Bernard M. Marechal CETA-CIEMAT (Spain) Kick-off Meeting, 21 st - 24 th September 2010

GISELA General plans & WP1 presentation Bernard M. Marechal CETA-CIEMAT (Spain) Kick-off Meeting, 21st - 24th September 2010 San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

Outline • Why we are here • General features of the Project • Work Packages mission • WP1 in details • Project human effort • Project budget • Management names • GISELA: not an EELA-3 project! • The Bibles • The Website • Some keywords • Recommendations and wishes Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

We are here • To present GISELA: objectives, structure, human effort, budget, methods, etc. • To name the Management • To report on the EGI Technical Forum 2010 • To set up the calendar of GISELA events • To understand your concerns • To explain why GISELA is not EELA-3 • To answer your questions • To trigger your enthusiasm • To have fun in S. L. P. ….. celebrating 200 years of the Mexico independence Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

GISELA references FP7 INFRA-2010-2 call - Topic INFRA-2010-1.2.3: Virtual Research Communities Start date: 01/09/2010 - Duration: 24 months Project type: CP-CSA Grant agreement No: 261487 Project Coordinator: Bernard M. Marechal CETA-CIEMAT (Spain) & UFRJ (Brazil) email: marechal at if.ufrj.br Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico) 4

GISELA Countries & Partners 15 Countries (11 in Latin America) 19 Partners (14 in Latin America) Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico) 5

GISELA Objectives and Goals Ensure the long- term sustainability of the e-Infrastructure in the Latin American continent Provide full support to the Virtual Research Communities spanning Latin America and Europe, using the e-Infrastructure. • Focus on two inter-related goals: • Implement a sustainability model rooted on National Grid Initiatives (NGI), in association with CLARA, NRENs and collaborating with EGI. • Provide the communities with the suited e-Infrastructure and Application-related Services required to improve the effectiveness of their research. This will address both: • The current EELA-2 User Communitieswhose research investigations are carried out at the Institution level or in small collaborations. • The larger Virtual Research Communitiesas Life & Earth Sciences, HEP Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico) 6

GISELA Work plan • GISELA shall provide and support basic (CORE) operation services. It will develop inter-operation agreement with GÉANT2, CLARA, the NRENs and the NGIs, in Europe and Latin America; • GISELA shall work out, with the CLARA Transition Team, the model of sustainability for the e-Infrastructure best adapted to the CLARA and LA NRENs environment; • CLARA shall identify the NREN(s) that will be in charge of the Operation and Support of the e-Infrastructure, applying the business plan. • GISELA basic duties: • Ensure the proper access of GISELA users to the e-Infrastructure resources; • Support Application developers and users over the whole process from deploying an Application up to running it in production; • Organise the training best adapted to each VRC; • Support the use of the e-Infrastructure and Application-related Services already developed in EELA-2 and helps the users in the validation of these services in the context of their Application; • Participate in the development of new services requested by the VRCs and help in the test and validation of these services for user’s Applications. Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

GISELA Management Structure Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico) 8

GISELA Networking Activities 1/3 WP1 – ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT WP1 has the task to coordinate, all along the course of the project, the implementation of the LGI model in close collaboration with all stake holders, JRUs or NGIs / EDGSs and NRENs. The participation of both CLARA and Grid experts in the management ensures osmosis between Grid computing and network activities. Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico) 9

GISELA Networking Activities 2/3 WP2 - DISSEMINATION AND OUTREACH WP2 organises Dissemination events focusing on Decision Makers interaction, to get their support for the LGI / NGI implementation, and promotes outreach actions to widely spread the usefulness of e-Infrastructures for different research communities. Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico) 10

GISELA Networking Activities 3/3 WP3 – USER COMMUNITIES SUPPORT WP3 supports VRCs by fostering collaboration among multidisciplinary groups, creates and maintains support tools to ease the utilisation of the e-Infrastructure, organises training activities tailored to each VRC needs and validates the services provided by WP4, WP5 and WP6 for future users. Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico) 11

GISELA Services Activities 1/2 WP4 – NGI/LGI INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES WP5 – NETWORK RESOURCE PROVISION • WP4 and WP5 aim at the implementation of the three-layer infrastructure and network model (See Slide 11) that fits to Latin American organisational structure. They provide support to the VRCs by maintaining and operating a production quality multi-middleware grid empowered infrastructure. • WP4 deals with both Grid-support Services and Grid Operation. • WP5 maintains a central role in • Network-related activities • Network engineering and operations support, integrated with the CLARA Operations Centre • Management of the relationships between GISELA, CLARA, GÉANT and NRENs in Latin America and Europe • Automation of the processes for network service provisioning for GISELA VRCs. Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico) 12

GISELA Services Activities 2/2 THE THREE-LAYER INFRASTRUCTURE AND NETWORK MODEL (proposed by EELA-2 and CLARA) Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico) 13

