D6.3: Analysis of New Services

In Task 6.2 of work package WP6 we analyse new services with particular focus on the prototypal implementations of these services at a pre-production level. At the end Task 6.2 will assess the functionality of these services and promote their adoption in the future if the analysis is a success.
Services which are analysed in this document are:

• Service 1: The provision of urgent computing
• Service 2: Links with large-scale scientific instruments
• Service 3: Integrating tools and methods to simplify post-processing and visualization activities
• Service 4: Provision of repositories for European open source scientific libraries and Applications

The work in Task 6.2 was coordinated by FIS. Partners working on this task were grouped in four subgroups, one for each new service.
In Deliverable D6.3 we consider all 4 services and describe the state-of-the-art in the corresponding area, the standards that the new services will rely on, the potential users of the new services and the relevant policies that influence the particular services. For each new service we also describe at least one pilot and define its main ingredients (specifications) as well as the main steps that will be done by the end of the project in order to implement this service at the prototypal level and perform its evaluation.