GÉANT & e-Infrastructures Unit
The European Commission, through the GÉANT and e-Infrastructures Unit of the Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures Directorate looks forward to establish a high-capacity and high-speed communications network to the benefits of European researchers, mainly through GÉANT2, which is a high speed link reserved exclusively for research and education, as well as specific high-performance Grid-enabled advanced infrastructures.
It’s main mission is to change the way research is carried out, sharing access to computing and data resources, for the benefit of virtual communities. It particularly supports:
- Development of high-capacity and high-performance communication (GÉANT) and grid empowered infrastructures
- Deployment a coordinated pan European scientific data infrastructure
- Promotion and expansion of the adoption of e-Infrastructures by user communities
- Construction of critical new facilities based on the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) roadmap for new research infrastructures of pan-European interest
- Support the construction of new computation and data treatment facilities (petaflop supercomputing)
- Strengthen multidisciplinary grid and supercomputing infrastructures
- Stimulation of new organisational models
- Exploitation of the power of e-Infrastructure as a vector of international cooperation
Useful documents:
- Capacities Workprogramme, Research Infrastructures, 26/08/2008
- Building the e-infrastructure Computer and network infrastructures for research and education in Europe
- GÉANT2 brochure
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