Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)
The mission of the BME is the differentiated, multi-level, wide base quality education, elite-training, research and development based on an intense bachelor and master training. The legal predecessor of BME, the Institute Geometrico-Hydrotechnicum (Institute of Engineering) was established in 1782, one of the first institution on the world awards engineering degrees to students. In 1871 foremost has become the first polytechnic on the world. Its 8 faculties are currently attended by more than 18,000 students in day courses and nearly 8,000 students participating in other forms of education (correspondence, distance learning).
The mission of the BME is the differentiated, multi-level, wide base quality education, elite-training, research and development based on an intense bachelor and master training. The legal predecessor of BME, the Institute Geometrico-Hydrotechnicum (Institute of Engineering) was established in 1782, one of the first institution on the world awards engineering degrees to students. In 1871 foremost has become the first polytechnic on the world. Its 8 faculties are currently attended by more than 18,000 students in day courses and nearly 8,000 students participating in other forms of education (correspondence, distance learning).
Centre of Information Technology (BME IK)
The base responsibility of BME IK is research and development. As an university level entity it is able to involve researchers and developers from various areas of specialities of BME. In its 10 years of existence BME IK has taken part in several, mainly IT related successful R&D projects.
BME IK played a major role in the following grid-related projects:
- Testing distributed, extended file systems. The aim of the project is to test the product HP SFS of Hewlett-Packard in Grid related environment and finding solutions to problems caused by limited bandwidth and network errors, as well as developing an appropriate synchronizing method.
- Industrial usage of Grid systems/ The goal of the project is the industrial usage of the BME-developed Parallel Hybrid Algorithm (PHA) in Grid environment. The engineering application helps calculating spatial deformations of reinforced concrete bars with which design of long (L>20m) concrete bars can be made easier and their production more economical.
- Enabling Grids for E-sciencE in Europe (EGEE-I, EGEE-II, EGEE-III). The project is one of the biggest projects funded by the European Commission, which aims to build on recent advances in grid technology and develop a service grid infrastructure which is available to scientists, researchers, developers and industrial applications 24 hours-a-day.
- Supporting new generation community WEB services and applications by secure business GRID platform. The main aim of the project is to facilitate the commercial and non-profit exploitation of the EDGeS EU FP7 Desktop Grid project and the HAGRID project focusing on the Desktop Grid and WEB2 technologies. On one hand the WEB2 technologies assist to assure the resources in the desktop grid community on voluntary or settlement bases. On the other hand, the developed platform which is extended with many Hungarian desktop grid systems offers back-end infrastructure for the operational requirements of WEB2 portals, for security requirements, for systems requiring large IT capacity, and for tasks defined by community member end-users.