wp2 – studies and strategies for sustainable operational, organizational and policy schemes

The SEE-GRID-2 initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP6 Research Infrastructures contract no. 031775

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SEE-GRID-2

WP2 – Studies and Strategies for sustainable operational, organizational

and policy schemes

Gabriel NeaguWP2 Leader

National Institute for R&D in Informatics – ICI, [email protected], www.ici.ro

Progress Report

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Outline

WP2 execution statusInputs from 1st year WP2 deliverables NGI Sustainability indicators Policy documents Plans for the 2nd project year

Contributions per partner Activity reports for May – August Up-dated plans for the remaining period

WP2 Action plan


A2.1 - Study deployment solutions for Grid CAs, distributed ROCs, M/W components:

Analysis and studies of the technical aspects of Grid organisation, such as Certification Authorities, Operations Centres, middleware, and management solutions

CERN

A2.2 - Sustainable roadmap for SEE National Grid Initiatives:

Recommendations for long-term sustainability of NGIs and eInfrastructure in the region

ICI

WP2 Activities


Deliverables: D2.1 - Regional and National Organizational and Policy Schemes:

M06/ICI D2.2 - Sustainable organizational and operational approach: M09/ICI D2.3 - Sustainability and Impact Analysis of SEE National Grid

Initiatives: M12 (v1) and M24 (final) / IPBMilestones: M2.1 - Sustainable organizational and operational approach defined

M09 M2.2 - Final Sustainability and Impact Analysis of SEE National Grid

Initiatives M24

WP2 Deliverables and milestones


NGI Sustainability indicators for the 2-nd project year

NGI setup and recognition NGI organization and Consortium expansion NREN cooperation eInfrastructure national strategy National Policy documents eIRG plans National-level projects Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects Industrial cooperation Technical independence i.e. national-level services Expansion of national infrastructure Sites migrated to EGEE production Expansion to new applications and user communities


Policy documents

NGI Kick-off documents: Agreement on NGI Establishment / Government recognition or

Letter of support / Agreement on NGI enlargementNGI policy documents: Memorandum of Understanding between NGI and SEE-GRID-2

project /site hosting institution / application (project); Security policy documents (LCG/EGEE JSPG): Grid Security and

Availability Policy, Grid AUP and VO AUP, VO Security Policy, Site Registration Policy, Audit requirements;

CP/CPS; Requirements for LCG User Registration and VO Membership

Management; Site oriented policy documents: Service Level Agreement (SLA)

between site & NGI / VO / application; Procedure guides: site / VO / user registration


Policy documents (2)

Site oriented policy documents: SLA between SEE-GRID-2 project and Grid site / SLA between Grid

site and Virtual Organization / SLA between Grid site and Application / Site Operations Procedure Policy

Technical procedure Guides): Site registration procedure / VO registration procedure / User

registration procedure / Operation Guide / Technical guide on recommended middleware configuration of sites.


NGI status – National recognition

Albania: - Bosnia-Herzegovina: NGI-BA (03/2006) - no national level body

exists to formally recognize NGI Bulgaria: BGGC (01/2003) - Yes Croatia: CRO GRID (01/2004) - Yes Hungary: MGKK (2003) – Yes FYR of Macedonia: MARGI (04/2005) – in progress Moldova: MDGRID (05/2007) - Yes Montenegro: MGI (11/2006) - Yes Romania: RoGrid (05/2002) - Yes Serbia: AEGIS (04/2005) - Yes Turkey: TR-Grid (09/2003) - Yes


NGI status – eInfrastructure adoption

Albania: no Bosnia-Herzegovina: no Bulgaria: yes Croatia: no Hungary: FYR of Macedonia: no national document, it will be a NGI document Moldova: in progress Montenegro: no Romania: yes Serbia: no Turkey: yes


Albania

Plan for the 2-nd project year NGI setup and recognition

The launch of NGI is planned for September 2007 National-level projects

Several proposals would be submitted to Ministry of Education and Science, regarding both Grid infrastructure and applications

Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects The support is expected from bilateral and regional (SEE-ERA.NET)

projects Expansion of national infrastructure

Extension of existing sites (INIMA, FIE, FNS), and inclusion of new sites (FECO and universities of Elbasani and Shkodra)

Expansion to new applications and user communities Expansion into new domains, such as meteorology and seismology


Bosnia-Herzegovina

Plan for the 2-nd project year NGI setup and recognition

Improve the NGI organization and attempt the National level recognition. This could include recognition at various levels i.e. Ministries of Science / Technology / Education where applicable: state/entity/canton

NGI organization and Consortium expansion Planned inclusion of 3-5 new members

NREN cooperation NREN National recognition will be attempted

eInfrastructure national strategy If political issues allow

National-level policies If political issues allow

eIRG membership status If political issues allow


Bosnia-Herzegovina

Plan for the 2-nd project year (cont.): National-level projects

One long-term project is in preparation Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects

By SARNET and by individual universities. Technical independence i.e. national-level services

National CA is planned RB, BDII servers (or gLite counterparts)

Expansion of national infrastructure All sites are due for upgrade, 2 new sites will be introduced

Expansion to new applications and user communities Attempt the expansion into new domains: electromagnetics, fluid

dynamics, seismology, meteorology, biomed


Bulgaria

Plan for the 2-nd project year: NGI organization and Consortium expansion

BGGC expects new members eInfrastructure national strategy

eInfrastructure national strategy will be recognized on governmental level eIRG plans

contribution to eIRG workshops, participation at eIRG meetings regularly National-level projects

National-level projects are expected for expansion of infrastructure Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects

New bilateral and regional projects are expected to start Technical independence i.e. national-level services

Full technical independence in the production status will be achieved Expansion of national infrastructure

A total of more than 300 CPUs is expected to be achieved


Bulgaria

Report on May-August 2007: NGI organization and Consortium expansion

Agreement was signed with University of Ruse Interest was declared by one additional organization

National-level projects One big national project and two small projects were activated; it will

support configuration up-grades Expansion to new user communities

HEP user community plus new members in SEE-GRID


Croatia

Plan for the 2-nd project year: NGI organization

Establishment of CRO GRID 2 National Grid Infrastructure (CRO NGI) and Croatian [Hrvatska] National Grid Initiative (HNGI)

More formal internal organisation and decision-making mechanisms establisheds (Steering Commitee)

eInfrastructure national strategy e-Croatia (e-Hrvatska) strategy

National-level projects CRO GRID 2

Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects EGEE-II, SEE-GRID-2, EU funded CenVis (Centre for Scientific Visualisation) DARIAH bi-lateral and multi-lateral projects


Croatia

Plan for the 2-nd project year (cont): Industrial cooperation

Ericsson Nikola Tesla, CRO GRID related contracted relationship; IBM Hrvatska; interested industrial and other entities

Technical independence i.e. national-level services Improved Grid services at the national level Implementation of organisational mechanisms and production

infrastructure maintenance procedures Functionality and performance expansion and optimisation:

Expansion of national infrastructure The infrastructure will be expanded as the needs arise. Plans are being made to establish CRO GRID National Grid Infrastructure

in a similar way as by CARnet (no formal document, but strict rules).


Croatia

Report on May-August 2007: NGI organization

Establishment of Steering Committee for CRO NGI The Regulation act of CRO NGI and the Budget for the Croatian

eInfrastructure was adopted on the first meeting of the official CRO NGI board

Establishment of National Committee for NGI at Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts


FYR of Macedonia

Plan for the 2-nd project year: NGI organization and Consortium expansion, NREN cooperation

Inclusion of new member (SEE University, Tetovo) eInfrastructure national strategy

National strategy for Electronic Communication with ICT, Ministry of Transport and Communications

Meeting with newly appointed Minister of Information Society The National Grid Strategy document will be presented to the ‘SS Cyril

and Methodius' University Council for approval. Depending of interest and inclusion of other Universities in NGI (from

Tetovo, Bitola) this document will be proposed for adoption to the Inter University Council.

