e-Infrastructures Roadmap - Internet Society Nederland

e-Infrastructures RoadmapResourcesThe European Science Grid as an integrated approach to serve the European scientific usercommunities should be populated with a number of resources in order for it to add value to theindividual components. The word resources in this context should be interpreted in a broad way,covering literally everything that is of interest to science from computers, large storage facilities,telescopes, satellites, special physics equipment, weather balloons, lasers, spectrometers, visualisationmeans and large sensor networks. A resource can also refer to large data collections, artificial intelligenceagents and even people as support organizations that can be shared between institutes. The onlyrequirement is that the resource (from supercomputer to cell phone) can at some point exchangethe necessary information through standardized interfaces, i.e. grid protocols. The end goal is a richecosystem of resources that offer a broad gamma of hardware, software, services and data spaces.A number of destinations are available for Resources:• Centrally owned or large grained, shared use:- Supercomputer infrastructures for Europe- European Storage Facilities- Making sense of sensors• Data for the grid (Locally owned, pooled and shared)- Grid-enabled instruments- Leveraging new technologies- Incentives for providing grid resources36 37