1. EGEE is a project funded by the European Union under contract IST-2003-508833 NA3 progress to date John Murison Training Manager, NeSC Cork Conference, 19/04/04 www.eu-egee.org

2. EGEE Cork Conference, 19/4/04 - 2 Contents European DataGrid experience Twenty-two partners in EGEE NA3 Staff hired First induction events Communication Execution plan What’s next

3. EGEE Cork Conference, 19/4/04 - 3 EDG Experience EDG not only forerunner to EGEE, but the major one. Personally, several meetings to get to know CERN set-up (4 visits to CERN since last November) Engagement with EDG, including attending an EDG tutorial in November and the final EDG review in February But EGEE is different – quantity changes quality.  Communications is a major challenge In EDG, training was not planned for, but became important.  This has raised expectations for EGEE training.

4. EGEE Cork Conference, 19/4/04 - 4 NA3 Partners Twenty-two partners in EGEE NA3 UK & Ireland: 17 UEDIN (NeSC), UK Central Europe: 2 GUP, Austria; 3 UNIINNSBRUCK,Austria 4 CESNET, Czech Republic; 5 BUTE, Hungary 6 ELUB, Hungary; 8 MTA SZTAKI, Hungary 11 ICM,Poland; 12 PSNC, Poland; 13 II-SAS, Slovakia Germany & Switzerland: 28 FZK, Germany Italy: 31 INFN, Italy Northern Europe: 34 KU-NATFAK, Denmark Russia: 41 IHEP; 42 IMPB RAS; 43 ITEP; 44 JINR; 46 PNPI; 47 RRCKI South East Europe: 51 GRNET, Greece; 52 TAU, Israel; 53 ICI, Romania

5. EGEE Cork Conference, 19/4/04 - 5 New Staff Many NA3 partners have been funded to hire staff, and have also agreed to provide staff unfunded by EGEE. I have been asked to gather details from NA3 partners of progress  staff names, job descriptions, etc., as per my email of two days ago. At Edinburgh, the current NA3 complement:  Malcolm Atkinson, John Murison, Dave Berry, Mike Mineter, David Fergusson, Guy Warner

6. EGEE Cork Conference, 19/4/04 - 6 First induction events Edinburgh, 26 th -28 th April  Three days to produce a two day tutorial  The start of the training module production  Based on EDG, but many other inputs CERN, 17 th -19 th May  Half-day induction tutorial for Grid-aware staff (morning of 17 th May)  Two day induction tutorial 18 th -19 th May

7. EGEE Cork Conference, 19/4/04 - 7 Communication within NA3  Conference calls Three thus far,  Mailing list: project-eu-egee-na3@cern.ch A simple thing, but… important. Two mailing lists?  Website (EGEE Intranet  NA3)EGEE IntranetNA3 Part of EGEE ‘Intranet’ Structure only for now, but will be the main communication medium for NA3 activity  At Cork, please come to the NA3 desk.

8. EGEE Cork Conference, 19/4/04 - 8 Execution Plan Recently released:  Accessible here or from NA3 websitehere  Russian partners also have federation plan  Federation plans are valuable; must fit with overall NA3 Execution Plan NA3 Execution Plan in draft form. Major task for NA3 at Cork is to fill out and refine the Execution Plan. Start discussions later this afternoon.

9. EGEE Cork Conference, 19/4/04 - 9 Next steps Training starts! Execution Plan completed. Website to be filled out. Reporting essential. Future meetings?  Conference calls  Face-to-face meetings

10. EGEE is a project funded by the European Union under contract IST-2003-508833 Please make contact with NeSC via John Murison: john@nesc.ac.uk Cork Conference, 19/04/04 www.eu-egee.org