Grid4All

The University of Piraeus Research Center (UPRC) has as its primary purpose to meet the needs of enterprises and organizations of the private and public sector on subjects concerning designing, programming and effective control of net-centric systems with the aim of improving their efficiency and development. Within the frame of this purpose the UPRC is busily occupied with general and applied research as well as training, by using modern means and methods. In this project, the UPRC will be represented by its faculty members and research group who are affiliated to the Department of Technology Education and Digital Systems. UPRC main contribution to the Grid4All project is through technical work in WP2 (Virtual Organizations and Resource Management) and contributing to the WP4 on Applications. UPRC has expertise in software architectures of net-centric applications, as well as the design and development of e-learning environments.

Grid4All embraces the vision of a democratic Grid as a ubiquitous utility whereby domestic users, small organisations and enterprises may draw on resources on the Internet without having to individually invest and manage computing and IT resources.

Internet and its services are central to European life – at work and at home, indoors and outdoors. The next logical step is to provide the possibility to plug-and-upgrade personal computing capacity and to secure collaborative edutainment space on the fly through managed sharing of IT resources over the Internet. Grid4All will enable Grid services to evolve from high performance computing niche markets to a multipurpose service for anybody.

Grid4All – by leveraging the large base of broadband users – is aiming to advance the pervasiveness of Grid computing across society.