Athens eInfrastructure event summary June, 12 th 2003 Vasilis Maglaris Chairman, GRNET - Greek Research & Technology Network Rome, December 9 th, 2003

2 Athens Summary (1) GEANT – pan-European high-speed research & education network : Success! 33 states & 3900 institutes connected full fledged administrative & operational support 3-tier architecture (campus-NREN-GEANT) Implemented "eEurope 2002“ directives Grid technologies getting mature Multiple successful FP5 Grid projects (e.g. Datagrid) Grid middleware getting stable (Globus, Unicore, Condor) Applications becoming “grid-ready” (High Energy Physics, Bio-informatics, other) Getting ready for eInfrastructures: unified high-speed networking + grid middleware environment distributed computing - storage sharing platform allows new methods of global collaborative research – often referred to as "eScience“ Implementing “eEurope 2005 directives: World Wide Grid” and FP6 RI objectives

Rome, December 9 th, Athens Summary (2) Still missing... Administrative and policy decision mechanisms - framework satisfying the diverse end-user communities requirements: E.g. single-sign-on, reliability, robustness, performance, security, end-to-end, AAA (Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting) while achieving economies of scale in providing ever- growing resources at attractive cost pricing Production-quality operational support

Rome, December 9 th, Athens Summary (3) Key recommendations Establishment of eInfrastructures Reflection Group  eIRG: Composed of nominated National Programme representatives Working on: end-to-end user-perceived quality provisioning and appropriate resource sharing policies amongst all user communities involved ERA  ERIA: European Research & Innovation Area Organisation into geographical regions  tool for co-operation Further work needed  next events: Italy, Ireland, Holland Rotating EU presidency Troicas  better planning & coordination