Rusion Kurcharov Institute to cooperate with NCSA Alliance in the USAMoscow 17 April 2001 Evgeny Velikhov signed a partnership agreement with the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) making the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow the first member of the new Alliance Affiliates programme.
Velikhov is president of the Kurchatov Institute and the former vice
president of the Russian Academy of Science. He has been an informal
advisor to Russian presidents on science and technology issues and is the
driving force behind the development of the Russian Internet as a tool for
science and education.
The US Alliance Affiliates programme gives institutions that are not part of the
Alliance partnership, including institutions outside the U.S., the chance
to participate in the Alliance's efforts to develop and deploy a Grid-based
computing infrastructure and related emerging technologies. Specifically,
the programme aims to develop collaborative projects that further the
Alliance's development and deployment efforts and to transfer knowledge
about Alliance technologies to groups that are not member institutions in
the National Science Foundation's Partnerships for Advanced Computational
Infrastructure (PACI) programme.
Through its partnership with the Alliance, the Kurchatov Institute and the
Russian Institute for Public Networking, which operates the primary
Internet backbone for Russian R and D, will have the chance to work with the
Alliance to explore opportunities for collaboration between the U.S. and
Russian research communities. Collaborative projects could involve a wide
range of disciplines including physics, nuclear science, computational
science, information science and technology, space science, distance
learning, visualization, and advanced networking.
Another goal of the Alliance-Kurchatov Institute collaboration will be to
extend the Russian research community's access to U.S. researchers via
advanced networks designed to link the U.S. and Russian scientific
communities. Greg Cole, one of the principal investigators with the
U.S.-Russian MIRnet programme recently moved from the University of Tennessee
to NCSA, based at ACCESS. Cole said the new relationship "will open up many
areas of cooperation, especially in computational science and advanced
networking."
MIRnet is a joint U.S.-Russian project to provide high-performance
networking services to link the U.S. and Russian science communities.
Leaders of the Alliance and the Kurchatov Institute will meet at least once
a year to review progress made by the partnership and to discuss new
initiatives. The initial partnership runs through April 17, 2003.
For more on MIRnet see
http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/mirnet/home.html.
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