The A-WARE project will develop a stable, supported, commercially exploitable, high quality technology named A-WARE able to give easy access to Grid resources. A-WARE will primarily target the Grid Foundations topic of the above-mentioned strategic objective.

The project will be based on the EnginFrame Grid portal experience and on Unicore/GS technologies; EnginFrame is a framework developed by NICE, this tool is adopted by a wide number of important companies worldwide; EnginFrame is the base of the GENIUS portal adopted by EGEE; Unicore/GS is the outcome of several projects, and represents one of the most mature European middleware available today.

The guiding principle of the project will be to exploit and leverage the maturity of the Unicore/GS software components, developing a technology able to easily widen the adoption of Grid technology via a web thin-client approach based on user-friendly interfaces, hiding the complexity of the underlying Grid middleware to occasional as well as frequent users. To facilitate the exploitation, particular care will be put on simplifying the deployment of the Grid under typical industrial scenarios, such as Intranet security, single-sign-on systems, etc. Finally, another guiding principle of the project will be both to adopt and influence standards in all key project areas.

Other FP6 Grid Technologies Projects in Call 2, 3, 5