Release of the 1st version of the D4Science production infrastructure

This version of the D4Science production infrastructure involves sites contributed by CNR, ESA, NKUA, UNIBASEL, ENG, BDM-USTRATH, and also includes one EGEE production site from Ireland. It runs the DHN-based version of the gCube software and gLite.

The infrastructure hosts the resources provided by the Environmental Monitoring (EM) community and currently supports the ImpECT Virtual Organisation and its Virtual Research Environments (VREs).

These VREs are accessible through the D4Science portal at: http://portal.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu. Note that at this stage only project members can access the D4Science production infrastructure by completing the registration form.

This is a good opportunity for project members to exploit a VRE, get familiar with the interface, run basic demonstrations, show and discuss these concepts with other users. For this purpose, a Demo VRE has been set up. The EM community members also have access to two EM specific VREs: Digital Library and Vegetation. This is also the first experience for the technical team in operating the production environment, and it is already leading to a number of enhancements (software configurations, operational procedures and tools).