1. Requirements from the LSGC VRC User Forum 2011, Vilnius Workshop Yannick LEGRÉ maatG Director for International Relations (ylegre@maatg.com) President of HealthGrid (yannick.legre@healthgrid.org) http://healthgrid.orghttp://wiki.healthgrid.org

2. The User community Currently LSGC gathers users from more than 45 different countries The participating user groups are notably: EGI Biomed VO vlemed VO lsgrid VO neugrid VO German LS User Community LifeWatch ESFRI The supporting NGIs are: Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Swiss The hosting institution is the healthgrid.org non profit organisation

3. The Goal Be a long term sustainable link between the whole extended community Represent LS DCI users o Negotiate resources o Promote requirements o Liaise with EGI and other providers Coordinate actions o Serve as contact point for new users o Share expertise in the community o Avoid replication of effort o Define common requirements o Encourage sharing of resources, data & tools Provide technical services Training and User Engagement Dissemination

4. The application areas represented here are very diverse and thus are the needs A non exhaustive list: Nanoinformatics, nanomedicine Bioinformatics VPH Applications Medical imaging Medical Informatics Public Health Ethical, Legal and Social-Economic (ELSE) Issues … Technical Requirements (1/2)

5. Queues – From a minute to several weeks per job – Some jobs require specific queues for interactive jobs – From a single job to hundred of thousands per batch CE/WN – At least 1GB RAM/core (better 2GB/core) – Working space: min 5 – 10 GB – Request for MPI clusters – Increasing request for GP-GPU clusters Storage – From 1GB to hundreds of TB – Short Term storage to “permanent” storage Technical Requirements (2/2)

6. Accurate information such as the correct number of slots (total slot number/VRC dedicated slot number, …) and/or storage space Clearly define and publish access/working rules Resource management / Decommissioning OLA/SLA to be agreed on. Operational Requirements (2/2)

7. University of Talca (Chile) Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires (Argentina) Reference Centre on Environmental Information – CRIA (Brazil) SME: maatG (Colombia) others… but didn’t had time to check with all my colleagues… Contacts in Latin-America

8. Let’s keep things simple! Troubleshooting via EGI GGUS Direct contact points make life easier Pragmatic vs official Short communication lines and efficiency first! But… The relationship…

9. HealthGrid Conference http://bristol2011.healthgrid.org 27-29 June 2011, Bristol UK In conjunction with IEEE CBMS Conference Call for paper open until April 20 th http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=healthgrid2011 The bonus…