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Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006)

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P r o j e c t N u m b e r : 0 2 6 0 2 4

P r o j e c t A c r o n y m : E U M E D G R I D

P r o j e c t T i t l e : E U M E D G R I D - E m p o w e r i n g e S c i e n c e A c r o s s t h e M e d i t e r r a n e a n

Instrument: Specific Support Action

Activity: Research Infrastructures

I n t e r i m A c t i v i t y R e p o r t – 3 r d Q u a r t e r

Period covered: from 01/07/2006 to 30/09/2006

Date of preparation: 23/12/2006

Start date of project: 1 January 2006 Duration: 24 months

Project coordinator name: Federico Ruggieri Revision: V4

Project coordinator organization name: INFN

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document identifier: EUMEDGRID-QR3-V4.doc

date: 11/01/2007

workpackage: WP1: Interim Activity Report - Third Quarter

lead partner: INFN

document status: Final

document link: http://www.eumedgrid.org/report.html

abstract: This document describes the EUMEDGRID activities in the third quarter of the year 2006.

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EUMEDGRID (“Empowering eScience across the Mediterranean”) is a project co-funded by the European Union in the framework of the 6FP for Research and Technological Development, as part of the specific programme “Structuring the European Research Area” within the “Research Infrastructures” activity Call name: Communication Network Development – eInfrastructure – Consolidating Initiatives. For more information on the project, its partners and contributors please see http://www.eumedgrid.org

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The information contained in this document represents the views of EUMEDGRID Consortium as of the date they are published. The EUMEDGRID Consortium does not guarantee that any information contained herein is error-free, or up to date.

THE EUMEDGRID CONSORTIUM MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, BY PUBLISHING THIS DOCUMENT.

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reviewed by: Moderator and reviewers

approved by: TB

Document log

Issue Date Comment Author

1-0 17/10/2006 First draft M. Mieli

1-1 20/10/2006 First activities reported F. Ruggieri

2-0 10/11/2006 New activities and tables F. Ruggieri

3-0 30/11/2006 Information updated and format changes F. Ruggieri

3-1 20/12/2006 Revision R. Barbera, F. Tanlongo

4-0 23/12/2006 Final version M. Mieli, F. Ruggieri

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Contents

1. PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD . 6

1.1. DELIVERABLES ............................................................................................................................................. 6 1.2. MILESTONES................................................................................................................................................. 6 1.3. FIRST PROJECT CONFERENCE ....................................................................................................................... 7

2. WORKPACKAGE PROGRESS OF THE PERIOD..................................................................................... 8

2.1. ACTIVITY SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................. 8 2.1.1. WP1: Project Administrative and Technical Management ......................................................... 8 2.1.2. WP2: Requirement Capture and Analysis .................................................................................. 13 2.1.3. WP3: Pilot Infrastructure Operational Support ........................................................................... 16 2.1.4. WP4: Applications Support ........................................................................................................... 22 2.1.5. WP5 – Dissemination..................................................................................................................... 25

2.2. MAJOR TASKS, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ..................................................................................... 34 2.2.1. Deliverables and milestones due this quarter ............................................................................ 34

2.3. SUMMARY OF ISSUES........................................................................................................................... 34 2.3.1. WP1 Issues ..................................................................................................................................... 34 2.3.2. WP2 Issues ..................................................................................................................................... 35 2.3.3. WP3 Issues ..................................................................................................................................... 35 2.3.4. WP4 Issues ..................................................................................................................................... 35 2.3.5. WP5 Issues ..................................................................................................................................... 35

2.4. PLANS FOR THE NEXT REPORTING QUARTER ............................................................................................... 35 2.4.1. WP1 Future plans ........................................................................................................................... 35 2.4.2. WP2 Future plans ........................................................................................................................... 35 2.4.3. WP3 Future plans ........................................................................................................................... 35 2.4.4. WP4 Future plans ........................................................................................................................... 36 2.4.5. WP5 Future plans ........................................................................................................................... 36

2.5. MAIN PROJECT ACTIVITY METRICS............................................................................................................ 36

3. CONSORTIUM MANAGEMENT................................................................................................................ 37

3.1. CONSORTIUM MANAGEMENT ...................................................................................................................... 37 3.2. CONTRACTORS ........................................................................................................................................... 37 3.3. EVENTS....................................................................................................................................................... 39 3.4. PROJECT AND ACTIVITY MEETINGS ............................................................................................................ 39

3.4.1 Tutorial – Technicians and Users, Istanbul (Turkey).......................................................................... 39 3.4.2 Tutorial – Technicians and Users, Rome (Italy) ................................................................................. 45 Tutorial for Certification Authority Managers, Rome (Italy)....................................................................... 48 First EUMEDGRID Project Conference, Rome (Italy)................................................................................ 49 Grid Induction - 4th Hands on Workshop, Tel Aviv (Israel) ........................................................................ 51 Updated Statistics for User and Site admin Tutorials .................................................................................. 52

4. OTHER ISSUES ............................................................................................................................................. 53

4.1. REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................................... 53 4.2. TERMINOLOGY............................................................................................................................................ 53

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4.3. DOCUMENT AMENDMENT PROCEDURE........................................................................................................ 54

ANNEX I – USE AND DISSEMINATION....................................................................................................... 55

A1.1 CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED .................................................................................................. 55 A1.2 EXTERNAL CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED ................................................................................. 55 A1.3 PUBLICATIONS, PRESS RELEASES AND DISSEMINATION MATERIALS........................................................ 55

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1. PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS DURING

THE REPORTING PERIOD

The activity during this quarter was concentrated on the evolution of the pilot infrastructure, on fostering the creation of Certificate Authorities in the countries that are presently served by the INFN catch-all CA and the organization of the First Project Conference in Rome in September.

During this period 3 Deliverables where timely produced and 5 Milestones reached in due time.. The deliverable D5.2 “Policy state of the art”, originally foreseen on month 9 has been delayed in order to include the latest news from the Marrakech workshop in December. One milestone was only partially reached as it is explained in the following paragraphs.

1.1. Deliverables During the quarter 4 deliverables where foreseen and three of them where prepared and sent to the EC in due time.

• D2.2 – “Proposed technical roadmap”.

• D3.1 – “CA and RA procedures and guidelines”. Only RAs where created and reasonable schedules for the creation of CAs was defined.

• D4.1 – “Initial specification and requirements of the applications”

1.2. Milestones A large number of milestones was foreseen to be reached in this quarter and their description follows.

• M2.3 – “Core NGI candidates identified” – This milestone was only partially reached. The list of core NGI candidates is still not complete.

• M3.1 – “Network services assured” – This milestone was reached well before the foreseen date (M7).

• M5.3 – “Dissemination material ready”. The dissemination material was prepared already in may for the TERENA TNC06 Conference well before the M7.

• M5.4 – “Initial setup of outreach material”. The milestone was successfully reached and the full set of dissemination materials can be found on the EUMEDGRID document server at: https://documents.eumedgrid.org/collection/Training%20materials

• M3.2 – “CA in operations”. This milestone was reached well in advance of the foreseen date (M7), as it is explained in the deliverable D3.1.

• M5.5 – “1st Project Workshop”. A project Conference was organized in Rome in September as it is described in the next paragraph.

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1.3. First Project Conference In September the First Project Conference was held in Rome at the University of Roma Tre’s premises. The conference was jointly organised by INFN, GARR and University of Roma Tre in the “Aula Magna” of the Rectorate. The conference was attended by more than 60 delegates from all the Mediterranean Countries who actively participated to the discussions with the qualified speakers coming from several areas of interest for the project and, in general, for the Mediterranean Scientific Communities. Digital libraries, Archaeology among the others were the applications presented and discussed.

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2. WORKPACKAGE PROGRESS OF THE PERIOD

2.1. ACTIVITY SUMMARY The following paragraphs provide a brief report of activities carried out during the third quarter of the project. By now, the program of activities, as described in the Technical Annex to the Contract did not undergo to any significant changes. The GANTT chart shown in the Annex is reported here as a reference.

Figure 1 - Gantt plan of the project

2.1.1. WP1: Project Administrative and Technical Management

The administrative and technical work went on quite smoothly with no major issues as it is described in the following. The major efforts in the quarter were the organisation of:

An administrative tutorial in Istanbul on the 7th of July.

A grid tutorial of 3 days in Rome from the 11th to the 13th of September.

A Certification Authority Managers (CAM) meeting on the 12th of September.

the First Project Conference in Rome on the 14th and 15th of September 2006.

These last three events were jointly managed by INFN, GARR and Department of Physics of University of Roma Tre.

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A1.1 – Administrative Management

An administrative tutorial was held in July in Istanbul together with a PMB meeting and a Grid Tutorial hosted by TUBITAK.

Another TB and PMB joint meeting was organised during the First Project Conference in Rome in September; the agenda is available on the web with the transparencies of the presentations made (https://agenda.eumedgrid.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=a0658).

In the following Errore. L'origine riferimento non è stata trovata. there is a synthetic list of the third instalments distributed. The EUN amount was not distributed because the Bank Account information was not received.

Table 1 - Third Instalments of the EC pre-financing

Partner N. Partner short name Amount in € Comments

2 CERN 27.963,36

3 CYNET 28.914,11

4 DANTE 3.579,31

5 GARR 35.345,68

6 GRNET 51.452,58

7 RED.ES 13.422,41

8 UoM 34.842,34

9 CERIST 18.959,16

10 CNRST 18.959,16

11 EUN 18.959,16 Not yet delivered

12 HIAST 18.959,16

13 MSRTDC 18.959,16

14 TUBITAK 15.156,14

TOTAL 368.333,35

A1.2 – Technical Management

INFN Activities:

The technical management of the project went on smoothly also due to the TB phone conferences organized regularly during the quarter and to the meetings in person in Istanbul (July) and Rome (September).

CERN Activities:

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Reviewed 2QR. Timesheet related tasks. Coordination of CERN technical, administrative and management activities in EUMEDGRID.

TUBITAK Activities:

TUBITAK ULAKBIM organized the first tutorial of EUMEDGRID in Istanbul between 3-7 July.2006. The project partners participated to this user and administrator Istanbul tutorial with 33 trainees.

Project Management Board (PMB) meeting was held in Istanbul on 7th July 2006 by TUBITAK ULAKBIM.

TUBITAK ULAKBIM participated to PMB meeting in Rome on 14 September and also joined in Rome CAM training with one presentation on 12 September.

GRNET Activities:

Involved Personnel: Zoi Panagiotara - Administration of payments for 3rd parties of GRNET: JUNET and PADI2. Consultation with

the third parties. GRNET administration and management.

