IV NorduGrid Workshop Uppsala November Danish Center for Grid Computing -Long haul link to CERN GRID activities in Denmark

Danish Center for GRID Computing Science political process: 15 August 02 - Letter of interest to the Natural Science Research Council (SNF) 2 September - SNF decides to arrange a GRID workshop in Odense 16 October - Workshop in Odense with 46 participants 4 November - SNF decides to call for proposals for an GRID infrastructure center 1 April 03 - Deadline for application (Parallel to normal center applications) 2 June 03 - Expected date for decision

Letter of interest for a Danish Center for GRID Computing To medarbejdere på post doc. niveau Rejser, konferencer og inviterede medarbejdere150 Apparaturindkøb, licenser, netværksleje Samlet budget pr. år uden overhead % overhead Samlet budget pr. år

Danish Center for GRID Computing The Host: The host for the Center shall have a strong connection to IT-research and to research groups with GRID oriented research activities. Must have room for the staff and for a large PC-cluster. The Staff: 1 Senior Center Leader from the host institution 2 post doc - from the center contract 1 post doc - NorduGrid 1 post doc - EU ????? N center associates – from IT-groups or groups with applications PhD students Master students 1 secretary

Long haul link to CERN

ATLAS event filtering at remote farms Why: Remove load from CERN (budget) Objective: Test performance and reliability Use fixed data patterns and test beam data. CERN GEANT NBI PL ? NL ? Krakow NIKHEF GPS DK NORDUnet NorduGrid

Stakeholder Meeting Recommendations for a future NORDUNET3 Programme "Draft Report on Advanced Internet and Internet application" Research and Development Radisson SAS Park Avenue Hotel Kungsportsavenyen Göteborg, October 18 th h

1.Introduction to the NORDUNET3 recommendation project By Øystein Johannesen, Chair of NCM IT Policy-group 2.NORDUNET3 vision and framework By Hellen Niegaard, member of the recommendation contractor group Comments and discussion 3. Introduction to focus areas By B Svante Eriksson and Øivind Kure, members of the recommendation Contractor group Comments and discussion 4. Programme management and funding By Hellen Niegaard, member of the recommendation contractor group Comments and discussion

The Nordunet2 evaluation puts forward an array of interesting findings, claims and recommendations. The evaluators, more specifically, recommend setting up a follow-up program with the aim "to bring the Nordic region back in the front". To be able to achieve this, it is clamed that the program should not merely be an extension of the current one. Based on their observations the evaluators propose a follow-up initiative with the following elements: From the NORDUnet2 evaluation

 More emphasis on infrastructure services, both on the network and on the application layer, with more emphasis on "mobility" and GRIDs NORDUnet and the NRENs should play a much more prominent role  More attention should be given to international co-operation with other world-class initiatives  More emphasis on the dissemination of progress and results, both on a national/Nordic level and the international level  More attention should be given to quality assurance, not only during the selection but also in the operational phase of the projects  The organisational structure needs to be strengthened