GISELA Joint Research Activity WP6 – INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATION-ORIENTED SERVICES FOR USER COMMUNITIES The objective of WP6 is to enhance the grid experience of both users and system administrators by providing them with a portfolio of application-related and infrastructure-related Grid Services and the appropriate support to allow them to use these services adequately. The portfolio of services is mainly formed by the services developed in the context of the EELA-2 project and new services to be developed in the context of GISELA. The latter may be general-purpose services catering to the needs of many different e-Science applications, as well as customised services that target particular VRCs. Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico) 14

WP1 in details 1/4 • Administration • Internal management dealing with baseline administrative matters • Project reporting (deliverables, reports, etc.) • Overall supervision of the Project Website • Finances: cost statement collection and analysis, interim payment coordination and transfer, budget follow-up • Liaison with members, related projects and other Grid initiatives to organise common events • Casual relations with the EC • Accounting of working hours of Consortium workers through the Time Sheet tool • Ensuring the issuing of all operation and management processes and procedures on the Document Server open repository Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

WP1 in details 2/4 • Technical Coordination • Day to day technical coordination • Regular assessment of progress achieved in preparing project deliverables, to ensure that commitments are met on time • Interface with other projects on technical matters • Documentation and distribution of all relevant technical discussions, decisions. Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

WP1 in details 3/4 • Long Term Sustainability and Policy; International cooperation • Supervise the implementation of the LGI model and its evolution towards the CLARA sustainability model • Cooperation with EGI, the Collaborating projects and with the SSCs for optimum support of the VRCs • Maintain contact with Reflection groups, Forums such as e-IRG and ESFRI • Keep contact with dissemination-oriented projects as eResearch2020, BELIEF-2, GridTalk-2, etc. • Handover of the operation of the e-Infrastructure and User support • Pass the full WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4 knowledge to the CLARA team • Work out the detailed CLARA business plan for long term sustainability • Implement the CLARA model through a transition phase over the last 6 months of the project Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

WP1 in details 4/4 Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

Project human effort Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

Project budget Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

Provisory names for Management Hereafter follow the names of the persons nominated to manage GISELA and who will have to be endorsed by the Collaboration Board Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

Management names 1/11 Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

GISELA is not EELA-3 • GISELA is VRCs oriented and will work to handover the infrastructure & skills to CLARA and the NRENS • 78 institutions, most of them federated in JRUs, composed the EELA-2 consortium • 19 institutions constitute the GISELA consortium, representing their country • EELA-2 triggered the JRUs • GISELA should consolidate them and trigger / foster the creation of NGIs (National Grid Initiative) or EDGS (Equivalent Domestic Grid Structure) • The EC contribution in EELA-2 was 2.1 Meuro • In Gisela it will be 850 KEuro • EELA-2 aimed at building a production quality e-Infrastructure and at attracting the highest possible number of members and applications Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

The Bibles • Grant Agreement, which includes the Document of Work – DoW • http://documents.gisela-grid.eu/record/32 • Modus Operandi • http://documents.gisela-grid.eu/record/26?ln=en • Events organisation guidelines http://documents.gisela-grid.eu/record/27?ln=en • The Gisela Templates http://documents.gisela-grid.eu/collection/Project%20Templates?ln=en • The GISELA WEBSITE, to be consulted at least once per week Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

The Website Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

Keywords – 1/2 Commitment: Personal commitment is the act or quality of voluntarily taking on or fulfilling obligations. What makes personal commitment "personal" is the voluntary aspect. In particular, it is not necessary that a personal commitment relate to personal interests. (Wilkipedia)French: EngagementItalian: ImpegnoPortuguese: CompromissoSpanish: CompromisoLatin: Compromissu Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

Keywords – 2/2 • Proactive attitude / participation • Be proactive in identifying and preventing potential problems • But ….. Entropy should be kept low !!! • Feedback • As fast as possible • Not only in case of the addressee’ s interest • Silence = Consensus • Deadlines • MUST be respected !!! • Targeted e-mails • Addresses lists carefully checked !!! • Contents “cleaned”!!! Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

Recommendations and wishes - 1/3 • Long-term sustainability: GISELA inheritance / legacy (prepared since EELA) • Implementation of the CLARA – EELA-2 model • National Grid Initiatives (NGI) or Equivalent Domestic Grid Structures (EDGS) should be created • e-Science structures highly desirable • Local funding more than ever mandatory!!!!!!!!!! • GISELA e-Infrastructure overloaded by Old (EELA-2) and new (VRCs) “clients” • Key role of CLARA & NRENS since day 1 of the Project • Non-responsive Partners not welcome Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

Recommendations and wishes - 2/3 EELA and EELA-2 were very well appreciated by the European Commission then, Hands on to guarantee the success of GISELA Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

Recommendations and wishes - 3/3 Roll my log and I roll yours Aides toi et le ciel t’ aidera Aiutati che Dio t’aiuta Deus ajuda a quem cedo madruga A quien madruga Dios le ayuda Kick-off meeting - 21 to 24 September 2010 - San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

Bernard M. Marechal CETA-CIEMAT (Spain) Kick-off Meeting, 21 st - 24 th September 2010