National recognition of MARGI.


FYR of Macedonia

Plan for the 2-nd project year (cont): Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects

SEE-ERA.NET call UNESCO initiative for new project: Improving Innovation Capacities in

the Universities Technical independence i.e. national-level services

CA accreditation planed to run in Jul/August 2007, CP/CPS document to be finished in March 2007; VOMS; RGMA; BDII.

Expansion of national infrastructure Inclusion of new site (Tetovo)

Expansion to new applications and user communities Large Scale Computations in Molecular Chemical Physics of Interacting

Systems Grid Enabled System for Mining, Gathering, Clustering and Retrieval

Images from the Web Mass Processing of Digital and Analog Seismological signals


FYR of Macedonia

Report on May-August 2007: NGI national-level recognition – In progress

Briefings with Minister of Information society of R. Macedonia, result UKIM/MARNet is recognized as the main coordinator of the Grid Initiative in Macedonia

JRU documents prepared as continuation of the previously signed MoA (2004-2006)

eInfrastructure national strategy On the request of the Minister of ICT

– Proposition of the MARNet budget 2008 year– Talks for possibilities of expansion of the backbone to all public

universities (Bitola, Tetovo, new univ. Shtip) NGI expansion. other sources of funding in grid area including

related project Preparation and dissemination activities (Linux installations) for the

preparation of the new grid site at South East Europe University


FYR of Macedonia

Report on May-August 2007: Industrial cooperation

Briefings with MB of MASIT Chamber of Commerce (result -presence of its president on Industrial day in Thessaloniki and dissemination event preparation under SEITA/MASIT conference in September 2007)

Expansion to new applications and user communities Grid enabled system for mining, gathering, clustering and

retrieval images from the web Technical independence i.e. national-level services

Preparing Linux machine and installation of CA software Participation in EUGRIDPMA meeting

Doctorial virtual Studies Close collaboration with IPP, preparatory meeting and 1 month common

work of Anastas Mishev with IPP team.


FYR of Macedonia

Up-dated plan for the remaining period: National-level projects

Preparation s for national Call Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects

Contributions to current FP7 projects preparations (SEE-GRID-SCI) Technical independence i.e. national-level services

Activate the national CA Improve the current level of deployment of national-level services

Expansion of national infrastructure Up-grade current sites, activate SEEU site


Greece

Plan for the 2-nd project year: National-level projects

Expansion of the HellasGrid infrastructure Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects

Participation in various Grid Related project proposals Industrial cooperation

Increase contacts with industrial partners Expansion of national infrastructure

Yes, via national project Expansion to new applications and user communities

On going effort via dissemination and participation to related projects


Hungary

Plan for the 2-nd project year: Expansion of national infrastructure

Further increase of HunGrid resources Expansion to new applications and user communities

Expand to new user communities in areas of data mining, drug discovery, bioinformatics, climate modeling, B2B, geophysics, network modeling, etc


Hungary

Plan for the 2-nd project year: Other sources of funding in grid area including related

projects Participation in various Grid Related project proposals

Industrial cooperation Increase contacts with industrial partners

Expansion of national infrastructure Further increase of HunGrid resources

Expansion to new applications and user communities Expand to new user communities in areas of data mining, drug

discovery, bioinformatics, climate modeling, B2B, geophysics, network modeling, etc


Hungary


Additional JRU established with 3 members in total: DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY at ELU and SEISMOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY of GGRI

The current JRU has been formed by two smaller application developer/user teams and one team that deals with grid development, operation, support, and training. This 'satellite' JRU will exploit the nationwide Grid resources (operated by the another HGCC JRU) together with other international resources for a specific purpose, namely for applications in the field of seismology and meteorology. The another JRU has been established earlier by the Hungarian Grid Competence Center (HGCC) involving the key and most experienced Grid players from Hungary. This center has launched the National Grid Initiative, and intends to become the national reference point.

