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eScience is generally recognized as a complex of activities that require highly intensive computation on huge data sets in a large-scale networked distributed environment. It embraces such diverse disciplines as particle and high-energy physics, meteorology, astronomy, astrophysics, geo-science, and biology, just to mention a few. Summarizing requirements coming from its various domains, e-Science generally lacks a stable and reliable infrastructure to support complex experiments based on remotely accessed instrumentation. Over a number of recent years the European as well as worldwide Grid infrastructure has grown substantially and provides significant computing and storage resources to various research and development communities. In the main application areas of the modern Grid much interest has recently arisen around operational support of instruments, sensors, and laboratory equipment in general. The complex of activities related to this topic can be summarized under the interdisciplinary subject “Remote Instrumentation”. The efficiency and efficacy of using instrumentation remotely might be largely improved by integration with the existing distributed computing and storage infrastructures, like Grids. However, due to the complexity of needed adaptation and integration efforts, the traditional infrastructures have not been successfully applied by a good deal of scientific communities so far. The widespread adoption of the Grid by scientific applications utilizing Remote Instrumentation requires considerable adaptation and integration efforts to be performed at different levels – middleware, networking, and infrastructure resources. The talk discusses major activities towards establishing an e-Infrastructure for Remote Instrumentation – a Grid-based Information and Communication Technology (ICT) environment capable of covering all of the issues arising to enable Remote Instrumentation for e-Science applications.

Franco Davoli is Full Professor of Telecommunication Networks at the University of Genoa, at the Department of Communications, Computer and Systems Science (DIST). His current research interests are in dynamic resource allocation in multiservice networks, wireless mobile and satellite networks, multimedia communications and services in distributed computing environments, and energy-efficient networking. He has co-authored about 300 scientific publications in international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Int. Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley), Studies in Informatics and Control, and Simulation - Transactions of the SCS. He has been Principal Investigator in a large number of research projects and has served in several positions in the Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), an independent research organization joining 36 universities all over Italy. He was one of the founders of the CNIT National Laboratory for Multimedia Communications in Naples, Italy, which he led for the term 2003-2004, and Vice-President of the CNIT Management Board for the term 2005-2007.

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