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Media Library: Case Studies

This section of the Library consists of user case studies.       
  
 
GÉANT and CAREN tracking Kyrgyzstan’s melting glaciers
Collaboration to monitor climate change and provide early flood warning.
GÉANT and CAREN: delivering a brighter future for Turkmenistan
High-speed networks underpin solar technology collaboration between Central Asia and Europe
GÉANT and ORIENTplus – understanding cosmic showers
Helping European and Chinese scientists study one of the most puzzling phenomena known to science.
GÉANT and EMSA - Protecting Europe’s seas from pollution
Transmitting satellite data in real-time to detect and monitor maritime oil spills
GÉANT and outGRID - creating a global platform to combat Alzheimer’s
Combining complementary research infrastructures in Europe, Canada and the US through high speed research networks to enable closer collaboration
perfSONAR MDM - delivering end-to-end monitoring for RedIRIS
Multi-domain monitoring service ensures high performance collaboration for Spanish research and education network (Spanish translation also available)
GÉANT and GreenStar Network – powering networks through renewable energy
Harnessing green power to lower ICT energy consumption
GÉANT and the ShanghAI Lectures - creating a global Artificial Intelligence community
Collaborative e-learning enabled by advanced research networks
GÉANT and DECIDE: Improving quality of life for sufferers from Alzheimer’s Disease
Using advanced networks and grid computing technology to enable earlier diagnosis and faster treatment for patients
GÉANT and EXPReS: Revolutionising radio astronomy
Linked telescopes across the world and high speed research networking is underpinning real-time astronomical observations
GÉANT and LOLA: Real-time remote musical collaboration
Advanced software and high speed research networks combine to let musicians in multiple locations perform together
High-speed networking: freeing epilepsy patients from seizure
Epilepsy specialists in Tunisia and France are able to collaborate on the diagnosis and treatment of Tunisian patients by harnessing the high-capacities provided by GÉANT, EUMEDCONNECT2 and their partner networks in France and Tunisia.
High-speed networking: saving lives by typhoon forecasting
Typhoons in the Philippines threaten the lives of the local population. However, with accurate storm forecasts provided by the Philippine weather bureau PAGASA, emergency teams are able to warn the local population and save countless lives.
International research networks enable a creative union of science, technology and art
The ‘data sonification’ technique aims to enable researchers to predict volcanic eruptions by converting seismic data from active volcanoes into melodies that analysts can study to detect patterns in volcano activity.
GÉANT and ASTRA: Recreating ancient instruments
High-speed research networks were used to run a data intensive modelling program to recreate the sounds of ancient instruments.
User Communities Case Study: GÉANT and Grids
Supporting research projects with high-speed networking
GÉANT and TEIN3: Bringing cultures together across continents
Having performers in Kuala Lumpur dance in real time to music that's being played 9,300km away in Stockholm might sound impossible, but that is precisely what was achieved 
Early diagnosis of neuro-degenerative diseases case study
Alzheimer's is a neuro-degenerative disease that affects the elderly population, for which there is currently no cure.
Sim-e-Child: Treatment in paediatric cardiology
Sim-e-Child expands the Grid-based eHealth infrastructure and uses the GÉANT research network