| Activity
Number |
Descriptive
Title |
Short
description and specific objectives of the activity |
| Networking
activities |
| Management
of I3 |
Overall
management of the project |
| Dissemination
and Outreach |
Operate
the dissemination Web site, support mail lists and web base collaborative
tools, organize presentations, visits, 2 project conferences and showcases
per year, publication of dissemination material |
| User
Training and Induction |
Produce
training and course material. Deliver on-site courses and support
distributed courses in the project. |
| Application
Identification and Support |
Support
of HEP and Bio pilot applications. Identification of early users.
Introduction of new user communities. Definition of common application
interfaces and tools. Creation of an Industry Forum. |
| International
Cooperation |
Cooperation
with US NSF Cyberinfrastructure. Active collaboration with other EU
projects and activities (FP5 GRIDSTART, Complex Problem Solving Middleware
projects). Establish Grid Policy Forum in Europe. Participation to
GGF activities. Collaboration with US and Russia.
|
| Specific
Service Activities |
| European
Grid Support, Operation and Management |
Core
infrastructure services. Grid monitoring and control. Middleware deployment
and resource induction. Resource and user support. Grid management. |
| Network
Resource Provision |
Definition
in collaboration with RN Geant and NRENs of SLRs, Modelling, SLSs,
SLAs, Policies.
|
| Research
Activities |
Middleware Re-engineering and Integration |
Implement
production quality Core Grid services by re-engineering existing Middleware
and by completing missing functionality. Integration of middleware
components. Testing and validation. Establish and run an overall architecture
team. |
| Quality
Assurance |
Project-wide
quality assurance. Quality assurance in EGEE is the planned and systematic
set of activities that ensure that processes, products and operation
services conform to EGEE requirements, standards, procedures, and
to the required level of services. |
| Security |
Enable
secure operation of a European Grid infrastructure. Develop security
architectures frameworks and policies. Includes requirements cycle,
definition of incident response methods and authentication polices.
Consistent design of security mechanism for all core Grid services.
Production needs of resource providers with regard to identity integrity
and protection. |
| Network
Services development |
Develop
interfaces to the network control plane to allow Grid middleware to
make immediate and advanced reservations of network connectivity specified
in terms of bandwidth, duration and quality of service. |
