European Desktop Grid Initiative

						Acronym
						EDGI					

						Status
						Finished					

						Funding
						H2020					

                    	Start Date
                        
                            Jan 01 2011						
                    
                    	End Date
                        
                            Sep 30 2012                        
                    
                    	Budget

The aim of the FP7 EDGI project is to develop middleware that consolidates the results achieved in the EDGeS project concerning the extension of Service Grids with Desktop Grids (DGs) in order to support European Grid Initiative (EGI) and National Grid Initiative user communities that are heavy users of Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) and require an extremely large number of CPUs and cores. EDGI will go beyond existing DCIs that are typically cluster Grids and supercomputer Grids, and will extend them with public and institutional Desktop Grids and Clouds. EDGI will integrate software components of ARC, gLite, Unicore, BOINC, XWHEP, 3G Bridge, and Cloud middleware such as OpenNebula and Eucalyptus into SG-DG-Cloud platforms for service provision and as a result EDGI will extend ARC, gLite and Unicore Grids with volunteer and institutional DG systems.

lsds-rg, as subcontractor, is responsible for integrating the XtremWeb-CH volunteer computing platform into the EDGI infrastructure.

More details are available from the EGDI website.