WP2: Consolidation of existing state of the art Dr. Ognjen Prnjat, GRNET

Objectives Conduct a state-of-the-art analysis regarding current solutions for European Grid interfacing with Grids in other world regions (D2.1 and results) Produce a set of guidelines for operational and organisational interactions, customised for the type of region (D2.2) Disseminate the NGI concept in the regions where this is needed, and conduct actions for national and regional sustainability (D2.3)

Deliverables D2.1 “State of the art” questionnaire – GRNET – M4 (March) D2.2 “Interoperability and interoperation guidelines” – INFN – M10 (September) “ analysis of the questionnaire data and proposed solutions for regional organisational and operational interactions. ” D2.3 “Regional sustainability report” – GRNET (September 2012)

Tasks: 2.1 description Task 2.1 State of the art analysis, GRNET – Current best practices analysis (for interfacing with EGI) – Questionnaire formulation, data collection. – Services, VCRs, EGI interoperation, sustainability.

Tasks: 2.1 plan Questionnaire timetable discussed at meeting (and adjusted after) – Draft for comments and call for inputs before Christmas – First stable version mid-January – Final mid-February Deliverable by end of March Questionnaire sent by end of March Answers collected by end of MAY (not June!) and passed on to T2.2 and T4.1 (D4.1 is due in end of July)

Tasks: 2.1 plan S tructure to be decided here: 1 questionairre per (region) / (country / NGI) / (academic group representing potential NGI coordinator) Categories to be decided here: Operational services (Accounting System; Helpdesk; Monitoring System e.g Nagios) User support services (Application Support team; User Support team; training approaches) VRCs / user communities (List of disciplines / communities) – decided that WP3 will formulate this part and that approach will be “guided”. Current EGI interoperation approaches (What is done currently with EELA/GISELA, EUMed, etc – how do current ROCs integrate? This is wp4 area) Middleware NGI status and sustainability issues (national and regional) + governance (SEEGRID list suggested, abbreviated) Related technologies (eg clouds, hpc) Method to be decided here: excel with multiple answers or online questionnaire? (both have advantages). Questionnaire downloadable as pdf/preview. Decided it will be online with multiple choice. Relationship with applications questionnaire? Decided that WP3 will elaborate applications part.

Tasks: 2.2 Task 2.2 Interoperation and interoperability guidelines, INFN. – Set of guidelines based on questionnaire results – Analysis and comparison Synergies and harmonisation Regional specificities – EGI interface is in this activity

Tasks: 2.2 plan Guideline (template) for analysis must be produced by end of April (INFN) May: start analyzing and systemizing questionnaire results (regional representatives, to be nominated here; and INFN overview) EGI involvement in this process must be clarified

Tasks: 2.3 Task 2.3 Long-term sustainability support, GRNET – disseminate the accumulated know-how on NGI and regional sustainability issues – actions on strengthening NGIs and regional structures. – examine the current and emerging plans of sustainability, enumerate the opportunities that could influence these and future plans and eventually propose measures of improvement based on the current best practices and new opportunities – the participation to co-organised events with EGI and EGI- Inspire such as specific workshops on regional eInfrastructures issues and perspectives. (this should have been WP5 action, suggest to move that to WP1-5; and keep specific sustainability dissemination here.) decided that wp2 and wp5 will collaborate on thsi

Tasks: 2.3 plan “Disseminating current NGI know-how: collect available documentation (EGI, SEEGRID, EELA/GISELA), systemize it (one partner) and disseminate it to all relevant parties” (dissemination per region). How much is this based on questionnaire? “Actions on strengthening NGIs and regional structures”: Per regional responsible implementing NGI guidelines (must define methods) “Examine the current and emerging plans of sustainability, (based on questionnaire results – one partner) enumerate the opportunities that could influence these and future plans (per region) and eventually propose measures of improvement based on the current best practices and new opportunities “ The participation to co-organised events with EGI and EGI-Inspire such as specific workshops on regional eInfrastructures issues and perspectives. (suggest to move that to WP1-5; and keep specific sustainability dissemination here.) (INFN- GRNET) D2.3 “Regional sustainability report” (GRNET) must be based on comparison with questionnaire results relating to sustainability. (thus this section of D2.1 must be quite detailed; and probably another round of sustainability questionnaire should be carried out in Year 2?). Suggested involvement of CIEMAT (2.3.3), CESNET (2.3.1, 2.3.2). To be decided later

Effort INFN 19 (leads 1 task) CIEMAT 2 (suggested to lead a subtask) GRNET 14 (leads WP and 2 tasks) CESNET 2 (suggested to lead a subtask) UBUNTUNET 6 (per-region actions on all tasks) CLARA 6 (per-region actions on all tasks) IHEP 10 (per-region actions on all tasks, something extra volunteer please) PSA 4 (per-region actions on all tasks) Total 63 PMs

Responsible per region INFN Asia-Pacific, Mediterranean (ASREN?) UBUNTUNET – Sub-Saharan Africa CLARA - LA IHEP - China PSA – India GRNET (all migrated to EGI – could help in CA?), CESNET, CIEMAT

Open issues International standardization forum such as Grid Interoperation Now in OGF – Giuseppe How can ERINA+ help with sustainability issues? We wait and see.

Actions Questionnaire timetable to be followed; GRNET lead CIEMAT, CESNET, to contribute to questionnaire 1 section each (CIEMAT ok, CESNET to confirm pls) GRNET to choose online questionnaire approach Regions to collect candidates for questionnaire filling by mid-January. GRNET for Central Asia. D2.1 by end of March - GRNET CIEMAT, CESNET to volunteer for 2.3.x tasks, IHEP to suggest involvement.