Computing & Data Resources Application interface The Grid technological concept … aims at making world-wide distributed computing and data resources seamlessly available (as a single resource) for any user on the web … is heavily driven by compute- and data-intensive scientific and industrial applications (meteorology and environment management, earth observation, biology and health, aeronautics, automotive etc) Users Middle-ware Computing & Data Resources Application interface World-wide Network

CPA9: Grid test beds, deployment & technologies Objectives: To foster community-wide (research, industry, users) development, integration, experimentation, and deployment of the Grid in order to incorporate it as an instrument for European competitiveness in research, industry & business Key points: addresses a broad community; seeks innovation (through development, integration), creation of infrastructures, use in new application areas; is key for European competitiveness

CPA9: Grid test beds, deployment & technologies Focus on: Test beds for end-to-end service deployment through integration and implementation of Grid-technologies in the context of full scale applications Development of Grid-specific toolkits and software and system architectures Interoperability between different Grid test-beds, promotion of Standards and Reusability

CPA9: Grid test beds, deployment & technologies Who should be interested? Research, Industry and Business actors from the whole Grid-technology and -services development, integration, experimentation and supply chain Users (Research, Industry) involving compute-, and data-intensive applications in their work-processes