Table 2 - WP1 roundup effort

Worked Hours during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until

now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)1

Remaining Effort (in hours)

Partner Short Name

Name and Surname

Activity

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

INFN Total WP1 479 (0) 1.370 (0) 2.470 (910) 1.100 (910)

Roberto Barbera A1.2 120 (0) 360 (0)

Federico Ruggieri A1.1 150 (0) 550 (0)

Marta Mieli A1.1 185 (0) 410 (0)

Giuseppe Andronico A1.1 - - 8 (0)

Giuseppe Andronico A1.2 24 (0) 42 (0)

CERN Total WP1 14 (0) 114 (0) 65 (65) -49 (65)

Florida Estrella A1.1 14 (0) 114 (0)

CYNET Total WP1 15 (15) 44 (44) 117 (117) 73 (73)

Eftychios Eftychiou A1.1 - - 16 (16)

Christos Koutsioupis A1.1 - - 9 (9)

1 The number of hours has been evaluated using 1560 effective working hours/Year. Funded Effort is in brackets.

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Worked Hours during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until

now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)1

Remaining Effort (in hours)

Partner Short Name

Name and Surname

Activity

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

Rozita Pavlidou A1.1 - - 4 (4)

Michael Theodoulou A1.1 15 (15) 15 (15)

DANTE Total WP1 0 (0) 7 (7) 78 (78) 71 (71)

David West A1.1 - - 7 (7)

GARR Total WP1 143 (143) 316 (316) 312 (312) -4 -(4)

Alessandra De Nicola A1.1 60 (60) 105 (105)

Giada Di Giammarco A1.1 8 (8) 33 (33)

Claudia Santi A1.1 - - 8 (8)

Federica Tanlongo A1.1 65 (65) 135 (135)

Federica Tanlongo A1.2 10 (10) 35 (35)

GRNET Total WP1 20 (20) 121 (121) 273 (273) 152 (152)

Zoi Panagiotara A1.1 20 (20) 101 (101)

Mahir Sabra A1.1 - - 20 (20)

RED.ES Total WP1 78 (78)

UoM Total WP1 221 (221)

CERIST Total WP1 0 (0) 160 (128) 208 (208) 48 (80)

El-Maouhab Aouaouche A1.1 - - 80 (64)

El-Maouhab Aouaouche A1.2 - - 60 (48)

Khelladi Abdelkader A1.1 - - 20 (16)

CNRST Total WP1 45 (45) 100 (100) 208 (208) 108 (108)

Redouane Merrouch A1.1 10 (10) 30 (30)

Redouane Merrouch A1.2 10 (10) 20 (20)

Nabil Talhaoui A1.2 15 (15) 30 (30)

Hassan Bouhaddou A1.2 10 (10) 20 (20)

EUN Total WP1 208 (208)

HIAST Total WP1 0 (0) 85 (85) 208 (208) 123 (123)

Maher Suleiman A1.1 - - 55 (55)

Moutasem Shafa Amry A1.2 - - 30 (30)

MRSTDC Total WP1 48 (48) 192 (192) 208 (208) 16 (16)

Mohamed Jemni A1.1 8 (8) 42 (42)

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Worked Hours during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until

now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)1

Remaining Effort (in hours)

Partner Short Name

Name and Surname

Activity

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

Mohamed Jemni A1.2 8 (8) 38 (38)

Malika Zenati A1.1 - - 48 (48)

Malika Zenati A1.2 - - 24 (24)

Sonia Kallel A1.1 32 (32) 36 (36)

Sonia Kallel A1.2 - - 4 (4)

TUBITAK Total WP1 208 (208) 208 (208)

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2.1.2. WP2: Requirement Capture and Analysis

CERN Activities:

During the 3rd quarter, deliverable D2.2 was drafted, reviewed and finalized. D2.2 (Technical Roadmap) was coordinated by CERN, and presented a technical roadmap for the setup and deployment of EGEE_based grid infrastructure in the Mediterranean region. It included an overview of the EGEE middleware stacks (LCG & gLite), basic site infrastructure deployment and monitoring and a plan for the rollout of EUMEDGRID production sites to join the EGEE production infrastructure. A section was also devoted in surveying the status of national grid initiatives in the participating Mediterranean countries. This is taken from the D2.2 conclusion chapter:

The currents plans foresee to have the following resources available at the end of the two-years project:

• 16 EUMEDGRID clusters across 11 countries configured and active • An overall computing power which can rely on 646 CPUs • An overall storage capacity of 26.4 TBytes And the following applications will be supported: • High Energy Physics applications (there are many candidates, like CMS and ATLAS software packages)

• Biomedicine applications

• Earth Science applications

• As of this writing, regional applications are being identified by WP4. Finally, the status of the NGIs in the Mediterranean region is as follows: • Fledgling Grid community = 1 country • Grid Awareness Raising Phase = 4 • NGI Planning Phase = 2 • Active NGIs = 4

Table 3 - WP2 roundup effort

Worked Hours during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until

now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)[1]

Remaining Effort (in hours)1 Partner

Short Name

Name and Surname

Activity

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

INFN Total WP2 13 (0) 13 (0)

CERN Total WP2 358 (243) 631 (458) 715 (650) 84 (192)

Domenico Vicinanza A2.2 243 (243) 458 (458)

Florida Estrella A2.2 115 (0) 173 (0)

CYNET Total WP2 0 (0) 208 (113) 208 (169) 0 (56)

Kyriakos Maifoshis A2.1 - - 95 (0)

Michael Theodoulou A2.1 - - 113 (113)

DANTE

GARR

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Worked Hours during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until

now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)[1]

Remaining Effort (in hours)1 Partner

Short Name

Name and Surname

Activity

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

GRNET Total WP2 0 (0) 686 (686) 585 (468) -101 -(218)

Ioannis Liabotis A2.1 - - 17 (17)

Ioannis Liabotis A2.2 - - 246 (246)

Kostas Koumantaros A2.1 - - 24 (24)

Kostas Koumantaros A2.2 - - 222 (222)

Ognjen Prnjat A2.1 - - 13 (13)

Ognjen Prnjat A2.2 - - 75 (75)

Fotis Karayannis A2.2 - - 33 (33)

Mahir Sabra A2.2 - - 25 (25)

Yousef Torman A2.2 - - 30 (30)

RED.ES

UoM Total WP2 936 (793) 936 (793)

CERIST Total WP2 0 (0) 140 (112) 520 (442) 380 (330)

Aouaouche El-Maouhab A2.1 - - 40 (32)

Farida Brahimi A2.1 - - 25 (20)

Ouafa Bentaleb A2.1 - - 25 (20)

Hassine Benaissa A2.1 - - 25 (20)

Salim Asselah A2.1 - - 25 (20)

CNRST Total WP2 0 (0) 375 (315) 520 (442) 145 (127)

Redouane Merrouch A2.1 - - 85 (75)

Redouane Merrouch A2.2 - - 40 (30)

Nabil Talhaoui A2.1 - - 85 (75)

Nabil Talhaoui A2.2 - - 40 (30)

Youness Hamidi A2.1 - - 45 (45)

Hassan Bouhaddou A2.1 - - 40 (30)

Hassan Bouhaddou A2.2 - - 40 (30)

EUN Total WP2 520 (442) 520 (442)

HIAST Total WP2 0 (0) 85 (85) 520 (442) 435 (357)

Maher Suleiman A2.1 - - 85 (85)

MRSTDC Total WP2 48 (48) 272 (272) 520 (442) 248 (170)

Mohamed Jemni A2.1 16 (16) 72 (72)

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Worked Hours during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until

now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)[1]

Remaining Effort (in hours)1 Partner

Short Name

Name and Surname

Activity

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

Mohamed Jemni A2.2 8 (8) 48 (48)

Malika Zenati A2.1 - - 48 (48)

Malika Zenati A2.2 - - 48 (48)

Sonia Kallel A2.1 16 (16) 32 (32)

Sonia Kallel A2.2 8 (8) 24 (24)

TUBITAK Total WP2 0 (0) 210 (105) 520 (442) 310 (337)

Burcu Akcan A2.1 - - 210 (105)

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2.1.3. WP3: Pilot Infrastructure Operational Support

CERN Activities:

During this period, CERN coordinated the training, installation, documentation and deployment of SAM. SAM (Service Availability Monitoring) is a tool that measures the availability of a service, a site or a VO. It is designed to generate alarms, trouble tickets and callout support staff. It is planned to cover all gLite services - at the moment it covers SE, CE, gLite-CE, LFC, SRM, FTS. Other service sensors will follow soon. SAM is temporarily installed at CERN. It will be moved to CNAF during the 4th quarter of the project.

CYNET Activities:

CYNET is moving forward towards the completion of the WP3 objectives with focus on the deployment of the main CYNET GRID Site (CY-01-CYNET) as well as the creation and accredidation of the CYNET CA for GRID certificates.

In more detail, CYNET has attended both of the EUMEGRID GRID Tutorials which occured in July and September as well as attending the Annual EGEE Conference for further knoweledge dissemination.

In addition the attendance of the CA Tutorial provided assistance in steering towards a more clear direction for the creation of the CYNET CA.

CNRST Activities:

Migration of CNRST site to Glite 3.0:

- Migration from LCG 2.0.7 to Glite 3.0.2;

- Addition a new WN;

- Installation of Ganglia tool for MA-01-CNRST.

Installation of EUMEDGRID applications in CNRST site:

- Installation of CODESA-3D;

- Installation of WISDOM;

- Installation of GEANT4.

Preparation of the MaGrid CA:

- Preparation of CP/CPS;

- Preparation of CA presentation.

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GRNET Activities:

Involved Personnel: Kostas Koumantaros, Fotis Karayannis, Ioannis Liabotis, Antonis Zisimos

• Operation of the EUMEGRID help desk. • New Site registration and certification. • Support installation and configuration of new sites. • Organization of the integration of core services with HGSM • Technical management in WP3 • Definition of the technical strategy of WP3 for the forthcoming period. • Coordination of the deployment of CODESA3D into the infrastructure. • Coordination of the Population of HGSM with all the necessary information • Integration of BDII, GSTAT, GridICE with HGSM • Certification Authority web page created with instructions on how to create a national

certification authority. • Preparation of sites for the participation in BIOMED DC. • Requirements capture for the participation in BIOMED DC. • Preparation of sites and application deployment for demonstration in the EGEE06 Conference

booth

Meetings:

Fotis Karayannis and Ioannis Liabotis participated in the EUMEDGRID PMB in Istanbul (30 June 2006). A presentation of the status of WP3 was prepared for the PMB meting.

Kostas Koumantaros, Fotis Karayannis and Ioannis Liabotis participated in the EUMEGRID PMB in Rome (14th September 2006). Preparation and presentation of overall WP3 progress report. Preparation and presentation of the technical strategy for WP3 in the forthcoming period.

Kostas Koumantaros, Fotis Karayannis and Ioannis Liabotis attended the 1st EUMEDGRID workshop in Rome (15th September 2006).

INFN Activities:

Management of the VOMS server, GridICE and RB services at INFN CNAF- Bologna.

Management and upgrade of Roma3 (together with the Dep. of Physiscs of Univ. of Roma Tre) and Catania Sites to allocate resources for WISDOM, CODESA-3D, ATLAS and other supported VO’s.

Support of RA’s in the INFN catch-all CA in Florence. Organisation and management of the CAM meeting in Rome in September.

MRSTDC Activities:

The third quarter activities related to the project EUMEDGRID in Tunisia have been concentrated in July and September due to holidays of most participants in August. During this quarter, classical activities of WP1, WP2 and WP3 have been carried with significant advancement in WP3 especially after resolving of all internet problems with the provider and the deliverance of 5 new PCs by the Ministry of Scientific Research, Technology and development of Competencies to the project. These

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five PCs have been installed in the ESSTT and replaced the 5 old temporarily PCs of the research Unit UTIC.

