1. www.see-grid.eu SEE-GRID-2 The SEE-GRID-2 initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP6 Research Infrastructures contract no. 031775 The eInfrastructure sustainable development in South-East Europe

2. SEE-GRID-2: Advancing South-East Europe into the eInfrastructure era 2 Outline SEE-GRID-2 project - May 2006 - June 2008; WP2 - main actions for promote sustainable operation and development of GRID infrastructure: Forming NGI; signing bilateral and group’s of interest MoUs; elaboration of national strategy of GRID infrastructure operation and development; Realization of recommendations for regional and national initiatives

3. SEE-GRID-2: Advancing South-East Europe into the eInfrastructure era 3 Strategic priority: NGIs Formation of stable NGIs is the key to long-term sustainability National Grid Initiatives are concentrated efforts taken at National level in order to deploy, operate, and expand grid infrastructures in a coherent and coordinated way NGI involves the inter-connection and inter-operation of academic and research-based resource centers under an umbrella of a national program aiming to integrate the available resources in order to establish an e-Infrastructure for the benefit of the R&E (e- Science) community, and in the long-term for the society at large

4. SEE-GRID-2: Advancing South-East Europe into the eInfrastructure era 4 Beneficiary regions & states: recommendations Carry out complementary but coordinated actions Training! Unified form of NGI establishment, but allow for separate national strategies/agendas of NGIs: no sliver bullet Broad partnerships through MoUs and joint work: EGEE, SEEGRID, other regional projects Use EC financing as seed money – seek other sources Organize in federations with clear relations and modus operandi; scalable structure needed Distribute Grid and management services to spread the know- how and ensure joint responsibility and control Aim to have possibility of stand-alone operations, independent on related federated Grids and projects Adopt good technical solutions but also pursue alternatives Have clear/quantified target/criteria for migrating to EGEE

5. SEE-GRID-2: Advancing South-East Europe into the eInfrastructure era 5 EGEE project EGEE-II aims to build on the work of the EGEE project, which was conceived as the first two-year phase of a four-year programme, to provide a production quality Grid infrastructure across the European Research Area and beyond. Researchers in academia and industry already benefit from the EGEE e- Infrastructure, which simultaneously supports many applications from diverse scientific areas, providing a common pool of resources, independent of geographic location, with round-the-clock access to major storage, compute and networking facilities. The EGEE-II project will significantly extend and consolidate this infrastructure, which links national, regional and thematic Grid efforts, as well as interoperate with other Grids around the globe. The resulting high capacity, world- wide infrastructure greatly surpasses the capabilities of local clusters and individual centres, providing a unique tool for collaborative computeintensive science (“e-Science”).

6. SEE-GRID-2: Advancing South-East Europe into the eInfrastructure era 6 EGEE project The EGEE Grid is built on the EU Research Network GÉANT and exploit Grid expertise generated by many EU, national and international Grid projects to date. Funded by the European Commission, the EGEE project community has been divided into 12 partner federations, consisting of over 90 contractors and over 30 non- contacting participants covering almost all Europe

7. SEE-GRID-2: Advancing South-East Europe into the eInfrastructure era 7 NGI long-term strategy Strategic success metrics of regional Grid initiatives:  not Gbps/sec  not the number of nodes  not the TBs of storage The initiatives are puzzle pieces of RTD efforts to sustain regional development  Increasing the retention of talented scientists in the region  Pursuing joint R&D efforts among countries in the region  Making available the benefits of the Information Society for citizens  Easing the digital divide between the region and the countries at other side of spectrum  Improvement of regional competitiveness in all market sectors  Regional political stability and cohesiveness  The basis for new applications and national GRID infrastructure development  The project results sustainable status can be achieved by national RTD efforts combining with EC co – finding: new SEE-GRID-SCI proposal elaboration

8. SEE-GRID-2: Advancing South-East Europe into the eInfrastructure era 8 Conclusions SEE-GRID projects are the first step for regional eInfrastructure integration SEE-GRID-2 is the essential step towards SUSTAINABLE Grid-related ACTIVITIES (NOT just infrastructure!) in the in Moldova and in SEE region in general SEE-GRID-2 and MD-GRID NGI are open for discussions, feedback, inputs to other related regional and national initiatives SEE-GRID-SCI is possible further contribution in SUSTAINABLE Grid-related activities development at national and regional levels