SZTAKI is member in both JRUs The management of two separated JRUs with different objectives (instead of

one heterogeneous JRU) and with different leaders seems to be more feasible.


Hungary

eIRG plans Already eIRG member, working towards

National-level projects Same number of projects as before, working on the projects. + SEE-GRID-SCI

Industrial cooperation Industrial collaboration was initiated with Oracle Hungary, first

negotiation was done beginning of May as an outcome of the HU-Hungarian Grid Induction and Application Development Training


Moldova

Plan for the 2-nd project year: NGI setup and recognition

MD Grid NGI establishment in May 2007 NGI organization and Consortium expansion, NREN cooperation

Inclusion of State University of Moldova, Institute of Ecology and Geography, Faculty of Economical Cybernetics of AESM and the Institute of Applied Physics of the ASM.

eInfrastructure national strategy New strategy to be accepted in collaboration with MD Grid NGI

eIRG plans Application for Moldova membership to be prepared and sent.

National-level projects Adopting by Moldovan government of the Concept of National

Information System for Science and Innovation will include grid-related topics.


Moldova

Plan for the 2-nd project year (cont): Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects

NATO Proposal for upgrading of NGI regional and global connectivity Industrial cooperation

Negotiations for new grid nodes and users involvement from MoldHidroMeteo State Enterprise and the Institute of Economics and Statistics of Moldova.

Technical independence i.e. national-level services Necessary resources for CA, VOMS, RB/WMS to be determined and

established. Expansion of national infrastructure

Inclusion of new sites Expansion to new applications and user communities

Creation of MD-Grid user communities, applications selection and gridification.


Moldova

Report on May-August 2007: NGI setup and recognition

MD-Grid Kick-off meeting MD-Grid NGI Consortium Agreement signed by 6 NGI participants (May

10 2007):– Research and Educational Networking Association of Moldova – coordinator– Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences

of Moldova– Faulty of Radioelectronics and Telecommunications of the Technical

University of Moldova– Institute of Geology and Seismology of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova– State Hydrometeorological Service– School of Public Heals, State University of Medicine and Pharmacy

“N.Testemitanu” NGI Recognized by: MID – Ministry of Information Development and

ASM

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MoldovaInauguration of MD-Grid NGI in Moldova: May 14 2007, Kick-off session during RENAM Users Conference-2007

Presentations: •National Grid Initiative: MD-Grid - Starting point and perspectivesby Prof. Andrei Andries, General Director of RENAM •Sustainable development of eInfrastructure in South-East Europe• by Dr. Peter Bogatencov•National Grid Initiative MD-Grid for science and educationby Dr. Veaceslav Sidorenco•Participation of IMI ASM in MD-GRID and cooperation with RENAM in joint GRID node deploymentby Dr. Svetlana Cojocaru, vice-director of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of ASM.

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Moldova

MD-Grid NGI Consortium Agreement


Moldova

Report on May-August 2007 (cont.): eIRG plans

Letter of application sent. Answer gotten: Moldova cannot be member of eIRG , observer only, but there is no policy at the moment

Industrial cooperation Negotiation of cooperation prospects with two domestic Companies that

plan to be involved in GRID applications development Technical independence i.e. national-level services

CA building documents preparation continued Expansion of national infrastructure

Organization of the tender for purchasing of the equipment according to the MoUs with institutions

Expansion to new applications and user communities 1 application, nominated and gridification started


Moldova

Up-dated plan for the remaining period: NGI organization and Consortium expansion

State University of Moldova, the Academy of Economical Studies of Moldova

eInfrastructure national strategy new MD-Grid NG eInfrastructure to be determined

eIRG plans application for Moldova observer Membership to be prepared and sent

National-level projects Adopting by Moldovan government of the Concept of National

Information System for Science and Innovation will include grid-related topics.


Moldova

Up-dated plan for the remaining period (cont): Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects

FP7, SEEGRID-SCI Industrial cooperation

negotiations for new grid nodes and users involvement from the Academy of Economical Studies of Moldova.

