IGE

Name

Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE)

Area

Technology provider

Agreement

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 20 January 2011

About IGE

The IGE project aims to be a comprehensive service provider for the European e-infrastructures regarding the development, customisation, provisioning, support (including training), and maintenance of components of the Globus Toolkit, in close collaboration with EGI, other distributed computing infrastructure projects, and standard development organisations.

Overview of the joint workplan

EGI and IGE will work together to enable the vision of providing European scientists and international collaboration for sustainable distributed computing services to support their work. In this broad context, the specific goals of the collaborations are:

to provide robust, well-designed, user-centric services to scientific user communities
to define and monitor SLA for third-level support on incidents and requests
to accelerate the development of standards within production grid infrastructures
to disseminate the results of this collaboration within the remit of each project’ s dissemination and communication activities such as joint events
to exchange ideas and collaborate on the definition of sustainability models
to collaborate in business relationships development