Nordic Grid Neighbourhood Nordic Grid Neighbourhood|
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ObjectivesThis is a proposal to create the Nordic Grid Neighbourhood network in order to support and strengthen contacts and communication between the Nordic and Baltic States and Northwest Russia in the field of Grid technologies. The network activities will cover education, reciprocal knowledge transfer and research and development in this area. We aim at optimising the exchange between a broad spectrum of computer scientists, researchers and students across the Nordic countries, Baltic States and Russia by organizing conferences, seminars, tutorials and up-to-date courses in the rapidly evolving field of Grid-computing. We plan to extend the existing Grid activities already covering the Nordic countries to the Baltic States and Western Russia. This involves the deployment of the NorduGrid middleware and its adaptation to local requirements. Introduction of the national Grid environment in the Baltic States needs the foundation of national Grid knowledge centres. The centres are responsible running national Grid backbone services like Certification Authorities, Grid support and maintenance. We expect that the participating institutions will become the Grid knowledge centres of their region. An important objective of the Nordic Grid Neighbourhood program is to support the continuation of the development of the NorduGrid middleware. Some of the planned functionalities to be engineered and implemented by the experts from the extended region will be in the fields of Grid accounting and computer-human interactions. The newly Grid-connected centres will contribute to the scalability-testing and quality-checking routines, thus providing crucial feedback to the developers. The joining countries will also bring new application areas to the Grid. Our goal is to make Grid available to diverse fields of research, technology and academic environment pursued in the Baltic States like medical applications, life science, biology, environmental sciences (Baltic Sea and ocean simulations), social science, etc. The Nordic Grid Neighbourhood program also aims to bring the Grid close to the educational institutions. The program plans to offer Grid courses, tutorials and provide educational material both to students and interested researchers during seminars and an annual conference. This is the reason why the location of the seminars and conference are chosen to be at major universities. In addition to the traditional training methods we plan to offer web-based materials, remote classes and tutorials. Documents of the networkThe network is described in the following documents: |