TUBITAK Activities:

HGSM (Hierarchical Grid Site Management) tool was adopted to EUMEDGRID project by TR-Grid GIM.

Country representatives were added to HGSM tool and user support was provided by TR-GRID GIM as the top level administrator of HGSM.

Periodically exported RSS feed lists were produced for RTM and BDIIs.

The google-map application adopted to HGSM tool for selection of country coordinates.

HGSM bugs were fixed and some developments were held.

EUMEDGRID infrastructure and VO has been supported by Turkish grid site TR-01-ULAKBIM with 128 nodes during the third quarter of the project.

- gLite 3.0 upgrade

- Middleware / securirty regular updates

- Regional / national support via helpdesk

- Presentations in EUMEDGRID Trainings:“Authorization and Authentication in g-Lite” Asli Zengin, Istanbul, Turkey, 3 July 2006

- “HGSM – Hierarchical Grid Site Management”, Kursad Yusuf Konus, Istanbul, Turkey, 6 July 2006

- “Best Practices to Set up and Manage a National CA” Asli Zengin, Rome, Italy, 12 September 2006.

Table 4 – WP3 roundup effort

Worked Hours during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)[1]

Remaining Effort (in hours)[1]

Partner Short Name

Name and Surname Activity

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

INFN Total WP3 537 (260) 1028 (600) 2.938 (2.314) 1.910 (1.714)

Roberto Cecchini A3.5 - - 44 (0)

Paola Celio A3.2 60 (0) 80 (0)

Riccardo Gargana A3.2 110 (0) 160 (0)

Federico Bitelli A3.2 95 (0) 120 (0)

Federico Bitelli A3.3 12 (0) 24 (0)

Giuseppe Misurelli A3.2 260 (260) 600 (600)

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Worked Hours during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)[1]

Remaining Effort (in hours)[1]

Partner Short Name

Name and Surname Activity

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

CERN Total WP3 172 (172) 243 (243) 780 (650) 537 (407)

Domenico Vicinanza A3.3 172 (172) 243 (243)

CYNET Total WP3 220 (182) 393 (330) 1.365 (1.157) 972 (827)

Christos Koutsioupis A3.5 - - 15 (15)

Michael Theodoulou A3.1 18 (18) 43 (43)

Michael Theodoulou A3.2 116 (116) 167 (167)

Michael Theodoulou A3.4 16 (16) 16 (16)

Michael Theodoulou A3.5 24 (24) 31 (31)

Kyriakos Maifoshis A3.1 18 (0) 33 (0)

Kyriakos Maifoshis A3.2 20 (0) 30 (0)

Eftychios Eftychiou A3.1 - - 50 (50)

Christos Charalambous A3.4 8 (8) 8 (8)

DANTE Total WP3 299 (234) 299 (234)

GARR

GRNET Total WP3 (305) (305) 435 (435) 2.535 (2.028) 2.100 (1.593)

Ioannis Liabotis A3.1 71 (71) 103 (103)

Ioannis Liabotis A3.5 8 (8) 8 (8)

Kostas Koumantaros A3.1 - - 39 (39)

Kostas Koumantaros A3.2 - - 59 (59)

Antonis Zisimos A3.2 50 (50) 50 (50)

Antonis Zisimos A3.3 176 (176) 176 (176)

RED.ES Total WP3 0 (0) 8 (8) 390 (312) 382 (304)

Esther Robles A3.4 - - 8 (8)

UoM Total WP3 2.197 (1.859) 2.197 (1.859)

CERIST Total WP3 0 (0) 200 (160) 1.560 (1.326) 1.360 (1.166)

El-Maouhab Aouaouche A3.1 - - 40 (32)

El-Maouhab Aouaouche A3.2 - - 20 (16)

El-Maouhab Aouaouche A3.3 - - 20 (16)

Brahimi Farida A3.2 - - 40 (32)

Bentaleb Ouafa A3.2 - - 40 (32)

Bouabid Amine A3.2 - - 40 (32)

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Worked Hours during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)[1]

Remaining Effort (in hours)[1]

Partner Short Name

Name and Surname Activity

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

CNRST Total WP3 475 (407) 1.140 (918) 1.560 (1.326) 420 (408)

Redouane Merrouch A3.1 20 (20) 70 (60)

Redouane Merrouch A3.2 20 (20) 35 (30)

Redouane Merrouch A3.3 10 (10) 25 (20)

Redouane Merrouch A3.4 15 (10) 15 (10)

Redouane Merrouch A3.5 25 (20) 45 (35)

Nabil Talhaoui A3.1 20 (20) 60 (50)

Nabil Talhaoui A3.2 15 (10) 40 (30)

Nabil Talhaoui A3.3 15 (10) 30 (20)

Nabil Talhaoui A3.4 20 (15) 35 (25)

Nabil Talhaoui A3.5 25 (20) 25 (20)

Redouane Chajar A3.2 40 (40) 125 (110)

Redouane Chajar A3.3 15 (10) 40 (30)

Redouane Chajar A3.4 15 (10) 30 (20)

Youness Hamidi A3.2 40 (40) 125 (110)

Youness Hamidi A3.3 15 (10) 40 (30)

Youness Hamidi A3.4 15 (10) 30 (20)

Hassan Bouhaddou A3.1 20 (20) 60 (50)

Hassan Bouhaddou A3.2 10 (10) 35 (30)

Hassan Bouhaddou A3.3 10 (10) 25 (20)

Hassan Bouhaddou A3.4 15 (10) 30 (20)

Hassan Bouhaddou A3.5 25 (20) 25 (20)

Abdelfettah Mezziane A3.2 40 (40) 125 (110)

Abdelfettah Mezziane A3.3 15 (10) 40 (30)

Abdelfettah Mezziane A3.4 15 (10) 30 (20)

EUN Total WP3 1.560 (1.326) 1.560 (1.326)

HIAST Total WP3 0 (0) 113 (113) 1.560 (1.326) 1.447 (1.213)

Maher Suleiman A3.3 - - 5 (5)

Maher Suleiman A3.4 - - 20 (20)

Maher Suleiman A3.5 - - 30 (30)

Abdallah Issa A3.3 - - 48 (48)

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Worked Hours during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)[1]

Remaining Effort (in hours)[1]

Partner Short Name

Name and Surname Activity

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

Moutasem Shafa Amry A3.5 - - 10 (10)

MRSTDC Total WP3 160 (160) 1.128 (1.128) 1.560 (1.326) 432 (198)

Mohamed Jemni A3.2 8 (8) 8 (8)

Mohamed Jemni A3.3 8 (8) 8 (8)

Mohamed Jemni A3.4 8 (8) 200 (200)

Mohamed Jemni A3.5 - - 64 (64)

Heithem Abbes A3.1 - - 96 (96)

Heithem Abbes A3.2 40 (40) 40 (40)

Heithem Abbes A3.3 16 (16) 16 (16)

Heithem Abbes A3.4 - - 192 (192)

Adel Essafi A3.1 - - 96 (96)

Adel Essafi A3.2 40 (40) 40 (40)

Adel Essafi A3.3 16 (16) 16 (16)

Adel Essafi A3.4 - - 192 (192)

Ahmed Elleuch A3.4 - - 96 (96)

Sonia Kallel A3.1 8 (8) 16 (16)

Sonia Kallel A3.2 8 (8) 8 (8)

Sonia Kallel A3.3 8 (8) 16 (16)

Sonia Kallel A3.4 - - 24 (24)

TUBITAK Total WP3 0 (0) 240 (120) 1.040 (884) 800 (764)

Kursad Yusuf A3.2 - - 150 (75)

Kursad Yusuf A3.3 - - 90 (45)

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2.1.4. WP4: Applications Support

CERN Activities:

The CERN staff working in EUMEDGRID is also a sonification application expert. He presented the grid-sonification activity at the 1st EELA.

CYNET Activities:

Deployed BIOMED and CODESA EGEE Applications on CY-01-CYNET GRID site to ease transition in the EGEE infrastructure

CRS4 (GARR third party) Activities:

The CRS4 contribution (third party) to the activity of the project is represented by the presentation of the activity of development and testing of a grid-enabled sub-surface hydrology application to the 1rst EUMEDGRID conference in Rome (15 Sept, 2006). The application entitled "Sustainable management of groundwater exploitation using Monte Carlo simulation of seawater intrusion in the Korba aquifer (Tunisia)" is co-authored by Jaouher Kerrou, Giuditta Lecca, Philippe Renard and Jamila Tarhouni (powerpoint presentation is available at the conference web site).The objective of the study is the quantification of the uncertainty in groundwater levels and salt concentrations of the Korba coastal aquifer (Tunisia) as a result of the uncertainty in the exploitation rates of agricultural wells.

The probability distribution of model outputs is obtained by means of Monte Carlo simulation based on the coupled density-dependent flow and miscible transport model CODESA-3D. The grid-enabled sub-surface hydrology application has been first developed on the INFN GILDA t-Infrastructure and then on the EGEE production grid (VO Earth Science Research). Further developments will include the test of the application on the EUMEDGRID infrastructure.

INFN Activities:

The questionnaire for new applications was finalized, based on the experience of similar surveys conducted both by the EELA and EUChinaGrid projects, and was made available on-line at the URL : https://secure.um.edu.mt/eumedgrid/questionnaire/wp4/.

MRSTDC Activities:

Many contacts with new partners and potential users of Grid computing have been done in order to promote new applications and to support regional applications.

