Input to GLM - 16Jun08

Thursday 12 Jun 2008, 08:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

1/1-025 (CERN)

EGEE-II: Financial reports are being collected. Most partners have overspent and will therefore be capped at the agreed revised extension budget. The Project Management Board will meet on 9 July during the EC final review to discuss this. The Project Office is compiling all financial material received to provide a provisional report to the Commission, pending receipt of all material. All deliverables and reports have been sent to the Commission and the reviewers will be provided with all documentation for the review by 23 June. Preparations for the review are close to finalised. At present, over 50 participants have registered. EGEE-III: The Grant Agreement signature is held up by an issue around one member of a JRU in EGEE-III. A deadline of 16 June to resolve this has been given and it is hoped the GA can be signed on that date. If not, the project will consider excluding this partner to ensure the signature process can be completed, and re-instate them through an amendment at a later stage. Conference preparations for EGEE'08 are well underway, both in terms of the local organising committee and the programme committee. The call for exhibition booths is opening, and the registration page should soon be finalised. EGI_DS: The workshop to discuss the draft EGI blueprint will be at CERN on Monday 30th. So far 70 people have registered. The draft blueprint should be distributed by 20th June. There will be a 3 day meeting in Munich (16-18 June) to prepare the draft document where Jürgen Knobloch will attend. This meeting will include a session for the Project Management Board where important changes to the consortium will be discussed. FP6: * SEE-GRID-2, BalticGrid, EUChinaGrid, EUMedGrid final cost claims sent to coordinators. FP7: * EnviroGRIDS @ Black Sea Basin project invited for negotiations (call FP7-2008-ENV-1). IT contact person is Andrew Maier. * SEE-GRID-SCI, BalticGrid-II , ETICS 2 pre-financing received. * GridTalk pre-financing on hold due to internal EC checks on 1 partner. *D4Science: - one additional gLite site has been certified in EGEE production, 3 in total (CNR/Pisa, ESA/Rome, NKUA/Athens), another is under certification (UNIBAS/Basel) - will release the first version of the D4Science production infrastructure (gLite + gCube nodes) at the end of June serving the Earth Monitoring community (ESA partner) - a student from CNR (Italy) will come to CERN for a short-stay to work on the project this summer.