Concept and Project Objectives. The aim of e-ScienceTalk is to build on the significant achievements of the “GridTalk: co-ordinating grid reporting across Europe” project in bringing the success stories of Europe’s e-Infrastructure to policy makers in government and business, to the broader scientific community and to the general public. The key challenges will be to work with the emerging European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) ecosystem as it becomes established, to maintain and enhance the high quality of the existing GridTalk outputs, to report on the interactions of grid computing with other e-Infrastructures, such as cloud computing and supercomputing and to explore the long-term sustainability of e-ScienceTalk’s products. Over the last 10 years, the European Commission and governments across Europe have invested hundreds of millions of Euros in scientific grid computing and e-Infrastructures. European scientists now have access to state-of-the-art computational and data resources located around the globe, putting European research into a world-leading position. These grid and interacting e-Infrastructures allow Europe to benefit from research that addresses the greatest challenges facing the planet today, such as climate change, pandemics and sustainable energy. Grid infrastructures are now moving towards a sustainable and more user-centric model through the European Grid Infrastructure, which will integrate national operations at a European level. During this transition, it is essential to keep the achievements and impact of grid, distributed and high performance computing at the forefront of people’s minds, through dissemination projects that cross national and even international boundaries. While the first phase of GridTalk focused principally on communicating the benefits, success stories and challenges of grid computing, e-ScienceTalk will expand its focus outwards from a central core of grid computing to cover the interactions and offerings from other e-Infrastructures, such as cloud computing, the supercomputing networks of DEISA and PRACE and the networking layer of GÉANT. This blurring of boundaries is being increasingly driven by the needs of users, such as the life sciences and fusion communities, and the future users represented by the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) projects. By broadening its approach in this way, e-ScienceTalk will increase its relevance to the general public, policy makers and the broader scientific community, helping to ens...
Concept and Project Objectives. Embedded systems are essential to ensuring a leading position for Europe in key industrial sectors services. This is well-recognized in the ICT FP7 priorities, and through the ARTEMIS ETP under construction. Embedded systems design is an emerging scientific discipline, mobilizing a large international community, around a set of fundamental challenging and multi- disciplinary problems. For this discipline to emerge, a considerable focused research effort by the best teams is needed.
Concept and Project Objectives. Introduction Mobile (LTE/LTE-Advanced) “5G” Macro Pico 2G/3G Mobile Core Components IP/MPLS Backbone Wi-Fi 1 … N Edge Router Fixed Core Components 1 … N Motivation
Concept and Project Objectives. The objective of the BalticGrid-II project is to increase the impact, adoption and reach of the recently created e- Infrastructure in the Baltic States. Also the e-Science infrastructure of the Baltic States, needs to be much better leveraged with the European Research Area By extending the BalticGrid to Belarus the project will provide an extended and reinforced e-Infrastructure in the Baltic region fully interoperable with the pan-European e-Infrastructures established by EGEE and EGEE associated projects. The proposed extension of the BalticGrid into Belarus is well in line with the European Neighbourhood Policy intentions1; In NA2, the Education, Training, Dissemination and Outreach activity, the impact and adoption is addressed through three to four Project Conferences, one Scientific Conference, innovative events like Grid festival, regular Grid seminars arranged by each Baltic partner, Grid Tutorials, and a Grid Summer School. In NA3 Applications Identification and Collaboration, the impact and adoption is addressed through organisational efforts to ensure the involvement of the National academies of science and governmental science funding agencies in the region. It is also addressed by supporting the collaboration within specific scientific areas, especially through the Special Interests Group portal. In SA1 Grid Operations, expansion of the Grid infrastructure is supported by an extension to Belarus and Grid core services are established in each country for increased reliability and sustainability. More EGEE-certified sites will be added. By the end of the project the NGI-s should be self-sustainable, to be able to join a potential EGI effort Provision is made for both capability and capacity computing resources to be part of the infrastructure. In SA2 Network Provisioning a Network Coordination Centre (NCC) will be establish to coordinate and consolidate the different multi-domain entities that manages the networks in the region. In NA3 Application Identification and Collaboration, key scientific areas are investigated and organisational and technical means for the promotion of scientific collaborations are provided, using SIG portals, Migrating Desktop and Gridcom. 1 see xxxx://xx.xxxxxx.xx/world/enp/index_en.htm In NA4 Policy and Standards Development, standards and policies that could benefit the development of the Baltic e- Infrastructure are identified and communicated to other activities. In SA3 Application Integration and Support a number...