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Table 6 – WP4 roundup effort

Worked Hours during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)[1]

Remaining Effort (in hours)[1]

Partner Short Name

Name and Surname Activity

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

INFN Total WP4 75 (0) 75 (0) 3.224 (1.976) 3.149 (1.976)

Giuseppe Andronico A4.1 - - 0 (0)

Giuseppe Andronico A4.2 75 (0) 75 (0)

CERN Total WP4 14 (14) 14 (14) 325 (260) 311 (246)

Domenico Vicinanza A4.2 14 (14) 14 (14)

CYNET Total WP4 144 (120) 144 (120) 494 (416) 350 (296)

Michael Theodoulou A4.1 120 (120) 120 (120)

Kyriakos Maifoshis A4.1 24 (0) 24 (0)

DANTE

GARR

GRNET Total WP4 585 (468) 585 (468)

RED.ES Total WP4 390 (312) 390 (312)

UoM Total WP4 780 (663) 780 (663)

CERIST Total WP4 1.300 (1.105) 1.300 (1.105)

CNRST Total WP4 315 (236) 315 (236) 1.300 (1.105) 985 (869)

Redouane Merrouch A4.1 40 (30) 40 (30)

Redouane Merrouch A4.2 20 (15) 20 (15)

Nabil Talhaoui A4.1 15 (10) 15 (10)

Nabil Talhaoui A4.2 15 (10) 15 (10)

Hassan Bouhaddou A4.1 15 (10) 15 (10)

Hassan Bouhaddou A4.2 15 (10) 15 (10)

Youness Hamidi A4.1 40 (30) 40 (30)

Youness Hamidi A4.2 25 (20) 25 (20)

Abdelfettah Mezziane A4.1 40 (30) 40 (30)

Abdelfettah Mezziane A4.2 25 (20) 25 (20)

Redouane Chajar A4.1 40 (30) 40 (30)

Redouane Chajar A4.2 25 (20) 25 (20)

EUN Total WP4 1.300 (1.105) 1.300 (1.105)

HIAST Total WP4 1.300 (1.105) 1.300 (1.105)

MRSTDC Total WP4 72 (72) 72 (72) 1.300 (1.105) 1.228 (1.033)

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Worked Hours during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)[1]

Remaining Effort (in hours)[1]

Partner Short Name

Name and Surname Activity

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

Mohamed Jemni A4.2 24 (24) 24 (24)

Mohamed Jemni A4.3 24 (24) 24 (24)

Heithem Abbes A4.3 8 (8) 8 (8)

Adel Essafi A4.3 8 (8) 8 (8)

Ahmed Elleuch A4.3 8 (8) 8 (8)

TUBITAK Total WP4 1.300 (1.105) 1.300 (1.105)

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2.1.5. WP5 – Dissemination

During the third quarter, dissemination continued to be regarded as a key activity for the success of the EUMEDGRID Project. The dissemination activities were mainly addressed to the organization and participation to dissemination and training events and to the preliminary draft of Del5.2, which was due at Project Month 9 (http://www.eumedgrid.org/deliverable/D5.2.html ).

A5.1 – Project dissemination activities

a) Dissemination events

- A wide effort was devoted to the organization of the 1st EUMEDGRID Project Conference in Rome (see http://www.eumedgrid.org/Conf-Roma06/ and https://agenda.eumedgrid.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=a0658 for the detailed agenda and speakers’ presentation). Because of the selected location as well as their role as Project Office and large commitment in WP5 activities, the organization of the 1st EUMEDGRID Project Conference was mainly performed by the Italian partners, GARR and INFN; all aspects of the event were jointly managed by the PO and WP5 local team: logistics (although a part of logistics was outsourced to an agency), programme, event website and materials for the event (folders, leaflets, small gadgets and giveaways, posters etc). The event provided a picture of the status of Grid infrastructures and applications in Europe, with a special stress on success cases from other projects and applications of regional interest, which could be adapted and ported on the EUMEDGRID infrastructure. It was a success in term of attendance and represented another step toward the creation of a human network across the Mediterranean, promoting the existing and creating possible synergies. Furthermore, it was a good occasion to disseminate the Project:

1. Increasing participation of people not yet involved in the Project (potential users, grid professional, students)

2. Distributing the conference announcement (http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/EUMEDGRID-conf-announcement.pdf) and press release (http://www.eumedgrid.org/Conf-Roma06/EUMEDGRID-PR150906-en_03.pdf) to Italian and international press.

In conjunction with the Conference, several internal meetings and tutorials were carried out, including a users’ and system administrators’ tutorial (see next chapter for details) and a CA managers tutorial.

- Another central point for dissemination in the quarter was the participation to EGEE06 Conference. The presence at this event, which can easily be regarded as one of the largest Grid events in the world, was considered as a very important occasion to enhance the

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project visibility and, on the other hand, to get in touch with relevant actors in the world of research and industry. EUMEDGRID presence involved several levels:

a) Exhibition of a project poster

b) Booth (in conjunction with the EUChinaGRID project), with an online demonstration of the monitoring of grid activities over the infrastructure and distribution of small gadgets with the project logo (cups, pens, block-notes, post-it blocks etc) and project leaflets;

c) Attendance to sessions/workshops of importance for the coordination with other projects and initiatives (regional projects workshop organized by SEEGRID; related project workshop, National Grid Initiatives closed workshop).

b) Preliminary draft and survey for deliverable 5.2

Another major activity of the quarter was the preparation of the Survey relating to Deliverable 5.2 (Policy state of the Art) and its preliminary draft. The document (http://www.eumedgrid.org/deliverable/D5.2.html) was due at project month 9 and intended to report on the Status and perspectives of the creation of National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) in the Mediterranean Countries involved in EUMEDGRID, with special reference to the ones not currently belonging to the EGEE consortium. Although the original delivery to the EC services, due on mid November, was delayed of about a month (to incorporate updates from the Marrakech workshop, where a NGIs session was scheduled, see https://agenda.eumedgrid.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=5 for details) this activity was instead carried out in the third quarter.

c) Other activities

Further activities were then devoted to day-by-day management and update of the website and the creation of web pages providing information on particular dissemination events; preparatory activities for the dissemination and training events in Tunisia and Marrakech (programme, logistics etc) to be held in the following quarter were carried out as well.

CYNET Activities:

CYNET took part in the dissemination sessions delivered by the EUMEDGRID project such as both of the EUMEDGRID Tutorials that occured in July and September.

CYNET also benefited from disseminated knowledge regarding the creation and operation of a CA in order to establish the CYNET CA.

CYNET has provided dissemination materials to CYNET partners based on the EUMEDGRID tutorials and provided status update including 3rd party work opportunities within the bounds of the EUMEDGRID project

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GARR activities:

GARR activities were focused on three main points:

a. The organization of the first Project Conference in Rome. This involved all aspects of the event, from logistics (although a part of logistics was outsourced to an agency) to the creation of a suitable programme, the contact with speakers etc, the creation of a complete website and a number of materials for the event (folders, leaflets, small gadgets and giveaways, posters etc).

b. The preparation and participation to EGEE06. An integrated presence was designed with a booth held in cooperation with the EUChinaGRID project with a poster, leaflets and giveaways, attendance to sessions/workshops on issues where coordination with other project may be a key success factor (see above).

c. Preliminary draft and preparation of the NGI Survey for Deliverable 5.2 (Policy state of the Art), due at project month 9 under GARR responsibility.

As main responsible of the website, GARR devoted as well a part of the effort in performing the day-by-day management and update of the website and the creation of web pages providing information on particular dissemination events.

GRNET Activities:

Fotis Georgatos participated as a trainer in the EUMEDGRID Training Event in Istanbul (3rd-7th July 2006).

GRNET 3rd Parties’ activities:

JUNET Activities:

Meetings:

Yousef Torman participated in the EUMEDGRID PMB in Rome (14th September 2006) . Presentation of the coutry’s plans and the progress of their NGI.

Yousef Torman participated in the 1st EUMEDGRID workshop in Rome (15th September 2006).

INFN Activities:

Organisation of the First Project Conference in Rome on 14-15 September 2006, attended by 60 people.

MRSTDC Activities:

The Tunisian team working in WP5 started the preparation of two events:

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- November 3 2006 in the ESSTT (www.esstt.rnu.tn/utic/colloque) a scientific conference about grid computing to present the project EUMEDGRID, an introduction and basic concepts of grid computing and presentation of some international projects.

- November 27 to December 2 2006: a long eumedgrid tutorial in the ESSTT.

PADI2 Activities:

Sufyan Aqtam attended the EUMEDGRID tutorials in Istanbul/ Turkey (3rd-7th July 2006), and worked on building the needed technical experience about Grids and to build Grid awareness among institutions in the West bank area in Palestine.

Meetings:

Bahjat Qazzaz participated in Eumedgrid PMB in Rome and presented Palestine’s plans and the progress of their NGI. A5.2 – Dissemination of advanced knowledge activities For the quarter, activities were mainly devoted to deliver two tutorials, in Istanbul and Rome, and organize the ones scheduled for the next quarter. Furthermore, the maintenance of the GILDA Site was performed.

a) Outreach events

The first event delivered in the quarter was the Istanbul tutorial. The event was composed by a long tutorial for users, held from the 3rd to the 5th of July, and a site administrators tutorial. The complete set of training materials and a detailed programme of the event can be found at: https://agenda.eumedgrid.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=a0657

The following are the main topics presented in the tutorial:

Users:

Overview of the gLite middleware

Authorization and authentication in gLite

The gLite Information System

The GILDA t-Infrastructure

Installation and configuration of a gLite 3.0 User Interface

Architecture of the gLite WMS and DMS

The GENIUS Grid Portal

The AMGA metadata catalogue

The gLite FTS

Site administrators:

Hierarchical Grid Site Management (HGSM)

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Installation and configuration of: VOMS server, MyProxy server, BDII server, WMS+LB server, CE + WN, SRM, LFC server, FTS server, RGMA and AMGA server.

It should be highlighted that, although the event falls in the third quarter, almost the totality of the preparatory work for this event was carried on within the previous quarter.

The other event for the reporting period is the Grid Tutorial for User and System Administrator, held Rome at University of Roma Tre from 11 to 13 of September 2006 in conjunction with the EUChinaGRID Project (see https://agenda.eumedgrid.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=a0659). The following are the main topics of the tutorial:

• Introduction to GILDA t-Infrastructure.

• Overview of the main services of the gLite middleware.

• Practical sessions on main services of the gLite middleware.

• Installation and configuration of the main resources for a base configuration of a gLite site.

• Installation and configuration of the main services of the gLite middleware.

b) GILDA Maintenance

The maintenance of the GILDA Site, with the installation of the new version of the gLite Middleware (v. 3.0.0) was carried out on the following services:

• gLite User Interface;

• BDII server;

• Workload Management System + Logging&Bookkeeping server;

• LFC server;

• AMGA server;

• Computing Element + Torque Server

• N.3 Worker Node + Torque Client

• FTS Server

• SRM

• GENIUS

c) Tutorial Statistics2

2 The updated training statistics are available at: http://www.eumedgrid.org/statistiche-en.html

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The first feedbacks on the training activity, obtained through an in-deep online questionnaire proposed to participants at the end of the events, has been made available and analyzed. The pictures here below illustrate the number of attendees (total and per event, per audience), the number of participants per day and the average feedback. The latter shows that trainees appear to generally perceive the level of the tutorial as satisfactory.

