gCube is being developed by the Technical Committee of the DILIGENT project as the next generation middleware for supporting information retrieval on the grid.

The following partners are involved in the design and development of various aspects of the gCube system:

	Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" Italy	Design / Development
	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece	Design / Development
	Universität Basel Switzerland	Design / Development
	University of Strathclyde United Kingdom	Design / Development
	FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V Germany	Design / Development
	Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A Rome Italy	Design / Development
	Fast Search and Transfer ASA Norway	Design / Development
	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Switzerland	Integration
	4D SOFT Software Development Ltd. Hungary	Testing

The gCube Technical Committee (Tcom) brings together a diverse group of professionals, software developers and highly qualified researchers with complementary competences in grid computing and virtual research environments.

The gCube Tcom is working in strong collaboration with two user communities represented in the project by the “EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY” and by “SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE for its Center for the Data Processing of Texts and Images in the Literary Tradition (CTL)” and “RAI - RADIOTELEVISIONE ITALIANA S.P.A.”. Their contribution to the gCube system has been fundamental to identify user requirements and validate the complete system. In particular, they provided environmental data, models, tools, algorithms and instruments to integrate in the gCube framework.

DILIGENT is partially funded by the European Union under the Sixth Framework Program, Information Society Technologies priority (2002-2006) The European Union is established in accordance with the Treaty on European Union (Maastricht). There are currently 27 Member States of the Union. It is based on the European Communities and the member states cooperation in the fields of Common Foreign and Security Policy and Justice and Home Affairs. The five main institutions of the European Union are the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers, the European Commission, the Court of Justice and the Court of Auditors. (http://europa.eu.int/)