1. INFSO-RI-508833 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE www.eu-egee.org GRNET Presentation for the NA2 Networking Activity Karlsruhe, Germany, June 2006 Hara Mpimpa & Fotis Georgatos Greek Research Network (GRNET) mpimpa@grnet.grmpimpa@grnet.gr, http://www.grnet.gr

2. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 GRNET – MISSION STATEMENT GRNET – MISSION STATEMENT GRNET is a National Research and Education Network (NREN) BUT WHAT ARE NRENs? High speed wide area communication networks that provide high quality communication and other services (e.g. Grid-related) at the national level in Research and Educational communities SO, GRNET IS HERE TO… provide high-quality international and national networking and grid services to the Greek academic & research institutions, to the public and private sector so as to support their research and educational activities. promote and disseminate the use of Information and Communication Technologies in the public and private sector (e-Government, e-Learning, and e-Business). GRNET S.A. is a state-owned organization under the supervision of the Ministry of Development (General Secretariat of Research & Technology).

3. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 NATIONAL ACTIVITIES GRNET infrastructures: -Networking infrastructure: GRNET backbone: GRNET-1…GRNET-2…GRNET-3 www.grnet.gr www.grnet.gr -Grid infrastructure: HellasGrid infrastructure www.hellasgrid.grwww.hellasgrid.gr Other activities: School network integration http://www.sch.gr Broad-band task force http://www.broad-band.gr Extended use of IPv6 http://www.grnet.gr/ipv6 Directory service http://www.grnet.gr/ds “DIODOS” Internet for students http://diodos.gsrt.gr/ ebusinessforum http://www.ebusinessforum.gr go-online http://www.go-online.gr/

4. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EUROPEAN and INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Pan-European Backbone Infrastructure GEANT2 http://www.geant2.net Mediterranean Network Infrastructure EUMEDCONNECT http://www.dante.net/eumedconnect Pan-European Network IPv6 6NET http://www.6net.org Pan – European Grid Infrastructure EGEE-II http://www.cern.ch/egee Time2Learn http://www.time2learn.org Internet2 http://www.internet2.org Pan – European Network of Ebusiness Forum http://www.e-bsn.org ForSociety http://www.eranet-forsociety.net Transbalkan Network SEEREN2 http://www.seeren.org Balkan Infrastructure SEE-GRID2 http://www.see-grid.org TERENA http://www.terena.nl INSME http://www.insme.gr SEEFIRE http://www.seefire.org SEELight 6DISS http://www.6diss.org INSME http://www.insme.gr ACTION http://www.action-leonardo.org ELISA http://www.elisa-project.net NATO Science Programme http://www.nato.int CEENet http://www.ceenet.org GRIDCC http://www.gridcc.org

5. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE II & SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE GRNET represents the Executive Committee of the project (Project Management Board) in South Eastern Europe: – Bulgaria: Institute of Parallel Processing - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IPP-BAS) / Bg Grid Consortium – Cyprus: University of Cyprus (UCY) / CyGrid – Greece: GRNET / HellasGrid – Israel: Τel Aviv University (TAU) / Israel Academic Grid (IAG) – Romania: Institute of Communications and Informatics (ICI) / RoGrid – Serbia: Institute of Physics Belgrade (IPB) / AEGIS – Turkey: ULAKBIM, Turkish NREN Basic Targets: – Regional Operations Centre- SEE ROC coordinator  Responsible for operating the South Eastern Europe Grid infrastructure www.egee-see.orgwww.egee-see.org – Regional Dissemination and Training Centre  Organization of seminars and meetings in cooperation with the local partners.  Organization of the third EGEE Conference in Athens (April 2005) ~ 400 participants

6. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE PHASE II & GRNET NA 2 in Phase II Our tasks are the following: Media Relations – Interfacing with media Industrial & Governmental Relations – Promote the uptake of the Grid to industry  Local or regional Grid Industry events Production of promotional material – Press releases, posters, videos, etc. Communication and cross – activity coordination User relations and websites – Maintaining the dissemination part of the www.egee-see.org site and connecting with the local userswww.egee-see.org Events – Organize events to disseminate the project work or participate in regional events to represent EGEE – Joint events or workshops with NA3 (training)

7. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 END Thank you very much for your attention… So, time’s up…