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Italy
NGI Full Name:	Italian Grid Infrastructure
Acronym:	IGI
URL:	http://www.italiangrid.org

Italy's National Grid Initiative takes the form of an association of institutions under the name Italian Grid Infrastructure (IGI). As of July 2007, the IGI constituting document does not bear official signatures; operationally, however, the institutions at the core of IGI jointly manage one of the largest national production grid infrastructures in Europe: INFN Grid and grid.it.

IGI is expected to be a separate legal entity, recognized by the Italian Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca (Ministry for University and Research).

Contents 1 Membership 2 Italy's Production Grid 3 EGI Functions: Current Rating 3.1 Functions proposed in survey of late 2006 3.2 Other EGI Functions

[edit] Membership

Main article: Members of the Italian Grid Infrastructure

Informally, IGI was established in February of 2006. Currently its members are the following institutions:

• INFN, the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics
• GARR Consortium, Italy's National Research and Education Network
• ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment
• CNR, Italy's National Research Council
• INAF, the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics
• INGV, the Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology
• Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, the "Federico II" University of Naples
• Università della Calabria, the University of Calabria
• Sincrotrone Trieste (ELETTRA), the Trieste Synchrotron
• COMETA Consortium
• COSMOLAB Consortium and the CYBERSAR project
• SPACI Consortium
• Università degli Studi di Perugia, the University of Perugia
• Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, the University of Eastern Piedmont

[edit] Italy's Production Grid

The Italian production Grid consists of about 50 sites, serving 30 Virtual Organizations from areas such as Astronomy, Biology, Computational Chemistry, Earth Observation, Genomics, Geophysics, and High Energy Physics. It offers 1 PB of storage, 4500 CPUs (for 4.5 MSPECint of processing power), and 2.5 Gbps bandwidth.

Users and Resources

Number of users with valid Grid Certificate:	a few hundred
Number of sites (Resource Centres):	50
Number of CPUs:	3000
Total storage (in TB):	1 PB

[edit] EGI Functions: Current Rating

[edit] Functions proposed in survey of late 2006

Coordination of infrastructure operations	Very Important
Testing, certification and validation service including middleware	Very Important
Managed resource centers to provide initial resources for new user communities	No Opinion
Coordination of user and application support	Quite Important
Coordination of dissemination and training efforts	Quite Important
Representation of European Grid efforts on standards bodies	Very Important
Representation of European Grid efforts with similar bodies from other continents	Very Important

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[edit] Other EGI Functions

Unified interface to EU bodies. Comments...