The D4Science e-Infrastructure is a framework enabling secure, cost-effective and on-demand resource sharing across organisation boundaries. Powered by gCube, the D4Science e-Infrastructure lifts the grid-paradigm at an application-level and poses as a “mediator” in a market of resources aiming to accommodate the needs of resource providers and consumers. This potentially not-limited market allows a new development paradigm based on the notion of Virtual Research Environment (VRE), i.e. integrated environment providing seamless access to the needed resources as well as facilities for communication, collaboration and any kind of interaction among scientists and researchers.
To showcase these capabilities the AquaMaps VRE has been presented at the Internationl Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC). |