1. EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE www.eu-egee.org EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks France Grilles The French NGI R. Rumler, CNRS/IN2P3 WLCG Collaboration Board meeting, 2009-11-13

2. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 R. Rumler, WLCG CB meeting CERN, 2009-11-13 2/9 Contents Current situation near the end of EGEE French NGI, recent events Organisational structure Staffing Role of the tier-1 Conclusion, concerns, issues

3. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 R. Rumler, WLCG CB meeting CERN, 2009-11-13 3/9 French NGI, recent events The “Institut des Grilles” (IdG) of CNRS is the base of the French NGI The high level management of the French Production Grid will be handled by the IdG The French NGI is called “France Grilles” (name given during the first transition meeting from an EGEE ROC to the NGI in October) Legal structure: GIS (Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique) At the beginning of the current week the organisational structure of the NGI has been outlined, see following slides

4. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 R. Rumler, WLCG CB meeting CERN, 2009-11-13 France Grilles, organisational structure 1 Comité de Pilotage Directeur Gestionnaire Ingénieur sécurité Conseil Scientifique Du Groupement Relations EGIOpérations Communication -Dissémination ApplicationsFormation Comité des directeurs Développements opérationnels Développements applicatifs Comité des utilisateurs 4/9

5. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 R. Rumler, WLCG CB meeting CERN, 2009-11-13 France Grilles, organisational structure 2 Operations Responsible And Deputy Site representatives Subtask responsibles Developments for Operations 5/9

6. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 R. Rumler, WLCG CB meeting CERN, 2009-11-13 6/9 Staffing For all currently defined subtasks and functional entities of the NGI the corresponding key persons are already designated Most of them have permanent contracts BUT: most of them are delegated for their “grid job” by their home institution and don’t formally belong to the IdG (nor to “France Grilles” which cannot act as a legal body anyway)

7. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 R. Rumler, WLCG CB meeting CERN, 2009-11-13 7/9 The role of the Tier-1 The deputy director of the IdG who manages the production grids is also the director of the tier-1 Operations responsible and deputy are tier-1 staff Regional grid operators (ROD) are tier-1 staff Training coordination for the IdG is done by tier-1 staff Grid activities in the Rhône Alpes region are promoted by tier-1 staff (public research, industry applications) Security, accounting, monitoring, and various other tasks are led by people from tier-2 centres IN2P3 is involved in various non HEP applications, mainly at other places than the tier-1 (but also there)

8. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 R. Rumler, WLCG CB meeting CERN, 2009-11-13 8/9 Conclusion, concerns, issues In a previous pre-GDB presentation in May on the NGI topic I said being optimistic about the switch to the French NGI structure Even if a concrete transition plan still has to be elaborated This is still true, particularly as things start moving And the actors to fill the existing rough outline of the plan are known Without EGI the risk of having parallel communities HEP versus non HEP is high Will the GDB be sufficient to coordinate operations? Will a successor to the EGEE SA1 coordination meetings be necessary? The situation for the persons with temporary contracts is still uncertain, even if there’s some hope to be able to propose permanent ones to most of the key people Since May some have already obtained permanent contracts

9. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 R. Rumler, WLCG CB meeting CERN, 2009-11-13 9/9 Links Pre-GDB presentation on the same topic: http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?subContId=0&contribId=2&materialId= slides&confId=56364 1st French Transition meeting’s agenda (in French, sorry): http://indico.in2p3.fr/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=2110