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Development of Grid e-Infrastructure in South-Eastern Europe

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Over the period of six years and three phases, the SEE-GRID programme has established a strong regional human network in the area of distributed scientific computing and has set up a powerful regional Grid infrastructure. It attracted a number of user communities and applications from diverse fields from countries throughout the South-Eastern Europe. From the infrastructure point view, the first project phase has established a pilot Grid infrastructure with more than 20 resource centers in 11 countries. During the subsequent two phases of the project, the infrastructure has grown to currently 55 resource centers with more than 6,600 CPUs and 750 TBs of disk storage, distributed in 16 participating countries. Inclusion of new resource centers to the existing infrastructure, as well as a support to new user communities, has demanded setup of regionally distributed core services, development of new monitoring and operational tools, and close collaboration of all partner institution in managing such a complex infrastructure. In this paper we give an overview of the development and current status of SEE-GRID regional infrastructure and describe its transition to the NGI-based Grid model in EGI, with the strong SEE regional collaboration.

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  1. SCL, Institute of Physics Belgrade, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Antun Balaž, Dušan Vudragović & Vladimir Slavnić

  2. Greek Research and Technology Network—GRNET, Athens, Greece

    Ognjen Prnjat & Ioannis Liabotis

  3. Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Emanouil Atanassov

  4. SS. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, FYR of Macedonia

    Boro Jakimovski

  5. University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Mihajlo Savić

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Balaž, A., Prnjat, O., Vudragović, D. et al. Development of Grid e-Infrastructure in South-Eastern Europe. J Grid Computing 9, 135–154 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-011-9185-0

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