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====== Large Collaborative Research Projects ======

Our group is or have been involved in the following collaborative research projects:

==== BEACON - Enabling Federated Cloud Networking ====

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[[http://www.beacon-project.eu|BEACON]] (2015-2017) is a 3,5-million-Euro EU-funded initiative (EU grant agreement 644048) funded by the the Horizon 2020 framework programme under the Advanced Cloud Infrastructures and ServicesSoftware Engineering, Services and Cloud Computing (ICT-07-2014) area, aimed at researching and developing techniques to federate cloud network resources and to derive the integrated management cloud layer that enables an efficient and secure deployment of federated cloud applications.


==== PANACEA - Proactive Autonomic Management of Cloud Resources ====

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[[http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/110221_en.html|PANACEA]] (2013-2016) is a 3,3-million-Euro EU-funded initiative (EU grant agreement 610764) funded by the 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme) under the Software Engineering, Services and Cloud Computing (ICT-10-1.2) area, aimed at providing Proactive Autonomic Management of Cloud Resources as a remedy to the exponentially growing complexity. 

==== CloudCatalyst - Reenergize productivity, efficiency and competitiveness of European economy through Cloud Computing  ====

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[[http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/110132_en.html|CloudCtalayst]] (2013-2015) is a 1-million-Euro EU-funded initiative (EU grant agreement 612053) funded by the 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme) under the Software Engineering, Services and Cloud Computing (ICT-10-1.2) area, aimed at providing useful tools to foster the adoption of Cloud Computing in Europe.

==== BonFIRE - Building Service Testbeds on FIRE ====

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[[http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/95485_en.html
|BonFIRE]] (2010-2013) is a 8,5-million-Euro EU-funded initiative (EU grant agreement 257386) funded by the 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme)
under the Future Internet Experimental Facility and Experimentally-driven Research (ICT-2009.1.6) area, aimed at designing, building and operating a multi-site cloud facility to support applications, services and systems research targeting the Internet of Services community within the Future Internet.

==== 4CaaSt – Building the PaaS Cloud of the Future ====

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[[http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/95253_en.html
|4CaaSt]] (2010-2013) is a 15-million-Euro EU-funded initiative (EU grant agreement 258862) funded by the 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme)
under the Internet of Services, Software & virtualisation (ICT-2009.1.2) area, aimed at creating an advanced PaaS Cloud platform which supports the optimized and elastic hosting of Internet-scale multi-tier  applications. 4CaaSt embeds all the necessary features, easing programming of rich applications and enabling the creation of a true business ecosystem where applications coming from different providers can be tailored to different users, mashed up and traded together.

==== StratusLab - Enhancing Grids with Virtualization and Cloud ====

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[[http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/95744_en.html
|StratusLab]] (2010-2012) is a 3,5-million-Euro EU-funded initiative (EU grant agreement 261552) funded by the 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme)
under the Distributed Computing Infrastructure (INFRA-2010-1.2.1) area, aimed at enhancing Grid Infrastructures with Cloud Computing.

==== IGE - Initiative for Globus in Europe ====

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[[http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/95256_en.html
|IGE]] (2010-2013) is a 3,7-million-Euro EU-funded initiative (EU grant agreement 261560) funded by the 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme)
under the Distributed Computing Infrastructure (INFRA-2010-1.2.1) area, aimed at serving as a comprehensive service provider for the European e-infrastructures regarding the development, customisation, provisioning, support, and maintenance of components of the Globus Toolkit.

==== RESERVOIR– Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers ====

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[[http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/85304_en.html
|RESERVOIR]] (2008-2011) is a 17-million-Euro EU-funded initiative (EU grant agreement 215605) in the first FP7 call for proposals for Objective 1.2 Software and Service Architectures, Engineering and Infrastructure. RESERVOIR is a joint research programme coordinated by IBM with 13 European partners: Elsag Datamat, CETIC, OGF.eeig standards organisation, SAP Research, Sun Microsystems, Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo, Thales, Umea University, University College of London, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, University of Lugano and University of Messina. The aim of the project is to **develop the infrastructure technology to support the setup and deployment of services on-demand, at competitive costs, across administrative domains, assuring quality of service**. The project will develop new Grid and virtualization technologies that will help automate the fluctuating demand for resources in a cloud-computing environment. Our group leads de activity on management of Virtual Execution Environments.

==== EGEE - Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project ====

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The [[http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/87264_en.html|Enabling Grids for E-sciencE]] EU-funded (2008-2010) project brings together scientists and engineers from more than 240 institutions in 45 countries world-wide to **provide a seamless Grid infrastructure for e-Science** that is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day. The EGEE Grid consists of 41,000 CPU available to users 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in addition to about 5 PB disk (5 million Gigabytes) + tape MSS of storage, and maintains 100,000 concurrent jobs. Having such resources available changes the way scientific research takes place. In **EGEE-II** (EU contract IST-2005-031688) and **EGEE-III** (EU grant agreement 22667), our group is involved in [[http://egeena4.lal.in2p3.fr/|NA4: Application Identification & Support]].

==== BEinGRID - Business Experiments in GRID ====

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[[http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/79512_en.html|BEinGRID]] (2005-2009) is the European Union’s largest integrated project (EU contract IST-2005-034702) funded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) research, part of the EU’s sixth research Framework Programme (FP6). The BEinGRID consortium is composed of 75 partners who are running eighteen **Business Experiments designed to implement and deploy Grid solutions in industrial key sectors**. Our group participates in [[http://www.beingrid.eu/index.php?id=be14 | BE14: New Product & Process Development]].