HEP Grid Coordination Effort (HICB)
Participants in HICB
- GriPhyN, PPDG, iVDGL, TeraGrid, EU-DataGrid, CERN
- National efforts (USA, France, Italy, UK, NL, Japan, …)
Have agreed to collaborate, develop joint infrastructure
- 1st meeting Mar. 2001 Amsterdam (GGF1)
- 2nd meeting Jun. 2001 Rome (GGF2)
- 3rd meeting Oct. 2001 Rome
- 4th meeting Feb. 2002 Toronto (GGF4)
Coordination details
- Joint management, technical boards, open software agreement
- Inter-project dependencies, mostly High energy physics
- Grid middleware development & integration into applications
- Major Grid and network testbeds ? iVDGL + DataTAG