Transcript Slajd 1 - BalticGrid

BalticGrid-II Project
BalticGrid-II Project
and NA1
Åke Edlund
BalticGrid Project Director
Grid Open Day at SSA'2008 - Minsk, Belarus
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Outline
 Status
 Challenges
 New
initiatives

BGi
 BalticCloud
 Time
plan
 Summary
AHM, May 12-13, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
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Status (1/2)

Deliverables on time in year one

Activities are evolving according to plan

Initiated BalticGrid Innovation Lab (BGi)

BalticCloud launched
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Status (2/2)

Plenty of promising MoUs (EGEE,
Nordugrid, UNICORE, Belief) signed

Project monitoring through weekly PMB
meetings well attended

Preparation of 1st review (June 5)
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Outline
 Status
 Challenges
 New
initiatives

BGi
 BalticCloud
 Time
plan
 Summary
AHM, May 12-13, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
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EGI transition - How are we doing?
National
?
?
?
?
European
e-Infrastructure
?
Global
Testbeds
Routine Usage
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Utility Service
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Challenges and mitigation
Industry
engagement
BGi
Getting towards EGI
 External Advisors, EGI group
Interoperability
 Closer cooperation with EGEE (MoU),
NorduGrid (MoU) and UNICORE (MoU)
No common FP7 spin-off projects identified

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Outline
 Status
 Challenges
 New
initiatives

BGi
 BalticCloud
 Time
plan
 Summary
AHM, May 12-13, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
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Building an industry
network bottom up
Courses
Networking
SME usage of
BG resources,
higher
productivity,
competitive
advantage
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BGi Overview
 BGi
is a novel way of engaging SMEs to
use BalticGrid resources.
 It is a long term bottom-up approach,
taking more time to build
 Goal is a robust usage and network,
available long after the end of the BG
project
BalticGrid
Planned
activities
SA1-3,
NA1-4, JRA
BGi - BalticGrid Innovation Lab
BalticCloud
Courses
SME
connectivity
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Networking – BGi course alumni
and industry
BalticGrid
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Planned
activities
BGi - BalticGrid Innovation Lab
SA1-3, NA14, JRA
BalticCloud
Courses
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SME
connectivity
Rolling out the clouds - piece of cake?
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Baltic Cloud launched
23-24.04.2009
Presenting at Immersive Education London Summit
(Remote) talk at ISGC in Taipei
21.04.2009 - cloud seminar at KTH
02.04.2009 - first BalticCloud instance (Eucalyptus) launched in Minsk
30.03-01.04.2009
Attending the cloud expo in NY
Meeting with Eucalyptus and RightScale teams
21.03.2009 - http://cloud.balticgrid.eu goes online
19.03.2009 - first BalticCloud meeting in Tallinn
27.02.2009 - first BalticCloud instance (Eucalyptus) launched in Vilnius
18.02.2009 - first BalticCloud instance (Eucalyptus) launched in Tallinn
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Outline
 Status
 Challenges
 New
initiatives

BGi
 BalticCloud
 Time
plan
 Summary
AHM, May 12-13, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
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Time plans – what’s next
 Grid Open Day, Riga, May 12
 AHM, Riga, May 12-13
 PMB, Riga, May 14
 Rehearsal for 1st year’s review
 BGi Course, Tartu, May 18+25
 1st year’s review, Brussels, June 5
 Final rehearsal, Brussels, June 4
 BG-II Summer School, Moletai, June 29 – July 3
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Summary – last slide
✔
First year proceeded as planned on the
operation level. Details in respective
activity presentation.
✔
Need to add more focus on higher level
tasks – EGI and Industry engagement - to
meet the objectives of the project.
During the AHM meeting:
please identify and work on the
issues and higher level tasks!
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