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1 Introduction
2 Main objectives
3 Participants
4 Work Packages

Introduction

The EUAsiaGrid aims to the EU Research Infrastructures FP7 Programme by promoting international interoperation between similar infrastructures with the aim of reinforcing the global relevance and impact of European e-Infrastructures”.

The project's main goal will be to pave the way towards an Asian e-Science Grid Infrastructure, in synergy with the other European Grid initiatives in Asia, namely EGEE-III via its Asia Federation, and both the EUChinaGRID and EU-IndiaGRID projects and their eventual follow on efforts.

Taking advantage of the existing global Grid technologies, with the specific emphasis on the European experience with the gLite middleware and applications running on top of it, the project plans to encourage federating approaches across scientific disciplines and communities. EUAsiaGrid will act as a support action, aiming to define and implement a policy to promote the gLite middleware developed within the EU EGEE project across Asian countries.

EUAsiaGrid main actions will be to spread dissemination, provide training, support scientific applications and monitor the results.

The planned results of the project will be to:

Offer an effective proposal to fulfil the demanding computing and storage needs of several common EU-Asia research projects;

Foster the induction of new user communities to the e-Science Grid infrastructure;

Enhance the scientific communities and applications running the gLite middleware;

Build partnerships between European and Asian scientific communities, to contribute to the scientific achievements from a global perspective and at a world class level;

Coordinate a common policy towards a common e-Science infrastructure with the other European Grid initiatives in Asia, namely EGEE-II via its Asia Federation and both EUChinaGRID and EU-IndiaGRID, drawing on the experience of the EU EGI_DS project.

Main objectives

Promote awareness in the Asian countries of the EGEE infrastructures, middleware and services by means of specific dissemination activities, such as workshops’, training events, conferences and hands-on demonstrations;
Capture local e-Science user requirements in terms of resources needed, Grid services, application software, and training needs, building on results of the EGI_DS projects.
Build a EuroAsian Grid community by identifying and aggregating new and existing user communities into a virtual Grid-based research space.
Assist regional integration with the wider Grid infrastructure in collaboration with the EGEE III Asian Federation and the EUChinaGrid and EU-IndiaGrid projects, thus significantly contributing to the creation of a human network in the area of Grids, e-Science and e-Infrastructures between Europe and Asia.
Promote common e-Science application in Asia and Europe, by supporting the early user communities already engaged in Grid applications (Life science, Particle Physics), and engaging new ones by coordinating common actions of dissemination and training;
Provide specific training materials and events targeted to the needs of users in the Asian countries as established in part in Objective 2, and in part building on the experience gained from the EUChinaGrid and EU-IndiaGrid projects.