New applications and new image for gcube

gCube has evolved beyond its original design intentions. It was born to extend the grid spirit of resource sharing to service-oriented applications. Its name and logo were conceived to express this key characteristic: sharing. Sharing of computing power, sharing of data, and sharing of application services. Three times sharing.

gCube is now a mature system that allows distributed and dynamic communities (Virtual Organisations) to collaborate and share resources simply and efficiently within a common e-Infrastructure. It does so by creating on-demand Virtual Research Environments (VREs). Starting from a set of hardware, data and service resources, gCube can dynamically setup and manage a VRE for both long and short term research projects. Within the VRE, different types of information can be processed and new knowledge and services can be shared.

Moreover, gCube has grown to include a number of key applications for its users. Now, the management of large statistical data can be easily outsourced to the e-Infrastructure; the prediction of the impact of climate change on marine species distribution can be done quickly by biologists and marine scientists; the generation of live report integrating different media objects automatically generated on-demand has become a reality, etc.