P. Tsanakas Prof. Panayiotis Tsanakas received his BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Thessaloniki, his MSc in Computer Engineering from Ohio University, and his PhD in Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. He is currently serving as professor of computer engineering in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. He has participated in several national and EU-sponsored projects, in subjects covering e-Infrastructures, distributed systems, parallel computer architectures, embedded systems, grid computing, and medical informatics. He has published four textbooks and more than 80 research articles in scientific journals and international conferences. He is currently the Chairman of GRNET, responsible for the deployment and operation of the national R&E network, along with large-scale national HPC and IaaS facilities. He has also served as a member of the national telecom regulator (EETT). His research interests include high performance computer systems architectures, cloud computing, and distributed applications in medicine.
We present the current status and the long-term plans for the hellenic research e-infrastructures. The particular cases of academic networking, cloud computing/storage services, and supercomputing services are covered, along with the adopted access mechanisms that enforce the principles of transparency, efficiency, security and openness.
Special emphasis is given to advanced use cases from the areas of bioinformatics, earth monitoring and medical imaging data management, combined with the challenges of maintaining fair access, keeping the properties of scalability, and getting the relevant operational costs at the lowest possible level.