Building a National Distributed e-Infrastructure -- PL-Grid

PL-Grid: Foundations and Perspectives of National Computing Infrastructure. Integrating Various Grid Middleware Components and User Services into a Single Platform. Towards Professional Service Operations in Grids. New Capabilities in QosCosGrid Middleware for Advanced Job. Management, Advance Reservation and Co-allocation of Computing Resources - Quantum Chemistry Application Use Case Seamless Access to the PL-Grid e-Infrastructure Using UNICORE Middleware User-Oriented Provisioning of Secure Virtualized Infrastructure Flexible and Extendable Mechanism Enabling Secure Access to e-Infrastructures and Storage of Confidential Data for the GridSpace2 Virtual Laboratory. X Table of Contents SARA - System for Inventory and Static Security Control in a Grid Infrastructure. Security Best Practices: Applying Defense-in-Depth Strategy to Protect the NGI PL Automation of System Monitoring Based on Fuzzy Logic or Rules; Comparison of Two Designed Approaches with Regard toComputational Infrastructures A Toolkit for Storage QoS Provisioning for Data-Intensive Applications Implementation of Service Level Management in PL-Grid Infrastructure. Highly Integrated Environment for Parallel Application Development Using QosCosGrid Middleware. User-Friendly Frameworks for Accessing Computational Resources Online Web-Based Science Gateway for Nanotechnology Research Scripting Language Extensions Offered by the GridSpace Experiment Platform Managing Entire Lifecycles of e-Science Applications in theGridSpace2 Virtual Laboratory - From Motivation through Idea to Operable Web-Accessible Environment Built on Top of PL-Grid e-Infrastructure. GridSpace2 Virtual Laboratory Case Study: Implementation of Algorithms for Quantitative Analysis of Grain Morphology inSelf-assembled Hexagonal Lattices According to the Hillebrand Method.Examining Protein Folding Process Simulation and Searching for Common Structure Motifs in a Protein Family as Experiments in the GridSpace2 Virtual Laboratory. InSilicoLab - Managing Complexity of Chemistry Computations Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ketocyanine Dyes in Organic Solvents.Polish Contribution to the Worldwide LHC Computing. PL-Grid e-Infrastructure for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory. Training in the PL-Grid as Key Component to Attract Users to Grid e-Infrastructures. Dissemination Activities Conducted within the PL-Grid Project as a Successful Means of Promotion of Its Offer and Achievements.