int.eu.grid

The Interactive European Grid project started on 1 May, 2006 and will last for 24 months. The objective of the project is the deployment of an advanced Grid empowered infrastructure in the European Research Area specifically oriented to support the execution of interactive demanding applications. The consortium involves 13 leading institutions in 7 countries, with significant computing capacity and expertise in grid technology.

While guaranteeing interoperability with existing large e-Infrastructures like EGEE by providing basic common middleware services, the initiative will exploit the expertise generated by the EU CrossGrid project to provide researchers an interactive and simultaneous access to large distributed facilities through a friendly interface with powerful visualization.

The Interactive European Grid, while interoperable with EGEE, will focus on interactive use for medicine, environment, physics and other research areas (from robotics to archaeology) where demanding interactive applications that can benefit from being grid-enhanced have been identified.

IFCA (CSIC-IFCA) was the project coordinator and it was participate in the following activities: NA1 - Management of I3, NA2 - Dissemination and Outreach, NA3 - Identification and Support for Interactive Grid-enhanced Applications and SA1 - Grid Infrastructure Operation .