BalticGrid-II Project

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BalticGrid-II Project and NA1

Åke EdlundÅke EdlundBalticGrid Project DirectorBalticGrid Project Director

Outline

StatusStatusChallengesChallengesNew initiativesNew initiatives

BGi BalticCloud

Time planTime planSummarySummary

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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)

Outline

StatusStatusChallengesChallengesNew initiativesNew initiatives

BGi BalticCloud

Time planTime planSummarySummary

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EGI transition - How are we doing?

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European e-Infrastructure

Testbeds Utility ServiceRoutine Usage

National

Global

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Challenges and mitigation

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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

Outline

StatusStatusChallengesChallengesNew initiativesNew initiatives

BGi BalticCloud

Time planTime planSummarySummary

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Building an industry network bottom up

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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

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Networking – BGi course alumni and industry

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Rolling out the clouds - piece of cake?

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Baltic Cloud launched

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23-24.04.2009Presenting at Immersive Education London Summit(Remote) talk at ISGC in Taipei

21.04.2009 - cloud seminar at KTH02.04.2009 - first BalticCloud instance (Eucalyptus) launched in Minsk

30.03-01.04.2009Attending the cloud expo in NYMeeting 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

Outline

StatusStatusChallengesChallengesNew initiativesNew initiatives

BGi BalticCloud

Time planTime planSummarySummary

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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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