Progress of Grid technology in Argentina:Lessons learned from EELA

M.T.DOVA ET AL

Catania, Italia

Conferencia; 3rd EELA Conference; 2007

Universidad de Catania

The EELA project aimed to create a collaboration network between Europe and Latin American for training in Grid technologies and the deployment of a pilot Grid infrastructure for e-science applications. Grid computing has emerged as an important new field, and its development in Argentina is particularly important for a number of reasons, such as that Argentina has recently joined the ATLAS collaboration at CERN and the increasing interest in future biomedical applications. The potential of GRID technology is well known, however, its adoption is not a trivial task as it requires significant investment in several areas. In this paper, the achievements and progress in Argentina through close collaboration with EELA are presented. Among these are the deployment of  a Grid Certification Authority infrastructure that  is a crucial component in the activities of the e-Science community in the country; the deployment, integration and validation of a small local EELA node; installation and running of an analysis ATLAS application on the EELA infrastructure. The experience gained in  participating in EELA dissemination events also allowed us to actively promote the GRID and training for its use different target audiences in Argentina and in LA.