Grid4all

Research-Project
name=Grid4All
title=Self-* Grid: Dynamic Virtual Organizations for schools, families, and all
keywords=Grid Computing, Virtual organization
fundingAgency=European Union
frameworkProgramme=FP6


projectType=STReP
researchObjective=
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coordinator=
participants= [http://www.orance-ft.com/ France Telecom R&D] , [http://www.iccs.ntua.gr/ ICCS] ,
INRIA,
KTH,
Swedish Institute of Computer Science,
Technical University of Catalonia, [http://www2.unipi.gr/english/index.html UPRC] , [http://www.antares.es/ Antares] |budget=
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start=June 1 2006
end=February 28 2009
website=http://www.grid4all.euThe [http://www.grid4all.eu 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.

Consortium

The project consortium comprises the following partners from both academia and industry:
* [http://www.orance-ft.com/ France Telecom R&D] , France
* [http://www.iccs.ntua.gr/ ICCS] , Greece
* INRIA, France
* KTH, Sweden
* Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
* Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
* [http://www2.unipi.gr/english/index.html UPRC] , Greece
* [http://www.antares.es/ Antares] , Spain

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.

See also

* Grid computing
* [http://www.grid4all.eu Project's official website]