E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin America Scattering Grid knowledge under EELA-2 Riccardo Bruno 1, Herbert Hoeger 2, Maria Jose Lopez 3 1 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania, Italy 2 Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela 3 CLARA and REUNA, Chile 1st EELA-2 Conference Bogota - Colombia,

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Bogota - Colombia, 1 st EELA-2 Conference, Introduction EELA (E-Infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America) –Begins assembling January –Starts January 2006 –Mission: educate, train and set up a grid infrastructure –Ends December 2008: successful, high score by the EC EELA-2 (E-science grid facility shared between Europe and Latin America) –Consolidate the infrastructure: high capacity, production-quality and scalable. –Carry on the education and training process: dissemination and training.

Bogota - Colombia, 1 st EELA-2 Conference, Training Different types of training that focus on: –Users –Administrators –Tutors –Developers –Operators Means (GILDA platform): –Tutorials –Grid schools –Special events There is a team of 31 (23) tutors  (LA:14 – EU:17 (IT:14/6) -> EU:9)

Bogota - Colombia, 1 st EELA-2 Conference, Training So far (new kind of tutorial are showing up) : –Users and administrators: Mérida, Venezuela, Jun. 23 to 26, (LA:3) –Tutors: Catania, Italy, June 30 to Jul. 4, (LA:1 - EU:14) –Users and administrators: Dublin, Ireland, Sep. 15 to 18, (EU: 4) –Grid School: Itacuruçá, Brazil, Nov. 2 to 15, (LA:4 – EU:4) –Users: Lilongwe, Malawi, Nov. 13, (EU:2) –Users and administrators: Loja, Ecuador, Dec. 1 to 4, (LA: 4) –Grid site installation: Cuernavaca, Mexico, Feb. 9 to 13, (LA:5 – EU:1) –Users: Bogota, Colombia, Feb. 23 to 24, (LA:5 – EU:1)

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Bogota - Colombia, 1 st EELA-2 Conference, Dissemination Advertise the grid technology and the EELA-2 project –On the Web       –Events  Workshops Dublin, Ireland, Sept. 19, Monterrey, Mexico, Oct. 6, Loja, Ecuador, Dec. 5, Quito, Ecuador, Dec. 8, 2008.

Bogota - Colombia, 1 st EELA-2 Conference, Dissemination –Events (cont)  Conferences 1st EELA-2 Conference, Bogota, Colombia, Feb. 25 to 27,  Non EELA-2 events: IST Africa’08 Conference, May UNESCO World Summit on the Information Society’08 (ICT / e- Science), May Cluster of WSIS-related events, May th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting, June EGI Workshop, June EGEE’08 Conference, September EuroAfriCa-ICT awareness workshop, October Open Access 2008, November ICT 2008, November ECRI 2008, November 2008.

Bogota - Colombia, 1 st EELA-2 Conference, Dissemination –Material  Bulletins (3) - 1st EELA-2 Conference (1).  Flyers (3).  Posters (2).  Press releases (1).

Bogota - Colombia, 1 st EELA-2 Conference, Summary –1 conference (2) –4 workshops (7) –7 tutorials 5 Users and administrators (6) 1 Tutors (2) –1 grid school (2) –10 presentations of EELA-2 in other events. –3 flyers published in Spanish and English (4) –2 Posters. –3 Bulletins + 1 (1 every 3 months – 8) –1 Press release. –A web site with project information. –An Indico site for event scheduling and handling. –A document server with project documents and material. –A wiki page with technical information. –An application site providing information about what is being ported to the infrastructure. –A Flickr webpage with the photos of most of all the EELA-2 activities and of the events in which the project has been presented.

Bogota - Colombia, 1 st EELA-2 Conference, Next More user and admin tutorials: –Peru  Tutorial: May 11 – 14  Workshop: May 15 –Uruguay  Workshop: July 20  Tutorial: July 21 – 24 –Panama  Tutorial: Sep 14 – 17  Workshop: Sep –Administrators tutorials  To be defined

Bogota - Colombia, 1 st EELA-2 Conference, Next – 2 nd Conference 2 nd Conference: –Place: Choroni, Venezuela –Date: Nov 25 – 27 TB meeting: 23 Members meeting: 24

Bogota - Colombia, 1 st EELA-2 Conference, Next 2 nd grid school: –Place: Mexico –Date: September –Target: New applications/partners Gridification Weeks –6 between March and June –2 or 3 applications –1 or 2 people per application –2 weeks with tutors to gridify the application User Forum –After gridification weeks

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