Seeking new horizons: EGI’s role for 2020
- European-wide coordination and interaction with research communities and national resource infrastructure providers.
- Coordination, maintenance, operation and delivery of an open uniform European-wide federated production infrastructure
- Developing and promoting technologies for federating the emerging cloud resources
- Supporting the integration and operation of scalable interdisciplinary Virtual Research Environments personalised to each research community
Re: Seeking new horizons: EGI’s role for 2020
PRACE is generically mentioned in the long-term plans but it would be good to have more concre information about what the foreseen strategy is. My suggestion is to review that section about long-term plans after the PRACE workshop at the CF12. We should use this opportunity to discuss areas of collaboration, and these discussions should be reflected in the strategy document.
Cheers Tiziana
Re: Seeking new horizons: EGI’s role for 2020
The document is lacking concretion regarding the user base and usage acomplishments of EGI, current activities in terms of usage and services provided, and future plans. More practicality is needed.
The rational behind this comment is that the 2020 documents need to address the questions of "what is this infrastructure useful for?". After reading the document the only answer that comes up is "supporting users". Anyone can say this, so, what makes EGI special?
The document needs to give the answer to this question, we need to be able to answer that question in a precise and concise way, with clear examples of current support and future perspectives from users.
Therefore, first, I suggest to include current use cases, with a summary of scientific output, publications etc... which has been achieved recently.
We should also include a list of prominent use cases, foreseable for the future, with an indication of the necessary services and infrastructure necessary to provide support to them. Here we need input from the scientist using the infrastructure. ESFRI related use cases are a possibility.
Re: Seeking new horizons: EGI’s role for 2020
After the first couple of sections, much of the document is pretty good. I will send detailed comments via another route. The issue I had with the first two sections, is that the language is terribly abstract, and there was very little punctuation. It took me several pages to realize that a "component" meant something like an NGI and not a CREAM CE!!
This is relatively minor, the single major comment I have, is the failure of the strategy to recognize essential user locality. Most users are *primarily* localized, only expanding past the local RC *when they need to* which may be never. Most requests we get to our NGI are for essentially local communities. This is probably where the bulk of your 2,8 M scientists will operate. Funding bodies also listen to the local users, within the country : are they happy?
The EGI strategy should recognize this!! EGI strategy must have as a cornerstone, that the federation does not make life any more difficult for the NGI-local users. Another cornerstone should be that EGI, wherever possible, assists NGIs in providing for these local users, as this strengthens the NGI and thus EGI as well.