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BalticGrid-II Project and NA1. Åke Edlund BalticGrid Project Director. Outline. Status Challenges New initiatives BGi BalticCloud Time plan Summary. Status (1/2). Deliverables on time in year one Activities are evolving according to plan
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BalticGrid-II Project and NA1 Åke Edlund BalticGrid Project Director Grid Open Day at SSA'2008 - Minsk, Belarus
Outline • Status • Challenges • New initiatives • BGi • BalticCloud • Time plan • Summary AHM, May 12-13, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
Status (1/2) • Deliverables on time in year one • Activities are evolving according to plan • Initiated BalticGrid Innovation Lab (BGi) • BalticCloud launched Grid Open Day at SSA'2008 - Minsk, Belarus
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) Grid Open Day at SSA'2008 - Minsk, Belarus
Outline • Status • Challenges • New initiatives • BGi • BalticCloud • Time plan • Summary AHM, May 12-13, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
Routine Usage Testbeds Utility Service EGI transition - How are we doing? National ? ? European e-Infrastructure ? ? ? Global AHM, May 12-13, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
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 Grid Open Day, May 12, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
Outline • Status • Challenges • New initiatives • BGi • BalticCloud • Time plan • Summary AHM, May 12-13, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
Building an industry network bottom up Grid Open Day, May 12, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
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 Grid Open Day, May 12, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
Networking – BGi course alumni and industry Grid Open Day, May 12, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
Rolling out the clouds - piece of cake? AHM, May 12-13, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
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 AHM, May 12-13, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
Outline • Status • Challenges • New initiatives • BGi • BalticCloud • Time plan • Summary AHM, May 12-13, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
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 AHM, May 12-13, 2009 - Riga, Latvia
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! ✔ ✔ Grid Open Day at SSA'2008 - Minsk, Belarus