1. INFSO-RI-508833 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE www.eu-egee.org Quality Assurance Gabriel Zaquine - JRA2 Activity Manager - CS SI EGEE Final EU Review 23-24 May 2006

2. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE Final EU Review 23-24 May 2006 - JRA2 - Gabriel Zaquine 2 Contents Main accomplishments –Overall QA achievements –Procedures, plans and tools –Metrics programme Feedback on reviewers recommendation Future look and summary

3. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE Final EU Review 23-24 May 2006 - JRA2 - Gabriel Zaquine 3 Overall QA achievements The QA approach adopted by the project in merging academic and industrial best practices has proved successful –Ensured project processes, services and deliverables are of high-quality QA is active across all activities –Each activity has provided a Quality Plan and Measurement Plan Set of procedures, plans and automated tools –Capitalize on best practices Metrics programme –Provide a powerful tool for assessment at each level  Project overall metrics  Activity metrics  Partner metrics (new) Periodically refined Continuous Quality Improvement

4. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE Final EU Review 23-24 May 2006 - JRA2 - Gabriel Zaquine 4 Procedures, Plans and Tools: Capitalisation on best practices Management –Project management procedures and tools implemented have proven successful in:  Providing more than 100 deliverables and milestones of high quality  Managing project progress, effort and cost without deviation for a project with more that 70 partners –Processes and templates will be made available to related projects Software –Software development process and its associated infrastructure follow disciplined and industrial state-of-the-art software engineering and testing techniques –ETICS will continue to leverage the experience gathered during EGEE to provide distributed build and test services to other projects. Operations –QoS has improved significantly: clarified work procedures of deployment and day-to- day operations, introduction and use of automated tools –Experience and best practices gathered in a “cook book” for benefit of whole Grid community. Procedures shared with the related infrastructure projects Applications –Requirement process enhanced with the introduction of the TCG. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) process clarified the needs and motivations of new Applications –The Users’ survey was a great benefit for the project, gathering feedback from the users in order to improve our services and products

5. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE Final EU Review 23-24 May 2006 - JRA2 - Gabriel Zaquine 5 Overall main metrics The project has exceeded the targets set for the first 2 year phase TargetCurrent Status End Year 2 target values Number of Users(*)~ 1400≥ 3000 Number of sites18050 Number of CPU~20 0009500 at month 15 Number of Disciplines8≥ 5 Multinational40≥ 15 countries Job throughput ~ 25 000 jobs/day Percentage of sites pass STFs> 80% Number of attendees trained / Number of training events2700 / 200 Dissemination events in which EGEE-II is presented and or promoted 460 Other significant metrics Current status (*) Number of user certificates in VOs (excludes DTeam VO, GILDA testbed, portal users and super users) > 20 applications from 8 Disciplines: Archaeology; Astronomy; Biomedicine; Computational Chemistry; Earth Sciences Financial Simulation; Geo- Physics; High Energy Physics From DNA4.4 Nb Applicat ions Potentially impacted community HEP4 (Exp.)>4 000 BIO11>2 000 Generic14>20 000

6. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE Final EU Review 23-24 May 2006 - JRA2 - Gabriel Zaquine 6 Activity metrics A full set of activity metrics have been provided by each activity

7. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE Final EU Review 23-24 May 2006 - JRA2 - Gabriel Zaquine 7 Partner Metrics first proposal Given the size of the EGEE-II (more than 90 partners), the metrics programme will include measures of the performance of each partner through their contribution to the programme of work Each activity started to define partner metrics and strategy adapted to its nature and size –Review through a formal face to face presentation –Partner metrics based on the tasks included in the Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) More details can be found at: https://edms.cern.ch/document/715240/ https://edms.cern.ch/document/715240/

8. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE Final EU Review 23-24 May 2006 - JRA2 - Gabriel Zaquine 8 Recommendation Responses 33: Establish key benchmark applications, with an understanding of their gating factors so that it can be predicted how new middleware releases will affect their stability, usability, performance, etc The project agreed that the establishment of key benchmark applications would be a great step forward –The Geant4 application has already been instrumented as application benchmark. Geant4 (www.cern.ch/geant4) is a toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matterwww.cern.ch/geant4  CPU-intensive simulation focussed on WMS performance –To provide wider coverage of the middleware services, we will choose a set of appropriate applications

9. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 EGEE Final EU Review 23-24 May 2006 - JRA2 - Gabriel Zaquine 9 Future look and summary QA approach adopted has proven successful for the project, matching industrial approach QA material revised during EGEE is being used as the starting point for EGEE-II, and will further focus on: –QoS and in particular the QoS seen by the end-users –Benchmark applications We will also continue to investigate CMMi / ITIL / eTOM Collaborations in the QA field between EGEE/ETICS, Globus and OMII-EU being established to provide common QA procedures and tools across Grid community