BalticGrid-II
In May 2008, the BalticGrid-II was launched. This project was a part of the Seventh EU Framework Programme and lasted until 30 April 2010. Aiming at extending and developing the e-Infrastructure of the Baltic States built during the first phase of the BalticGrid, the project included these tasks:
- to include Belarus in the BalticGrid infrastructure;
- to ensure interoperation of the gLite-based infrastructure with UNICORE and ARC Grid resources in the Baltic Region;
- to engage new scientific communities in using Grid resources in nanoscience and engineering, for example;
- to establish new Grid services for linguistic research, Baltic Sea environmental research, data mining tools for modelling.
The e-Infrastructure created within the BalticGrid-II project is fully interoperable with the pan-European e-Infrastructures and the European Grid Initiative. e-Infrastructure of 26 clusters was built in five countries during the first phase of the BalticGrid, and the second phase strived to grow its computing resources both in capacity and capability.
The BG-II consortium is composed of 13 leading institutions in seven countries, with 7 institutions from the Baltic States, 2 — from Belarus and Poland, and one — from Sweden and Switzerland. In the second phase of the BalticGrid, Latvia was represented by RTU Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications and Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Latvia.
The e-Infrastructure developed within the BalticGrid-II was mainly applied in particle physics, linguistics, bioinformatic and biomedical visualisation, and modelling of the Balti Sea ecosystem.
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