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

4.11.SCI-BUS

MoU Partners	EGI-InSPIRE	SCI-BUS - SCIentific gateway Based User Support
MoU Type	Project
Start date	29/03/2012
End date	30/09/2014
Partner contact	SCI-BUS: Agnes Szeberenyi, [e-mail]
Report date	May 2012
Milestones	http://go.egi.eu/mou-milestones-SCI-BUS

Motivation for the MoU

The collaboration aims to integrate Virtual Research Communities and coordinate communication efforts to maximise impact. In this broad context, the specific goals of the collaborations are:

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  VRC Integration: The collaboration will explore new possibilities for EGI user communities to create custom science gateways via the SCI-BUS Competence Center. SCI-BUS will develop and integrate an availability monitoring service for the SCI-BUS Generic Gateway, based on the EGI monitoring infrastructure.
  
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  Dissemination: The MoU gives SCI-BUS an outlet for its training materials, application details and other information via EGI’s User Support services (e.g. Training Marketplace, Applications Database).
  

Assessment

Managerial

Project has just started. One milestone has been delivered.

At the time of reporting, there are no late milestones, and no major blocking issue are detected.

Technical

Since the MoU has been signed recently, the EGI-InSPIRE and SCI-BUS manage to advertise the start of the collaboration through their websites.

Strategic

The joint work with SCI-BUS started at the end of March, and so far there were no technical milestones. Joint work towards the MoU milestones is progressing, with activities in a recently started Virtual Team (Science gateway primer) and with a planned joint workshop at the technical forum. The success of M1.1 (Sep 2012 - Complete the development and integration work for availability monitoring of the SCI-BUS Generic Gateway technology) will largely depend on the Monitoring framework development activities in EGI-InSPIRE JRA1-SA1. The release of the monitoring infrastructure that could support the monitoring of community services in EGI has been already delayed several times.