Concept and Project Objectives. The principal ITN objective is the training of a new generation of linguistic experts able to cooperate across national boundaries on the establishment of a common language resources infrastructure and its exploitation for the construction of the next generation of language models with wide theoretical and applied significance. Specifically in the field of languages, there is a need to transfer theoretical models and approaches from one language to other languages, and to coordinate research on issues of multilinguality across boundaries, respecting the specific needs of different languages and language groups while striving for models that are applicable across boundaries in a tightly integrated European information society. Recent advances in technology and widespread research efforts have expanded both the size of corpora and the extent of their annotations, e.g. in the area of deep syntactic annotation (treebanks), semantic and pragmatic annotation, and multilingual (parallel) corpora, while also various speech and multimodal corpora are becoming available. From corpora as basic resources, other resources are being derived, e.g. lexicons, frequency lists, word nets, term banks, etc. Although a large number of language resources have been produced to date, many scientific and organizational challenges remain, including the following: ⮚ Theories and modeling approaches have not yet been applied on a wide range of languages, while some languages or language types (e.g. morphologically rich languages) may present special challenges. ⮚ Parsers and other tools tend to be language specific (English in particular) and many tools for creating modules, resources and applications impose restrictions in their further use by SMEs and researchers. ⮚ The gap between academic models and the needs of industrial actors who aim at real life applications remains to be bridged. ⮚ The standardization and compatibility of language resources is still inadequate, despite the existence of metadata and integration initiatives like IMDI and DAM-LR, coding and annotation practices like XML and the TEI guidelines and semantic interoperability initiatives like ISO TC37/SC4 and LIRICS. ⮚ There is a lack of appropriate documentation for many resources, and moreover there is no good overview of available resources for all the European languages. ⮚ Since some resources are developed for specific purposes, there is a challenge to convert them so they can be reused for other purposes. ⮚ T...
Concept and Project Objectives. 1.1.1. The eScience ecosystem
Figure 1: Relationship between different models of distributed computing What Desktop Grids bring to (scientific) users
Concept and Project Objectives. B.1.1.1 Objectives of GALS architecture for target applications It is envisioned by the European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council (ENIAC) that during the course of the FP7 the CMOS technology miniaturisation will continue, even if increasing difficulties may slow down the pure technological progress. And in fact, the increased complexity, performance requirements, and the need for power and EMI reduction present almost unsolvable challenges to designers of complex embedded systems. The continued technology improvement towards nanoscale dimensions generates additional problems for embedded system design. The combination of complex application requirements and technology imperfections (e.g. process variability and reliability) exacerbate the problems of timing closure and clock tree generation requiring additional design iterations and extended design-to-market time. It is imperative to deal with these issues; one very promising option is the use of a Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous (GALS) design methodology. The idea of GALS system design is not entirely novel. However, despite significant research effort, the number of industrial GALS applications is currently relatively low. When analyzing why a GALS approach has not been adopted by industry we observe that several issues have not been fully addressed until now. Firstly, the design-flow for GALS chip interconnect is not mature enough to guarantee reliable and comfortable chip design. Secondly, the main strengths of GALS design, such as improvement of system integration, better EMI characteristics and power reduction, were never completely exploited and proven in practice. Lastly, the targeted GALS applications were sometimes not a perfect match with the GALS techniques. From our perspective, a GALS solution needs to have the following properties in order to be widely used: standard interfaces should be defined that will be widely adopted (rather than the existing situation in which numerous GALS proposals have each suggested their own interfaces to the synchronous world); the GALS design flow should be based on standard EDA tools extended with an additional reliable and user-friendly asynchronous tool-set; the GALS interface architecture should be based on high-throughput, low complexity solutions; the GALS interface proposal and source code should be offered free-of-charge within an open core framework to gain popularity and to break the prejudices that exist to mixed asynchronous/sy...
