The EGEE project officially ended on the 31 March 2006
EGEE II started on 1 April 2006 and the new EGEE website can be found at:
http://www.eu-egee.org
NA4 - APPLICATION IDENTIFICATION AND SUPPORT
The purpose of the Application Identification and Support team for the Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe (EGEE) project is to support the induction of new users, new communities and new virtual organisations into the project. The team will also proactively develop and disseminate appropriate information to the relevant groups.
The objectives for Application and Support Activity include:
- To identify a portfolio of early user applications from a broad range of applications sectors, namely academia, industry and commerce.
- To devote to each new sector, a well-trained team, to support development and production. This, in turn, will establish a strong user-base on which to build a broader EGEE community.
- To initially focus on well-defined application areas - Particle Physics and Life sciences (these two communities are already grid-aware and ready to deploy challenging real applications from the outset of the project).
Different categories of applications will be used for the EGEE project:
- "Pilot" applications will be used to test EGEE middleware and to evaluate performances. They come under the responsibility of NA4 funded partners in charge of High Energy Physics (HEP) and Biomedical.
- "Internal" applications will come from within the project in the sense that they involve EGEE partners in collaboration with institutes external to the project. For example, GPCALMA (mammography) led by INFN or HEP experiments beyond LHC (Babar, D0 and so on). These applications already have good middleware experience. Internal applications will need to be identified as they are often deployed at national level and are therefore extremely dependent on interoperability between the project and national initiatives.
- "External" applications which come from collaborations external to the project and will need support for deployment on EGEE.
Application Identification and Support, HEP, biomedical and generic activities have to accomplish the following tasks:
- In collaboration with JRA1 (Middleware Re-engineering and Integration) to transmit application requirements, to follow the middleware development process, to validate middleware testing and to coordinate the definition of a high level application interface to the grid.
- In collaboration with JRA2 (Quality Assurance), to define evaluation criteria for infrastructure performances and application usage, and to monitor and analyse performances for the duration of the project.
- In collaboration with SA1 (European Grid Support, Operation and Management), to define the agenda for non-HEP applications deployment, to define the corresponding virtual organisations and their hierarchy, and to define the policy for adding new nodes to the infrastructure with respect to application deployment and the criteria for node selection.
- In collaboration with JRA1 (Re-engineering and Integration) and the SA1 (Grid Support Operation and Management) test teams, to focus on the application needs and develop test cases corresponding to application use cases.
- In addition, the Application Identification and Support management has to establish and animate the relationship between EGEE and external projects at the application level. This will involve the identification of possible synergies with other infrastructure projects, the joint definition of requirements and/or the discussion of common interfaces.
The relationship with industrial partners will be developed within the framework of an Industry Forum