Collaboration with EGI

PL-Grid tasks in EGI

In the framework of cooperation with EGI, PL-Grid project is involved in:

• EGI-InSPIRE - through PL-Grid Partners’ contribution to:
  

• Global Tasks: 'Grid operation and oversight of the e-Infrastructure' as well as 'Coordination of resource allocation and of brokering support for NGI VOs',
• International Tasks (like all other NGIs),
• Computational Chemistry – organization and management of Computational Chemistry and Material Science and Technology Specialized Support Centre (CCMST SSC) and EGI liaisons,
• Development of unified middleware via European Middleware Initiative,
• Scientific application porting, especially concerning UNICORE architecture, within Application Porting SSC.
• EGI.eu council activities - among the current 7 members of the EGI.eu Executive Board there is a PL-Grid representative.
  

Useful documents, news and links

• PL-Grid: the first functioning National Grid Initiative in Europe
• Minutes from the 1st EGI Council in Amsterdam, on 9th July, 2009
• Web site of the European Grid Initiative Design Study (EGI_DS) project
  
• Web site of the EGI.eu organization