GridCoord DoW

Links to International and EU activities

As a member of EU, Poland is involved in the 5^th and the 6^th Framework Programme (FP) of the European Union. Poland is also a partner of international programmes such as EUREKA, COST, CERN, DESY and NATO Science Programme. Poland is also active in bilateral co-operation. The number of Polish applications to the 5^th Framework Programme amounts to 5700 (compared with 46470 of all applications). 1323 of Polish teams were chosen and their projects financed by the European Union. It constitutes 1,82% of all teams chosen for financing. Polish teams received 152 M€. Poles co-ordinated 192 projects in 5^th FP. Since 2003 Poland actively participates in 6^th Framework Programme.

The following presents the Grid projects POLAND was/is participating in:

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  FP5: GridLab, GRIP, GRIDSTART, CROSSGRID, EUROGRID, ENACTS, SEQUIN, ATRIUM, GEANT
  
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  FP6: EGEE, COREGRID, HPC-Europa, INTELIGRID, GRIDCOORD, GEANT2, MUPPET
  

Links to Industry and Business

The projects PIONIER programme has a strong industry and business links. All the projects are funded 50% by the Ministry of Science and 50% by industrial partners. So far the vendors such as IBM, Sun, HP participated in the project. Additionally a partner from media industry, Polish national TV broadcasting company, and some other IT companies participated in the projects bringing their own, significant contribution.

Future Activities

PIONIER2 programme definition is underway. Since the program is under preparation it is hard to estimate what will be the final structure.

Joint Initiatives and Projects

Several joint bilateral initiatives have been established with a number of countries and promoted by means of workshops and exchange visits. Joint project funding is difficult as a result of different funding mechanisms and rules. Usually the EU RTD projects are used to foster collaboration.

Spain

Research Lines

Spanish research in Grid computing focuses mainly on the development of the middleware needed to solve large-scale scientific, engineering, and business problems. Grid Computing is one of the new technologies that have been recognised as enablers of the global infrastructure for next generation network computing. Therefore, research on Grid infrastructure and basic services to support the exploitation of heterogeneous resources distributed in different administrative domains is prevailing.

According to the conclusions of the Spanish network on Grid Computing (IRISGrid), we can distinguish four types (see Figure) of research lines:

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  Local services: monitoring, queue management, parallel program libraries, and debugging tools.
  
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  Basic Grid services: resource discovery, resource monitor, resource allocation, job control services, and security.
  
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  High-level Grid services: components, jobs, and data management.
  
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  Grid tools.
  

Universities, Research Labs and Industrial Participation

The figure below shows the geographical location of the more active laboratory groups in Grid research projects in Spain.

With a yellow background, and since they maintain a strong cooperation with many Universities, some private companies which are active in Grid-related research and development are also listed. These appear as partners in several of the projects that will be listed in this report. The table below contains more information on these research groups, including the more relevant research projects they are involved (or were recently involved) in. We also list which kind of research lines they are currently pursuing. Additionally, in the figure every autonomous region (which have full competence in innovation projects) is depicted in a different colour.

Group Name	Research Lines	Projects
Grupo de Actividades Grid. Instituto de Física Corpuscular. CSIC	3	CrossGrid, Atlas Grid Computing: EGEE
Sistemas Inteligentes y Computación Distribuida.Facultad de Informática. Universidad de Murcia	2, 3	PIRAMIDE: Integration of Middleware technologies and web to support the Gris infrastructure
Circuitos y Sistemas para el Procesamiento de la Información. Departamento de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores. E.T.S.I. Informática.Universidad de Granada	2	phiPC (TIC2000-1348)
Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores y Electrónica. Universidad de Almería	2	SMAPIVO - TIC2002-00228
Arquitectura de Computadores. Depto. de Electrónica y Computación. Universidad Santiago de Compostela	3, 4	CrossGrid
Grupo de Arquitectura de Computadores. Departamento de Informática. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	3, 4	High performance storage architectures in Grid environments (TIC2003-01730). High performance computing in clusters of heterogeneus workstations (TIC2000-0469)
Arquitectura de Computadores. Depto. de Electrónica y Sistemas.Universidad de A Coruña	3, 4	Projects CrossGrid and GaliGrid
Arquitectura de Ordenadores y Sistemas Operativos. Escola Tecnica Superior d’Enginyeria. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona	3, 4	CrossGrid. Autoadaptive Strategy for Grid environments. Grid tools interoperability
CEPBA-IBM Research Institute. Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña	3, 4	Dimemas (DAMIEN). Superscalar Grid. eNANOS
RedIRIS	4	PAPI. COPA
Arquitectura de Sistemas Distribuidos y Seguridad. Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores y Automática. Universidad Complutense de Madrid	4	GridWay
Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores. Universidad de Málaga	4	ACAM (TIC2003 - 6623)
Grupo de Arquitecturas de Altas Prestaciones, GAAP. Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnología. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos	4	PROMENVIR: High Performance Computer Based Probabilistic Mechanical Design Environment
Grupo de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores. Universidad de Cantabria	1, 4	Crossgrid IST-2001-32243. Design and evaluation of paralel and distributed computing technologies (TIC2001-0591-C02-02)
Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores. Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores y Automática. Universidad Complutense de Madrid	4	High Performance Computing in Grid environments
Departamento de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores. Universidad del País Vasco	1, 4	Design and evaluation of paralel and distributed computing technologies (TIC2001-0591-C02-02)
Grupo de Redes y Computación de Altas Prestaciones. Depto. de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia	3, 4	GRID-IT, EGEE
Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA)	4	CrossGrid
Facultad de Informática. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid	4	MAPFS-Grid: An I/O autonomous and multiagent system for High Performance Computing in Grid environments. OntoGrid: Paving the way for Knowledgeable Grid Services and Systems (Proyecto Europeo). GridCoord.