Egi eu and egi-inspire memorandum of Understanding Annual Report – 2011-12

4.3.EDGI

MoU Partners	EGI-InSPIRE	European Desktop Grid Initiative (EDGI)
MoU Type	Project
Start date	22/11/2011
End date	31/05/2012
Partner contact	EDGI: Agnes Szeberenyi ([e-mail])
Report date	May 2012
Milestones	http://go.egi.eu/mou-milestones-edgi

Motivation for the MoU

The specific goals of the collaborations are:

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  Effort to integrate Desktop Grids into EGI's monitoring and accounting activities for a seamless operation of Desktop Grids.
  
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  Prototype, test and roll to production the devised solution (in collaboration with the Hungarian NGI) and to support the provided integration software.
  
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  Once ready for production, to disseminate the integration solution through the existing appropriate channels (operations meetings, community meetings etc.).
  

Assessment

Managerial

So far, progress on milestones is good. Six milestones were delivered. At the time of reporting, only one milestone is late. This is related to the integration with the EGI accounting system, which is work in progress.

Technical

After initial advertisement of collaboration, EDGI started with development of integrated monitoring prototype and collecting requirements (including ARC, gLite, UNICORE).

Strategic

EDGI desktop grid software integration into EGI is progressing well. During PY2 desktop grid services were integrated into the EGI service repository (GOCDB) and desktop grid probes – developed by EDGI – will be distributed with SAM. SAM Update 17 expected during 2012 will include those probes into the package. Accounting integration is still in progress.

The EDGI project was invited to participate to the March OMB meeting, which took place during CF12 and various topics were discussed, such as support of opportunistic usage of resources through desktop grids.