experimental equipment and instrumentation that are not integrated or integrated only partially with the European infrastructure.
The DORII is focusing on the following selected scientific areas:

• Earthquake community, with various sensor networks;
• environmental science community;
• experimental science community, with synchrotron and free electron lasers.

The scientific communities represented by the project are well recognised and organised even in the industry area represented by SME. This means the organisations are members of bigger consortia which deal with similar topics mentioned above but also focus on research aiming to have a better experimental environment. IT will be provided by partners with experience in supporting scientific communities in general as well with the particular needs of the communities targeted by DORII. Working closely with end-users, solutions will be put in place that build upon the success of past and ongoing projects in such areas as remote instrumentation (GRIDCC, RINGrid), interactivity (int.eu.grid), software frameworks for application developers (g-Eclipse) and advanced networking technologies (GN2) with EGEE based middleware. These efforts have all shown that quite positive results can be achieved by integrating applications with e-Infrastructure and DORII expects to continue delivering such positive results. Finally, to insure the interoperability and sustainability of DORII, DORII will promote standardisation and knowledge transfer via e-IRG and OGF research groups. Our goal is to deliver solutions based on proven methodologies and technology while mimimizing risk through regular communication with end-users and exploitation of results with recognized organizations.

IFCA (CSIC-IFCA) participates in the following activities of the project: NA3 - Remote Instrumentation Communities and Application Support

DORII Project (PDF)