Background

IST Africa is a conference series focussing on ICT issues in Africa, held annually. The 2009 conference is the 4th in the series and will be held in Kamapala, Uganda. For more information, see http://www.ist-africa.org/conference2009 SAGrid will be presented in a paper entitled "The South African National Grid"

SAGrid paper

The SAGrid paper was written by ValeriaArdizzone and BruceBecker.

Author list

The paper relies on work done by technicians and scientists at the sites which were operational at the time of submission (October 2008), as well as those GILDA staff which were essential to the work. These are therefore :

• Valeria ARDIZZONE (INFN, CT)
• Bruce BECKER (INFN, CA ; UCT-CERN ; Meraka)
• Albert GAZENDAM (Meraka)
• Albert Van ECK (UFS)
• Gareth De VAUX (UCT-CERN)
• Sean MURRAY (iThemba LABS)
• Sergio BALLESTRERO (Wits)
• Norman IVES6 (Wits)
• Roberto BARBERA (INFN, CT)
• Emidio GIORGIO (INFN, CT)
• GianniMario? RICCIARDI (INFN, CT)

It should be remembered that the author list should reflect who did the work and can change over time, for further publications on SAGrid.

Article outline

The article was the first published article on SAGrid. Being submitted to the IST Africa conference, it had to follow a certain schema. First, the outline of the current situation in Africa with regard to ICT access was given. Then the objectives of the SAGrid project and a discussion around the methodology adopted to develop the project itself as well as user communities was presented. A discussion around the technology used, divided into software and hardware technologies is given, followed by an overview of SANReN? . Further developments such as the SA CA, JRU, integration projects and dissemination and training activities are covered. An attempt is made at making a case for potential business benefits and finally some conclusions and suggestions for further work are given.

The Article

The final version of the paper itself is attached to this page, and can be downloaded from the conference programme

-- BruceBecker - 29 Apr 2009

• ISTAfrica_Paper_ref_95_doc_2752.pdf: Final version of IST Africa paper.