Enabling Grids for Escienc E Summary of EGEE

Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E Summary of EGEE review Bob Jones, EGEE Technical Director CERN 15/02/2005 www. eu-egee. org INFSO-RI-508833

EGEE EU Review – Agenda Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • Wednesday, 09/02/05 PM: – Overview: Status of Project – Status of Production Service and applications chair: Dieter Kranzlmüller • Thursday, 10/02/05 AM: – Networking, User Training and Induction – Application Demonstrations Mirco Mazzucato • Thursday, 10/02/05 PM: – Development/Re-Engineering (g. Lite) – Security and deployment Manuel Delfino • Friday, 11/02/05 AM: – Dissemination, Outreach, and Policies – Plans for Next Period – Conclusions Robin Middleton • Friday, 11/02/05 PM: Fabrizio Gagliardi – Feedback from Reviewers Presentations material: http: //agenda. cern. ch/age? a 043803 INFSO-RI-508833 Bob Jones - summary of 1 st EU review of EGEE project 2

Project Review Team Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E 5 independent experts nominated by EU: – Phil Andrews - Program Director for High-End Computing at the San Diego Supercomputer Center – Karsten Decker - Decker Consulting Gmb. H – Satoshi Matsuoka - Professor, Global Scientific Information and Computing (GSIC) Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology – Jean Pierre Prost - IT architect at the EMEA (Europe/Middle-East/Asia) Design Center for e-business on demand within IBM France ATS PSSC, Montpellier Center – Leandros Tassiulas - Professor Computer Engineering and Telecommunications Dept. University of Thessaly, Greece • EU project and administration officers: – Kyriakos Baxevanidis – Christopher Kowalski INFSO-RI-508833 Bob Jones - summary of 1 st EU review of EGEE project 3

Appraisal of work performed Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • EGEE has made a very good and quick start – mgmt task equivalent to starting a medium sized enterprise • Starting from LCG-2 gave rapid application start-up – Migrating to g. Lite is encouraged given the identified shortcomings of LCG-2 • The quality of the deliverables produced in very high – >60 deliverables/milestones during the first 9 months • Good penetration in scientific communities – But not much in others: executives/politicians – Training and education is impressive by design and implementation – Produced a detailed and precise write-up of the in-depth operational needs of a structure this size – A diversity of applications has been shown INFSO-RI-508833 Bob Jones - summary of 1 st EU review of EGEE project 4

Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E Appraisal of work performed: concerns • Migration plan from LCG-2 to g. Lite – Need to define a definite end-date for LCG-2 to encourage migration of applications – Some application demos did not demonstrate the scientific advantage of the grid – Need to keep current users happy and manage expectations – The long-term planning for (network) communication infrastructure in not very clear and must be improved upon § Not clear what JRA 4’s Bandwidth Allocation Reservation and Network Performance Monitoring will bring as advantages to the applications INFSO-RI-508833 Bob Jones - summary of 1 st EU review of EGEE project 5

Preliminary Findings Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • Manpower – Staff retention is a major issue for a 2 year project • Industry Forum – is a good idea but needs a stronger engagement and commitment by a more diversified industrial and commercial community • g. Lite – March deadline for g. Lite is very ambitious - understand this refers to pre -production but migration to production service must be planned – Must strengthen resources in testing tasks – Migration should be application driven: identify those applications which will be the first to migrate – Keep long-term view of working towards standardization • Dissemination – Good but should work better for non-technical communities (politicians, executives) INFSO-RI-508833 Bob Jones - summary of 1 st EU review of EGEE project 6

Concluding remarks Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • All deliverables accepted – Excellent quality but can be more concise – Minor text corrections to periodic report § Contract amendment was requested by project no EU § TERENA was not requested by EU to organise IST event – it was a common agreement INFSO-RI-508833 Bob Jones - summary of 1 st EU review of EGEE project 7

Next Steps Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • Period can be changed from 9 to 15 months – Must be requested by the project § As contract amendment with updated TA – A new deliverable related to concertation across EU projects will be requested – Drop management report & cost claims at PM 18 – Maintain intermediate review after PM 18 (likely early Dec’ 05) § But make it focused - exact subjects to be given later § Will take into account PM 18 deliverables • Expanding resources – Partners encouraged to make use of new EU calls (March’ 05) to submit related proposals where extra resources are required § Support for new communities etc. • A written version of these verbal conclusions will be provided within 2 weeks INFSO-RI-508833 Bob Jones - summary of 1 st EU review of EGEE project 8