JOINT WORK PLAN. The parties contribute to enable the vision of providing European scientists and international collaboration for sustainable distributed computing services to support their work. In this broad context, the specific goals of the collaborations are:
JOINT WORK PLAN. To support the collaboration objectives defined in article Article 2 (“Purpose and scope”), a joint work plan is defined and will be regularly reviewed and updated at least annually. The Parties will jointly deliver e-infrastructure services and support the needs of global scientific communities. The cooperation is focused, but not limited to the following areas:
JOINT WORK PLAN. The specific goals of the collaboration are:
JOINT WORK PLAN. The goal of the collaboration defined by this MoU is to establish a formal relationship between XXX.xx and the LSGC (in the form of the LSGC VRC) in order to benefit the European wide federation of VRCs. Some of the motivations for forming a VRC are given in Annex 5. The purpose of this work plan is to elaborate the framework for collaboration between the two Parties. The specific activities to be carried out within the framework of the collaboration are3: Activity: A.1 - User Support Parties Involved: XXX.xx Chief Community Officer, LSGC User Support Coordinator. Description of work: This activity defines the communication channels and contact points needed around user support services. The activity will also involve compiling details of areas of specialisation where LSGC is the recognised Subject Matter Expert and has the capability to contribute to other parts of the research community as their resources permit. This could include for example, training material, details of specialist applications, documentation and presentations that can be made accessible to members of the scientific community at large. XXX.xx will facilitate building these links between LSGC related offerings (e.g. services, applications) and other communities that could benefit from them.
JOINT WORK PLAN. Both projects contribute to enable the vision of providing European scientists and international collaboration for sustainable distributed computing services to support their work. In this broad context, the specific goals of the collaborations are: to provide robust, well-designed, user-centric services to scientific user communities to define and monitor SLA for third-level support on incidents and requests to accelerate the development of standards within production grid infrastructures to disseminate the results of this collaboration within the remit of each project’ s dissemination and communication activities such as joint events to exchange ideas and collaborate on the definition of sustainability models to collaborate in business relationships development
JOINT WORK PLAN. The parties contribute to enable the vision of providing European scientists and their international collaborators with sustainable distributed computing services to support their work. In this broad context, the specific goals of the collaborations are to: • Provide robust, well-designed, user-centric software and components around Genesis-II middleware for integration within EGI and use by its scientific user communities. • Define and monitor an SLA that also includes third-level support for incidents and requests. • Accelerate the development of standard related issues within production grid infrastructures. • Disseminate the results of this collaboration within the remit of each organisation’s communication and outreach activities. • Exchange ideas and collaborate towards sustainability models and alignment around the provided technology. • Collaborate in the development of business relationships. The specific activities to be carried out in the framework of the collaboration are1:
JOINT WORK PLAN. The parties contribute to enable the vision of providing European scientists and international collaboration for sustainable e-‐Infrastructures to support their work. In this broad context, the specific goals of the collaborations are to: • Share current and historical data related to NGIs’ Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), to the extent that such data exists and/or is accessible by the Parties, in order to represent the Grid development and deployment progress at national level across EU and beyond. • Exchange ideas, discuss, and potentially suggest additional European Grid KPIs in order to represent the Grid development and deployment progress and/or impact of such progress, at a Pan-‐European level and beyond. • Assess and provide feedback on the functionality, user-‐friendliness and long-‐term sustainability of the European e∙Infrastructures Observatory currently in development in order to identify mutually beneficial synergies between the Parties. • Establish joint dissemination activities to increase awareness and promote the results of the collaboration. The specific activities to be carried out in the framework of the collaboration are1:
JOINT WORK PLAN. The parties contribute to enable the vision of providing European scientists and international collaboration for sustainable distributed computing services to support their work. In this broad context, the specific goals of the collaborations are: • To collaborate on the integration of Desktop Grids into monitoring and designing the integrated accounting activities and the other operational systems of EGI for a seamless operation of Desktop Grids; • To prototype, test and roll to production the devised solution (this will be in collaboration with the Hungarian NGI) and to support the provided integration software; • Once ready for production, to disseminate the integration solution through the existing appropriate channels (operations meetings, community meetings etc.). The specific activities to be carried out in the framework of the collaboration are3:
JOINT WORK PLAN. Summarize the task-level activities to be performed by UTSA and SwRI as they relate to the overall project’s objectives. Describe areas of interdependence, the coordination and handoff of interim project materials and data, and the timeline of each organization’s participation in the overall project effort. While no specific graphical format or presentation is required, this section is expected to contain a mixture of narrative and graphical information to aid the evaluators’ assessment of the proposed scope, roles and responsibilities within the team, and collaboration environment.
JOINT WORK PLAN. To support the collaboration objectives defined in article Article 2 (“Purpose and scope”), a joint work plan is defined and will be regularly reviewed and updated at least annually. The Parties will jointly deliver e-infrastructure services and support the needs of global scientific communities. The cooperation is focused, but not limited to the following areas: Cloud resources integration; [Radio Astronomy] Applications deployment and shared datasets; Exchange information about the impact of e-infrastructure services and offerings on science and showcase these at relevant events. Joint Activity 1. Federate cloud resources EGI will support IDIA in federating its Ilifu (cloud) resources within the EGI Federation, enabling it to be accessed by South Africa researchers and EGI users that had been added to appropriate Virtual Organizations (VOs), with the appropriate authorization roles. To achieve this goal, both parties will undertake to: provide Local and Global operational services as needed to support the international user community and the EGI operational needs; subscribe to a mandatory set of policies, procedures and OLAs; comply to the operations interfaces required by the EGI Operations Architecture, which are needed to ensure access to resources; IDIA aims to use the EGI federation to enhance collaboration with scientific partners in Europe and to make it easier to have new users access the IDIA Cloud resources. Timeline: 2-3 months Joint Activity 2. Application deployment and shared datasets IDIA has developed the toolset required to analyse the data being produced by the MeerKAT telescope. The toolset and workflow tools together are described at the IDIA Pipeline in keeping with the terminology used within the radio astronomy community. The aim of the partnership with EGI is to make the tool available and deployable on EGI cloud resources. IDIA further work focusing on data, improving the transparency with which datasets distributed between collaborations can be found and accessed. Timeline: 6-8 months
