Tag Archives: FP7

The successful BonFIRE first OpenCall

BonFIRE facility has been opened to incorporate experiments into the project. The possibility to run experiments funded by BonFIRE consortium was advertised through an Open Call. A group of external evaluators selected from the amount of candidates, the five proposals that … Continue reading

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Research projects in OFELIA

OFELIA facility has been open to the research community for free for some months already. First projects performed on it were mainly related with testing of the same facility, intra-federation of the individual islands, presentation to the FP7 FIBRE project’s … Continue reading

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Improving network utilization in cloud computing environments

Cloud computing  relies on the network as an elementary service. An increasing number of distributed computing applications pose highly-demanding requirements for dynamicity and flexibility in network and computing resource control (e.g. automated scaling up/down). However, network services are still treated … Continue reading

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First weeks since OFELIA Facility become operational

For several weeks now, OFELIA facility has been placed at disposal of researchers. The usage of the OFELIA facility is provided “as is” as a free-of-charge best-effort service. Any user accepting the usage policy is welcome to experiment on the … Continue reading

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FIBRE. Future Internet testbeds/experimentation between Brazil and Europe

i2CAT is the European coordinator of the FIBRE FP7 project, funded under the EU-Brazil collaboration call. The FIBRE project has just started in October and will be finished in 30 months. i2CAT is currently organising the Kick-Off Meeting, which will … Continue reading

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GEYSERS Development: the LICL

One of the main responsabilities of i2CAT in GEYSERS is leading the WP3: GEYSERS Logical Infrastructure Composition Layer (LICL), which has been busy the last two months working with the LICL development, to deliver a first prototype by the end … Continue reading

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OFELIA news – summer 2011

Summer 2011 is going to be a very exciting season for the OFELIA project! Check out latest news and events happening on OFELIA: OFELIA facility soon becoming operational Flow-based switching summer school OFELIA development team strengthens continuous development of OFELIA … Continue reading

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A new challenge for SMEs : RAISME project

New and small companies make-up the lifeblood of economies, particularly in times of recession and crisis. How then can we empower SMEs, often with very specialized skills, to collaborate quickly and effectively with other similar organizations to build software tools … Continue reading

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Recent publications on GEYSERS framework

An important task within a EU FP7 project is ensuring that its contents reach and impact industrial and research community, not only in Europe but also globally, so that all the project’s achievements are exploited and do not fall into … Continue reading

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GEYSERS WP2,WP3, and WP4 face-to-face meeting hosted by i2CAT!

The EC FP7 GEYSERS project has reached its first year of execution. We have released our first newsletter containing a summary of the first year activities and some of the plans to enhance GEYSERS outcomes. Beginning of February was a … Continue reading

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