Figure 2 - tutorial statistics at the end of third project quarter

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Table 7 - WP5 roundup effort

Activity Worked Hours

during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)[1]

Remaining Effort (in hours)1

Partner Short Name

Name and Surname

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

INFN Total WP5 563 (390) 1513 (1.182) 3.354 (2.106) 1.841 (924)

Riccardo Bruno A5.2 390 (390) 1182 (1.182)

Fulvio Galeazzi A5.2 35 (0) 105 (0)

Federico Bitelli A5.2 18 (0) 46 (0)

Paola Celio A5.3 10 (0) 30 (0)

Riccardo Gargana A5.3 110 (0) 140 (0)

Riccardo Gargana A5.4 - - 10 (0)

CERN

CYNET Total WP5 80 (56) 94 (70) 780 (663) 686 (593)

Michael Theodoulou A5.1 32 (32) 32 (32)

Michael Theodoulou A5.2 24 (24) 24 (24)

Agathoklis Stylianou A5.1 8 (0) 8 (0)

Andreas Pitsilides A5.1 8 (0) 8 (0)

Kyriakos Maifoshis A5.2 8 (0) 8 (0)

Christos Koutsioupis A5.2 - - 14 (14)

DANTE

GARR Total WP5 399 (399) 1.119 (1.119) 3.471 (2.769) 2.352 (1.650)

Alessandra De Nicola A5.1 60 (60) 190 (190)

Giada Di Giammarco A5.1 180 (180) 505 (505)

Claudia Santi A5.1 4 (4) 4 (4)

Massimo Stangoni A5.1 25 (25) 25 (25)

Federica Tanlongo A5.1 130 (130) 395 (395)

Valentino Carcione A5.1 - - 30 (30)

GRNET Total WP5 40 (40) 573 (573) 1.560 (1.248) 987 (675)

Aris Sotiropoulus A5.2 - - 118 (118)

Fotis Karayannis A5.2 - - 8 (8)

Fortis Georgatos A5.2 - - 126 (126)

Evaggelia Athanasaki A5.2 - - 232 (232)

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Activity Worked Hours

during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)[1]

Remaining Effort (in hours)1

Partner Short Name

Name and Surname

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

Madouch Sauhail A5.2 - - 40 (40)

Yousef Torman A5.2 - - 10 (10)

Sufyan Aqtam A5.1 40 (40) 40 (40)

RED.ES Total WP5 0 (0) 69 (69) 585 (468) 516 (399)

Antonio Fuentes A5.1 - - 34 (34)

Alberto Perez A5.1 - - 35 (35)

UoM Total WP5 1.560 (1.326) 1.560 (1.326)

CERIST Total WP5 1.560 (1.326) 1.560 (1.326)

CNRST Total WP5 320 (240) 725 (538) 1.560 (1.326) 835 (788)

Redouane Merrouch A5.1 15 (10) 30 (20)

Redouane Merrouch A5.2 15 (10) 30 (20)

Nabil Talhaoui A5.1 30 (20) 60 (40)

Nabil Talhaoui A5.2 30 (20) 60 (40)

Redouane Chajar A5.1 25 (20) 65 (50)

Redouane Chajar A5.2 25 (20) 80 (65)

Youness Hamidi A5.1 25 (20) 40 (30)

Youness Hamidi A5.2 25 (20) 55 (40)

Hassan Bouhaddou A5.1 40 (30) 80 (60)

Hassan Bouhaddou A5.2 40 (30) 80 (60)

Abdelfettah Mezziane A5.1 25 (20) 65 (50)

Abdelfettah Mezziane A5.2 25 (20) 80 (65)

EUN Total WP5 1.560 (1.326) 1.560 (1.326)

HIAST Total WP5 0 (0) 270 (270) 1.560 (1.326) 1.290 (1.056)

Maher Suleiman A5.1 - - 70 (70)

Maher Suleiman A5.2 - - 30 (30)

Abdallah Issa A5.2 - - 30 (30)

Dareen Shehadeh A5.1 - - 130 (130)

Moutasem

Shafa Amry A5.1 - - 10 (10)

MRSTDC Total WP5 192 (192) 328 (328) 1.560 (1.326) 1.232 (998)

Mohamed Jemni A5.1 48 (48) 80 (80)

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Activity Worked Hours

during the Quarter

Total N. of Hours delivered until now

Effort in the contract (in

hours)[1]

Remaining Effort (in hours)1

Partner Short Name

Name and Surname

Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded Total Funded

Malika Zenati A5.1 - - 16 (16)

Sonia Kallel A5.1 48 (48) 80 (80)

Moez Jebara A5.1 48 (48) 96 (96)

Ahmed Elleuch A5.1 16 (16) 24 (24)

Heithem Abbes A5.1 16 (16) 16 (16)

Adel Essafi A5.2 16 (16) 16 (16)

TUBITAK Total WP5 0 (0) 75 (38) 1.040 (884) 965 (847)

Burcu Akcan A5.1 - - 75 (38)

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2.2. MAJOR TASKS, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

2.2.1. Deliverables and milestones due this quarter

Almost all the Deliverables and Milestones foreseen for this quarter were delivered on schedule and a complete list is shown in the following table:

Table 5 - Deliverables and Milestones due for the reporting period

Name N° Due on Status

Proposed technical roadmap D2.2 PM 07 Done

CA and RA procedures and guidelines D3.1 PM 07 Done

Initial specification and requirements of the applications

D4.1 PM 09 Done

Policy state of the art D5.2 PM09 Delayed

Core NGI candidates identified M2.3 PM07 Reached

Network services assured M3.1 PM07 Reached

Dissemination material ready M5.3 PM07 Reached

Initial setup of outreach material M5.4 PM07 Reached

CA in operations M3.2 PM07 Reached

1st Project Workshop M5.5 PM09 Reached

2.3. SUMMARY OF ISSUES

2.3.1. WP1 Issues

There were a couple of issues to report in this quarter, which are mainly continued from the first two quarters.

Lack of experience on EC funded Projects among the partners

Still some more work is needed to disseminate knowledge about the administrative matters related to European Projects. A new administrative tutorial is foreseen for December in Marrakech at the end of the First Project Workshop.

Delay in the distribution of the pre-financing

The Egyptian partner is still waiting authorizations to receive the project funds on their bank account.

An investigation on possible workarounds is under way.

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Timesheet tool

There were still few bugs in the timesheet tool which delayed the correct collection of the worked hours. These bugs are supposed to be fixed in the next quarter.

2.3.2. WP2 Issues

No specific issues to report.

2.3.3. WP3 Issues

No specific issues to report.

2.3.4. WP4 Issues

No specific issues to report.

2.3.5. WP5 Issues No major issues were highlighted in the quarter. However, in delivering the tutorials it was highlighted a finer-grained segmentation of the audience than expected. This implies that foreseeing just two formats for tutorials (addressing respectively users and site administrators) is not enough in order to maximize the benefits for attendees. Different levels of awareness and previous grid knowledge were indeed highlighted amongst users, which have a deep impact on their ability to learn (roughly, we can divide them in potential, basic and advanced users). In fact, it was found that the current format works generally well with system administrators and very smart users, while newcomer users normally feel difficulties with some technical aspects (as, for instance, the command-line interface). For this reason a new format for beginners is under development and will be tested in the Marrakech event. This “lighter” version will present:

o Basics of grids o GENIUS interface o Hands-on sessions on real applications (CORSIKA, ROSETTA)

2.4. Plans for the next reporting quarter

2.4.1. WP1 Future plans

Administrative tutorial in December in Marrakech and preparation of templates for the first year report.

2.4.2. WP2 Future plans

The bulk of activity was already completed. A possible second survey at the end of the project to compare the impact of the EUMEDGRID activity in the region is under investigation.

2.4.3. WP3 Future plans

Enlargement of the pilot infrastructure with new countries and new sites.

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2.4.4. WP4 Future plans

Analysis of the questionnaires on new applications and first candidates selection.

2.4.5. WP5 Future plans

Activities in the next quarter will be mainly devoted to the following tasks:

o Organization and delivery of the Tunis tutorial

o Organization and delivery of the Marrakech workshop and tutorial

o Draft of Deliverable 5.2 (Policy state of the art)

o Creation of a project newsletter

o Creation of a format for the project demonstrations (for the annual review and other dissemination opportunities), in close coordination with the colleagues working on applications.

2.5. Main Project Activity Metrics A certain number of quantifiable indicators used to measure the progress of the activities were already defined. New indicators will eventually be added if appropriate. The current list is the following:

• Number of sites joining the EUMEDGRID Pilot infrastructure at the end of the reporting period (9).

• Number of tutorial events held (3) and number of participants per event (25).

• Number of International Meetings, Workshops and Conferences organised (2).

• Number of attended Conferences or workshops with specific EUMEDGRID presentations or posters and/or other dissemination activities (4).

• Number of Groups of interested researchers contacted during the workshops and conferences (4).

• Number of applications/software adaptation and installation on the GILDA t-Infrastructure (1).

• Number of questionnaires filled in the framework of the WP2 survey activity (about 100).

• Number of users registered as members of the EUMEDGRID Virtual Organization (30).

The above numbers in bold have been incremented since the last quarter.

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3. CONSORTIUM MANAGEMENT

This section summarizes the status of the project and its management activity, including information on:

• Consortium management tasks and their achievement; problems which have occurred and how they were solved

• Contractors: Comments regarding contributions, changes in responsibilities and changes to consortium itself, if any

• Short comments and information on co-ordination activities in the period, such as communication between partners, project meetings, possible co-operations with other projects/programmes, etc.

Other information relating to the overall management activities can be found in the WP1 report (see above).

3.1. Consortium management The management of the consortium was done using the PMB mailing list and 2 PMB Meetings in this quarter.

3.2. Contractors No changes were recorded during the quarter, respect to the representatives and activity managers.

Table 6 - List of the Partners’ Representatives in the PMB

Id Partner Representative in the PMB

1 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (IT) (coordinator) Federico Ruggieri

2 European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERN, Geneve (CH) Florida Estrella

3 Cyprus Research and Academic Network, Lefkosia (CY) Eftychios Eftichiou

4 Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe, Cambridge (UK) David West

5 Consortium GARR, Rome (IT) Enzo Valente / Federica Tanlongo

6 Greek Research & Technology Network, Athens (GR) Ioannis Liabotis / Fotis Karayannis

7 Entitad Pùblica empresarial RED.ES, Madrid (E) Alberto Perez Gomez

8 University of Malta, Msida (M) Kevin Vella

9 Centre de Recherche sur l’Information Scientifique et Technique, Alger (DZ)

Abdelkader Khelladi

10 Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique, Rabat (MA)

Redouane Merrouch

11 Egyptian Universities Network, Cairo (ET) Omar Hassan Karam

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12 Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Damascus (SYR) Maher Suleiman

13 Ministry of Scientific Research, Technology and Competency Development, Tunis (TN)

Sonia Kallel

14 The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Ankara (TR)

Cem Sarac

Table 7 - Project Third Parties

Third Party Country Contracting Partner Bilkent University Turkey TUBITAK

Dep. of Physics – University of Roma Tre Italy INFN

CRS4 – Center for Advanced Studies in Sardinia Italy GARR

ICTP – Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Italy INFN

IUCC – Inter University Computing Center Israel GARR

Laboratoire Cristal – Ecole National des Sciences de l’Informatique Tunisia MRSTDC

JUNet Jordan GRNET

PADI2 Palestine GRNET

Research Unit of ICT – University of Tunis Tunisia MRSTDC

University of Messina – Dep. of Mathematics Italy INFN

* The Third Parties-Third Countries Organizations are highlighted in the table

Table 8 - List of Responsibilities in the Project

Activity Leader/Deputy Partner

WP1 Project administrative & technical management Federico Ruggieri INFN

A1.1 - Administrative management Federico Ruggieri INFN

A1.2 - Technical management Roberto Barbera INFN

WP2 Requirement capture and analysis Kevin Vella UoM

A2.1- Gather and analyse countries’ data Kevin Vella UoM

A2.2 - Study state of the art and propose technical roadmap Markus Shulz CERN

WP3 Pilot infrastructure al support Kostas Koumantaros GRNET

A3.1 - Operational, organisation and policy schemes Kostas Koumantaros GRNET

A3.2 – Support to middleware deployment & pilot site installations Davide Salomoni INFN-CNAF

A3.3 -Pilot infrastructure operational support Kostas Koumantaros GRNET

A3.4 - Network resource provision Ester Robles RED.ES

A3.5 - Certification authority setup & operations Roberto Cecchini INFN

WP4 Application support Giuseppe Andronico INFN

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A4.1 - EGEE applications Burku Ackan TUBITAK

A4.2 - Regional applications support Giuseppe Andronico INFN

A4.3 - Promoting new applications Roberto Barbera INFN

WP5 Dissemination and Outreach Federica Tanlongo GARR

A5.1 - Dissemination activities Federica Tanlongo GARR

A5.2 - Outreach activities Giuseppe Andronico INFN

3.3. Events A short report on the events organized and attended during the quarter can be found in the Annex I below. Other internal events and related items are discussed in the following paragraphs.

