The document discusses the European Grid Initiative (EGI), which aims to establish a sustainable pan-European grid infrastructure. It describes EGI's goals of coordinating National Grid Initiatives to provide a common multi-disciplinary grid infrastructure. EGI will provide support and added value to National Grid Initiatives, while also liaising with corresponding infrastructures outside of Europe. The document outlines EGI's proposed management structure and the roles and responsibilities between EGI and the National Grid Initiatives.

1. Jürgen Knobloch/CERN Slide planning for sustainability Grids for Science in Europe by Jürgen Knobloch CERN IT-Department Presented at Gridforum.nl Annual Business Day Eindhoven April 2, 2008

2. Jürgen Knobloch- cern-it Slide- Basic research Fundamental questions High E accelerator: Giant microscope (p=h/ λ ) Generate new particles (E=mc 2 ) Create Big Bang conditions CERN CERN Annual budget: ~1000 MSFr (~600 M€) Staff members: 2650 Member states: 20 + 270 Fellows, + 440 Associates + 8000 CERN users

4. Jürgen Knobloch/CERN Slide LHC gets ready …

6. Jürgen Knobloch/CERN Slide Requirements Match? Tape & disk requirements: >10 times CERN possibility Substantial computing required outside CERN

7. Jürgen Knobloch/CERN Slide Data Challenges F irst physics Cosmics GRID 3 EGEE 1 LCG 1 Service Challenges EU DataGrid GriPhyN, iVDGL, PPDG EGEE 2 OSG LCG 2 EGEE 3 WLCG Inter- operation Timeline - Grids 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 CCRC08 Common Computing Readiness Challenge

9. Jürgen Knobloch/CERN Slide Luminosity : 10 34 cm -2 s -1 40 MHz – every 25 ns 20 events overlaying Events at LHC

10. Jürgen Knobloch/CERN Slide Trigger & Data Acquisition

11. Jürgen Knobloch/CERN Slide Data Recording 1.25 GB/sec (Ions)

14. Factor 3 capacity ramp-up is in progress for LHC operation >⅓ non-LHC Increasing workloads

16. Jürgen Knobloch/CERN Slide Medical Seismology Chemistry Astronomy Fusion Particle Physics Grid Applications

17. Jürgen Knobloch/CERN Slide Tier-1 Centers: TRIUMF (Canada); GridKA(Germany); IN2P3 (France); CNAF (Italy); SARA/NIKHEF (NL); Nordic Data Grid Facility (NDGF); ASCC (Taipei); RAL (UK); BNL (US); FNAL (US); PIC (Spain) Computing at the Terra-Scale

18. Jürgen Knobloch/CERN Slide Evolution National Global European e-Infrastructure

19. Jürgen Knobloch/CERN Slide Sustainability

23. Jürgen Knobloch/CERN Slide Develop EGI Proposal NGIs signing Proposal Start of EGEE-III Final Draft of EGI Blueprint Proposal EGI Blueprint Proposal EGEE-III transition to EGI-like structure EGI Entity in place EU Call Deadline for EGI Proposal Submission of EGEE-III Start of EGI Design Study 2008 2009 2010 EGEE-II (2YEARS) ‏ EGEE-III (2YEARS) ‏ EGI operational EGI_DS Schedule Duration 27 months:

26. Jürgen Knobloch/CERN Slide Characteristics of NGIs Each NGI … should be a recognized national body with a single point-of-contact … should mobilise national funding and resources … should ensure an operational national grid infrastructure … should support user communities (application independent, and open to new user communities and resource providers) … should contribute and adhere to international standards and policies Responsibilities between NGIs and EGI are split to be federated and complementary