1. XD to Desktop 6 months – 2 Years – 5 Years Open standards Ideals -> real world TeraGrid accept teething problems and iterate US - Prescriptive model for resource usage, future usage EU – Allocation procedure between top sliced and national usage, no single method for interaction UK model - departmental, institutional and national facilities have different drivers. Is a forced model as per US desirable? Benefits vs disadvantages – Scientists limited in ambition due to perceived difficulty Resources off site must be as accessible as local – though the local network is currently underutilised Network connectivity Co-location of compute and storage is essential Tension between cutting edge and sustainability Data accessibility at the local level (dept) will be increasingly important Develop campus infrastructure to get researchers -> facilities, local->regional->national- >international Tools with open standards – allow researchers to drive IS providers to provide tools interfaces and services they want: researchers collaborate and so want services that facilitate that. Different institutional governance models give different levels of responsiveness in the services offered. Different scales of resources could require different types of middleware

2. Align with groups that are already looking at multi scale usage – EU? Join work already ongoing around production open standards interfaces Recognition that we need to possibly disconnect running the equipment from the resource/facility that it can provide Recognition that resource centres have expertise above just running hardware national cvatasrphe if we were to lose this expetrise Follow the JANET model for resources? Shared services where a clear value proposition can be shown and where it makes research sense Get representatives from non-participating institutions into the forum to give impartial view Recognise that the levels (desktop) may disappear into local/remote Researcher-IT services relationship improved with clear descriptionof role and resopsabilities and Resistance for adoption around changing methods of work, even if clear benefits can be shown RC have driven requirements around data is it better in the long term if the RC have similar edicts around other resources Consultation with self organised coherent communities is essential to allow for the long term development of services

3. Researchers should be able to move their problem from desktop up to national scale facilities quickly simply and easily

4. 6 Months Consultation with self organised coherent communities is essential to allow for the long term development of services Get representatives from non-participating institutions(commercial providers?) into the forum to give an impartial view Align with groups that are already looking at multi scale usage – EU? Re-join work already on going around production open standards interfaces Different institutional governance models give different levels of responsiveness in the services offered. Coherent central services around AAA & QA

5. 2 Years Different scales of resources could require different types of middleware/interfaces Resources off site must be as accessible as local – though the local network is currently underutilised Co-location of compute and data is essential Tools with open standards – allow researchers to drive IS providers to provide tools interfaces and services they want: researchers collaborate and so want services that facilitate that.

6. 5 Years Recognition that we need to disconnect running the equipment from the service/facility that it can provide Use shared services where a clear value proposition can be shown and where it makes research sense Tension between cutting edge and sustainability will always

7. Open standards in tools and services