What is Gridipedia?

Gridipedia is the public repository managed by the BEinGRID project. The objective of the repository is to provide industry with useful information about how GRID solutions can solve some important business problems. Gridipedia includes collected documents on Grid technologies, technical reports, manuals, general Grid related business reports and links to existing Grid middlewares. Gridipedia also aims to host interoperable high-level grid services with the necessary glue software and the instructions on how to use them interoperably.

What is BEinGRID?

BEinGRID is a FP6 Integrated Project that aims to bring GRID technologies to the industry. The project focusses around two complementary activities. Firstly, the project will undertake a series of targeted business experiment pilots designed to implement and deploy Grid solutions in a broad spectrum of European business sectors. Eighteen business experiments are planned in the initial stage of the project with a second call for proposals in the latter stage. Secondly, a toolset repository of Grid service components and best practise will be created to support European businesses that wish to take-up this important new technology.

To minimise redevelopment of components, BEinGRID will deploy innovative Grid solutions using existing Grid components from across the European Union and beyond.

The outcome of the project will be a series of success stories from the take-up of Grid solutions by the businesses represented in the project, a repository of Grid middleware components and best practise, and a strong exploitation message from these success stories to stimulate the long-term take-up of Grid solutions by European business.