Grid4all
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| Grid4All | |
| Self-* Grid: Dynamic Virtual Organizations for schools, families, and all | |
| Image:Grid4all.jpg | |
| Keywords | Grid Computing, Virtual organization |
|---|---|
| Funding agency | European Union |
| Project type | STReP |
| Reference | |
| Objective | |
| Participants |
France Telecom R&D, ICCS, INRIA, KTH, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Technical University of Catalonia, UPRC, Antares |
| Budget | Overall: Funding: |
| Duration | June 1, 2006 - February 28, 2009 |
| Web site | http://www.grid4all.eu |
The Grid4All project as part of the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme, Information Society Technologies, intends to promote the vision of democratizing the Grid as a ubiquitous utility where domestic users, small organisations and enterprises share their resources and services inside virtual organizations, and use resources via the Internet, thus reducing the otherwise necessary investment in computing resources.
[edit] Consortium
The project consortium comprises the following partners from both academia and industry:
- France Telecom R&D, France
- ICCS, Greece
- INRIA, France
- KTH, Sweden
- Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
- Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
- UPRC, Greece
- Antares, Spain
[edit] Dates
- The project officially started on June 1, 2006 and has a timeframe of 30 months.
- The initial project meeting took place on June 5 and 7, 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden.
