RINGrid

Overview

RINGrid is project funded by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme under the contract number "031891". RINGrid is an acronym that stands for "Remote Instrumentation In Next-generation GRIDs". It provides an architecture which integrates instrumentations with eInfrastructure. It encompasses the current state of art and near future technology, delivers conceptual design of missing architectural 'pieces' and is supported by Grid environment.

Objectives

Strategic objectives addressed:
*Identification of instruments and user communities, definition of requirements,
*Synergy between Remote Instrumentation and next-generation high-speed, communications networks and grid infrastructures,
*Trend analysis and recommendations for designing next-generation Remote Instrumentation Services,
*Promoting egalitarian access to European e-Infrastructure,
*Dissemination of project results to scientific and business groups of equipment owners and users

Technology approach

Usage of both Grid-computing and supercomputing technologies as support for performing laboratory experiments gives measurable effects in improving the quality of research. Computations performed on (depending on the experiments’ nature and application type) local or Grid resources are essential to process and visualise experimental results. The RINGrid project will collect requirements and produce recommendations for using computing techniques in scientific experiments. The project research also addresses the issues of resource virtualization and general definition of heterogeneous Grid resources.

Participants

In the RINGrid project participants are as follows:
* [http://www.psnc.pl PSNC] (Poland),
* [http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at GUP] (Austria),
* [http://www.grnet.gr GRNET] (Greece),
* [http://www.clmc.bas.bg CLMC] (Bulgaria),
* [http://www.unam.mx UNAM] (Mexico),
* [http://www.cnit.it CNIT] (Italy),
* [http://www.redclara.net CLARA] (Latin America: Brazil, Chile, Uruguay),
* [http://www.cnr.it CNR/ISTI] (Italy),
* [http://www.surrey.ac.uk UNIS] (UK),
* [http://www.ee.tuiasi.ro/~demm TUI] (Romania)

Applications

Within the RINGrid project we will be seeking to identify application of the benefits of remote instrumentation. We believe that reports that give the current state of the art in the field of e-Infrastructure usage for Remote Instrumentation and reports on future guidelines will be important for broad communities of scientific and business groups of users and will result in their exploitation in the e-science, business and commercial areas.

Testbeds

Validation of the project results will base on the following testbed implementations:
*PSNC Virtual Laboratory [http://vlab.psnc.pl vlab.psnc.pl]
*GridCC [http://www.gridcc.org www.gridcc.org]
*CLARA [http://www.redclara.net www.redclara.net]

Based on the results obtained in the first year prototype installations will be set up, bytaking into consideration user communitiess and instruments, as well as software chosen after the survey performed during the early stage of the project.

The requirements, recommendations and overall conceptual design that stemmed from thestudies within workpackages will be crosschecked against known systems, coming fromthe projects described below (possibly complemented by any other that may be identified duringRINGrid’s lifespan). Specifically, systems that can be used to implement test environments comefrom the following national and European projects (which may also provide user communities,among others), where some of the RINGrid partners are actively involved:
*Virtual Laboratory PSNC (VLab) – project being developed at [http://www.man.poznan.pl PSNC] [http://vlab.psnc.pl]
*GridCC – EU project [http://www.gridcc.org]
*UCRAV – [http://www.ucrav.cl]
*CRIMSON – [http://www.prin-crimson.org]
*SatNEx II [http://www.satnex.org]

New instrumentation evaluation

If you have an access to rare, exceptional and high level instrumentation and would like to help the RINGrid community in evaluating and determining such user communities please fill up [http://www.ringrid.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=120 this form] .

External links

* [http://www.ringrid.eu Remote Instrumentation in Next-generation grids (RINGrid)]
* [http://www.gridcc.org Grid Enabled Remote Instrumentation with Distributed Control and Computation(GRIDCC)]
* [http://www.vlab.psnc.pl Virtual Laboratory (VLAB)]