1. www.eu-eela.eu E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin America EELAs:the seed LGI / NGIs:the goal Bernard M. Marechal (EELA-2 Project Coordinator) CETA-CIEMAT & UFRJ (Spain & Brazil) CONAIS 2009 Villahermosa (Mexico), 23.09.2009

2. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 2 Outline Short EELA & EELA-2 story The EELA-2 model for long-term sustainability Proposal for future activities

3. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 3 Computationally intensive research

4. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 4 Computationally intensive research

5. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 5 Computationally intensive research Virtual Organisations E-Infrastructure, i.e. DCI (Grid, Clouds,...) Applications Data Instruments

6. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 6 The beginning Several meetings (Rio de Janeiro, CERN, Itacuruca) in 2004, foreseeing a EU–LA Grid Project supported by EC EELA proposal prepared, submitted and approved in 2005 EELA worked hard and well during 2 years (2006 – 2007) EELA-2 prepared & submitted in 2007 and approved in 2008 EELA-2 will end on 31 March 2010 EC support: fade out in the future LGI / NGIs: fade in mandatory to support e-Science in LA on the long term

7. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 7 Projects in numbers EELA-2 ( CP-CSA under EU FP7) EELA ( SSA under EU FP6) E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America EC support: 1.7 M€ CIEMAT extra support: 0.4 M€ 10 Countries (3 in Europe) 2 International Organisations 20 Members (7 in Europe) E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin America EC support: 2.1 M€ CETA-CIEMAT extra funds: 0.3 M€ Currently 16 Countries (11 in LA) 2 new countries (Panama & Uruguay) 1 International Organisation (CLARA) Currently 78 Members (62 in LA) 32 Institutions joining (31 in LA) Currently 13 JRUs (9 in LA) 4 new JRUs (3 in LA) At the final review EELA was awarded the highest EC rank: “Good to excellent project”

8. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 8 Countries and Resources Centres France Ireland Italy Portugal Spain Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia CLARA (International) Cuba Ecuador Mexico Peru Venezuela New Panama Uruguay

9. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 9 Joint Research Units in EELA-2 no legal statusA Joint Research Unit (JRU) is a partnership for e-Science Collaboration, with no legal status as such, formed between entities of the same nationality and meeting the following conditions: –scientific and economic unity (internal MoU in place); –lasting a certain length of time (not linked to a particular project); –recognised by a public authority (minister, secretary of state, etc.). One of the major successes of EELA-2 Country# of JRU members in total# of JRU members in EELA-2 Argentina77 Brazil1814 Chile55 Colombia95 Ecuador55 France333 Ireland181 Italy142 Mexico98 Panama33 Peru77 Portugal53 Spain>507 Venezuela44 No JRUs were established in LA during EELA

10. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 10 EELA & EELA-2 objectives EELA Build a bridge between consolidated e-Infrastructure initiatives in Europe and emerging ones in Latin American Create a collaboration network to deploy a large portfolio of scientific applications on a well supported Pilot Test-bed Care in parallel of the training in grid technologies and of the knowledge dissemination and outreach EELA-2 Provide an empowered Grid Facility with versatile services fulfilling application requirements Ensure production quality services Ensure the long term sustainability of the e- Infrastructure beyond the term of the project Expand the current EELA e- Infrastructure Look for new communities outside academia (Industry and Business)

11. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 11 More Numbers EELA-2 EELA At the end of the Project # Sites:19 (13 in Production) # Cores:2700 Storage: 100 TB # Jobs:430,000 Scientific domains: 4 # Applications:18 - 12 in production - 6 gridified Conferences:3 Workshops:8 Tutorials:18 Trained people: 733 Grid Schools:2 After 1 year # Sites:22 # Cores:  5800 Storage:  190 TB # Jobs :  1,000,000 Scientific domains: 9 # Applications:55 - 12 in production - 15 Gridified Conferences:1 Workshops:4 Tutorials:8 Trained people: 158 Grid Schools:1

12. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 12 810 participant · day (as of end on April 2009) Participant · day 600 by year 2 Project goals DoW 300 by year 1   EELA-2 achievements - NA2 NA2 = Dissemination & Training Much more training effort delivered than pledged

13. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 13 EELA-2 achievements - NA3 GILDA training-infrastructure Tutorials Grid Schools Support system Wiki pages / EOC website Gridification Weeks Gridification team NA3 = Application Support The EELA-2 “gridification universe”

14. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 14 2 Applications distribution per country, continent and scientific domain (Y1) EELA-2 achievements - NA3

15. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 15 Certification Authority Registration Authority CA Applicant Catch All Certification Authority EELA-2 achievements - SA1 SA1 = Infrastructure Services Every EELA-2 country has access to the LA PKI

16. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 16 Legacy Sites prod.vo Sites OurGrid Sites Resource Centres Map (Y1) EELA-2 achievements - SA1

17. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 17 About 1 million jobs executed Resource Centres EELA-2 achievements - SA1 Infrastructure Usage - all VOs (Y1)

18. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 18 Deployment of a sustainable perfSONAR-based multi-domain network monitoring service –3 measurement points on EELA-2 RCs (Overlay network monitoring) already installed –Integration with available monitoring services in the domains (LA and EU-NRENs, RedCLARA, GÉANT2, EGEE-III, etc.) SA2 = Network Resource Provision EELA-2 Network Monitoring  LA-NREN A - MPs  RedCLARA MPs  EELA-2 Measurement Points (MPs)  LA-NREN B - MPs  LA- NREN A  RedCLARA  LA- NREN B  EELA-2 MP A  EELA-2 MP B  Visualization tool  Overlay network monitoring  Multi-domain monitoring EELA-2 achievements - SA2

19. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 19 EELA-2 achievements - JRA1 JRA1 = Development of Services for Applications and Infrastructure Activity Goals Making the e-Infrastructure more useful and wide spread to increase its reach …  Execution of grid middleware on top of different platforms, including Microsoft Windows  Scavenging of idle resources, particularly in shared desktops … and its usability  New application-oriented grid services  Support for the integration of a lightweight opportunistic grid middleware (OurGrid) whose development is led by one of the consortium members With the effect of helping in fostering the sustainability of the e-Infrastructure

20. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 20 Interoperability between OurGrid and gLite, planned for M16, just available (see “Hot News” in the EELA-2 Website homepage): –MoU signed with other projects working on similar goals (EDGeS and SEE- GRID-SCI) –Initial assessment of the possibility of using EDGeS G3 indicates the feasibility of using technology that has already been successfully used in a similar setting –Initial evaluation of the innovative co-existence approach reveals advantages that had not been foreseen at the time the project was proposed Possibility of draining BoT applications out of the service grid, improving the performance of tightly-coupled applications EELA-2 achievements - JRA1 Highlights of the 1 st Year

21. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 21 The “global” Grid coverage How to take care of the future of e-infrastructures?

22. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 22 Grid “Ecosystem” evolution in Europe Testbeds Utility Service Routine Usage National Global Ref.: D. Kranzlmüller presemtation at EGEE’08

23. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 23 …and in Latin America ? EELA EELA-2 ? 4/2008-3/2010 1/2006-12/2007 4/2010 →

24. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 24 Some considerations… 24 EELA-2 will end up on 01/04/2010 Will 6-year of successful efforts to: –Set up a production quality Latin American e-Infrastructure at the level of existing European Grids –Acquire the various Grid technology skills to autonomously support the Latin American e-Infrastructure on the long term (about 1000 LA people trained and 10’s of local tutor formed) –Allow LA scientific communities to:  Strengthen their active participation in EU – LA collaborations by satisfying the required contributions to computing resources  Enter new international collaborations to take part in new research field or attract new partners in their own field of research –Altogether “contribute to amplify the relevance of e-Infrastructures, blazing the trail towards Latin American e-Science Initiatives via National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) created in cooperation with existing NRENs and RedCLARA” (EELA-2 proposal) just be wasted ???

25. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 25 The EELA-2 proposal 25 A 3-level organisation is proposed: –Local (RCs ↔ LAN/MAN) –National (NGIs ↔ NRENs) –Continental (LGI ↔ CLARA) Multi-middleware (gLite, OurGrid, OSG, …) structures: NGIs and LGI must not be middleware dependent Close synergy with EGI that foresees to support three middleware (ARC, gLite and UNICORE) Important role of both the LA NRENs and CLARA: fully justified by their participation in EELA and EELA-2 Even more: e-Infrastructures (Grid) should be part of the NRENs and CLARA structure (cost effective, technically correct, politically easier)

26. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 26 The Latin American Grid Initiative (LGI) (http://documents.eu-eela.org/record/1119/files/) RC: Resource Centre, NGI: National Grid Initiative, GOC: Grid Operation Centre, NREN: National Research & Education Network, NOC: Network Operation Centre, LGI: Latin American Grid Initiative, CLARA: Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas, GSC: Grid Support Centre, NSC: Network Support Centre

27. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 27 The Latin American Grid Infrastructure - GridLGI GridLGI is composed, from bottom to top of three layers, each of them including Grid and Network components: –At the lower Institute level:  The Resource Centre (RC) is the actual site of the Grid computing resources;  The backbone LAN or MAN network connects the Computing and Storage Elements (CE & SE) at the RC site; –At the intermediate national level:  The National Grid Initiative (NGI) integrates all Grid Institutions in the country and federates under its Grid Operation Centre (GOC) all their RCs in a National Grid (GridNGI);  The underlying National Research & Education Network (NREN) links country-wide the Research and Education Institutes and optimizes / monitors their network activity via its associated Network Operation Centre (NOC); –At the upper international layer:  The Latin American Grid Initiative (LGI) which brings together all NGIs and supervises the various GridNGIs operation from its Grid Support Centre (GSC);  CLARA: it is the WAN network which integrates the Latin American NRENs and supervises the overall RedCLARA network activity by means of its Network Support Centre (NSC).

28. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 28 RC tasks RC StorageElement(s) ComputingElement(s) 1st Level User Supp. Reg. Auth. Monitoring Accounting Security inc. resp.

29. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 29 RC tasks (detailed description) Deploy and operate the local grid services such as Computing Elements and Storage Elements Provide 1st level support to users, application developers and Resource Centre administrators, usually through a trouble-shooting ticketing system Coordinate the deployment and update of the grid middleware used by its resource providers Monitor the status of the grid services run by the national resource providers to quickly detect problems, request of corrections and be sure that problems are fixed Deal with security incidents making sure that proper solutions are quickly applied Deploy an authentication service; this includes one or more Registration Authorities of the National Certification Authority Operate an accounting repository to keep track of grid resource usage.

30. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 30 GOC tasks GOC Monitoring Accounting M/WRepos. Cert. Auth. VOMS VOMS 2nd Level user supp. DataCatalogs Info. Syst. L&B WMS

31. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 31 GOC tasks (detailed description) Deploy and operate the core grid services needed to interconnect to the GSC. It includes Workload Management Systems, Grid Information Systems, Data Management Systems, etc. Provide 2nd level support to users, application developers and resource centre administrators in the region Setup, support the Operator on Duty (OOD) Teams responsible for the continuous monitoring and support of the Resource Centre fabric, for prompt error detection, diagnosis and resolution of operational problems Route and follow up trouble-shooting tickets to the proper support unit Coordinate the deployment and updating of the grid middleware Monitor the status of the grid services running in the country to quickly detect problems, request corrections and be sure that problems are fixed Coordinate the solution of security incidents, making sure that proper solutions are quickly applied Operate an accounting repository to keep track of grid resource usage; Operate a configuration repository Operate the VO management systems for country-wide-scope Virtual Organisation Coordinate the resource allocation and brokering for national VOs Deploy and operate an Authentication Service at national level. This includes a Certification Authority and as many Registration Authorities as needed

32. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 32 GSC tasks GSC M/W releases Monitoring Accounting Catch-all CA Global VOMS 3rd Level user supp. Gen. Info. System Knowledge repo. High level Grid services

33. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 33 GSC tasks (detailed description – 1/2) Coordinate the operation of all GOCs Deploy and operate the core grid services needed to interconnect all the GOCs and the single RCs in the infrastructure. It is usually done in an hierarchical way, profiting from the services already deployed and maintained by the GOCs, including Workload Management Systems, Grid Information Systems, Data Management Systems, etc. Provide 3rd level support to users, application developers and Resource Centre administrators in the infrastructure Route and follow up trouble tickets with the GOCs Maintain and Operate a central ticketing system Maintain and Operate a central Operations Portal Maintain a central Knowledge Database Maintain a Knowledge Sharing System Define best practices, operation procedures and operation requirements Coordinate the middleware deployment, release and support

34. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 34 GSC tasks (detailed description – 2/2) Gather requirements for new services from users, resource centre administrators and grid operators Advertise new Infrastructure and Application services to users and applications developers Deploy and operate an Authentication Service. This includes a “catch-all” Certification Authority having as many Registration Authorities as needed in those countries which do not yet have a national Certification Authority; the GSC should also provides consulting services to those countries in order to speed-up the creation of new Certification Authorities and their accreditation by TAGPMA, the relevant Policy Management Authority Operate the VO management for global VOs Coordinate the resource allocation and brokering for global VOs Coordinate the solution of security incidents, making sure that proper solutions are quickly applied Operate a global accounting repository to keep track of grid resource usage Operate a global configuration repository Coordinate interoperation efforts with other grid infrastructures Perform studies to plan the growth of the infrastructure

35. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 35 NSC tasks Single point of access NSC Network quality indicators User ticket GSC Ticket System Ticket Processing Network Operations Training and Dissemination Grid Site Deployment Middleware... NSC Team RC 1 Grid Site 1 RC 2 Grid Site 2 LA-NREN AEU-NREN B RedCL ARA Operated by NOC of NREN A Operated by NOC of NREN B Operated by CLARA Operated by NOC of Campus Network NSC GÉANT 2 Operated by DANTE E2E services

36. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 36 NSC tasks (detailed description) Be a single point of contact for network related issues Trace and diagnose network problems –The NSC could receive two types of tickets:  User ticket: an e-Infrastructure user notifying about a network issue on his/her site or within some site that he/she is trying to access  NREN ticket: a NREN notifying the NSC about network issues. It is important to note the assumption that the NREN is not expected to notify (at least initially) the NSC only about network issues which involve the e Infrastructure sites, but actually about all the NREN issues, e.g., through a general mailing list assignment Support E2E communication between sites Provide quality indicators about the network infrastructure

37. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 37 Training & dissemination tasks T&D Conferences DisseminationMaterial Consultancy Event calendar Training events

38. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 38 Training & dissemination tasks (detailed description – 1/2) The activities to be performed by the tutors operating at NGI and RC level include: –Participate as instructors in tutorials at local, national levels in cooperation with the LGI –Update their knowledge as improvements and new services are added to the middleware(s) –Create, update and translate training material maintained by the LGI The dissemination activities include: –Coordinate the dissemination actions at local and national levels in cooperation with the LGI –Produce press releases, brochures, flyers, posters, multimedia material, and keep updated the contents (related to advancements plus news and reports) of websites in order to inform appropriately about the technology and events organized by the LGI as well as related communities –Organise workshops and conferences at local and national levels in cooperation with the LGI

39. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 39 Training & dissemination tasks (detailed description – 2/2) The activities at the LGI level can be summarized as follows: –Definition of training plans. At least 2 travels per country and per year should be foreseen in order to support and define common training strategies with all participating countries –Designing and maintaining a master event calendar scheduling the most important LGI training and dissemination events like Grid schools, conferences and workshops –Maintenance of a central training material repository; training material should also be translated from English to Spanish and Portuguese by this task; the maintenance of a training database will be also provided by this task –Deliver Training courses for trainers –Offer consultancy to Application Developers when needed by the Application support Team.

40. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 40 User support tasks User Supp. Guidelines Newcommunities Tech. requirements gathering Local/remote support Apps.Registry

41. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 41 User support tasks (detailed description) The activities that must be performed by the Application Support teams located either at the GOCs at the GSC include: –Answer tickets issued by the central support ticket system –Participate in periodic virtual meetings with application developers and forward their request if necessary to the middleware developers –Contribute for the creation of FAQs and “gridification” guidelines –Visit or accepting visits of application experts in events similar to the current EELA-2 "Gridification Weeks” –Participate as a tutor in the training events organized by the LGI –Make available a public central database containing the profile and the current status of all applications supported by the GridLGI –Act as a liaison between the GridLGI and new application communities or related projects –Evaluate the technical requirements and the impact of new projects/applications willing to be supported by the GridLGI

42. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 42 LGI Management / Governance

43. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 43 Possible structure of a Latin American NGI A strong liaison with the NREN is strongly suggested/recommended. Local conditions permitting, the NGI should be incorporated into the NREN.

44. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 44 Long-term sustainability status (1/2) Long-term sustainability of e-Infrastructures world wide is key for a continued support of scientific communities EELA-2 is definitely contributing to the establishment of JRUs and NGIs in Latin America, in close synergy with NRENs and CLARA, also in countries not initially involved in the project EELA-2 has defined a detailed model and architecture of the Latin American Grid Initiative Contacts with CLARA have formally been established and a Joint Committee has been formed at the Bogotá Conference (with Spanish participation) to analyse, agree on, and start implementing the proposed model

45. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 45 Clear support of the former CLARA President (C. Casasus) Long-term sustainability status (2/2)

46. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 46 What’s round the corner? GISELA? No EELA-3 foreseen then … Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America (GISELA) Objective of the proposal: Following about 4 years of successful activities in EELA and EELA-2, the objective of the GISELA proposal is to guarantee the long- term sustainability of the EU-LA e-Infrastructure to ensure the continuity and the future enhancement of the European – Latin American Virtual Research Communities. Building on the EELA-2 e-Infrastructure, its associated Services and the numerous User Communities, the project will focus on two inter-related goals: –Implement the NGI / LGI sustainability model, as specified in DSA1.3 (http://documents.eu-eela.org/record/1119/files/), in association with CLARA and collaborating with EGI. –Provide the Virtual Research Communities with the suited e-Infrastructure and Application-related Services required to improve the effectiveness of their research.

47. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 47 GISELA summary proposal 1/3 Call Identifier: FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2 URL: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction= UserSite.CapacitiesDetailsCallPage&call_id=263#inf opack Funding Scheme: CP - CSA

48. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 48 GISELA summary proposal 2/3 Work Packages and their objectives (short summary) –NA1:Administrative and Technical Management of the Project  EELA-2 type of Administrative and Technical management  International Cooperation –NA2:Dissemination and Outreach  Organise Dissemination events focusing on Decision Makers interaction to get their support for the LGI / NGI implementation  Promote outreach actions (e.g. Conference talks, seminars, exhibitions, Virtual Days,..) to widely spread the usefulness of e- Infrastructures for different research communities –NA3: Virtual Communities Support  Identify and support Virtual Research Communities (VRC) by fostering e-Science collaboration among multidisciplinary groups  Create and maintain support tools to ease the utilisation of the e-Infrastructure (Application´s portals and database, self-training material, User’s and developer’s Guide, Help Desk support etc.)  Organise training activities – tailored to each VCR needs – to transfer knowledge concerning the e-Infrastructure utilisation  Validate the services provided by SA1, SA2 and JRA1 by performing tests with pilot applications

49. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 49 GISELA summary proposal 3/3 –SA1:NGI / LGI Infrastructure Services (as in DSA1.3)  Deploy the catch-all Grid Operation Centre (GOC) as defined in DSA1.3 to serve as model for future ROCs  Implement the Grid Support Centre (GSC) as defined in DSA1.3  Support Virtual Research Environment (VRE) tools, systems and processes –SA2:NGI / LGI Network Services (as in DSA1.3)  Keep managing Network resources via the existing national Network Operation Centres (NOC)  Implement the Network Support Centre (NSC) as defined in EELA-2 DSA1.3  Proceed with the deployment of performing Network monitoring in collaboration with EGI –JRA1:Infrastructure & Application-oriented Services for Virtual Communities  Increase the reach, the attractiveness, the usability and the effectiveness of the EU-LA e- Infrastructure for well-established and new communities. For this goal, collaborate with EGI to divulge the Services developed in the EELA- 2 context and devise those new Services required by the User Communities

50. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 50 Why is it possible? The EELAs –Trained users, tutors and administrators in LA –Disseminated the Grid culture –“Approached” Decision Makers –Proposed a model for long-term sustainability of Grid infrastructures in LA –Is currently looking for funds in EU (EC & CIEMAT) to help implementing the model during the next 2 years Conclusion It should work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

51. www.eu-eela.eu Villahermosa (Mexico) – CONAIS' 09 - 23.09.2009 51 Thank you for your attention marechal@if.ufrj.br