Plans for EGEE II

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Plans for EGEE II

• Bob Jones
• EGEE Technical Director, chair of the EGEE II
  editorial board
• 20th June 2005

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EGEE - now

• EGEE is the largest Grid
• infrastructure project in Europe
• 70 leading institutions in 27 countries,
  federated in regional Grids
• 32 M EU funding for initially 2 years starting
  1st April 2004
• total 2 year budget of 46 M
• EU review, February 2005 successful
• justifies EGEE-II proposal

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EGEE phase 1 activities
24 Joint Research
28 Networking
NA1 Management NA2 Dissemination and
Outreach NA3 User Training and Education (22
partners, 4) NA4 Application Identification and
Support (20 partners, 12.5) NA5 Policy and
International Cooperation
JRA1 Middleware Engineering and Integration (5
partners, 16) JRA2 Quality Assurance (2
partners, 2) JRA3 Security (5 partners,
3) JRA4 Network Services Development
LCG 6M
LCG 1M
Emphasis in EGEE is on operating a
production grid and supporting the end-users
48 Services
SA1 Grid Operations (48 partners, 45) SA2
Network Resource Provision
LCG 14M
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EU Call for Project Proposals

• EU call description
• Identifier FP6-2004-Infrastructures-6
• Research Infrastructures eInfrastructure Grid
  Initiatives
• Closing date Sept. 8, 2005
• Indicative Budget 55 Million
• EGEE-II boundary conditions
• Consortium very similar to EGEE (approx 70
  partners)
• Finance similar budget ( 32M from EU
  contributions from partners)
• Duration 2 years starting 1st April 2006
• Avoid short-term extension to EGEE phase 1
• Ensure staff retention in all partners of the
  consortium

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EGEE-II Proposal preparation

• An editorial board has been appointed by the EGEE
  Project Mgmt Board (PMB) to draft the proposal
• Taking input from each federation (region), pilot
  application groups (HEP, Bio), activity managers
  (EGEE PEB) and original EGEE2-taskforce
• June/July Iterative proposal writing
• August Final administrative adjustments only
• No renegotiation of consortium, roles and budget

September 8, 2005 Deadline for Submissions
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General lines of EGEE-II

• A continuation of the projects first phase
• mostly the same partners (approx 10 partner
  changes out of 70)
• necessary minor adjustments on the basis of the
  input from the activities and especially taking
  into account the recommendations and comments
  from the 1st EU review (February 2005)
• Emphasis on providing an infrastructure for
  eScience
• Increased support for applications
• Maintain role of pilot applications (HEP,
  Biomedical)
• Address needs of a wider user base
• Increased industrial involvement
• A mandatory goal of all EU projects is to promote
  technology transfer to industry
• Prepare for a sustainable grid infrastructure
• Coordinating and building on national grid
  programmes and related initiatives

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Relation to other EU 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
• This is important to ensure support for EGEE and
  its continued funding in Brussels
• Typically the other projects foresee some funding
  (to selected EGEE partners) to help provide the
  necessary support

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Related projects under negotiation
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Grid Operations in EGEE-II

• Improve overall quality of service to make it
  more reliable
• Simplification of operations hierarchy
• Taking into account experience to date
• Continue infrastructure inter-operability work
• In conjunction with related projects (OSG, Nordic
  DataGrid facility, etc.) and middleware groups
  (JRA1)
• Continue expansion of infrastructure to more
  geographic regions
• Through related projects
• Agreed with Brussels that direct geographical
  extensions in EGEE-II (Croatia, Serbia, Turkey,
  Korea, Taiwan, India) would involve increases to
  the budget (EU can cherry pick from these)

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Middleware in EGEE-II
Applications
Higher-Level Grid Services Workload
Management Replica Management Application
monitoring Workflows Grid economies etc.

• Provide solutions for HEP Bio
• Host services from other projects
• More rapid changes than Foundation Grid
  Middleware
• Deployed as application sw using procedure
  provided by grid ops

Take into account LCG baseline services
document Separation between EGEE/LCG/experiments
needed
Foundation Grid Middleware Security model and
infrastructure Computing (CE) Storage Elements
(SE) Networking monitoring and reservation Account
ing Information providers and monitoring

• Application independent
• No significant shift from EGEE to EGEE-II
• Deployed as a sw distribution by grid ops

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Pilot applications in EGEE-II

• Modest increase in resources for application
  support within the project
• Pilot applications (HEP Bio)
• Demonstrate impact of grids and day-to-day
  reliance on the infrastructure
• Validation of EGEE infrastructure evolution of
  the grid interface
• Any resources provided by EGEE-II must be
• Deployed within a well-defined context and fully
  dedicated to the programme of work of the project
• Working on tasks of common interest to the
  experiment and EGEE-II
• Targeted at ensuring EGEE-II products and
  services are used as essential elements of the
  computing infrastructure
• Better integration between experiments,
  middleware developers

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Summary

• EGEE is now contributing 21M euros to LCG
• The continuation of EGEE-II is essential to
  provide funding for LCG partners during LCG phase
  II
• The EGEE-II project will be a natural
  continuation of EGEE
• Offers a large-scale production grid
  infrastructure to many applications from multiple
  domains
• Prepares for a sustainable grid infrastructure
  which could be the long-term basis for LHC
  computing infrastructure
• Contribute directly to LCG operations, middleware
  and experiment support
• The EGEE-II project proposal will be prepared by
  the end of July ready for submission at the start
  of September
• Clarify requirements for middleware and separate
  between responsibilities for EGEE, LCG and
  experiments (end of June)
• Next meeting with experiments on 11th July