1. Guy Wormser IN2P3/CNRS , EGEE Applications Manager
January, 2004
EGEE is proposed as a project funded by the
European Union under contract IST

2. NA4 : EGEE Applications Sector
Objectives
NA4 structure
The execution plan
Training requirements
Risk analysis
Issues related to other activities
Changes requested to the TA
Steps to be done between now and the project startup 2

3. Objectives Overall Short Term Objectives
Deploy and happily run many different applications from various fields
Provide necessary feedback to Middleware and Operations
Short Term Objectives
Be ready to deploy a few pilot applications from Day 1
HEP: Good integration of EGEE HEP team and EGEE structure with LCG and LHC experiments
BIO: Pilot applications selection and deployment
Be ready to deploy up to two generic applications shortly after Day 1
Put in place the selection procedure and Selection Panel
Launch and drive a strong and active Industry Forum
First large session during the kick off meeting in Cork 3

4. NA4 structure 4

5. Key Individuals Coordination: GW then Vincent BRETON (CNRS) (1/03/04)
HEP : Frank Harris (CERN)
Bio: Vincent Breton then XXX (CNRS)
Generic: Roberto Barbera(INFN)
Test Team: René Meyterie (CS SI)
Industry Forum: Christian Saguez (Ecole Centrale)
NA3 Liaison: John Murison (U. of Edinburg) 5

6. NA4 composition Biggest NA4 challenge:
Activity NA4
Total effort(FTE)
Total effort (PM)
1st year effort (PM)
2nd year effort (PM)
Activity
CERN 16
192 96
HEP
CESNET
3.2
38.4
19.2
Generic
MTA
0.8
9.6
4.8
UEDIN 2 24 12
NA3 liaison
CNRS 20
240
120
Bio + Coord + testing team
CSSI 4 48
Testing team
CRSA
Industry forum
DKRZ
FhG
INFN 8
FOM
IHEP
IMPB RAS
2.6
31.2
15.6
Bio
ITEP
JINR
PNPI
RRC KI
SINP-MSU
CSIC
UPV
TOTAL
98.2
1178.4
589.2
NA4 composition
Biggest NA4 challenge:
Form an efficient team with all these partners 6

7. HEP sector activities Membership of ‘HEP applications’ in NA4
Information and management links with the experiments
Relationship to general experiment work and LCG activities(GAG,ARDA…)
Current thinking (very first iteration) on the deliverables, tasks and manpower as per the TA
Issues at ARDA workshop and planning a dedicated meeting with experiments following it 7

8. HEP relationships
Proposals for our immediate action (agreed by all parties)
Each experiment to have a nominated representative on the NA4 steering committee
We set up a steering committee mailing list including these (and experiment comp coordinators)
Define as soon as possible a calendar of NA4 meetings avoiding clashes with other key meetings (e.g. LCG) as far as possible
Make a web site for all relevant documents (use existing EGEE structures)
Ensure very first drafts of all NA4 documents are available to the experiments for comment. Experiments are unhappy to have got our first ‘execution plan’ a little late and to have had late warning of our meetings this week
Start discussing what will be the activities of NA4, who will participate from experiments and so on. (this is the 1st of such meetings but maybe with ‘sparse experiment representation due to short notice and rival LCG/GDB meeting) 8

9. Experiment use of middleware (current and future)
HEP relationships (2)
Experiment use of middleware (current and future)
Experiments anyway will be using LCG infrastructure with their own teams. We must ensure coherence in our efforts. We are all one HEP applications family
We must relate our updated detailed planning to ARDA planning and experiment data challenges (see ARDA workshop next week and our follow-up)
We must ensure that HEP people in EGEE don’t have too many managers. Maybe we need more rationalisation in our overall HEP community effort
Relationship to LCG committees
Would expect to be represented on some future GAG or equivalent committee overviewing experiment requirements and feedback to middleware 9

10. Bio sector CNRS coordinator, Spain and Russia partners Multiple role:
4 FTE funded + 4 unfunded
Embedded in the BioMed projects, on a permanent or temporary basis
Multiple role:
Demonstrate the usefulness of grid-powered biomed applications
Become the focal point of the Biomed Grid community, in partnership with the HealthGrid association
Provide detailed feedback to EGEE
Ensure that specific bioMed requirements propagate everywhere in EGEE
Applications selection
2 from CNRS, 1 UPV, 1 Madrid 10

