National
e-Science
Centre
EGEE MA3 Wrap-up meeting
e-Science Institute 25th March 2006
The goals of the meeting were:
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Celebration & Identification of EGEE-I training success
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What are the principal achievements?
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How can we best describe them so others can use our experience?
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Ensure these are in final reports
Identification of Issues
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Where do we need to learn?
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What are our first ideas about solutions?
Plan for EGEE-II
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In what way will it be different?
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How should we adapt?
Beyond EGEE-II
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Sustaining and expanding training for Europe
The meeting had input from several EGEE NA3 federations that were not able to be present. We
had a very successful meeting.
The identified highlights were:
The achievement of balance organisation and adaptability
Productivity – output of training and visibility / influence
Exceeded the training targets by substantial amounts
While taking on new (unplanned) requirements
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training outside of Europe
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training for systems administrators
This required very demanding multi-computer facilities initially
Identification of requirement for t-Infrastructure
Development and provision of t-Infrastructure
T-Infrastructure to support administrator courses which is now based on virtual machines
Substantial repository of training resources
Launch of eLearning for grids
Spin off projects and new VOs committing effort to training
The identified issues were:
Maintaining quality while scaling the output.
To be addressed by increased investment in QA for shared resources and by training trainers /
MoUs with VOs and other projects
Managing the larger structure in EGEE-II
To be addressed by a federation model. The activities of a federation representative were
discussed.
Beyond EGEE-II we anticipate drawing more on national and regional resources. In collaboration
with ICEAGE we resolved to prepare to support and develop the collaborative model for these,
e.g. through e-IRG.
Future meetings will be held under the aegis of EGEE-II
Malcolm Atkinson