1. Tiziana Ferrari, INFN CNAF CNAF, 05-06 Febbraio 2009
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Tiziana Ferrari, INFN CNAF
CNAF, Febbraio 2009

2. Outline Introduction about the EGI_DS project EGI business model
Tasks and related manpower requirements
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3. The Euroepan Grid Initiative

4. Project Information Title: European Grid Initiative Design Study
Budget: €
EC Contribution: €
Starting date: September 1st, 2007
Duration: 27 months
Total man power: PMs
Coordinator: CESNET, Czech Republic (since July 1st, 2008)
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5. Project Partners
CESNET (coordinator): CESNET, zajmove sdruzeni pravnickych osob (Czech Republic)
GRNET: Greek Research and Technology Network S.A. (Greece)
INFN: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy)
CSC: CSC - TIETEELLINEN LASKENTA OY (Finland)
LMU: Ludwig Maximillian Universitaet (Germany)
CERN: European Organization for Nuclear Research (Switzerland)
DNF: Verein zur Foerderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes - DFN-Verein (Germany)
STFC: Science & Technology Facilities Council (UK)
CNRS: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
GUP (former coordinator): Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz (Austria)
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6. Goal of EGI Design Study
Design of a new organizational model of a sustainable pan-European Grid infrastructure – the Blueprint
Securing the endorsement of the proposed design – PB Meeting in January 2009
Preparation and setup of the new organization – e.g. the EGI.org bid
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7. Interactions EGEE PRACE meeting in Lyon (during ICT) CERN involvement
Extensive involvement of EGEE staff in the Blueprint and D3.1 deliverable
Agreement on input for the transition deliverable (EGEE DNA1.4 and other material from EGEE)
PRACE meeting in Lyon (during ICT)
Discussion on relationship between EGI, PRACE and DEISA
CERN involvement
A short meeting (EGI PD and new CERN RD) January 14th
New CERN management explicit support for EGI
More emphasis on ESFRI projects as the major users of the future EGI infrastructure
Leverage current EGEE activities
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8. EGI Basic Elements EGI = EGI.org + NGIs
EGI.org a coordinating body
NGIs basic sustainable actors
No middleware development within EGI
However, middleware maintenance included
Middleware consortia: gLite (in progress), ARC, UNICORE
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9. EGI Management/Governance
EGI.org
EGI Director
Non-voting Representatives
extra-EU NGIs, Chair of UFSC, …
Associate Members
e.g. EIROforum member, …
Members
NGI1, NGI2, NGI3, … NGIn
EGI Council
EGI
Advisory Committees
e.g.
Middleware
Coordination
Board
(MCB)
User Forum Steering Committee
(UFSC)
User
Forum (UF)
Middleware Unit
Administration & PR Unit
Operations Unit
User Community Services
CTO
Middleware Maintenance
CAO
Admin & PR
UCO
User Coordination
COO
Operations
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10. Funding
National and Institutional funding for research infrastructures
EC funding
International coordination
International activities
Innovation
Start up phase
National co-funding of these activities
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11. EGI.org Costs (in FTE/a)
Resources for EGI.org
Costs for
EGI.org Costs (in FTE/a)
Operations 17
Middleware interfaces and final certification 8
User Community Services 11
External Liaison Functions 4
EGI.org Management and Administration
Total 51
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12. EGI Financial Reference Model
NGI International tasks
Middleware maintenance
EGI.org
Total
Operations
User services
Costs
EGI Effort (FTEs)
225
110 70 51
EGI costs (M€/year)
20.25
9.90
6.30
4.59 41
Income
NGI membership fees (M€/year)
1,0 1
EC Contribution (M€/year)
10.125
4.95
3.15
1.80 20
NGI, Middleware consortia and EIRO/ESFRI co-funding Contribution (M€/year)
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13. “Average medium sized NGI”
Funding view of NGI
600 k€
EC Funding
National Co-Funding
NGI
“Average medium sized NGI”
EGI.org
Membership Fees 30 k€
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14. EGI Business Model

