1. INFSO-RI-508833 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE www.eu-egee.org Plans for the EGEE-2 EGEE 2 Task Force 3rd EGEE Conference, Athens, April 2005

2. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE 2 Task Force 2 Call Description Identifier: FP6-2004-Infrastructures-6 Research Infrastructures – “eInfrastructure: Grid Initiatives” Publication date: May 11, 2005 Closing date: Sept. 7, 2005 Indicative Budget: € 55 Million

3. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE 2 Task Force 3 Chronology of Events/Meeting July 11, 2004: First ideas of EGEE phase 2 proposed to PMB. Sept. 3, 2004: Task Force appointed by PMB Members of the Task Force: Fabrizio Gagliardi (Project Director), Dieter Kranzlmueller (TF Meeting Chair), Anna Cook (Project Secretary), Fotis Karayannis, Christian Saguez, Neil Geddes, Olof Barring, Giorgio Maggi, Klaus Ullmann, Anders Ynnerman

4. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE 2 Task Force 4 Task Force Meetings Nov. 4, 2004: Kick-Off Conference Call Nov. 24, 2004:Nov. 22-26, 2004: Face-To-Face MeetingEGEE Conf, The Hague Feb. 4, 2005: Feb. 9-11, 2005: Conference Call1st EU Review Mar. 17, 2005: Call on Related Proposals FP6-2004-Infrastructures-6 Apr. 11, 2005: Conference Call Apr. 19, 2005: Apr. 18-22, 2005: Face-To-Face MeetingEGEE Conf, Athens

5. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE 2 Task Force 5 Role and Mandate of Task Force From the PMB minutes, Sept. 3, 2004: TF should offer guidance for the planning of EGEE-2 The main tasks of the TF are to identify the boundary conditions (financial, technical, and administrative) for EGEE-2 and to advise the PMB on the setup of the editorial board (EB) for the writing of the proposal outline.

6. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE 2 Task Force 6 The EGEE Vision From the EGEE Proposal: “EGEE aims to integrate current national, regional and thematic Grid efforts, in order to create a seamless European Grid infrastructure for the support of the ERA.” “The EGEE vision is that this Grid infrastructure will provide European research in academia and industry with a common market of computing resource, enabling round- the-clock access to major distributed computing resources, independent of geographic location.” “EGEE is a two-year project conceived as part of a four- year programme. Major implementation milestones after two years will provide the basis for assessing subsequent objectives and funding needs.”

7. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE 2 Task Force 7 Project Objectives From the 1st Review Report: Assessment of objectives: “The objectives of the project are still more than relevant. The project is in the unique position to take a leading role in areas such as application-driven development of Grid middleware, geographically distributed training and induction of large and diverse user communities, policy and international cooperation development, global-scale operations of production-quality Grid infrastructure, Grid security and software development and quality assurance policies.”

8. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE 2 Task Force 8 Outline of Second Phase The TF recommends on a natural continuation of the project’s first phase with mostly the same partners and necessary minor adjustments on the basis of the input from the activities and especially taking into account the input from the reviewers.

9. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE 2 Task Force 9 Mission of EGEE EGEE 1: Large-scale deployment of the EGEE infrastructure to deliver production level Grid services EGEE 2: Extension of EGEE to a larger user community (in terms of application diversity) with approx. the same funding and duration

10. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE 2 Task Force 10 Boundary Conditions A broad spectrum of applications has already started in EGEE-1 and should be continued and increased towards a multidisciplinary grid infrastructure. The role of the driving (pilot) applications should be maintained. The members of the TF and the PEB discussed the general outline of the proposal containing the boundary conditions for EGEE-2. The details of specific tasks inside each activity have not yet been addressed These directions ONLY refer to programme of work and do not attempt to identify partners or level of effort required

11. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE 2 Task Force 11 Relation to Other Projects From the 1st EU Review: Additional activities could be spun off to other related projects EGEE should support other projects which use the EGEE infrastructure  EGEE as an incubator The actual scope of the proposal will be influenced based on decisions regarding the recently submitted related proposals (EU Calls March: 18 proposals related to EGEE) and possible future proposals (EU Calls September)

12. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE 2 Task Force 12 Staff Retention The TF acknowledges the following facts raised by the EU reviewers : “The project builds on excellent people” “The project personnel is found to be excellent” Reviewer recommendation: “People make the difference. Invest in staff retention immediately. Good staff retention management will be key to success” Staff retention is very important! The experts of EGEE-1 are a very valuable human resource of our project

13. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE 2 Task Force 13 Plan for the Future PMB leads the way to the proposal submission, coordinates the interaction between PEB, TF and EB and the input from the federations PEB continues to discuss the details and provides input on the technical aspects TF remains active in guiding the draft of the proposal EB starts working on the outline of the proposal May: First draft outline of the proposal June/July: Proposal writing August: Final administrative adjustments only September 7, 2005: Deadline for Submissions

14. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE 2 Task Force 14 How to Contribute? Provide your input via your national representation or federation representative to the PMB

15. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE 2 Task Force 15 How to Contribute?