Overall objective of VI-SEEM project is to provide user-friendly integrated e-Infrastructure platform for Scientific Communities in: Climatology, Life Sciences, and Cultural Heritage for the SEEM region, by linking compute, data, and visualization resources. As well as services, software and tools.
The Detailed Objectives of VI-SEEM Project are
• Provide scientists with access to state of the art e-Infrastructure (computing, storage and connectivity resources)-available in the region and promote additional resources across the region. Metric: size of infrastructure – 21500 CPU cores, 325000 GP-GPU cores and 18500 Intel Xeon Phi cores of HPC, 2900 grid cores, 10500 cloud VM cores, 11 PBytes of storage (of which dedicated 5-15% , 10-15%, 5% and 10% respectively).
• Promote capacity building in the region (foster interdisciplinary approaches). Metrics: minimum of 39 distinct applications and 45 research teams using the VRE.
• Provide functions by data (allowing for data management for the selected Scientific Communities, link data across the region, provide data exchange across disciplines). Metrics: minimum of 30 distinct data sets.
• Provide adequate user support and training programmes (for the user communities in the SEEM region). Metrics: 18 dissemination events organized by the project with total of 1000 persons targeted, 12 training events organized by the project with 300 persons targeted.
• To rise research activities in the selected fields of Climatology, Life Sciences and Cultural Heritage. Metrics: 70 expected number of publications in project lifetime, 30 after project end. 50 presentations at the selected events.

Project members:

• Ramaz Kvatadze (Principal Investigator)

• Teimurazi Davitashvili (Coordinator)

• Nato Kutaladze (Key Personnel)

• Giorgi Mikuchadze (Key Personnel)

• Zurab Modebadze (Key Personnel)