UC-EUChinaGrid-interoperability
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Use Case title: Interconnect the existing European and Chinese Grid Infrastructures, EGEE and CNGrid, through interoperability.
Short description:
Actors involved:
Pre-conditions: WP2 carry out studies on the available and foreseen network connectivity promoting new high-bandwidth links between Europe and China, WP3 carry out studies on CNGrid and EGEE interoperability proposing deployment solutions, WP5 create synergies and encouraging the creation of new Grid Initiatives.
Steps:
- Analysis;
- Design and development of a gateway service allowing the interoperability between the two middlewares;
- Test the gateway service;
- Deploy the solution;
Post-conditions: Different instances of a gateway service, connecting the two the infrastructures, has been deployed. The research and education communities of China and Europe have a transparent access to a larger world widely distributed amount of storage and computing resources.
Middleware: Installation of gateway nodes (interoperability between gLite and GOS middlewares) allows the interconnection between the two infrastructures, CNGRID and EGEE.
Applications: A set of existing Euro-Chinese collaborations in research, marked by strong requirements in terms of analysis of large quantities of data and needs for wide amounts of computing power, can exploit the resource of the two infrastructures.