3.4. Project and activity Meetings On this quarter following EUMED activities were held

Table 9 - Internal meetings for the reporting period

Date Location Meeting Attendees

3-7 Jul 2006 Turkey, (Istanbul) Tutorial - Technicians and Users Users: 33

Admin: 27

7 Jul 2006 Turkey, (Istanbul) EUMEDGRID PMB Meeting + Administative tutorial 9

11-15 Sep 2006

Rome, (Italy) First Project Conference and Tutorial + Tutorial for Certification Authority Managers

Users: 33

Admin: 20

12 Sep 2006 Rome, (Italy) Tutorial for Certification Authority Managers 15

15 Sep 2006 Rome, (Italy) First EUMEDGRID Project Conference 60

19 Sep 2006 Israel, (Tel Aviv) Grid Induction - 4th Hands on Workshop

For all of these events a common set of objectives can be summarized as below:

• Dissemination of grid computing skills. • Prepare scientist to use grid infrastructure. • Dissemination of site administration knowledge. • Prepare technicians to create and manage grid infrastructure.

3.4.1 Tutorial – Technicians and Users, Istanbul (Turkey) Arguments:

• Introduction to GILDA t-Infrastructure. • Overview of the main services of the gLite middleware. • Practical sessions on main services of the gLite middleware. • Installation and configuration of the main resources for a base configuration of a gLite site. • Installation and configuration of the main services of the gLite middleware.

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Agenda

Title: EUMEDGRID Tutorial

Date/Time: from Monday 03 July 2006 (08:00) to Friday 07 July 2006 (18:00)

Location: Istanbul Technological University (ITU)

Chair: Barbera R., Andronico G., Dag H., Zengin A.

Monday 03 July 2006

Tutorial for users - Day 1 (08:00->18:00)

Location: Istanbul

08:00 Welcome (30') ( EUMEDGRID-istanbul-tutorial-Serkan_ORCAN.ppt )

Welcome and brief information about TUBITAK-ULAKBIM. National and international grid activities in Turkey

Serkan Orcan (ULAKBIM)

08:30 Welcome to ITU (30') ( H_Dag_EUMED06_Talk.ppt )

This presentation will be about ITU, the site where the EUMEDGRID Tutorial is given.

Hasan Dag (ITU)

09:00 The EUMedGrid Project (30') Roberto Barbera (Univ. Catania and INFN)

09:30 Overview of the gLite middleware (45') Riccardo Bruno

10:15 Authorization and authentication in gLite (1h00') Asli Zengin (ULAKBIM)

11:15 Coffee break

11:45 The gLite Information System (45') Roberto Barbera (Univ. Catania and INFN)

12:30 The GILDA t-Infrastructure (30') Roberto Barbera (Univ. Catania and INFN)

13:00 Lunch break

14:30 Installation and configuration of a gLite 3.0 User Interface (30') Riccardo Bruno (INFN Catania)

15:00 Hands-on on security (45') Asli Zengin (ULAKBIM)

15:45 Coffee break

16:15 Hands-on on information system (1h15') Roberto Barbera (Univ. of Catania and INFN)

17:30 Feedback from the attendees (30')

Tuesday 04 July 2006

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Tutorial for users - Day 2 (09:00->18:00)

Location: Istanbul

09:00 Architecture of the gLite WMS (1h00') Federico Bitelli (INFN Roma3)

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 Hands-on on WMS (2h00') Federico Bitelli (INFN Roma3)

12:30 Architecture of the gLite DMS (1h00') Riccardo Gargana (INFN Roma3)

13:30 Lunch break

14:45 Hands-on on data management (1h00') Riccardo Gargana (INFN Roma3)

15:45 The GENIUS Grid Portal (30') Domenico Vicinanza (CERN)

16:15 Coffee break

16:45 Hands-on on GENIUS (1h00') Domenico Vicinanza (CERN)

17:45 Feedback from the attendees (15')

Wednesday 05 July 2006

Tutorial for users - Day 3 (09:00->18:00)

Location: Istanbul

09:00 Special jobs (30') Riccardo Bruno (INFN Catania)

09:30 Hands-on on special jobs (30') Riccardo Bruno (INFN Catania)

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 The AMGA metadata catalogue (1h15') Riccardo Bruno (INFN Catania)

11:45 Hands-on on AMGA (30') Riccardo Bruno (INFN Catania)

12:15 The gLite FTS (30') Paola Celio (INFN Roma3)

12:45 Lunch break

14:00 Hands-on on users' applications (1h30')

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Hands-on on users' applications continued (1h30')

17:30 Closing and feed-back (30')

Thursday 06 July 2006

Tutorial for site managers - Day 1 (08:30->17:45)

Location: Istanbul

08:30 Introduction to the tutorial for site managers (30') Riccardo Bruno (INFN Catania)

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09:00 Hierarchical Grid Site Management (HGSM) (30') Kursad Yusuf Konus (ULAKBIM)

09:30 Support and day by day operations (30') Giuseppe Misurelli (INFN CNAF)

10:00 User Interface installation and configuration (30') Riccardo Bruno (INFN Catania)

10:30 Reinstallation of services by participants (45')

11:15 Coffee break

11:45 VOMS server installation and configuration (30') Giuseppe Misurelli (INFN CNAF)

12:15 MyProxy server installation and configuration (30') Giuseppe Misurelli (INFN CNAF)

12:45 Reinstallation of services by participants (45')

13:30 Lunch break

14:30 BDII server installation and configuration (30') Riccardo Bruno (INFN Catania)

15:00 Reinstallation of services by participants (30')

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 WMS+LB server installation and configuration (45') Fotis Georgatos (GRNET)

16:45 Reinstallation of services by participants (1h00')

Friday 07 July 2006

Tutorial for site managers - Day 2 (09:00->18:00)

Location: Istanbul

09:00 CE + WN installation and configuration (1h00') Giuseppe Misurelli (INFN CNAF)

10:00 Reinstallation of services by participants (1h00')

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 SRM installation and configuration (30') Riccardo Gargana, (INFN Roma3) Federico Bitelli (INFN Roma3)

12:00 LFC server installation and configuration (30') Riccardo Gargana, (INFN Roma3)

Federico Bitelli (INFN Roma3)

12:30 Reinstallation of services by participants (1h00')

13:30 Lunch break

14:30 FTS server installation and configuration (30') Federico Bitelli (INFN Roma3)

Riccardo Gargana (INFN Roma3)

15:00 Reinstallation of services by participants (30')

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 RGMA server installation and configuration (30') Riccardo Bruno (INFN Catania)

16:30 Reinstallation of services by participants (30')

17:00 AMGA server installation and configuration (30') Riccardo Bruno (INFN Catania)

17:30 Reinstallation of services by participants (30')

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Feedback (System Administrators). • Average rate: 4,8

Feedback (Users):

• Average rate: 4,8

Contacts:

Tutorial for users:

Name Institute (Country) E-Mail Roberto Barbera University of Catania and INFN (Italy) [email protected] Riccardo Bruno University of Catania and INFN (Italy) [email protected] Domenico Vicinanza CERN & INFN Catania [email protected] Alexandre Duarte CERN (Switzerland) [email protected] Sufyan Aqtam PADI 2 (Palestine) [email protected] Fotis Georgatos GRNET [email protected] Cem Ahmet Mercan ITU (Turkey) [email protected] Nabil Talhaoui MaGrid (Morocco) [email protected] Hassan Bouhaddou MARWAN (Morocco) [email protected] M. Özgür Erbaş ULAKBIM (Turkey) [email protected] Özden Akıncı ITU (Turkey) [email protected] Şenol Pişkin ITU (Turkey) [email protected] Gürkan Soykan ITU (Turkey) [email protected] Onan Güren ITU (Turkey) [email protected] Erke Arıbaş ITU (Turkey) [email protected] Murat Kaplan ITU (Turkey) [email protected] Abdallah Issa HIAST (Syria) [email protected] Paola Celio Dpartment of Physics Roma Tre (Italy) [email protected] Giuseppe Misurelli INFN – CNAF (Italy) [email protected] Federico Bitelli Physics Department University Roma Tre (Italy) [email protected] Riccardo Gargana INFN – Roma Tre (Italy) [email protected] Maher Suleiman HIAST (Syria) [email protected] Abdelfeltah Mezzaine MARWAN (Morocco) [email protected] Redouzne Merrouch CNRST / MARWAN (Morocco) [email protected] Youness Hamidi CNRST / MARWAN (Morocco) [email protected] Kürşad Yusuf Konuş ULAKBIM (Turkey) [email protected] Aslı Zengin ULAKBIM (Turkey) [email protected] Hakan Bayındır ULAKBIM (Turkey) [email protected] Bentaleb Ouafa CERIST (Algeria) [email protected] Brahimi Farida CERIST (Algeria) [email protected] Bouabid Amine CERIST (Algeria) [email protected] Michael Theodoulou CYNET (Cyprus) [email protected] Reggie Cushimg University of Malta (Malta) [email protected]

Tutorial for site administrators:

Riccardo Bruno University of Catania and INFN (Italy) [email protected] Domenico Vicinanza CERN & INFN Catania [email protected] Alexandre Duarte CERN (Switzerland) [email protected]

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Sufyan Aqtam PADI 2 (Palestine) [email protected] Fotis Georgatos GRNET [email protected] Nabil Talhaoui MaGrid (Morocco) [email protected] Hassan Bouhaddou MARWAN (Morocco) [email protected] M. Özgür Erbaş ULAKBIM (Turkey) [email protected] Özden Akıncı ITU (Turkey) [email protected] Şenol Pişkin ITU (Turkey) [email protected] Gürkan Soykan ITU (Turkey) [email protected] Murat Kaplan ITU (Turkey) [email protected] Abdallah Issa HIAST (Syria) [email protected] Giuseppe Misurelli INFN – CNAF (Italy) [email protected] Federico Bitelli Physics Department University Roma Tre (Italy) [email protected] Riccardo Gargana INFN – Roma Tre (Italy) [email protected] Maher Suleiman HIAST (Syria) [email protected] Abdelfeltah Mezzaine MARWAN (Morocco) [email protected] Redouzne Merrouch CNRST / MARWAN (Morocco) [email protected] Youness Hamidi CNRST / MARWAN (Morocco) [email protected] Kürşad Yusuf Konuş ULAKBIM (Turkey) [email protected] Aslı Zengin ULAKBIM (Turkey) [email protected] Hakan Bayındır ULAKBIM (Turkey) [email protected] Bentaleb Ouafa CERIST (Algeria) [email protected] Brahimi Farida CERIST (Algeria) [email protected] Bouabid Amine CERIST (Algeria) [email protected] Reggie Cushimg University of Malta (Malta) [email protected] H.Hakan Gürel ITU (Turkey) [email protected] Dimitris Apostolou UoA (Greece) [email protected]

