The GridCC project is a European wide project to provide real-time access to Instruments and resources on the Grid. This will introduce real-time Quality of Service constraints on the existing Grid resources requiring the use of reservations, Workflow scheduling which is reservation and performance aware.

The role LeSC is playing in this project, in collaboration with the Particle Physics group at Imperial is to lead the Brokering access to existing Grid resources Work Package. This will provide the services to control access to Grid resources according agreed levels of service and provide mechanisms for determining and organising complex workflows.

The goals of the GRIDCC projects can be summarized as follows:

• To develop generic Grid middleware, based on existing building blocks (Grid Services) which will allow the remote control and monitoring of instrumentation.
• To incorporate the new middleware into a few significant applications that will allow the software to be validated both in terms of functionality and quality of service aspects: European Power Grid, Meteorology, Analysis of Neurophysiological data, RemoteOperation of an Accelerator Facility, High Energy Physics Experiment.
• To disseminate widely the new software technology, the results of the evaluation on the testbeds and to encourage a wide range of enterprises to evaluate and adopt our Grid-oriented approach to real-time control and monitoring of remote instrumentation.