Input to DCM 03Apr08

Wednesday 2 Apr 2008, 08:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

1/1-025 (CERN)

EGEE-II admin and finance: 1. The partners are preparing final financial reporting for end May 2008. 2. All major deliverables are in preparation and due for submission this month. 3. Transition meeting at CERN on 6 & 7 May (http://egee-technical.web.cern.ch/egee-technical/EU-reviews/transition/index.htm) registration : 24 people registered as of 31st March. EGEE-III: Negotiations closed on 19 March, Grant Preparation Forms being signed and sent to EC, Consortium Agreement being finalised (complications arose with the Joint Research Unit structure) and should be signed by end April. Grant Agreement draft received last week, checked and corrections underway. It will be submitted, along with all justification material (JRUs) to the Research Infrastructure Committee in the week of 14 April and signature should follow the week after. This will be in time for the project start date on 1 May – if all goes well! Collaborating EU projects: FP6 DILIGENT: The DILIGENT project official final review report has been received. The project received the highest mark "Good to excellent", i.e. it has fully achieved its objectives and has even exceeded expectations. There are several review recommendations, none of which involve CERN or the gLite middleware. The final DILIGENT system offered a three-dimensional implementation of the resource sharing vision of the Grid, entirely built on Java, which adopted gLite as the underlying Grid middleware and exploited several GT4 elements. A pre-production infrastructure had been deployed, providing reliable gLite and DILIGENT gCube services; all but one of the participating sites is EGEE PPS certified. Health-e-Child: The Health-e-Child official 2nd review report has been received. The project received the "Acceptable Project" mark, i.e. it has achieved most of its objectives with relatively minor deviations. The significant role and crucial support that CERN provides to the project was highlighted at the review. ICEAGE: The ICEAGE International Winter School of Grid Computing, the projects' first e-learning virtual school, has successfully finished. It involved 3 keynote speakers, 7 tutors, 29 school participants; using Adobe Connect (web-based tool for training, conferencing, online collaboration) and WebCT (e-learning tool for academic institutions). The following grid technologies were covered: gLite, Condor, OGSA-DAI and Globus. FP7 D4Science: D4Science is preparing to join the EGEE prod. There is ongoing discussion between D4Science and EGEE via IT-GD-OPS, involving the ROCs of Italy, Switzerland/Germany, South-East Europe. SEE-GRID-SCI: The PJAS post has been filled. Contract preparation underway with possible start date of 16th April for 12 months with possible renewal up to end of project (30 Apr 2010). GridTalk: Grant Preparation Forms signed by the DG. The Grant Agreement is expected in the next days.