EDGI
Name
European Desktop Grid Initiative (EDGI)
Area
Project
Agreement
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 22 November 2011
About EDGI
EDGI is a project aims to deploy desktop grid (DG) and cloud services for EGI user communities that are heavy users of DCIs and require extremely large multinational e-infrastructure. The project will provide a workflow-oriented science gateway to enable user communities to more easily access the infrastructure and establish the IDGF organisation to coordinate DG-related activities in Europe and to attract volunteer DG resource donors. IDGF and EDGI will work in strong collaboration with EGI, EMI, NorduGrid, UNICORE Forum and interested NGIs.
Overview of the joint workplan
EGI and EDGI will work together to enable the vision of providing European scientists and international collaboration for sustainable distributed computing services to support their work. Specifically, this will be done through:
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effort to integrate Desktop Grids into EGI's monitoring and accounting activities for a seamless operation of Desktop Grids;
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to prototype, test and roll to production the devised solution (in collaboration with the Hungarian NGI) and to support the provided integration software;
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once ready for production, to disseminate the integration solution through the existing appropriate channels (operations meetings, community meetings etc.)
Resources
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EGI signs agreements with EDGI and SHIWA (news item)
