IFCA&DORII

Deploying of Remote Instrumentation Infrastructures - DORII

The DORII project is supported by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme. The project aims to deploy e-Infrastructure for new scientific communities, where on the one hand ICT technology is still not present at the appropriate level today, while on the other hand it is demanded to empower the communities’ daily work.

The main focus of the DORII project is on groups of scientific users with experimental equipment and instrumentation that are currently not or only partially integrated in the European e-Infrastructures. At present, following selected scientific areas are represented in the project:

Earthquake community (with various sensor networks)
Environmental science community
Experimental science community (with synchrotron and free electron lasers)

These scientific communities are well recognised and organised even in the industrial area represented by SMEs. In practice, this means that the organisations are members of bigger consortia which deal with the topics mentioned above, but also focus on research aiming for a better experimental environment.

Working closely with end-users, solutions will be put in place that build upon the success of past and ongoing projects in such areas as remote instrumentation (GRIDCC, RINGrid), interactivity (int.eu.grid), software frameworks for application developers (g-Eclipse) and advanced networking technologies (GN2) with EGEE based middleware.

Finally, to insure the interoperability and sustainability of DORII, DORII will promote standardisation and knowledge transfer via e-IRG and OGF research groups.

The DORII project will deliver solutions based on proven methodologies and technology while minimising risk through regular communication with end-users and exploitation of results with recognized organizations.

IFCA Participation

Dissemination and Knowledge Transfer Activity (NA2)

Remote Instrumentation Communities and Application Support Activity (NA3). The contributions of IFCA for this activity are the following:

Installing and mantaining a local instance of the Virtual Control Room (VCR).
Supporting the porting and development of the ECOHYDROS application to the grid, as well as their instruments integration.

Deployment and Management of Production Infrastructure Activity (SA2).

Supporting the project generic VO vo.dorii.es in the local EGEE site with 318 CPUs.
Supporting the project private VOs ihidra and ienvmod in the local I2G site with 276 CPUs and >1 TB storage
Installing and setting up a Service Availability Monitoring (SAM) Server
Hosting a Hierarchical Grid Site Management (HGSM) database replica with additional information and geographical representation of each site resources.