15. EGI e-infrastructure 1/2
EGI e-Infrastructure components:
distributed resources funded and owned by national resource providers (computing, storage, network, data, …)
the technical interoperable Grid services installed and operated at the Grid resource sites RC RC
Regional/
Institutional Grid RC RC RC RC RC
EGI
E-Infrastructure
Regional/
Institutional Grid RC RC
NGI RC
NGI RC
NGI
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16. EGI e-infrastructure 2/2
EGI e-Infrastructure components (cont):
the Grid middleware distribution and the testbeds for the its certification and integration
the NGI operational services (accounting, monitoring, help desk, etc.)
the set of common policies and rules for the secure usage and sharing of the available resources and data
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17. EGI Actors
National Grid Initiatives and the related national Resource Providers
European Research Organizations
EGI.org
Middleware consortia
EGI Users
National Research Institutions: Universities, Research Laboratories, National Research Organizations….
Research Teams operating across Europe and organized into pan-European Virtual Organizations (VOs)
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18. EGI Offer
Secure sharing of ICT resources through common software tools of the partner Organizations’ “local” IT resources distributed among different administrative domains
primary mandatory purpose: satisfy the research communities is the enabling of intra-VO sharing, i.e. the possibility to get uniform standard access to the distributed pool of resources allocated to a given VO but from independent administration domains
in addition: cross-VO sharing promoting the real general standardization of the resource and data sharing mechanisms to
satisfy the demand of resource teams that do not own (neither directly nor indirectly) resources, but that are willing to pay for the uniform access to a certain amount of distributed resources
Unified Middleware Distribution
User community services (e.g. application porting support, training)
Helpdesk
Resource brokerage (for smaller Research Teams, optional)
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19. EGI Added Value Research teams Resource providers Funding agencies:
availability of an enabling pan-European infrastructure
easier establishment of multi-disciplinary projects
Resource providers
more resources consumed thanks to a larger pool of international customers thanks to a progressively unified mw solution (e.g. scavenger service for utilization of idle resources)  increased revenue
sharing of operational efforts and costs
Funding agencies:
National level: better global return for the money invested by the funding bodies for the procurement of ICT resources, pushing for the creation of global pools based on a well defined certified set of services
International level: better return from past EC investments
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20. Customer relationship
User  NGI
support
gathers the new requirements and brings them up to the attention of the international community through EGI.org
User  Resource Provider
service level agreements
fees for services
the NGI and the Resource Provider form a national business alliance to jointly develop and “sell” a specific national marketplace solution
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21. Tasks and related Manpower Requirements

22. NGI tasks: national vs international 1/2
NGI international tasks
aimed at allowing the sharing of the national IT resources at pan-European and international level in a uniform, robust, and seamless way, and at supporting the international application communities
Operations and security
User community services
NGI national tasks
tasks each NGI performs for supporting the national grid infrastructure and the national users and application communities
EGI.org
Coordination tasks to be run centrally
Other tasks can be distributed to NGIs
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23. NGI tasks: national vs international 2/2
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24. IGI International tasks?
Question: what manpower for which activities in IGI?
According to the EGI blueprint:
“NGIs will contribute to the international tasks to a different extent, their co-funding will reflect their commitment to the EGI international tasks. The effort to be dedicated to these is in principle proportional to the amount of IT resources, number of sites and users that will be part of each NGI and involved in the international activities.”
three categories: small, medium, large
Italy is a candidate large NGI (according to the current number of Grid users, number of sites and amount of resources)
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25. NGI International tasks in EGI: Overview
Operations and security
operation of tools and Grid core services, such as Grid configuration repositories, accounting repositories, monitoring and alarm systems, dashboards, portal; and: WMS, VOMS, FTS, etc.
user and Grid site manager support: operation of regional trouble ticketing system interfaced to a central helpdesk, 1st and 2nd line support, monitoring shifts, dispatching of trouble tickets to the corresponding Support Units and sites, maintenance of the helpdesk tools to satisfy new user requirements
security policy development and maintenance, security and incident response
development and maintenance of operational tools
middleware roll-out and deployment, middleware pilot and certification testbeds, resource allocation and of brokering support for VOs from NGIs, interoperations between NGIs, network support
User community services
gathering requirements from user communities
review of external sw packages needed by application developers
establishing science gateways
application database
event organization (fora, training events,...), documentation
specific services to support new VOs
Specialized Support Centres (SSC) - with contribution from various NGIs - for coordinated support to new users and scientific discipline clusters
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26. NGI International tasks in EGI: Effort
NGI resources for Operations and Security:
Unità IGI “Gestione - servizi operativi e controllo infrastruttura”  about 22 FTE ()
NGI resources for User Community Services (UCS):
Unità IGI “Formazione e disseminazione”  about 8 FTE (4 general UCS + 4 SSCs)
TOTAL estimated: 30 FTE
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