Description
Advantages of regional e-Infrastructures in Grid technology uptake by local scientific communities and SMEs (1/2) (90 mins)
Prof. Roberto Barbera (University of Catania and COMETA Consortium, Italy)
The workshop, organized by the Italian GRISU Organisation, wants to focus on the advantages of regional Grid infrastructures in outreaching and supporting local scientific communities and Small & Medium Enterprises. The recent availability, in several EU countries, of e-Infrastructures having a true regional scope, has changed the perspective of scientific computing and data handling at a small geographical scale.
The “proximity” among end-users, infrastructure providers, Grid trainers and application supporters is becoming a key factor to attract new communities both from academia and industry and a key enabler of progress and sustainable development of some European Regions of Convergence. Some statistics collected in the last couple of years clearly demonstrate a strong correlation between the organization of dissemination events where current users showcase how they already took advantage of the regional e-Infrastructure (underlining how the adoption of the Grid paradigm has shortened their “time to scientific results” while decreasing their costs of ownership of the infrastructure) and the increase in the usage of/profit from these regional Grids.
Keynote speakers from France, Italy, and Spain will illustrate some “real-life” examples and show how the policies/standards adopted so far have attracted interest from industry. During the workshop, some uses cases will also be shown to demonstrate the success of the model of such regional e-Infrastructures. After the oral presentations, a general discussion on common policies, best practices, and future possibilities of collaboration will conclude the workshop