EUMEDGRID PMB Meeting + Administative tutorial

Date/Time: Friday 07 July 2006 from 09:00 to 18:00

Location: Istambul

Friday 07 July 2006 09:00->13:00 Administration&Reporting in FP6 tutorial Ruggieri, F

Friday 07 July 2006 14:30->17:45 Project status and progresses Ruggieri, F

Friday 07 July 2006 16:00->17:45 Dissemination plans for 2006 and 2007 Andronico, G

Friday 07 July 2006

Administration&Reporting in FP6 tutorial (09:00->13:00)

Chair: Ruggieri, F

09:00 Reporting in FP6 (30') Tanlongo, F. (GARR)

09:30 Guide to the timesheet tool (30') Tanlongo, F. (GARR)

10:00 Guide to the compilation of EC annual report forms (30') Mieli, M (INFN)

10:30

11:00

Coffee Break

Auditing procedures (30')

Ruggieri, F (INFN)

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11:30 Guide to the EC questionnaires (30') Mieli, M, Ruggieri, F (INFN)

12:00 Administration and Reporting Q&A (1h30') Mieli, M; Ruggieri, R; Tanlongo, F

Contacts:

Name Institute (Country) E-Mail Federica Tanlongo GARR (Italy) [email protected] Federico Ruggieri INFN (Italy) [email protected] Fotis Karagiannis GRNET (Greece) [email protected] Mieli Marta INFN (Italy) [email protected] Kevin Vella UoM (Malta) [email protected] Ioannis Liabotis GRNET (Greece) [email protected] Burcu akcan ULAKBIM (Turkey) [email protected] Roberto Barbera University of Catania and INFN (Italy) [email protected] Michael Theodoulou CYNET (Cyprus) [email protected]

3.4.2 Tutorial – Technicians and Users, Rome (Italy) Arguiments:

• Introduction to GILDA t-Infrastructure. • Overview of the main services of the gLite middleware. • Practical sessions on main services of the gLite middleware. • Installation and configuration of the main resources for a base configuration of a gLite site. • Installation and configuration of the main services of the gLite middleware.

• Site monitoring administration and troubleshooting

Agenda

EUMedGrid/EUChinaGrid Tutorial

Date/Time: from Monday 11 September 2006 (09:00) to Wednesday 13 September 2006 (18:30)

Location: Rome

Chair: Ardizzone, V.

Description: User Tutorial Feedback Form

Monday 11 September 2006

User Tutorial - Day 1 (09:00->18:30)

09:15 Welcome (15') Ruggieri, F. (INFN Roma3)

09:30 EUMedGrid/EUChinaGrid Infrastructure (30') Galeazzi, F. (INFN Roma Tre)

10:00 GILDA t-Infrastructure (30') Ardizzone, V. (INFN Catania)

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10:30 Security Part 1: Authentication (30')

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Security Part 2: Authorization (15') Gargana, R. (INFN Roma3)

11:45 Virtual User Interface: Installation and configuration (30') Galeazzi, F. (INFN Roma3)

12:15 Practicals on Security (45')

13:00 Lunch break

14:00 Information System: BDII and R-GMA (30') Bruno, R. (INFN Catania)

14:30 Practicals on Information System (30') Celio, P. (INFN Roma3)

15:00 Job's Types (1h00')

16:00 Coffee break

16:15 Workload Management System (WMS) (30') Bitelli, F. (Physic Department Uniroma3 and INFN)

16:45 Practicals on WMS (1h30')

18:15 Feedback Form

Tuesday 12 September 2006

User Tutorial - Day 2 (09:00->13:00)

09:15 Data Management Part 1: Files Catalog (15') Misurelli, G. (Cnaf)

09:30 Practicals on File Catalog (30')

10:00 Data Management Part 2: Storage Resource Management (SRM) (30') Celio, P. (INFN Roma3)

10:30 Practicals on Storage Resource Management (SRM) (40')

11:10 Coffee break

11:40 Data Management Part 3: AMGA MetaData Catalog (20') Bruno, R. (INFN Catania)

12:00 Practicals on MetaData Catalog (30')

12:30 Questions and Feedback Form (30')

13:00 Lunch break

14:00 Use cases of integrated applications on GILDA t-Infrastructure (2h00') GILDA Tutor (INFN Catania)

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Application Integration (1h30')

18:00 Questions and Feedback Form (30')

Wednesday 13 September 2006

MiniTutorial Site Administration (09:15->18:00)

09:15 Overview of the gLite GILDA and EUMedGrid/EUChinaGrid Misurelli, G. (CNAF)

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Services (15')

09:30 Workload Management System: installation/configuration/testing (1h15')

Budano, A. (INFN Roma3)

10:45 Coffee break

11:15 Computing Element (CE) and Worker Node (WN): installation/configuration/testing (1h30')

Gargana, R. (INFN Roma3)

12:45 Questions (15')

13:00 Lunch break

14:00 Storage Element - Disk Pool Manager(SE-DPM): installation/configuration/testing (1h30') ( DPM_install.ppt )

Budano, A. (INFN Roma3)

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Daily Site Monitoring and Site Troubleshooting (45') Misurelli, G. (CNAF)

16:45 EUMEDGrid Support System (45') Misurelli, G. (CNAF)

17:30 Questions (15')

Feedback (System Administrators).

• Average rate: 4,5

Feedback (Users):

• Average rate: 4,6

Contacts:

User tutorial

Name Email Organization

Federico Bitelli [email protected] UNIROMA 3

Fabiana Da Pieve [email protected] UNIROMA 3

Fabrizio Petrucci [email protected] INFN ROMA 3

Leandro Ciuffo [email protected] INFN Catania

Jeammin Xavier [email protected] CNRS UREC

Giovanni Minervini [email protected] UNIROMA 3

Reggie Cushing [email protected] UOM

Alessandro Pignatelli [email protected] INGV ROMA

Simona Ugenti [email protected] Tor Vergata University Rome

Francesco Guerrieri [email protected] INFN Tor Vergata ROMA

Danilo Sabato [email protected] University of Salerno

Fabio Musso [email protected] UNIROMA 3

Katarzyna Prymula [email protected] Jagiellonian University

Irena Roterman [email protected] Jagiellonian University

Marek Kochanczyk [email protected] Jagiellonian University

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Monika Piwowar [email protected] Jagiellonian University

Giuseppe Misurelli [email protected] INFN CNAF

Simone Cellini [email protected] INFN ROMA 3

Hussein Lotfy [email protected] Egyptian Universities Network

Yousef Torman [email protected] Jordanian Universities Network (JUNET)

Lorenzo Bigagli [email protected] IMAA CNR

Ugo Mattia [email protected] IMAA CNR

Redouane Merrouch [email protected] CNRST MOROCCO

Nabil Talhaoui [email protected] CNRST MOROCCO

Christos Koutsioupis [email protected] CYNET

Michael Theodoulou theodou@ucy,ac.cy CYNET

Arnanihi El-Maouhab [email protected] CERIST

Abdelkader Khelladi [email protected] CERIST

Abdullah Issa [email protected] HIAST

Riccardo Bruno [email protected] INFN Catania

Valeria Ardizzone [email protected] INFN Catania

Davide De Lucrezia [email protected] UNIROMA 3

Site Administration: Name Email Organization Federico Bitelli [email protected] UNIROMA 3 Leandro Ciuffo [email protected] INFN Catania Jeammin Xavier [email protected] CNRS UREC Giovanni Minervini [email protected] UNIROMA 3 Reggie Cushing [email protected] UOM Alessandro Pignatelli [email protected] INGV ROMA Francesco Guerrieri [email protected] INFN Tor Vergata ROMA Danilo Sabato [email protected] University of Salerno Fabio Musso [email protected] UNIROMA 3 Katarzyna Primula [email protected] Jagiellonian University Marek Kochanczyk [email protected] Jagiellonian University Monika Piwowar [email protected] Jagiellonian University Giuseppe Misurelli [email protected] INFN CNAF Hussein Lotfy [email protected] Egyptian Universities Network Ugo Mattia [email protected] IMAA CNR Michael Theodoulou theodou@ucy,ac.cy CYNET Abdullah Issa [email protected] HIAST Riccardo Bruno [email protected] INFN Catania Valeria Ardizzone [email protected] INFN Catania

Tutorial for Certification Authority Managers, Rome (Italy)

Date/Time: Tuesday 12 September 2006 from 10:00 to 18:30

Location: Rome

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Tuesday 12 September 2006

10:00 The IGTF model and how to join a GridPMA (45') This talk will set the scope of the tutorial and introduce to the model of the International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF, http://www.gridpma.org/).

Cecchini, R. (INFN)

10:45 Best practices to setup and manage a national CA (45') A detailed guide telling the process for an acceptance, set-up and maintenance of a prospective CA will be introduced in this presentation.

Zengin, A. (ULAKBIM)

11:30 Coffee break

12:00 Live demo of some CA operations (30')

This demo will show a typical session of certificate request and issue. For this demonstration, the GILDA Certification Authority will be used. It is almost entirely based on the INFN CA.

Platania, G. (INFN)

12:30 Candidate CA of Egypt (30') Barakat, D

13:00 Lunch break

14:30 Candidate CA of Morocco (30') Merrouch, R.

First EUMEDGRID Project Conference, Rome (Italy)

Date/Time: Friday 14-15 September 2006 from 09:00 to 18:00

Location: Rome

Chair: Ruggieri, F.

