a Funded Project

ShareGrid is a Project funded by Regione Piemonte through TOPIX (TOrino Piemonte Internet eXchange), a non-profit consortium located in Torino providing interconnection exchange services and innovation Development Program business facilities to foster the use of wide-band Internet network and services, and in close co-operation with the Computer Science Department of Turin and Alessandria Universities

The management roles are:

  • TOP-IX: general coordination and relationships with Regione Piemonte
  • Computer Science Department, Università del Piemonte Orientale: technical and scientific coordination
  • Computer Science Department, Università di Torino: application support and operational management

The funders

  • Regione Piemonte within the framework of TOP-IX’s Development Program (a consortium plan devoted to foster innovation activities and related business)

The goal: implementation of a distributed computing platform

  • facing the needs of users from universities and research labs: a) small laboratories with computing resources to be optimized and shared and b) individual researchers
  • initially based on the regional wide-band network infrastructure
  • following the implementation guides to be an instance of OurGrid middleware
  • creating and keeping a computational Community collecting the resources of various small laboratories
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