The Grid and High Performance Computing Group (GRyCAP) from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), has a very strong background in distributed cloud computing and data management, especially in the area of biomedicine. GRyCAP has shared and extended its expertise through active participation in over 30 national and European R&D projects on HPC, grid and cloud technologies. These projects include HPCN-TTN Network, EUTIST-M and TT@MED – technology dissemination; EGEE-I, II, III, EGI- InSPIRE, EGI-ENGAGE and VENUS-C – e-infrastructures.

It is one of the founders of the Institute for Instrumentation for Molecular Imaging (I3M) and has taken part in the International HealthGrid Association. It has also developed a roadmap on the use of grids in health (SHARE), and boasts a solid research line in the distributed storage of medical imaging data through the TRENCADIS platform (CVIMO project). Relevant GRyCAP expertise includes: coordination of the cloud end-user community (27 applications, 20 coming from an Open Call) in the VENUS-C project, one of the first cloud projects to feature in the DAE; the development of distributed and Grid-Computing platforms with Latin American countries: CyTED-GRiD, EELA and EELA-2, the EUBra-BIGSEA, the EU-BrazilOpenBio Project and the EUBrazil Cloud Connect project (the UPV is the coordinator), and development of high-level middleware components for cloud infrastructures in the Spanish Codecloud project (and the recently approved CLUVIEM project) and coordination of the Spanish Network for e-Science to implement the Spanish National Grid Initiative (NGI). The UPV also participates in the INDIGO-DATACLOUD H2020 project on cloud middleware services development.

Role in ATMOSPHERE

The UPV is the European Coordinator of ATMOSPHERE. The main technical contributions of the UPV will focus on the development of the federated cloud services and the leading of the Use Cases Workpackage, participating in the use of the trustworthy cloud services for the adaptation of the medical imaging processing application in this workpackage.

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European