The core services team for SAGrid as well as the HPC BigBytes team are here at the EGI Technical Forum 2012 conference in Prague, Czech Republic. This conference brings together grid experts from all over the world to discuss and present on data grids, compute grids and research grids. Researchers are easily attacted to this offering as it allows for research collaboration in a variety of academic fields.
A keynote delivered by Steven Tuecke(Co-PI of Globus Project) on the latest Globus trend is an indication of how serious they are about presenting the researcher with tools to ease the sharing of research data. Ultimately its about breaching the "big data" divide and Globus is here to provide the direction.
BigBytes will keep you informed about the happenings at EGI TF.