Thursday 14 September 2006

09:30 Conference Registration

10:00 Welcome and Introduction (30') F. Ruggieri (INFN)

10:30 Work Packages Presentations: status, achievements and perspectives

WP2 - Requirements capture and analysis (30')

K. Vella (University of Malta)

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 WP3 - Pilot Infrastructure operational support (30') Koumantaros, K (GRNET)

12:00 WP4 - Applications support (30') Andronico, G. (INFN)

12:30 WP5 - Dissemination and outreach (30') Tanlongo, F. (GARR)

13:00 Lunch Break

14:00 Project Management Board Meeting Administrative Status (30') F. Ruggieri (INFN)

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14:30

Project Achievements and Perspectives (30') R. Barbera (University of Catania and INFN)

15:00 Coffee Break

15:20 Next Events in 2006 and 2007 (40') All

16:00 Preparation of the First Cost Claim (20') Mieli M. (INFN)

16:20 Fostering National Grid Initiatives: Where are we ? (40') All

17:00 A.O.B. (30')

17:30 End of the Meeting

Friday 15 September 2006

EUMEDGRID Open Conference programme (09:00->18:30)

Description: Empowering eScience across the Mediterranean

Chair: Ruggieri, F

09:00 Conference Registration (30')

09:00

Welcome of Roma Tre (10') Mobilio, S. (Director of Physics Department of Roma Tre)

09:15 Welcome and Introduction (30') Bertolucci, S (INFN Vice-President)

09:45 EUMEDIS: European Actions for the Mediterranean (30') Baldioli, F (MDP EUMEDIS)

10:15 EUMEDCONNECT a Mediterranean Network for Research and Education. (30')

West, D (DANTE)

10:45 Coffee Break

11:15 The Mediterranean in FP7 (45') Campolargo M. (TBC)

(European Commission)

12:00 Subsurface Hydrology in the Mediterranean (30') Lecca, G. (CRS4 - Italy)

12:30 Digital Libraries: a worldwide distributed application (30') Castelli, D (CNR - STI, Italy)

13:00 Lunch Break

14:00 Empowering eScience across the Mediterranean (30') Ruggieri, F (INFN)

14:30 EGEE II: an eInfrastructure for Europe and beyond (30') E. Valente on behalf of Jones, R (CERN - EGEE)

15:00 Developing Grids in greenfield Regions (30') Belic, A. (SEEGRID)

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Archeogrid: Archeology on the eInfrastructures (30') Pelfer, G. (INFN)

16:30 EELA: Extension of GRID to Latin America (30') Casado, J. (CIEMAT - Spain)

17:30 End of conference

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Grid Induction - 4th Hands on Workshop, Tel Aviv (Israel)

Tuesday 19 September 2006

Morning session

09:00 Welcome (25’) Eddie Aronovich (Tel-Aviv University, CS)

09:25 EGEEII presentation (20') Prof. David Horn (Tel Aviv University, Physics)

09:45 Protein function prediction using the ConSurf, ConSeq and QuasiMotiFinder Web-Servers (45')

Prof. Nir Ben-Tal (Department of Biochemsitry)

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Introduction to the Grid (45') Eddie Aronovich (Tel-Aviv University, CS)

11:30 Certification and Authentication (45’) Assaf Gottlieb (Tel Aviv University, Physics)

12:15 Lunch Break

Afternoon session

13:15 Job Management (1h30’) Assaf Gottlieb & Vered Kunik (Tel Aviv University, Physics/CS)

14:45 Tea Break

15:00 Data Management (45’) Eddie Aronovich (Tel-Aviv University, CS)

15:45 GENIUS (30’) Assaf Gottlieb (Tel Aviv University, Physics)

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Updated Statistics for User and Site admin Tutorials

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4. OTHER ISSUES

4.1. references [R1] Project website http://www.eumedgrid.org/

[R2] Project leaflet http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/EUMEDGRIDproject_summary.pdf

[R3] Project templates kit http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/doctemplates-EUMEDGRIDv2.zip

[R4] EGEE website http://public.eu-egee.org/

[R5] SEEGRID website http://www.see-grid.org/

[R6] BalticGrid website http://www.balticgrid.org/

[R7] EELA website http://www.eela-grid.org/

[R8] EU eInfrastructures initiatives http://www.einfrastructures.org/

[R9] EUMEDCONNECT website http://www.eumedconnect.net/

[R10] GEANT2 website http://www.geant2.net/

[R11] LCG webpage http://www.cern.ch/lcg/

[R12] gLITE webpage http://www.cern.ch/glite/

[R13] GILDA website https://glida.ct.infn.it/

[R14] IST website http://www.cordis.lu/ist/home.html

4.2. Terminology

Glossary

CA Certification Authority.

Cluster The term describes a cluster is a group of machines that are networked together and used as a single unit to run parallel programs.

Grid The term designates a distributed infrastructure of computation and storage resources, which can be used by a VO in a transparent way (i.e. without need to know about the location of the resources etc).

GILDA Grid Infn Laboratory for Dissemination Activities

gLITE Codename of the Middleware software suite developed by EGEE JRA1.

Globus “Globus Toolkit” is the name of all software components for Grid Computing platforms available under an open-source license from the consortium Globus Alliance.

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LCG LHC Computing Grid

Middleware Generic terms defining a communications layer that allows applications to interact across hardware and network environments.

NGI National Grid Initiative

ROC Regional Operation Centre

VO Virtual Organization: a Virtual Organization, or Application Community, is a geographically dispersed group of collaborating scientists.

VOMS VO Management Service

4.3. Document amendment procedure In order to amend the document, please contact the Project Office at: [email protected].

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ANNEX I – USE AND DISSEMINATION

A1.1 Conferences/workshops organized The following events have been organised:

Table 10 – Project Conferences and workshops scheduled

Location Date Target

Tunisia (Tunis) 27 November 2006 Tutorial - Technicians and Users

Morocco 4 December 2006 First Project Workshop

A1.2 External Conferences/Workshops attended

Table 11 – External Conferences and workshops attended during the quarter

Date Location Title Participants Purpose

04/09/06-05/09/06

Santiago - Chile First EELA Conference

25/09/06-29/09/06

Geneva - Swiss EGEE’06 Conference

A1.3 Publications, Press Releases and Dissemination Materials

A1.3.1 Press releases

22/06/2006: 1st project Conference announcement and call for papers:

http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/EUMEDGRID-conf-announcement.pdf

15/09/2006: 1st project conference Press Release:

http://www.eumedgrid.org/Conf-Roma06/EUMEDGRID-PR150906-en_03.pdf

A1.3.2 Dissemination materials

Table 12 - List of presentations and dissemination materials

Title Author Delivered on

Link to materials

Istanbul Site Admin Tutorial

AMGA metadata service installation and configutation

R. Bruno 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-AMGA_srvinst-060706.ppt

BDII information system installation and configuration

R. Bruno 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-BDIIS_srvinst-060706.ppt

CE+WN service installation and configutation

G. Misurelli 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-CE&WN_srvinst-060706.ppt

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Title Author Delivered on

Link to materials

SE (DPM) service installation and configutation

F. Bitelli, R. Gargana

03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-DPM_srvinst-060706.ppt

File Transfer service and configuration

F. Bitelli, R. Gargana

03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-FTS_srvinst-060706.ppt

Introduction to service installation

R. Bruno 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-Intro_srvinst-060706.ppt

LFC File Catalog service installation and configuration

F. Bitelli, R. Gargana

03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-LFC_srvinst-070706.ppt

MyProxy service installation and configuration

G.Misurelli 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-MyProxy_srvinst-060706.ppt

RGMA Information system installation and configuration

R. Bruno 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-RGMA_srvinst-060706.ppt

User Interface installation and configuration

R. Bruno 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-UI_srvinst-060706.ppt

VOMS servicce installation and configuration

G.Misurelli 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-VOMS_srvinst-0607006.ppt

The HGSM Hyerarchical Grid Site Management

K. Y. Konus 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-HGSM-060706.ppt

WMS service installationa and configuration

F. Georgatos 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-WM&SLB_srvinst-070706.ppt

Daily site management G.Misurelli 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-operation_support-060706.ppt

Istanbul User Tutorial

AMGA Metadata catalog theory and practice

R. Bruno 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-amga-030706.ppt

Notes on Certification Authorities

R. Barbera 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-ca_notes-050706.ppt

Data Management System architecture

R.Gargana 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-dms-030706.ppt

Data Management System; hands on

F. Bitelli, R. Gargana, P. Celio

03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-dms_ho-030706.ppt

EUMEDGRID Presentation R. Barbera 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-eumed-prj-030706.ppt

File Transfer Service architecture and practice

P. Celio 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-fts-030706.ppt

The GENIUS Grid web portal D.Vicinanza 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-genius-030706.ppt

The GENIUS Grid web portal; hands on

D.Vicinanza 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-genius_ho-030706.ppt

The GILDA t-Infrastructure R. Barbera 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-gildatinfrastructure-030706.ppt

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gLite Overview (The GRID Middleware architecture)

R. Bruno 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-glite_overview-030706.ppt

The Information System (BDII/RGMA) architecture

R. Barbera 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-infosys-030706.ppt

The Information System (BDII/RGMA); hands on

R. Barbera 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-infosys_ho-030706.ppt

Grid Security architecture A. Zengin 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-security-030706.ppt

Grid Security; hands on A. Zengin 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-security_ho-030706.ppt

Welcome to ULAKBIM university

S. Orcan 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-welcome2ulakbim&[email protected]

The Workload Management System arch and practice

F. Bitelli 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-wms-030706.ppt

Hands on on AMGA R. Bruno 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-amga_ho-030706.ppt

gLite-wms and Special Jobs R. Bruno 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-wmproxy_sjobs-030706.ppt

Hands on on WMS F. Bitelli, R. Gargana, P. Celio

03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-wms_ho-030706.ppt

Job Description Language P. Celio 03/07/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/istanbul-wms_jdl-030706.ppt

Roma User&Admin

The Information System (BDII/RGMA) architecture

R. Bruno 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-BDII_RGMA-110906.ppt

DMS and LFC architecture G.Misurelli 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-DMSLFC-110906.ppt

Eumed and Euchina project presentation

F. Galeazzi 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-EumedEuchina_InfoStruct-110906.pdf

Eumed and Euchina service overview

G.Misurelli 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-EumedEuchina_SrvOvw-110906.ppt

The GILDA t-Infrastructure V.Ardizzone 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-GILDA_TInfoStruct-110906.ppt

GRID use cases on GILDA V.Ardizzone 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-GILDA_UseCases-110906.ppt

Grid Security architecture R.Gargana 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-Security-110906.ppt

The user interface F. Galeazzi 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-VirtualUI-110906.pdf

AMGA Metadata catalog theory and practice

R. Bruno 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-AMGA-110906.ppt

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CE+WN service installation and configutation

R.Gargana 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-CEWN_SrvInst-110906.ppt

Data management and SRM P. Celio 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-DMSSRM-110906.ppt

SE (DPM) service installation and configutation

A. Budano 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-DPM_SrvInst-110906.ppt

Daily site management and troubleshooting

Giuseppe Misurelli

11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-DailySiteMonAndTroubleshooting-110906.ppt

Eumedgrid system support G.Misurelli 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-EumedSystemSupport-110906.ppt

Job types P. Celio 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-JobTypes-110906.ppt

The Workload Management System architecture

F. Bitelli 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-WMS-110906.ppt

WMS service installationa and configuration

A. Budano 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-WMSLB_SrvInst-110906.ppt

The Workload Management System practice

P. Celio 11/09/2006 http://www.eumedgrid.org/documents/slides/Roma-WMS_Practicals-110906.ppt

External documents

The EUMedGRID Project F. Galeazzi 04/09/2006 http://indico.eu-eela.org/materialDisplay.py?contribId=8&sessionId=0&materialId=slides&confId=32

Training Activities G.Andronico 25/09/2006 http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=124&sessionId=126&resId=5&materialId=slides&confId=1504

Regional Applications in the MED area

G.Andronico 25/09/2006 http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=121&sessionId=126&resId=10&materialId=slides&confId=1504

A1.3.3 Press cuts

All press cuts relating to EUMEDGRID are available on the official website, at the URL: http://www.eumedgrid.org/cut.html (with a pdf version of the article and, whenever possible, the link to the online article).