1. Cécile Germain-Renaud Grid Observatory meeting 19 October 2007 Orsay
Introduction
Cécile Germain-Renaud
Grid Observatory meeting
19 October 2007 Orsay

2. The Grid Observatory is
a NA4 cluster inside the EGEE-III proposal
Integrate the collection of data on the behaviour of the EGEE grid and users with the development of models and of an ontology for the domain knowledge
Data collection and publication
Models of the grid dynamics
Funded Participants
LRI, Universita Piemonte Orientale, Imperial College London
Support
LAL (Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire)
EGEE , DB, leadership of NA4, operator of the campus grid
DEMAIN (des Données Massives Aux Interprétations)
Centre of expertise, contributions to funding
CESNET – Czech NREN operator and Masaryk University
Monitoring (Logging & Bookeeping)
French EGEE ROC (Regional Operations Centre)
Use cases, operational support
CNRS Institut des Grilles
Funding, collaborative support
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3. EGEE-II review successfully passed in May’07
The EGEE Grid
EGEE-II review successfully passed in May’07
“…having achieved an operational infrastructure delivering production services to a broadly distributed and diverse user community is a remarkable achievement.”
FP6 and FP7 infrastructure
Large-scale, production-quality grid for e-Science
240 sites, 91 partners, 45 countries
41,000 CPUs, 5PB
10,000 users, 150 VOs
100,000 jobs/day
24X7
Archeology
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Civil Protection
Comp. Chemistry
Earth Sciences
Finance
Fusion
Geophysics
High Energy Physics
Life Sciences
Multimedia
Material Sciences …
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4. Registered Collaborating Projects
25 projects have registered as of Sept 2007: web page
Applications
improved services for academia, industry and the public
Support Actions
key complementary functions
Infrastructures
geographical or thematic coverage
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5. EGEE working with collaborating infrastructure projects
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6. Roadmap
EGEE-III proposal submitted 20th September, european Commission call INFRA
Key objective: a strong move towards a sustainable world-wide production quality Grid infrastructure
EGI
Ensure the long-term sustainability of the European e-Infrastructure independent of short project funding cycles
Coordinate the integration and interaction between National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs)
Operate the production Grid infrastructure on a European level for a wide range of scientific disciplines
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7. EGEE-III activities
Networking activities
Specific Service Activities
NA1: Management
SA1: Grid Operations
NA2: Dissemination, Communication & Outreach
SA2: Networking Support
NA3: Training & induction
SA3: Integration, testing & Cert.
NA4: User Community support and expansion
NA5: Policy & International Coop.
Joint Research Activities
NA6: Technology Transfer & outreach to Business
JRA1: Middleware engineering
9,997 Person Months, of which >4,500 contributed by the consortium from their own funding sources.
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8. The challenge for the GO
We are in the peak of the expectations phase
Two sessions at EGEE’07 (EGEE-II)
With 0.71% of the overall EGEE-III budget
Productive contributions to EGEE-III
Solving real-world use cases in collaboration with operations
Fostering national and international collaborations with basic and applied research
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