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EELA CONFERENCE SUMMARY

Bernard M. MaréchalEELA Deputy Project Manager

1st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile, 04-05/09/06

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NEW EELA LOGO ???

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Opening our arms

To sister projects, new institutions and applications

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SOME FIGURES

• Certainly a benchmark 8 months after the EELA birth!• 4 sessions (3 “non-EELA”)• 30 presentations

– Other Grid Projects 10– Panel on common policies and issues 1– EELA 7– Applications 8– EELA External Advisory Committee report 1– LA network future 2– Summary 1

• Attendance– 14 countries (5 “non-EELA”)– 126 registrations

61 from Chile 64 EELA members and 62 “non-EELA” members

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MONEY MATTERS

• EELA FUNDING– EC funds– CIEMAT funds for Latin American Partners (400 K€)– Participants Contribution

• AVERAGE SPENDING OF EC FUNDS (30/06/06)– 95.7 % of the First Installment

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MONEY MATTERS

• PERCENTAGES OF THE EC FUNDS

– MANAGEMENT (WP1): 6.6 %

– TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES: 93.4 % WP2: 31.9 % WP3: 22.9 % WP4: 38.6 %

– EUROPE: 66.1 %– LA: 33.9 %

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IMPRESSIONS

• Conference objectives met• Issues (network connection, VC) fixed in due time• EC presence very much acknowledged• EELA organization on the rails (thanks to WP1 team)• Demos as a proof that we actually have an EELA e-

Infrastructure (thanks to WP2 team)• EELA as part of the EGEE production infrastructure• EELA applications took-off (thanks to WP3 team)• Dissemination and Knowledge Dissemination

“aggressive” plans and impressive results (thanks to WP4 team)

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IMPRESSIONS

• Important key words often heard– Grid– Human network– Training– Dissemination– Interoperation/Interoperability (EELA - EGEE as a good example)– synergy– Applications (Biomed leading the file !!!!!!)– Sister projects “love” EELA (thanks to this conference)– “non-EELA” applications willing to become EELA applications

(thanks to this conference)– “non-EELA” institutions willing to become EELA partners

(thanks to this conference)– A new “dimension” appeared in the GRID space: the Instrument

Element (cf. GRIDCC)

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EELA - EC VC

• Held on 05/09/06• Very positive impression• EC congratulation for the good job • EC recommendation

– DISSEMINATE AND TRAIN AS MUCH AS

POSSIBLE !!!

– LOOK FOR, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, NEW

APPLICATIONS/PARTNERS !!!

– EELA SHOULD TRIGGER AND ATTRACT !!!

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EAC REPORT

• Very objective advices• Certainly helpful• Recommendations will be followed• EELA congratulated

• Many thanks to our External Advisory Committee

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MISSING KEY WORDS

• Self sustainability: EELAn after/without EC support?

• GRID@UNIVERSITY (undergraduate courses)?

• EELA 2 should– Focus on strategic research areas (cf. Baltic Grid)?

– Focus, also, on INDUSTRY?

– Focus on applications with more social impact

biomed, health, climate vs HEP?

– Be different from EELA (cf. SEEGRID 2 vs SEEGRID)

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NETWORK MATTERS

• No network …… no Grid ….. No EELA !!!

• Tough battles against ??? foreseen with, hopefully, the

help of IST !!!

• LA NRENs and of GRID community MUST help

CLARA!!!

• Long term: will LA governments be able to “smoothly”

replace EC ???

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

• ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS– UTFSM (Host), REUNA, UDEC, CLARA, EELA

• EELA WP4 (Task 4.1)• Maria José Pourailly, Luis Salinas

• Paola Arellano, Sandra Jaque,

• Carlos Orrego, Cristian Morales,

• Eduardo Silva, Fernando Ojeda,

• Ian Ordenes, Juan Carlos Martinez,

• Loreto Infante, Maria Paz Mirosevic,

• Mauricio Leiva, Maurico Vidal,

• Raquel Pezzoa.

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HERE WE WERE!

• 1st EELA CONFERENCE - SANTIAGO DE CHILE

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AND THERE WE HOPE TO BE

2nd EELA CONEFERENCE (10 -12 May 2007)

But, before, please attend the

1st REUNA e-Science Congress