Speakers
Description of the work
Grid Computing in Germany started in 1997. Projects like D-Grid, EGEE and EGI-InSPIRE enabled the development of a heterogeneous and productive e-infrastructure. To ensure a sustainable and seamless operation of the existing e-Infrastructure a common understanding of policies and procedures is needed.
The NGI-DE General Operations Policy (GOP) will be based on the EGI procedures and policies, the “D-Grid-Betriebskonzept” (German Grid Operations Concept) and German law.
The idea of the GOP is to provide a framework, where European and national procedure could be integrated.
The GOP will be a high level document without technical details. It will be a permanent agreement signed by all partners. The GOP will be written by NGI-DE and include Scope, Definitions and the General Policies.
Details will be put in annexes and appendixes. Examples for that are documents about “NGI-DE user requirements”, “NGI-DE security and privacy”, “NGI-DE infrastructure services” (including e.g. “NGI-DE help desk” and “NGI-DE accounting”) and “NGI-DE resource centre requirements” (including e.g. “NGI-DE resource centre certification for gLite”, “NGI-DE resource centre certification for UNICORE”, “NGI-DE resource centre certification for Globus”, “NGI-DE resource centre certification for dCache”).
The working language of all technical documentation is English to ensure an easy exchange of documents with other NGIs.
Wider impact of this work
NGI-DE presents the actual work in progress to discuss the ideas with other NGI operation groups.
This framework and its annexes and appendixes could be of interest for any NGI as a blue print.
The GOP is a building block for a sustainable e-infrastructure.
Link for further information
http://www.ngi-de.eu/ - no public information at the moment
Printable Summary
To ensure a sustainable and seamless operation of the existing e-infrastructure a common understanding of policies and procedures on a national level is needed.
The NGI-DE General Operations Policy (GOP) will be based on the EGI procedures and policies, the “D-Grid-Betriebskonzept“ (German Grid Operations concept) and German law.
The idea of the GOP is to provide a framework, where European and national procedures could be integrated. NGI-DE presents the actual work in progress to discuss the ideas with other NGI operation groups.
