1. Advanced Grid Research Workshops through European and Asian Co-operation The GRID@Asia Project Bruno Le Dantec http://www.gridatasia.net E-mail: bruno.le_dantec@ercim.org

2. Advanced Grid Research Workshops through European and Asian Co-operation 2 China The China National Grid The China CROWNE project China Grid Korea K*Grid initiative Asia ApGrid - Asia Pacific Grid Partnership EC EC Grid Technologies programme (Unit F2) EC Research Infrastructure programme (Unit F3) Many activities

3. Advanced Grid Research Workshops through European and Asian Co-operation 3 ACI GRID E-SCIENCE DAS BE-GRIDD-GRID METACENTER SWISSGRID HELLAS-GRID GRID.IT IRISGRIDBG-GRID SGIGRID H-GRID NORDUGRID CYGRID Europe Belgium Be-GRID Bulgarian BG-Grid Cyprus CyGrid Czech Metacenter French ACI GRID German D-GRID Greek Hellas-GRID Hungarian Grid Italian GRID.IT Polish SGIGrid Scandinavian NORDUGRID Spanish IRISGrid Swiss SwissGRID The Netherlands DAS UK e-Science

4. Advanced Grid Research Workshops through European and Asian Co-operation 4 ERCIM is a consortium of leading research institutions from 18 European countries committed to information technology and applied mathematics.

5. Advanced Grid Research Workshops through European and Asian Co-operation 5 CoreGRID The European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Network of excellence EC Grid Technologies programme (Unit F2) Diligent A digital libray insfrastructure on grid enable technology Integrated project EC Research Infrastructure programme (Unit F3) Grid@Asia Advanced Grid Research Workshops through European and Asian Co-operation Specific support action EC Grid Technologies programme (Unit F2) ERCIM Grid related projects

6. Advanced Grid Research Workshops through European and Asian Co-operation 6 Need for more international exchanges Grid results in FP5 –Datagrid –Unicore... But still little impact world wide –EU is increasing its support (125 M ) under FP6 Barriers –US will unfortunately not choose EU technologies –Other countries may adopt US techno even if not yet fully mature e.i. Globus has several drawbacks that Unicore does not have. So we need –More efforts to promote, share and built on these European technologies

7. Advanced Grid Research Workshops through European and Asian Co-operation 7 Goal Foster collaboration in Grid research and technologies between the European Union and at least two Asian countries: China and South Korea 3 steps Mapping of Chinese and South Korea key Grid players Grid focused workshops on research and industrial agendas Dissemination and sustainability through participation in joint projects Results Initiate future co-operation between European research and industry grid communities and Asian grid communities Validate capacities and extend sustainable co-operation with leading Grid actors in Asia What do we want ?

8. Advanced Grid Research Workshops through European and Asian Co-operation 8 Workshops agenda will include at least the identification of European and Asian research priorities presentations and discussions on three main R&D domains –Grid middleware –Grid applications –Tools and environment programming an overview of potential funding opportunities (FP6 - Call 5...) an introduction to EC regulations –Project preparation and management –Intellectual property rights a Networking session –Presentation of proposals under preparation –Focussed discussions between proposers –Web site to disseminate expression of interest How to make this happen ?

9. Advanced Grid Research Workshops through European and Asian Co-operation 9 Project - some inputs –18 months, starting 1 April 2005 –Financed by the EC, Unit F2 –Budget is 300 000 euros Partnership –EEIG ERCIM - INRIA, CNR, FhG –Beihang University (China) –Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) –KISTI (Korea) Workshops –3 workshops to be organised –Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai –Order depending on EC call 6 and on FP7 opportunities –Content will evolve Raw data

10. Advanced Grid Research Workshops through European and Asian Co-operation 10 To conclude