Members of the Italian Grid Infrastructure
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[edit] INFN
The INFN - Italy's National Institute for Nuclear Physics - is an organization dedicated to the study of the fundamental constituents of matter, which conducts theoretical and experimental research in the fields of subnuclear, nuclear, and astroparticle physics. Fundamental research in these areas requires the use of cutting-edge technologies and instrumentation, which INFN develops both in its own laboratories and in collaboration with the world of industry. These activities are conducted in close collaboration with the academic world.
INFN is heavily involved in Grid R&D and related activities and manages a large part of the Italian Production Grid, through the INFN Grid effort.
[edit] GARR Consortium
GARR - Gestione Ampliamento Rete Ricerca - is the Italian Academic and Research Network. The GARR Consortium is composed by all subjects representing the Italian Academic and Scientific Research Community. The mission of the GARR Consortium is to implement, manage and enhance the advanced network for Education, Academia and Scientific Research, in connection with the other European and global networks.
The main institutional tasks of the GARR Consortium towards its Community are:
- to implement and to manage the networking interconnection service and the interconnection service to the other european and worldwide Research networks and to Internet in general;
- to supply operational and application networking services;
- to support the coordination and collaboration among the Research activities (national and international level) via telematic services, including the research and development in telematics itself;
- to support the dissemination, the information update and the exchange of knowledge in telematics, also organising Workshops and Courses.
[edit] CNR
The Italian National Research Council (CNR) is a public organization; its duty is to carry out, promote, spread, transfer and improve research activities in the main sectors of knowledge growth and of its applications for the scientific, technological, economic and social development of the Country.
To this end, the activities of the organization are divided into macro areas of interdisciplinary scientific and technological research, concerning several sectors: biotechnology, medicine, materials, environment and land, information and communications, advanced systems of production, judicial and socio-economic sciences, classical studies and arts.
CNR is distributed all over Italy through a network of institutes aiming at promoting a wide diffusion of its competences throughout the national territory and at facilitating contacts and cooperation with local firms and organizations.
From the financial point of view, the main resources come from the State, but also from the market: even 30% of its balance sheet, an extraordinary result, is the result of revenues coming from external job orders for studies and activities of technical advice as well as from agreements with firms, contracts with the European Union and with the other international organizations.
- CNR home page (in English)
[edit] ENEA
ENEA is a public agency operating in the fields of energy, the environment and new technologies to support Country’s competitiveness and sustainable development.
ENEA research activities are carried out by five Departments:
- Advanced physical technologies and new materials
- Biotechnologies, agro-industry and health protection
- Energy technologies, efficiency and renewable sources
- Environment, global change and sustainable development
- Nuclear Fusion and Fission, and related technologies.
The wide range of expertise, advanced facilities and tools located at its own Research Centres, operating in support of ENEA's programmes, are also at the service of the Nation's scientific and productive system.
- ENEA home page (in English)
[edit] INAF
INAF - the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics - promotes, realizes and coordinates research activities in the fields of Astronomy, Radioastronomy, Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics, in collaboration with universities as well as other public or private organizations, both nationally and internationally, and also within the context of European Union and other international programmes.
INAF preserves the cultural heritage of the Italian astronomical Observatories, safeguarding their historical identity while enhancing their capabilities, thus projecting them into the future.
INAF is also involved in promoting knowledge of Astronomy in schools and in the broader society.
[edit] INGV
The Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia was born in September 1999 through a merger of former Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica, Osservatorio Vesuviano and three other institutions: Istituto Internazionale di Vulcanologia, Istituto di Geochimica dei Fluidi and Istituto di Ricerca sul Rischio Sismico.
INGV was meant to gather all scientific and technical institutions operating in Geophysics and Volcanology and to create a permanent scientific forum in the Earth Sciences. INGV cooperates with universities and other national public and private institutions, as well as with many research agencies worldwide. The new institution, currently the largest European body dealing with research in Geophysics and Volcanology, has its headquarters in Rome and important facilities in Milano, Bologna, Pisa, Napoli, Catania and Palermo.
The main mission of INGV is the monitoring of geophysical phenomena in both the solid and fluid components of the Earth. INGV is devoted to 24-hour countrywide seismic surveillance, real-time volcanic monitoring, early warning and forecast activities. State-of-the-art networks of geophysical sensors deliver a continuous flow of observations to the acquisition centers of Rome, Naples and Catania, were the data are analyzed around the clock by specialized personnel. In addition to being analysed for research and civil defence purposes, the data supplied by numerous monitoring networks are regularly distributed to the public institutions concerned, to the scientific community and to the public.
INGV operates in close coordination with the Ministry of University and Research and with Civil Protection authorities, both at national and local level. INGV also cooperates with the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the frame of large research programs of national and international relevance.
INGV pays special attention to Education and Outreach through publications for schools, scientific exhibitions and dedicated Internet pages.
[edit] Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
- University of Naples home page (in English)
[edit] Università della Calabria
- Università della Calabria - University of Calabria
[edit] Sincrotrone Trieste (ELETTRA)
ELETTRA is a multidisciplinary Synchrotron Light Laboratory in AREA Science Park, open to researchers in diverse basic and applied fields. The laboratory is equipped with ultra-bright light sources in the spectral range from UV to X-rays and offers a stimulating and competitive environment to researchers from all over the world.
Its mandate is a scientific service to the Italian and international research communities, based on the development and open use of light produced by synchrotron and Free Electron Lasers (FEL) sources. The light is now mainly provided by a third generation electron storage ring, optimised in the VUV and soft-X-ray range, operating between 2.0 and 2.4 GeV, and feeding over 20 light sources in the range from few eV to tens of keV (wavelengths from infrared to X-rays). New fourth generation light sources based on FEL are now in development.
[edit] COMETA Consortium
COMETA is the Sicilian Multi-Agency Consortium for the promotion and the adoption of Advanced Computing Technologies.
The Consortium aims to create and manage an advanced R&D centre in Sicily, in particular by:
- supporting basic research activities and technological applications for the development of new high level computing systems, of new data bank managment systems, and new multimedia simulation systems;
- promoting the development and dissemination of new computing technologies, especially by the adoption of the GRID;
- obtaining commitment for research and development from private and public organizations;
COMETA will empower its participants to use the results of research based on the capabilities of applications enabled by the new tecnologies; concomitantly, it will create new professional roles adapted to the corresponding high tech market.
[edit] COSMOLAB Consortium
The main purpose of the Cosmolab Consortium is to carry out the CYBERSAR project on behalf of the Consortium members, and in particular:
- to plan, realize, and deploy in Sardegna an integrated infrastructure of networking, computing and database management dedicated to R&D activities, and based on innovative technologies (as compared to the current ones);
- to manage, maintain and develop this infrastructure so to ensure a high quality of service;
- to puschase instrumental goods such as hardware, software and any further items useful for planning and building this infrastructure, as well as keeping it up to date;
- to coordinate and develop initiatives aimed to make optimal use of the available resources in solving computational problems arising from technological and scientific research, and in providing technological support for higher education;
- to ensure, by means of research and experimentation activities, the technological growth of these infrastructures and of the associated skill sets.
[edit] SPACI Consortium
The SPACI Consortium (Southern Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructures) was established in 2004, among the University of Salento, the University of Calabria, the Hewlett-Packard Italy and a company based on spinoff companies belonging to the three centres involved in the initiative. SPACI builds on previous strong experience in conducting multi-disciplinary application-driven high performance & distributed computing. SPACI is also an associate centre of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change providing support and expertise on Grid and High Performance Computing. SPACI also supports the computing activities of the National Nanotechnology Laboratory of CNR/INFM.
