Partners and Contact People
The Linear Accelerator Laboratory (LAL) is located in Orsay, France just south of Paris and is supported by CNRS, IN2P3, and the Université Paris-Sud IX. Since 2001, the Service Informatique at LAL has participated in major grid projects and operates a large site within the EGEE production grid infrastructure. (The LAL grid resources are part of GRIF–a collaboration between six institutes in the Ile de France.)
Contact: Cal Loomis
GRNET is the national research and education network of Greece. GRNET develops and provides advanced services of national and international internet access to the Research, Academic and Education communities of Greece, with its gigabit GRNET2 network and the Virtual NOC supportive scheme. The mission of the Greek Research and Technology Network GRNET is the provision of high-quality international and national networking services to Greek academic and research institutions and to the public and private sector in support of their research and educational activities.
Contact: Vangelis Floros
SixSq provides agile applications and tools, as well as software services and consultancy. We deliver solutions to reduce costs in managing software and IT infrastructures. Our software build, integration, test and deployment application, SlipStream™ allows our customers to release software with confidence, minimize risk and reduces time-to-market. Our interests in general in StratusLab is to investigate open source cloud solutions and further our expertise in cloud computing. Our ultimate goal in this collaboration is the bundling of an open source distribution capable of providing Amazon-like inner clouds (e.g. EC2, EBS and S3), with the ability to scale out to commercial clouds, such as Amazon. This inner-cloud would allow users to expose their existing resources as cloud resources, while being able to scale out to absorb seamlessly peak demand.
Contact: Marc-Elian Begin
The Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group at Universidad Complutense de Madrid is leading several research activities related to dynamic placement and scheduling of jobs (Globus GridWay Metascheduler), dynamic managment of virtual machines and on-demand access to Cloud providers (OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine), and federation of grid infrastructures (Grid4Utility). The results of the research have been published in more than 85 papers in the leading journals and proceedings in the last five years and incorporated in several technology products that have been transferred to the industry and the research community. The members of the group actively participate in several Open Grid Forum groups and in the Program Committee of the most important workshops and conference related to grid computing. The group is currently coordinating the Spanish Initiative in Grid Middleware and the Working Group on SOI and Grids of INES - Spanish Technology Platform on Software and Services; and is involved in NESSI. The group participates in the Globus Alliance, RESERVOIR, EGEE and BEinGRID projects.
Contact: Ignacio M. Llorente
Telefónica I+D is the innovation company of the Telefónica Group. The IT Systems Unit of Telefónica I+D is leading several R&D activities related to Service Front-Ends, Service-Oriented Infrastructures (GRID & Cloud), Back-end Systems and Technologies for Enhanced Operation Processes, Pricing, Rating & new business models and Open Source. In the field of Service-Oriented Infrastructures the IT Systems Unit has been the coordinator of the FP6 NESSI-Grid[3] and BREIN projects researching on new challenges, target architectures and business models for the Enterprise Grid. By participating in the FP7 RESERVOIR and SLA@SOI projects and leading the Spanish Avanza NUBA project, Telefónica I+D is researching in defining a reference architecture and business models for IaaS Clouds, providing Service Management Middleware for dynamic provisioning of services and SLA management. The IT Systems Unit is member of the Steering Committee of the NESSI ETP, is co-chairing its SOI and User Services Interactions Working Groups and plays a leading role in the development of the Reference Architecture of the NESSI Open Service Framework through the NEXOF-RA project.
Contact: Juan Cáceres
The Computer Architecture and Grid Research Group at Trinity College Dublin hosts the OpsCentre that manages the Irish grid on behalf of Grid-Ireland and is the Irish ROC in EGEE. It is engaged in several research activities related to systems and grid security, social and economic market resource allocation, interoperability with multiple infrastructures including clouds, digital datastores, remote filesystems, virtualisation and fabric management, and adaptive e-Learning, all within the grid environment.
Contact: Brian Coghlan