Cooperation with other projects

Cooperation with other, related projects is foreseen to optimize scientific networking, R&D management, exchange of information as well as education and dissemination activities.

EGEE
The most intensive and diverse collaboration is planned with the EGEE project in the framework of the e-Infrastructure interoperability, as well as dissemination and educational issues. However, the other types of cooperation are also foreseen. In general, we are going to:

• within the BalticGrid-II Education, Training, Dissemination and Outreach activity: participate in the EGEE events (conferences, user forums and exhibitions) and provide input for relevant EGEE initiated dissemination activities (e.g. press releases, newsletters, brochures, success stories, posters, web-based publications, multimedia material, etc.).
  The BG-II description and contact data have been placed at the EGEE Collaborating Projects web site.
• within Grid Operation activity: investigate options to support in addition to the current gLite based middleware also UNICORE and ARC middlewares, which have user bases in the immediate vicinity to the Baltic States as well as some user communities using these middlewares also within the Baltics; this gives the region a unique opportunity to act as a beta tester for all of the possible combinations of interoperability between the three middlewares as no other region in Europe has all three middlewares used in the same small region,

• within Network Resource Provisioning activity: investigate requirements of joining the global European monitoring infrastructures of the GN-2 project - perfSONAR and the EGEE project - NPM; the appropriate software and hardware will be obtained and deployed to participate in these infrastructures and to contribute to the global measurement databases with measurements describing connectivity from BalticGrid-II clusters to CERN and other important Grid centres in Europe,
• where appropriate: work with Partners’ national Grid initiatives and international organizations; the Partners of the Project consortium will be the active participants in the international standards and policy development organisations and bodies, in particular in OGF, EUGridPMA and e-IRG,
  
• participate in the events organized by the EU (e.g. the Grid Technology Days or Grid Information Days).

BELIEF-II
The second project, which BG-II cooperates with, is BELIEF-II. In the framework of this cooperation the following activities are performed:

• the Memorandum of Usage (MoU) was signed with this project in October 2008,
• the BG-II materials (like public deliverables, presentations, posters, brochures, etc.) will be uploaded to the BELIEF Digital Library,
• the BalticGrid-II disseminative materials will be presented at a common booth maintained by BELIEF-II (together with BalticGrid-II, SEE-GRID-SCI, GEANT2, EU-IndiaGrid, GridTalk and EELA-2 projects) during the ICT in Lyon, in November 2008.