Common use of JOINT WORK PLAN Clause in Contracts

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: A.1 User and operation-centric middleware Description of work: Evolve middleware components based on requirements gathered through ▇▇▇.▇▇ and UVACSE within the various EGI scientific communities and expressed through the EGI technical roadmaps, with particular focus on finding a common strategy in the setup and deployment of tools for service monitoring and management. UVACSE software will be subject to the Software Provisioning conducted by the EGI-InSPIRE SA2 activity. Further details are defined in the SLA. Expected outcome: A.2 Standards Description of work: Contribute to steering and advancing high-priority standards as identified in the EGI Technical Roadmap and in the XSEDE roadmap. Expected outcome: 1: Define a prioritised list of relevant standards and a roadmap for their adoption within EGI. The output should be part of M1.1 and updated accordingly. • M2.2: ▇▇▇.▇▇ provides feedback and contributions to the XSEDE roadmap where required.