Athens eInfrastructure event summary June, 12th 2003

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Athens eInfrastructure event summaryJune, 12th
2003

• Vasilis Maglaris
• Chairman, GRNET - Greek Research Technology
  Network
• maglaris_at_grnet.gr, http//www.grnet.gr
• Rome, December 9th, 2003

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Athens Summary (1)

• GEANT pan-European high-speed research
  education network Success!
• 33 states 3900 institutes connected
• full fledged administrative operational support
• 3-tier architecture (campus-NREN-GEANT)
• Implemented "eEurope 2002 directives
• Grid technologies getting mature
• Multiple successful FP5 Grid projects (e.g.
  Datagrid)
• Grid middleware getting stable (Globus, Unicore,
  Condor)
• Applications becoming grid-ready (High Energy
  Physics, Bio-informatics, other)
• Getting ready for eInfrastructures
• unified high-speed networking grid middleware
  environment
• distributed computing - storage sharing platform
• allows new methods of global collaborative
  research often referred to as "eScience
• Implementing eEurope 2005 directives World Wide
  Grid and FP6 RI objectives

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Athens Summary (2)

• Still missing...
• Administrative and policy decision mechanisms -
  framework
• satisfying the diverse end-user communities
  requirements
• E.g. single-sign-on, reliability, robustness,
  performance, security, end-to-end, AAA
  (Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting)
• while achieving economies of scale in providing
  ever-growing resources at attractive cost pricing
  
• Production-quality operational support

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Athens Summary (3)

• Key recommendations
• Establishment of eInfrastructures Reflection
  Group? eIRG
• Composed of nominated National Programme
  representatives
• Working on
• end-to-end user-perceived quality provisioning
  and appropriate resource sharing policies amongst
  all user communities involved
• ERA?ERIA European Research Innovation Area
• Organisation into geographical regions ? tool for
  co-operation
• Further work needed? next events Italy, Ireland,
  Holland
• Rotating EU presidency Troicas?better planning
  coordination