Vision Advanced Infrastructure fo Research Frédéric Noël Laboratoire G-SCOP 46, av Félix Viallet 38031 Grenoble Cedex www.g-scop.inpg.fr Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble Université Joseph Fourier
Outline A rapid overview about VISIONAIR Some points about infrastructures The process we applied to submit the project The main challenges
Accès ouvert à une large communauté de recherche pour promouvoir l'excellence de la recherche européenne Accès à des services physiques et virtuels dans le domaine de la visualisation «A world class European infrastructure about visualisation» Programme européen : INFRA-2010-1.1.29 «Advanced Digital Visualisation Facilities» Coordinateur : Frédéric Noël (Grenoble-INP) Budget total : 8M Demande auprès de la CE : 6,5 M
VISIONAIR GOALS To provide to a wide research community an access to high level visualisation techniques To create convergences between visualisation capacities spread over Europe To enlarge the visibility and attractivity of European Research for research using these technologies
A European Network Partners : 25 Countries : 12 France Allemagne Angleterre Italie Espagne Suède Hollande Pologne Grèce Hongrie Israël Belgique
Scientific topics 1. Scientific Visualisation addresses tools and methods offered to navigate in huge data set issued from scientific simulations. 2. Ultra-high Quality Image focuses on tools and methods to share high definition images and films over networks. 3. Virtual Reality focuses on high-end immersive facilities that allow users to experience virtual environments and interact with them. 4. Collaborative environments including Holography and Augmented reality associates platforms able to propose synthetics environments mixing a large set of advanced facilities for remote collaborative works.
Trans-national accesses Promotion of the infrastructure capacities Openning a call to projects with internal selection based on excellence Invitation of selected projects : researchers are hosted freely on one of the proposed sites. A full access with assistance to the technology will be provided to apply the research
Applied process 1)Understanding the infrastructure concept 2)Partners involvment 3)Structure of the trans-national access actvities 4)Structure of network and joint research activities 5)Budget in interaction with the Direction of Research in Bruxelles
Understanding Infrastructure Concept Research vs Service to research Priority is given to Transnational access Network activities and Joint Research Activities are dedicated to improve services provided in TNAs In our case, VISIONAIR is distributed because facilities were already spread in Europe
Partners involvment We focuss on several past Network of Excellence VRL-KCIP which became EMIRAcle Aim@Shape INTUITIONS We merge several complementary initiatives The initial VISIONAIR one (centred on VR and AR) One centred about scientific visualisation One centred on Ultra High Definition We started with an inventory of available facilities
Structure of TNAs In our case the high number of partners requires clusters of TNAs Visibility of the proposed topics (4) Hierarchisation of the organisation (to improve global management : leader of clusters) To open opportunities to link the facilities together
Coordination and Joint Coordination dedicated to Internal communication Research Activities External promotion of the infrastructure Organisation and management of the call to projects Technical improvement of the services Interoperability between sites Devlopment and maintenance of shared services Joint research activities Technical improvement of services Transfer of national research efforts into operational services
Budget The main difficulty is to understand the unit of access and the unit cost of an infrastructure (No investment and no VAT) to share this understanding with partners
Next Challenges Short term To initiate the promotion of the infrastructure To organise the facilities for service Long term Sustainable business plan and organisation To enlarge the infrastructure capacities New topics and services New investments