From: owner-hep-project-grid-pmb-exec@listbox.cern.ch on behalf of Bob
Jones [Robert.Jones@cern.ch]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 4:37 PM
To: PMB executive; WP Internal; ITeam
Subject: notes from the EU DataGrid feedback session

Categories: CERN SpamKiller Note: -49

Hi,
Here are my notes from the EDG review feedback session. The slides and notes
from the other sessions are available here:
http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a036278


Cheers, Bob.


Salvatore Filippone presented the initial feedback of the EU reviewers:

Overall evaluation - "happy with the achievements of the project"
Also agree that the project had to put aside certain developments for the
overall priorities of the project and to met the application needs.

Happy with the final status of ESA contribution to the project.

Comments and commendations for the future:

Importance of having a stable core group of senior software developers. Care
should be taken to keep their engaged in future projects.

Fabric management: It is extremely important during the move to production
mode to establish up-front policies for negotiating the inclusion of sites
into the grid. Some independence of site configuration is needed but clear
polices and rules for inclusion must be established and followed.

Please keep the Application Working Group running.

Reemphasized the importance of contributing aggressively to standardization
groups.

You have shown a very good experience in dissemination from a scientific
point of view and good public relations capabilities. This should be
maintained.

There can be no doubt that the project represents an important contribution
to global grid activities.

Should consider re-using EU funded efforts in other projects for meta-data
management.

EGEE will be a very large project and should act as a centre of gravity for
establishing a new grid computing universe around the world.

On behalf of the reviewers we would like to thank the project management for
a very successful and fruitful relationship during the last 3 years.


Kyriakos Baxevanidis (EU project office): Would like to express the thanks
of the EU to the project as a whole and the project management in
particular.

Lessons learnt by EU from DataGrid:

We can be very successful in Europe when we cooperate. DataGrid is a very
good example of how this can work.

DataGrid has shown it is now feasible to build infrastructure at a
pan-European scale.

EU attaches a lot of attention and hopes to EGEE for the future. EGEE
represents the shift to a pan-European production quality infrastructure. It
should provide a "one-stop" service for the use of distributed resources by
scientists across Europe.

EGEE is considered to be a very important project for Europe.

Separately managed and administered domains increase the importance of
sociological aspects. We need to address the relational quality of FP6
projects and expect EGEE to contribute strongly to the eIRG EU initiative.

Thanked Fabrizio Gagliardi for his work with the European Union to inspire EU programmes and actions.

Thanked the project managerment for identifying and meeting the requirements of
the different application groups.
Thanked Alexia Augier-Bochon for all her help on the administrative aspects
of the project which. Her work was highly appreciated in Brussels.

Wolfgang Von Reuden thanked the EU for this very positive assessment and the
project management team for their continued work throughout the project
life.

Please remember the good points and bad points of the project and document
them so they can really be integrated as "lesson learnt" in future plans.

The negotiations or EGEE have been grueling and I am pleased that we have
been able to come a successful conclusion.

You should all be proud and take home this message of success to your
colleagues and partners. I hope the success will continue in EGEE.

You are all invited to a party at 18:00 in restaurant 2.


The whole project management team would like to thank EVERYONE involved in
the project and related projects for contributing to make DataGrid a
resounding success.
DataGrid is dead. Long live EGEE.