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Innovation & Standards
OGF.eeig (European Chapter of the Open Grid Forum) is committed to driving innovation in enterprise and eResearch in the arena of distributed computing, ensuring Europe has a strong voice in the international landscape. OGF.eeig achieves its mission through active participation in a number of EC-funded initiatives, such as VENUS-C: towards a scientific cloud for Europe, the SIENA initiative for interoperability standards and RESERVOIR on cloud and virtualisation technologies. OGF.eeig successfully served as Technical Co-ordinators of the European project, OGF-Europe.
VENUS-C: Virtual Multidisciplinary Environments Using Cloud Infrastructures
With its industrial partners and broad range of scientific user communities, VENUS-C is aimed at demonstrating the feasibility and potential of a Scientific Cloud for Europe. The goal of VENUS-C is to help research and industry communities gain efficiencies and make savings by optimising resource utilisation, reliability, energy efficiency and maintenance costs, all key objectives, particularly in the current economic climate. This new approach focuses on the provisioning and operation of an industrial-quality, virtualised cloud computing service platform, open for use and testing by communities spanning civil protection & emergencies;
SIENA: Standards & Interoperability for eInfrastructure Implementation Initiative
SIENA, the Standards and Interoperability for eInfrastructure Implementation Initiative (2010- 2012), will contribute to defining a future eInfrastructures roadmap in close collaboration with the European Commission, Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCI) projects and Standard Development Organisations (SDOs) to gain an in-depth understanding of how distributed computing is being developed in this context. The roadmap will define scenarios, identify trends, investigate the innovation and impact sparked by cloud and grid computing, and deliver insights into how standards and the policy framework is defining and shaping current and future development and deployment in Europe and globally.
SIENA Insights on European Distributed Computing Infrastructures and Standards
SIENA at ICT2010, 27-29 September 2010, Brussels, Belgium
"OGF-Europe was instrumental in promoting OGF standards, organising events and doing community outreach, specifically in the European arena but with worldwide impact. Silvana Muscella, Technical Director of the OGF-Europe project and now of SIENA, has played a key role in ensuring these outcomes and in taking forward the open standards message forward with European needs firmly in mind." Craig Lee, OGF President.
OGF-Europe Testimonials from standards leaders and the wider community.
RESERVOIR: Resources & Services Virtualisation without Barriers
Resources and Services Virtualisation without Barriers (January 2008-December 2010) is aimed at enabling massive scale deployment and management of complex IT services across different administrative domains, IT platforms and geographies. The project is providing a foundation for a service-based online economy, where - using virtualisation technologies - resources and services are transparently provisioned and managed on an on-demand basis at competitive costs with high quality of service. RESERVOIR is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme and is partnered by enterprises, such as IBM (Haifa, Israel); CETIC; ElsagDatamat; SAP Research; Sun Microsystems, Telefonica R&D, Thales and academic organisations, such as Complutense University of Madrid; University College London; University of Lugano; University of Messina; and UMEA University, as well as OGF.eeig.
Testimonial
"It is with great pleasure that I learn of the successful start to the SIENA project. Through their insight, skill, determination and enthusiasm, Trust-IT Services continues to contribute to the drive for open standards and interoperability in e-infrastructures for research and industry in Europe. I look forward to collaborating in these efforts."
Martin Antony Walker, Independent Consultant