1. 2007 © SWITCH SWITCH plans for 2008 - 2011 Christoph Witzig witzig@switch.ch Swiss Grid Day 7.5.2007

2. 2007 © SWITCH 2 Grid Strategy of SWITCH Build a “support infrastructure for grids” in Switzerland by – operating central services – carrying out co-operative projects with our partners – participating in international projects while exploiting SWITCH’s core competences in – Security – Middleware – Network See presentation from 1st Swiss Grid Day (29.9.2006)

3. 2007 © SWITCH 3 Co-operative Projects What are they?  Projects funded by SBF with matching funds from the universities  SWITCH is project coordinator In current period: 2004 - 2007 – AAI-Projekt: Neue innovative Informatikdienstleistungen für die Schweizer Hochschulen – CHF 5.2 Mio (plus matching funds) – Funds distributed to universities according to size – Priority on AAI  Lower priority on video-conferencing and collaboration tools

4. 2007 © SWITCH 4 Project Proposal for 2008 - 2011 (1) SWITCH proposal AAA/SWITCH: e-Infrastructure for e-Science Focus: co-operation and innovation Dates: 1.4.2008 - 31.12.2011 Topics: – AAA – Grid-Middleware – Support for virtual organizations – e-Learning

5. 2007 © SWITCH 5 Project Proposal for 2008 - 2011 (2) SWITCH proposal: – SBF CHF 10.5 mio + matching funds – Contribution from ETH – Contribution from BBT – Total: CHF 23.35 mio Contributions to universities according to size – Between CHF 1.2mio and 63k per university (plus matching funds) CHF 2.6 mio open for competitive bids Note: Funding subject to change

6. 2007 © SWITCH 6 Status of the Proposal Supported by SUK and CRUS  Funding subject to change SWITCH has to work out project plan by July Final decision by the Parliament (winter session 07) Start of projects April 2007