1. EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE www.eu-egee.org EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks David Fergusson, Emidio Giorgio, Gergely Sipos SSC preparation workshop Athens, May 5-6th 2009 Text SCOW Skills for a Connected World Community Support SSC

2. 2 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Aims Promote the development of a broad range of communities Development of existing communities Formation of new communities Engagement of new geographical areas Help communities learn from each others experiences Feed experiences back to EGI Spread best practice Support communities in becoming self sustaining 2

3. 3 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Mechanism Engaging with EGI’s training coordination role Providing support infrastructures for experimentation During learning By developers By new communities By new regions Bringing new provision models Eg. clouds Shared events between communities/projects/SSCs Collaboration with PRACE/DIESA 3

4. 4 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Tools Summer Schools Online support Winter schools Permanently available online tutorials Coordinated training event information Engagement with specific communities -providing exemplars -collecting and publicizing case studies of successful engagement Cloud based teaching environments Provision of a online “clearing system” to support users from dissemination through to a VO 4

5. 5 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 SSC participation Main participants to EGEE-NA3 are expected to continue the activity : –UK (NGS)‏ –Italy (IGI) –Hungary (SZTAKI) –……. –Additional partners –Germany (JZK) –Sweden (KTH) –........ Collaborating projects –EELA-2 –EPIKH –……. ESFRI PRACE DEISA ……. Discussions already with Biomed community 6

6. 6 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Governance & Technical Organisation The Governance Body will be opened to funding NGIs –representatives from other entities (others NGIs, countries without NGIs, summer schools consortia ) can be admitted A Coordination/Planning Board is expected being setup –representatives both from middleware consortia and operations would improve the quality and effectiveness of the provided services A web portal is expected to be created and maintained without external sustain –Building on existing mechanisms and NGI services

7. 7 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Estimated effort Three main activities can be identified –Content Creation, Scheduling, Organisation, Delivery (7 FTE)‏  update and provision of training material, scheduling, organisation and delivery of requested events  Collaboration events –Coordinated Support mechanisms  t-Infrastructure provision and coordination (3* FTE)‏ support services o(web site, user web forum, user support (Front Desk), training tools..)‏ coordinations and overview of production resources devoted to training managing of training-dedicated sites (if any, 1 FTE per site)‏  Coordinated Trainer Support Systems (1 FTE)‏  Agile experimentation environments (Clouds) (1FTE) – coordination with NGS (UK)  Promoting simplified instruments for grid access i.e. : EDGEs, Grid2Win, grid portals (2FTE) - SZTAKI –Activity Management and partner coordination (1 FTE)‏  General overview of activities, reporting, liasons with EGI management boards

8. 8 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Relation with other SSCs and evolution An interface can be dedicated in order to provide training focused on specific areas –SSC should request this level of support –contacts already established with Biomed community Evolution –Roadmap going to be defined