D4Science

European Commission Directorate-General For The Information Society And Media

Description

Framework Programme 7 (2007-2013) Research infrastructures projets D4ScienceD4ScienceSummary: he project will deploy, progressively consolidate and expan d the e-Infra-structures built so far by the EGEE and DILIGENT projects so that they address the needs of two major target disciplines (which have challenging dif ere nces but also in-teresting commonalities): Environmental Monitoring and Fishery Resources Manage-ment. As a result, thousands of scientists will obtain increasingly more facilities for creating Virtual Research Environments based on shared computation, storage, and Project acronym: D4Sciencegeneric service resources of ered by EGEE and DILIGENT at a European lev el, as well Project n°: RI-212488as on data and domain-specii c service resources of ered by large in ternational organiza-tions, such as the European Space Agency, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Project type: CPCSAUnited Nations, and the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research. Start date: 01/01/2008Objectives: he D4Science project Duration: 24 monthswill deploy the e-Infrastructures built so far by the EGEE and DILIGENT Total budget: 3 916 736 €projects so that they address the needs of scientii c communities a i li- Funding from the EC: 3 150 000 €ated with the broad disciplines of En-Total funded eff ort in person-month: 400vironmental Monitoring and Fishery Resource Management. A D4Science Web site: www.d4science.

Sujets

• Information technology
• Environmental monitoring
• Sciences et techniques

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• Langue: English

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Framework Programme 7 (2007-2013)

Research infrastructures projets

D4Science

D4Science- RI

Project acronym:

D4Science

Project n°:

RI-212488

Project type:

CPCSA

Start date:

01/01/2008

Duration:

24 months

Total budget:

3 916 736 €

Funding from the EC:

3 150 000 €

Total funded eff

ort in person-month:

400

Web site:

www.d4science.org

Contact person:

Donatella Castelli

email: [e-mail]

tel.: [phone]

fax.: [phone]

Project participants:

ERCIM

FR

CNR-ISTI

IT

NKUA

GR

CERN

CH

ENG

IT

BDM-USTRATH

UK

UNIBASEL

CH

ESA

FR

FAO

IT

WorldFish Center

MY

4DSOFT

HU

Keywords:

environmental monitoring, i

shery resources

management, virtual research environments,

grid,

e-infrastructure

Collaboration with other EC

funded projects:

CASPAR

DRIVER II

EGEE-II

EGI-DS

NeON

GENESI-DR

NEON

Summary:

h

e project will deploy, progressively consolidate and expand the e-Infra-

structures built so far by the EGEE and DILIGENT projects so that they address the

needs of two major target disciplines (which have challenging dif

erences but also in-

teresting commonalities): Environmental Monitoring and Fishery Resources Manage-

ment. As a result, thousands of scientists will obtain increasingly more facilities for

creating Virtual Research Environments based on shared computation, storage, and

generic service resources of

ered by EGEE and DILIGENT at a European level, as well

as on data and domain-specii

c service resources of

ered by large international organiza-

tions, such as the European Space Agency, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the

United Nations, and the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research.

Objectives:

h

e D4Science project

will deploy the e-Infrastructures built

so far by the EGEE and DILIGENT

projects so that they address the

needs of scientii

c communities ai

li-

ated with the broad disciplines of En-

vironmental Monitoring and Fishery

Resource Management. A D4Science

production quality e-Infrastructure

will be created, progressively en-

riched and consolidated. h

is e-In-

frastructure will provide facilities for

creating Virtual Research Environ-

ments (VREs) based on shared com-

putational, data and service resources

of

ered by EGEE and DILIGENT at a

European level, as well as on data and domain-specii

c service resources of

ered by large

international organizations. It is expected that the D4Science e-Infrastructure will have

a multiplicative benei

t to many scientii

c i

elds, and it will also act as a catalyst for the

kind of cooperation and cross-fertilization among multiple communities that is neces-

sary for addressing many grand challenges of science and society.

Action plan:

h

e D4Science infrastructure, which will be brought into production

at the end of the i

rst year of the project, will be managed and upgraded by periodi-

cally deploying new community-specii

c resources as well as more consolidated and

extended releases of the services in the underlying system. h

ree VREs serving specii

c

scenarios identii

ed by the scientii

c communities will be set-up. h

is process will re-

quire the adaptation of new community-specii

c data and service resources to exploit

the e-Infrastructure capabilities. In parallel to these activities, gCube, the infrastructure

framework released by the DILIGENT project, will be consolidated by focussing on

coding-for-performance and by empowering existing mechanisms. Finally, the coop-

eration between Fishery Resources Management and Environmental Monitoring scien-

tii

c research communities will be enhanced by creating a framework and a process for

further cooperation of this type across other related communities.

Networking activities:

h

ey will serve the needs of the target scientii

c communities and

will extend the of

ering of the e-Infrastructure capabilities to other scientii

c communi-

ties. Primarily these activities will be dedicated to: (i) analyze the D4Science user com-

munities in order to identify resources suitable for integration into the e-Infrastructure

and dei

ne virtual research environments covering the communities’ scenarios needs;

and (ii) disseminate D4Science results and knowledge, and train sot

ware engineers,

administrative personnel and end users in order to raise awareness within the largest

pool of potential user communities.

D4Science

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