RedCLARA supports EELA at first conference

RedCLARA representatives attended the first EELA conference in Chile to update Latin America’s grid community on the network’s status. RedCLARA is the underlying infrastructure and an essential tool for the region’s rapidly growing grid community. The EELA (E-Infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America) event was structured around four main sessions:

• RedCLARA status update from Network Engineer Eriko Porto, and an explanation of the current situation of the Latin American NRENs.
• Collaboration with other Grid Projects, including EGEE-II and SEEGRID2, and the potential for interaction between these and EELA.
• An update on EELA’s own activities, and the work packages operating within it.
• Grid Communities and applications. The long-term sustainability of Grid Infrastructures requires involvement and take-up by a wide range of disciplines and applications. This session gave a voice to these emerging communities.

The Second EELA conference will follow up on the importance of application-based Grids. Bernard Marechal, EELA Deputy Project Coordinator said, "This conference should focus on applications relevant to Latin American countries from a sociological/human point of view (e-Health, e-Education, e-Government, e-Society etc)" with the aim of "opening doors to industry".

The Second EELA conference will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in May 2007.