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

2. WP2 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)

3. WP2 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)

4. 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

5. Tasks: 2.1 plan Questionnaire completed Deliverable completed Questionnaire sent start of April Answers collected by end of MAY and passed on to T2.2 and T4.1 Data collection and maintenance is an ongoing process – how? Keep questionnaire open for those pending and newcomers – regular check of updates Action: Keep the data available on the web based on CHAIN KnowledgeBase – INFN insert questionnaire data and maintain the map. We have to filter data and insert it

6. Tasks: 2.2 Task 2.2 Interoperation and interoperability guidelines, INFN. – D2.2 structure – Very important to produce per-technology (section 5) and per-region guidelines/recommendations (section 6) – Should they be classified as short/mid/long term? – Input per technology and per region (regional representatives) – Guidelines will be published on wiki after – Like first version of roadmap EGI interface is in this activity Ongoing task beyond D2.2

7. 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. Joint action with WP5.

8. Tasks: 2.3 plan 2.3.1. “Disseminating current NGI know-how: collect available documentation – EGI, SEEGRID, EELA/GISELA, etc By end April - CESNET – Systemize it and put it on wiki. By end June - CESNET – Disseminate it to all relevant parties (dissemination per region). Dissemination starts July: This is delayed for 3 months now. 2.3.2 “Actions on strengthening NGIs and regional structures”: Regional responsibles implementing NGI guidelines defined in 2.3.1 – Action: Define sustainability-related weaknesses within D2.2 (CIEMAT, - Now GRNET; regions ) – September – Action: Per-region action based on weaknesses (regions) – starting in September – Action: sustainability workshops appended to bigger conferences (like UbuntuNetConf) – partners please reccommend

9. Tasks: 2.3 plan - detailed 2.3.3 - 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) should be based on comparison with questionnaire results relating to sustainability. (thus probably another round of sustainability questionnaire to be carried out in Year 2?).

10. Tasks: 2.3 – what is claimed here per region? Support for creation of NGIs Support for implementing D2.2 recommendations National-level actions (such as securing new funding, etc. Some reporting done for China) What is not claimed here? – Set up of Grid sites – Grid operations per se

11. Effort INFN 19 (leads 1 task) CIEMAT 2 (leads 1 subtask – should update this) GRNET 14 (leads WP and 2 tasks) CESNET 2 (leads 1 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

12. Responsible per region Eric/Stella, Marco - Asia-Pacific Yousef/Federico - Mediterranean Bruce + Margaret – Sub-Saharan Africa Luis + Rafa - LA Depei, Gang - China Neeraj Sinha – India (Ognjen – CA) CESNET, CIEMAT

13. Open issues International standardization forum - Grid Interoperation Now in OGF – Giuseppe; input will be provided to D2.2, new guidelines produced by GIN – is this under control? How can ERINA+ help with sustainability issues? We wait and see.

14. Actions 2.3.1. “Disseminating current NGI know-how: collect available documentation – EGI, SEEGRID, EELA/GISELA, etc By end April - CESNET – Systemize it and put it on wiki. By end June – CESNET – Latest deadline mid-September - CESNET Online database of NGI contacts – GRNET: initially, now INFN – Keep the data available on the web based on CHAIN KnowledgeBase – INFN insert questionnaire data and maintain the map. We have to filter data and insert it

15. Actions Finalise D2.2 Define sustainability-related weaknesses within D2.2 (CIEMAT, regions, GRNET taken over) – September Put recommendations on wiki: who? Per-region actions based on weaknesses (regions) – starting Sept Sustainability workshops appended to bigger conferences (like UbuntuNetConf) – partners please recommend IHEP to suggest involvement Pending questionnaire answers: until end of 2011