Concept and Project Objectives. The MOLTO project is rooted in two lines of research. One is the GF approach to multilingual grammars and interlingua-based translation pioneered by the UGOT site since the early 1990’s. The other line is semantic web technology, providing structured data that can be used as the basis of GF translation. The time is ripe to put these lines together and develop a solution to the increasingly urgent problem of real-time multilingual translation of web documents with high quality. This requires a consortium with a variety of competences. While UGOT stands for the multilingual GF technology, web technology is represented by Ontotext. UPC is the main responsible for scaling up GF translation with statistical methods. UHEL contributes with the integration of MOLTO techniques with standard translation tools and workflows. To show the generality of the techniques, three very different case studies are performed: mathematical exercises (main responsible UPC), patents (Mxw), and cultural heritage (UGOT). MOLTO builds on the results of several earlier projects, in particular the following European projects:
1. TYPES, a series of networks of excellence, developing semantic representations and interactive systems based on type theory and also GF (UGOT)
2. TALK, Tools for Ambient Linguistic Knowledge, developing GF and the resource grammar library (UGOT)
3. WebALT, Web Advanced Learning Technologies, developing GF and multilingual translation in the mathematics domain (UHEL, UPC)
4. XXX, Xxxxxxx Educational Mathematics, dissemination and further development of GF and multilingual translation in the mathematics domain (UHEL, UPC, UGOT)
5. TAO, Transitioning Applications to Ontologies, developing tools for transitioning legacy web applications to the semantic web (Ontotext)
6. TC-STAR, Technology and corpora for speech to speech translation, integrating human knowledge in data- driven translation systems (UPC) The following table shows the main achievements of the named project from the MOLTO point of view and how MOLTO builds on them. TYPES semantics and interaction natural language interface TALK domain grammars scaling up domain grammars WebALT multilingual mathematics enhanced grammar and tools JEM dissemination of WebALT extended domains and user base XXX adaptation of ontologies adaptation of ontology-based grammars TC-STAR hybrid systems new kinds of hybrid systems The mission of the MOLTO project is thus to enable multilingual translation with high quality, and wit...
Concept and Project Objectives. The network aims at a deeper understanding of properties of strongly interacting matter. This is primarily done by means of numerical simulations of QCD on supercomputers (Lattice QCD). Working Group Convening Participant Project Area WG 1 UREG Hardware Development WG 2 UEDIN Software Development and Optimisation WG 3 U WUPPERTAL Algorithmic Innovation WG 4 UNIPR Lattice Perturbation Theory WG 5 TCD Hadron Spectroscopy and Strong Decays WG 6 UCY Hadron Structure WG 7 UNIBI QCD in Extreme Conditions WG 8 CSIC The QCD Vacuum The network’s activities are organised into eight inter-related project areas which are addressed by Working Groups (WGs) that are overlapping in terms of the participating teams, ensuring close com- munication, see Table 1. Each WG is convened by the team shown in the table. These convening teams are indicated in bold type in Section B.1.3 below. A geographical representation of the Work- ing Groups is displayed in Figure 1. WGs 1-4 develop the “tools” that are used by WGs 4-8. The research is of a multi-disciplinary character, involving interlinked projects from the areas of hardware development and software design, computational algorithms and numerical simulations of quantities that are important in hadron and particle physics phenomenology and to advance our un- derstanding of quantum field theories.
Concept and Project Objectives. B.1.2.1. Project objectives
1. to advance our understanding of how mantle convection produces, and is modified by, plate tectonics by fully taking into account the interactions between physical and chemical processes as well as between crystal-scale processes and large-scale dynamics in the mantle;
2. to train 10 early-stage researchers (ESRs) and 2 experienced researchers (ERs) in state- of-the-art concepts and leading-edge research techniques that are essential to study the behaviour of complex natural systems, while providing them strong career-management skills and solid professional connections;
3. to increase the impact and international visibility of European research by structuring the research training capacities in Geodynamics via the establishment of a long-term collaboration and synergy among 7 research teams internationally recognized for their excellence in complementary fields of Earth Sciences: tectonics, mineral physics, petrology, geochemistry, seismology, and geodynamic modelling.
