Integrating Ukraine into European Grid infrastructure

Abstract

Ukrainian Grid community has established Ukrainian National Grid Initiative (UNGI) which has joined up the major active European projects EGEE and EGI. The community of objectives based on the involvement in world leading scientific projects is elucidated. General features of UNGI and European Grid structures and projects together with various Grid-based applications supported by UNGI are discussed. Current UNGI activities and its future plans in view of realistic computational and human resources are described. The problems and prospects of rapidly progressing Ukrainian Grid infrastructure on the way of international cooperation and integration are illuminated.