Technical independence i.e. national-level services necessary resources for CA, VOMS, RB/WMS to be determined and

established. Expansion of national infrastructure

negotiations for new grid nodes creation Expansion to new applications and user communities

creation of MD-Grid users communities, PRNNS application gridification and deployment.


Montenegro


Increase number of MGI members eInfrastructure national strategy

First draft of the national Grid strategy will be written and presented in for approval by the Ministry of Education and Science.

Promote the national Grid strategy and work on its implementation Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects

Search for additional sources of funding, especially from industry. Industrial cooperation

Dissemination of information about Grid technology among IT and other industry in Montenegro.


Montenegro

Plan for the 2-nd project year (cont): Technical independence i.e. national-level services

Establish the National Grid CA (CP/CPS to be finished until May 2007 and completion is expected until end of 2007)

Expansion of national infrastructure Improve the Grid infrastructure by upgrading the existing site and

introducing new ones. Expansion to new applications and user communities

Increase the number of users and applications.


Romania

Plan the 2-nd project year: NGI organization and Consortium expansion

RoGrid expansion with one more institution during 2007 NREN cooperation

Cooperation with RoEduNet for NREGI development National-level projects

The new R&D Call for proposals at the National level Plan is scheduled for June-July 2007.

Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects Via international cooperation. Utilization of Structural Funds will be

attempted. Industrial cooperation

Activate cooperation with IT private high-tech companies


Romania

Plan for the 2-nd project year (cont): Technical independence i.e. national-level services

Activate the national CA Expansion of national infrastructure

It is planned to include 1-2 new sites Expansion to new applications and user communities

The expansion to the ESR, BioMed, and Simulation and Optimization fields will be attempted.


Romania


Two new institutions have been included in the consortium: West University of Timisoara - Computer Science Department, and Technical University of Cluj-Napoca – Computer Science Department

National-level projects Participation in the National Research Programme Call 1 (June 2007) A proposal for NREGI development was submitted to the National

Committee for Research Infrastructures Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects

EGEE III, SEE-GRID-SCI, Structural funds. Industrial cooperation

IT private high-tech companies included in proposal consortia for the NRP Call1


Romania

Report on May-August 2007 (cont): Technical independence i.e. national-level services

National CA accredited in July 2007 Expansion of national infrastructure

Site of the new RoGrid comers Expansion to new applications and user communities

Modelling, simulation and optimization (MOSI) applications on Grid are under development (ICI, NCIT, WUT, TUCN, INCAS)

EQUSIM application was defined by NIPNE in cooperation with National Institute for Earth Science Bucharest


Romania

Up-dated plan for the remaining period: National-level projects

Starting winning projects from NRP Call 1 Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects

Contributions to current FP7 projects preparations (EGEE III, SEE-GRID-SCI)

Technical independence i.e. national-level services Activate the national CA Improve the current level of deployment of national-level services

Expansion of national infrastructure Up-grade current sites

Expansion to new applications and user communities MOSI applications deployment and support


Serbia


Improve AEGIS organization with signing of new MoU and forming JRU Maintain excellent relation with NREN

eInfrastructure national strategy Work towards eInfrastructure national strategy

eIRG plans Establish eIRG membership (in progress)

National-level projects Seek national funding from newly introduced Ministry of

Telecommunications and Information Society Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects

Obtain equipment grants from SNIP and IPA (in progress) Get further funding in grid area through participation in FP7 and

regional calls (e.g. see-era.net)


Serbia


Expand industrial cooperation, by interacting with hi-tech SMEs (e.g. IRVAS, SEWA)

Technical independence i.e. national-level services Achieve full technical independence of national-level services, after

accreditation of CA Expansion of national infrastructure

Further expand AEGIS infrastructure by introducing new sites, and by upgrading existing ones

Expansion to new applications and user communities Expand to new applications and user communities such as Meteorology

and Archeology


Serbia

Report on May-August 2007: NGI organization and Consortium expansion, NREN cooperation

