Description
The purpose of this session is two-fold: to present the current status of the EGI infrastructure after the transition from EGEE, and to pave the way towards the operations of an integrated set of DCIs making different types of grid middleware and resources (desktop grids, HPC, virtualization) easily accessible to international user communities.
In the first part, we will provide an overview of the EGI global services, of the infrastructure composition and usage, and of the new procedures and operational units that entered production during the first quarter of the EGI-InSPIRE project.
The second part will concentrate on the evolution of EGI operations. The future plans and operational issues related to the integration of heterogeneous resources and services will be explored from different points of view: the site, the NGI, and the DCI.
The operational issues arising at the site level with the deployment of StratusLab virtualized services will be explored. NGI_DE - one of the larges national grid infrastructures in EGI - will then present its plans and operational issues towards the integration of multiple grid middleware stacks. Finally, the European Desktop Grid Federation will provide its view on the current status of the EDGI infrastructure, the application use cases that an integrated infrastructure addresses, and the related operational challenges.
