1. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies INSERT PROJECT ACRONYM HERE BY EDITING THE MASTER SLIDE (VIEW / MASTER / SLIDE MASTER) DEGREE DEGREE Partner: Institute Informatics, SAS (IISAS, coordinator) CNRS (F), CGG (F), KNMI (NL), Dutch SPACE (NL),ESA (IT) FHG/SCAI (DE), GSRAS (RUS), University de Neuchatel (CH)

2. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies The Earth Science world Atmosphere Ocean Biosphere Cryosphere Noisy observations Optimal Trajectory First guess time Field Coupled and inter- disciplinary processes Complex web of sensor Complex data analysis

3. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies INSERT PROJECT ACRONYM HERE BY EDITING THE MASTER SLIDE (VIEW / MASTER / SLIDE MASTER) Objectives Disseminate, promote uptake of Grid in wider ES community and integrate newcomers Disseminate, promote uptake of Grid in wider ES community and integrate newcomers Reduce the gap between ES Users and Grid Technology Reduce the gap between ES Users and Grid Technology Explain and convince ES users of Grid benefits and capability to tackle new and complex problems Explain and convince ES users of Grid benefits and capability to tackle new and complex problems

4. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies DEGREE Challenges Diversity of Grid middleware and tools Diversity of Grid middleware and tools Problems of porting applications Need standardization Evaluating technologies that are under development Evaluating technologies that are under development Need tight cooperation with developers to follow the evolution Developers can benefit from the feedbacks Still gaps between scientific users and grid technologies Still gaps between scientific users and grid technologies Use portal technologies to hide Grid complexity Improve Grid awareness of ES community Complex requirements from applications Complex requirements from applications Different requirements of different applications Applications may use non-standardized protocols/tools Need to find common denominator of application requirements and existing tools functionality

5. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies GRID and Earth Science Grid has great potential for ES: see results in DataGrid, CrossGrid, EGEE…. Grid has great potential for ES: see results in DataGrid, CrossGrid, EGEE…. Opportunity to larger scale analysis Application on alert Interactive collaboration on data access and exchange ES applications need consolidated/stable GRID infrastructures ES applications need consolidated/stable GRID infrastructures Not ES role to develop middleware community wait for easier and operational way to interface applications enable more processing-intensive, data-intensive and complex applications (data fusion, data assimilation, data mining, modelling …) e-collaboration, e-collaboration, e.g. sharing of data sources, tools, means, models, algorithms … Participation to international cooperative development (e.g. GTOS, GEOSS,…)

6. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies Key technology advancement Follow technology advancement of Grid projects Follow technology advancement of Grid projects Evaluating the technologies while they are still under development Tight cooperation with developers to follow the direction of technology development Actively give requirements and feedbacks from ES community to developers and influence the technology development Actively give requirements and feedbacks from ES community to developers and influence the technology development Data management Job management Web services

7. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies Overview of Project Earth Science Community RequirementsRequirements TechnologiesTechnologies FeedbackFeedback ApplicationsApplications DisseminationDissemination ESR VO EGEE & other GRIDS EGEODE VO