Is Collaboration Possible

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Is Collaboration Possible?

• Rosa M. Badia
• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• Barcelona Supercomputing Center
• http//www.coregrid.net
• rosab_at_ac.upc.edu

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Collaboration WP in EC FP6 projects

• Common in all projects
• Akogrimo
• CoreGRID
• DataMiningGrid
• HPC4U
• InteliGRid
• K-WF Grid

• NextGRID
• OntoGRID
• Provenanace
• Simdat
• UniGrids
• Also
• GridCoord, EGEE

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WP structure

• Tasks
• Task 1 Exploitation of synergies / technical
  concertation
• Task 2 Joint fora for exchange and dissemination
• Task 3 Co-ordination of standardisation efforts
• Task 4 Repository of reference implementations
  and Grid middleware
• Task 5 Collaboration on research inventories and
  roadmaps
• Task 6 Indicators and impact assessment
• Task 7 Training activities

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Task 7

• Leaded by CoreGRID, UPC
• Objectives
• Co-ordinate the different training activities
  organized by the different projects
• Define a Training Activities roadmap at the
  European level

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Activities

• Meetings at Concertation Events organized by EC
• September 04 Just after the launching of the
  projects
• June 05 More succesfull session
• Presentation of different projects plans and
  ongoing training activities
• GridCoord, NextGRID, CoreGRID
• Knowledge web NoE, EGEE
• Phone calls
• Lots of mails

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Results

• Definition of project contact persons
• Definition of a focus group
• Deliverables
• CPC1-T7
• CPC2-T7
• Training Roadmap document
• Information about project training events
• Agreement on different aspects defined in this
  document necessity of a common evaluation
  procedure, fees, cost covered for lecturers
• Information about the projects' training events
  in CoreGRID website

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Main difficulties

• Projects at the beginning where just starting
• Not possible to forecast when they will organise
  training
• Currently some projects are ready to organise
  them and ready to collaborate
• Most streps do not have budget fpr training it
  is difficult to attract them