Enabling intercontinental e-Infrastructures - a case for Africa

Author

Prnjat, Ognjen ; Becker, Bruce ; Barbera, Roberto ; Kanellopoulos, Christos ; Koumantaros, Kostas ; Mayo-Garcia, Rafael ; Ruggieri, Federico

Author_Institution

Greek Res. & Technol. Network, Athens, Greece

fYear

2015

fDate

6-8 May 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

CHAIN-REDS, an EU co-funded project, focuses on promoting and supporting technological and scientific collaboration across different e-Infrastructures established and operated in various continents. The project implemented a Regional Operations Centre (ROC) model for enabling Grid computing interoperation across continents, and an operational ROC has been set up for Africa. Moreover, the project operates a global Cloud federation test-bed, where also nascent African Cloud sites contribute. Finally, the project is supporting a real-life use-case from Africa that of APHRC, using its data e-Infrastructure services.

Keywords

cloud computing; grid computing; groupware; APHRC; Africa; CHAIN-REDS; EU cofunded project; ROC; global cloud federation test-bed; grid computing interoperation; intercontinental e-infrastructures; nascent African cloud sites; regional operations centre model; scientific collaboration; technological collaboration; Africa; Cloud computing; Collaboration; Education; Electronic mail; Europe; Cloud federations; Grid interoperations; data management; e-Infrastructures; persistent identifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IST-Africa Conference, 2015

Conference_Location

Lilongwe

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2015.7190535

Filename

7190535