Annual AEGIS Assembly held on September 8 AEGIS organization improved by signing of new MoU and forming of JRU Excellent relation with NREN maintained – it is one of the founding

members of AEGIS Industrial cooperation

Industrial cooperation improved, two hi-tech SMEs (e.g. IRVAS, SEWA) are members of AEGIS

Technical independence i.e. national-level services Full technical independence of national-level services is achieved; AEGIS

CA accredited Expansion of national infrastructure

Upgrade of AEGIS01-PHY-SCL in progress, new sites will be added in 2007


Turkey


TR-Grid will be expanded with the participation of new members from governmental departments and industry: Prime Ministry State Planning Organization, National Meteorology Service, Turkish Atomic Energy Authority, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Center , AGMLAB

JRU will be formed as a mechanism for NGI eInfrastructure national strategy

TR-Grid strategy and policy will be finalized. eIRG plans

TUBITAK expects to become a member of eIRG. Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects

All of the TR-Grid members are trying to participate in different projects from national and international level.


Turkey


Meetings will be organized to strengthen the industrial and governmental collaboration of TR-Grid.

Technical independence i.e. national-level services Full technical independence will be achieved.

Expansion of national infrastructure Increase in the number of CPUs to over 1000 cores is expected.

Expansion to new applications and user communities TR-Grid will support new grid applications from different research fields

and looking at multidisciplinary applications.


Turkey


1 new member – Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEA) TR-Grid JRU was formed in August 2007 with 9 members of NGI

eInfrastructure national strategy + policy documents Strategy document is finalized and Management Board of ULAKBIM

decided to form an advisory board that will work as the decision maker Site and User Policy documents are finalized

eIRG plans The membership of TUBITAK to eIRG is in progress

National-level projects TR-Grid e-Infrastructure Project has been extended until the end of June

2007 and total project budget was increased to 800K Euro


Turkey

Report on May-August 2007 (cont): Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects

TR-Grid e-Infrastructure Project, EUMEDGRID, EGEE-2 Industrial cooperation

The industrial collaboration was initiated with AGMLAB (SME) in the semantic and search engine areas. ULAKBIM and AGMLAB developed an academic research engine which will use TR-Grid infrastructure and grid services.

EDA Engineering and Analysis (SME specialized in Computational Fluid Dynamics)

Expansion of national infrastructure 8 sites are operational. Minimum site configuration is 64 core and 1

Tbyte storage area. As total 1000 cores and 40 Tbyte storage. Sites migrated to EGEE production

All of the 8 sites are part of EGEE infrastructure


Views from National Events


Turkey

Up-dated plan for the remaining period: NGI organization and Consortium expansion, NRN cooperation

TR-Grid will be expanded with the participation of new members from governmental departments and industry:

– Prime Ministry State Planning Organization, National Meteorology Service, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Center

eIRG plans membership of eIRG

National-level projects expected expansion of infrastructure with the new submitted projects

Other sources of funding in grid area including related projects TR-Grid is involved in the proposals of next phase Grid projects: EGEE-

III, EUMEDGRID2, SEE-GRID-SCI. Industrial cooperation

Meetings will be organized to strengthen the industrial and governmental collaboration of TR-Grid.


Turkey

Up-dated plan for the remaining period (cont): Expansion of national infrastructure

more storage Expansion to new applications and user communities

TR-Grid supports new grid applications from different research fields and looking for multidisciplinary applications.


WP2 Action plan

Provision of missing 3M reports and up-dated plansDecide on the list of NGI sustainability indicatorsDefine metrics per NGI/S indicatorEvaluate potential impact on NGI/S for each metric and for each indicatorExperiment this impact analysis framework on currently reported NGI statusContinuous monitoring of NGI/S metrics and indicators

wp2 – studies and strategies for sustainable operational, organizational and policy schemes

Documents

grid site sla

grid security

grid aup

site registration policy

grid area

grid cas

cro grid

vo security policy