1. 1CHEP2000 February 2000F. Gagliardi EU HEP GRID Project Fabrizio Gagliardi CERNF.Gagliardi@cern.ch

2. 2CHEP2000 February 2000F. Gagliardi Background  EU-NSF discussions on transatlantic collaboration on IT subjects  EU-US workshop on large scientific data bases and archives in USA last September  Meeting between EU and HEPCCC last November  Project proposal initiated and led by HEPCCC  Kick-off meeting at CERN on Jan 11, 2000  Encouraged by the EU to submit a proposal by May 10th

3. 3CHEP2000 February 2000F. Gagliardi Organization  Two task forces established (see http://nicewww.cern.ch/~les/grid/welcome.h tml)  Technical task force coordinated by Les Robertson  Proposal task force coordinated by Fab Gagliardi  Participation by institutional representatives

4. 4CHEP2000 February 2000F. Gagliardi Task forces mission  Technical Task Force: Concentrates on understanding available technology and define technical workprogramme  Proposal Task Force: Build a consortium and use input from TTF to define a project proposal (on a very short time…)

5. 5CHEP2000 February 2000F. Gagliardi Current Status  HEP active participants: CERN, Hungary, IFAE, IN2P3, INFN, RAL  Interested “observes”: NIKHEF, DESY, GSI, other German institutes  Links: Monarc, European Research Network, LHC computing management, CERN computing management  Potential candidates: Sweden (medical)  Project outline reviewed during CHEP2000  Comments/corrections by tomorrow midnight

6. 6CHEP2000 February 2000F. Gagliardi Industrial participation  Preliminary contacts with GRIDware, Siemens, StorageTEK  National institutions to propose industrial candidates by mid March  Equipment provider and middleware developer roles

7. 7CHEP2000 February 2000F. Gagliardi Other sciences Contacts being established with:  Biology  Life science  Earth Observation  Meteorology

8. 8CHEP2000 February 2000F. Gagliardi Project Outline  Focus on: management of large amount of data high throughput computing automated management of both local computing fabrics and wide-area GRID  Middleware development  Testbed demonstrators

9. 9CHEP2000 February 2000F. Gagliardi Workprogramme  R&D required on: Adaptability Scalability Wide-area distribution of resources  Tentative Workpackages: computing fabric management mass storage management wide area data management wide-area workload management wide-area application monitoring application development/adaptation  Develop in the light of today’s workshop

10. 10CHEP2000 February 2000F. Gagliardi Resources National/regional part of the GRID funded by national agencies High performance bandwidth across sites to be provided by other initiatives (Geant?) EU financial support for development of midddleware, overall integration and operation of testbeds Support for exchange of staff and dissemination of information (workshops, conferences etc)

11. 11CHEP2000 February 2000F. Gagliardi Next actions  Outline to the EU for information/feedback on 14/2/2000  Project technical programme to be defined at TTF workshop at CERN on March 7  Consortium and programme of work by end of March 2000  EU Proposal to be finalized by end of April  Process approval/negotiation for the rest of this year  Possible project start early 2001  Foreseen project duration till 2003-4  Second phase 2004-6???

12. 12CHEP2000 February 2000F. Gagliardi Main issues  Define a valid and credible technical programme of work in a very short time  US participation (approval process and funding)  HEP and other sciences priorities and workschedule  HEP and industry priorities and workschedule  Relations to other similar initiatives in EU and US  Project management  Politics...