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**International Widespread of Grid Technology** 

280 Grid Computing – Technology and Applications, Widespread Coverage and New Horizons

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**Applications Exploiting** 

Alberto Masoni1 and Stefano Cozzini2

*Cittadella Universitaria di Monserrato, Monserrato,* 

*2CNR/IOM Democritos National Simulation Centre, Trieste,* 

In the last few years e-Infrastructures across Europe and India faced remarkable developments. Both national and international connectivity improved considerably and

As a consequence scientific applications were in the position of taking substantial benefits from this progress. The most relevant cases are represented by High Energy Physics (with the contribution to the program of Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva) and Nano Science (exploiting NKN-TEIN3-GEANT interconnection for crystallography experiments with the remote access & control of experimental facility at the ESRF Synchrotron based in Grenoble, France directly from Mumbai, India). Other relevant application areas include

Within this framework, in the last five years period two specific EU funded projects (the EU-IndiaGrid and EU-IndiaGrid2) played a bridging role supporting several applications that exploited these advanced e-Infrastructures for the benefit of Euro-India common research programs. EU-IndiaGrid2 - Sustainable e-infrastructures across Europe and India – is a project funded by European Commission under the Research Infrastructure Programme of the Information and Society Directorate General with the specific aim of promoting international interoperation between European and Indian e-Infrastructures. The project started in January 2010 and will close at the end of 2011. EU-IndiaGrid2 strongly bases and capitalizes on the achievement of its precursor the EU-IndiaGrid project (lasting from 2006 to 2009), whose contribution in bringing forward EU-Indian collaboration in e-Science and effectively mobilising actors on both sides, was widely recognised both in Europe and India. A crucial important part in the project activity was the support offered to selected applications which ranges from the training the user communities behind up to the porting

This article aims to present and review the main e-Infrastructures development in India and their full exploitation by scientific applications with a focus on the role played by the EU-

Grid Computing also profited of significant developments.

Climate Change research, Biology, and several areas in Material Science.

of their scientific applications on the grid computing infrastructure.

IndiaGrid and EU-IndiaGrid2 projects.

**1. Introduction** 

*1INFN Sezione di Cagliari,* 

**e-Infrastructures Across Europe and India Within the EU-IndiaGrid Project** 