11. The generic applications
Need of an attractive and orderly integration process:
Peer review process
scientific interest of the proposed work, with particular emphasis on the grid added-value,
coordination of the corresponding community,
grid-awareness of this community
minimum requirement that a small team followed the EGEE training), dedication of the community to this application,
agreement to the various EGEE policies and especially the security and resources allocation policies.
Succesfull kick_off meeting on Dec 18 in Paris (EO, geology, astrophysics, Chemistry, Engineering sciences, Digital Libraries) 11

12. Generic applications The proposed selection panel composition
NA4 members
Generic App Manager
Chair of Selection Panel
Other EGEE members
NA3 rep
Security officer (JRA3 chair)
Operation officer (SA1)
Non EGEE members
Typical profile: chair of analoguous selection panels in national panels …. 12

13. There is a detailed draft execution plan!13

14. Execution plan 14

15. Risk analysis « External » risks (+++) « Internal » Risks
Lousy middleware
Flaky infrastructure
« Internal » Risks
HEP: Bad integration with LCG and/or experiments
Bio : failure to form the core of a community
Generic : not sufficiently attractive, or not sufficiently selective
Insufficient Feedback quality or not taken into account
Insufficient partner involvment and/or integration
« Strategic » risks
EGEE too HEP-centric
Insufficient integration of national infrastructures 15

16. Other NA4 activities Industry Forum NA3 liason person NA4 Test team
Presession April 22, 2003 (~25 participants)
Second session October 7 , 2003 at CERN
NA3 liason person
NA4 Test team
Derive testing suites based on use cases 16

17. Initial NA4 Steering committee
Guy Wormser,CNRS-France, NA4 overall manager.
Vincent Breton , CNRS-France, NA4 Bio-Med Application manager
Frank Harris,CERN, NA4 HEP Application manager.
Roberto Barbera, INFN-Italy, NA4 Generic Application manager.
Christian Saguez, Ecole Centrale Paris-France, Chair of the EGEE Industry Forum.
Francois Etienne, CNRS-France, NA4 deputy manager.
PLUS 4 HEP experiments rep, 2 bio reps, 1 rep per selected generic community 17

18. Roles and staffing Role NA3 Liaison 0,5 Italy Generic app (coord) 2
Federation
Role
FTE
Requested
Unfunded
Financing
CERN
HEP Applic ations (coord.) 4
800
UK+Ireland
NA3 Liaison
0,5 94
Italy
Generic app (coord) 2
400
France
General coord., BioMed, Test team, Industry diss. 7
1392
Northern Europe
Generic applications 1
194
Germany + Switzerland
199
Central Europe 60
South West Europe
BioMed
348
Russia
HEP, BioMed 3
151
Totals
21,5
3608 k€
Generic applications 18

19. Milestones Milestones and expected result MNA4.1 M6
First applications migrated to the EGEE infrastructure
MNA4.2
M12
First external review of Applications Identification and Support with feedback
MNA4.3
M24
Second external review of Applications Identification and Support with feedback . 19

20. Deliverables Deliverables DNA4.1 M3
Definition of Common Application Interface and Planning Document
DNA4.2 M6
Target Application Sector Strategy document
DNA4.3 M9
EGEE Application Migration Progress report (revision M15 and M21)
DNA4.4
M24
Final Report of Application Identification and Support Activity . 20

21. Issues related to other activities
The Generic application Selection Panel (JRA3, SA1)
Feedback loops (JRA1, SA1)
Training needs for new users (NA3)
Industry Forum and dissemination (NA2)
The complex HEP situation (LCG, LHC experiments) 21

22. Training requirements
Internal NA4 team
« Loose canons », application support providers must have a good knowledge of our infrastructure and middleware
Total of 24 people
External needs
All new applications must identify a small core team from within their communities to deply and run their application with the help of the NA4 manpower
Mininum knowledge to acomplish this task
~around 50 people along the duration of the project 22

23. On the agenda ! Converge on the execution plan (VB)
Update the technical annex (FE)
Form the Selection panel for the generic applications (RB-GW)
Launch NA4 extended steering committee meetings (GW)
Prepare the kick-off meeting in Cork (April 19-22) including the Industry Forum session
Contact and involve ALL NA4 partners
All partners to launch the recruiting process
Find a replacement for Vincent as head of the bio/med sector
Build a team spirit! 23