2ND CROSSGRID YEARLY REPORT

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2ND CROSSGRID YEARLY REPORT

• Suggestions for content modification and
  preparation schedule
• Witold Marton
• ACC CYFRONET AGH KRAKÓW

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Introduction

• Goals
• - Provide a comprehensive account of the
  progress, resources consumption and results of
  the project
• - Substantiate the cost statements and show that
  incurred expenses correspond with the work
  carried out
• Requirements
• Be publisheable, if not in full then at least
  the
• executive summary (recommended is a press
  release style)

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Suggestions for modifications / improvements

• Contents of first year Report
• 1. Executive summary
• 2. List of abbreviations
• 3. Bibliography
• 4. Introduction
• 4.1. What is CrossGrid
• 4.2. List of first years CrossGrid milestones
  and deliverables
• 5. First years activities
• 5.1. First quarter
• 5.2. Second quarter
• 5.3. Third quarter
• 5.4. Fourth quarter

• 1. Proposed is the publishable
• part of the YR build on foregoing
• QR summaries (1-2 pages)
• 3. Does it really fit into a management report ?
• 4.1 Project aims and brief description
• to be dispensed with (if need be, may
• introduce the executive summary)
• 4.2 Yes, essential to the report. The extent to
  which second year milestones and deliverables
  were achieved needs to be pointed out (in the
  previous report there were merely listed)
• 5. To be merged into one executive summary ?

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Suggestions for modifications/improvements

• 6. Needs adapting (CONDOR,...)
• 7.2 Include new sections and web usage
  statistics
• 7.3 With particular focus on GGF and IST
  concertation meetings
• 7.4 Summary of CG publications
• 7.5 Other dissemination materials
  (brochures, pens, posters, CG multimedia
  presentations, t-shirts...)
• 8. Task by task, partner by partner, WP by
• WP? Chart types to be identified.
• 9. Have last years issues been addressed ?
• What solutions were adopted ? What are
• this years issues ?
• 10. Is the title appropriate ?
• 10.2 To be left out ? Future after the project ?
  FP6 initiatives ?

• 6. Cooperation with other Grid projects
  (DATAGRID, GRIDSTART, GRIDLAB, GLOBUS)
• 7. Dissemination and outreach
• 7.1. Workshops and conferences
• 7.2. Websites
• 7.3. Participation in the global Grid community
• 8. Resource allocation
• 9. Issues
• 10. The future of the project
• 10.1. Plans for the next year
• 10.2. Long-term future
• 11. Concluding remarks

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Topics not present in the previous reportIs
everything in there ?

• Contractual issues
• CG amendment, change of project key personnel
• CG yearly review
• Outcome and conclusions (new CG bodies,
  technical focus...)
• World-wide state of the art update
• CG tools still new in the context of current
  Grid developments? What strategy for the future ?

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Final table of contents (Proposal)

• Contents
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Executive summary
• 3 State of the art
• 4. CG first yearly review
• 4.1 Response to comments/recommendations
• 4.2 Addressing first year issues
• 4.3 Contract amendment (CPFs, TA, key personnel)
• 5. CrossGrid second year milestones and
  deliverables
• 5.1 Deliverables list and Milestones
• 5.2 Status

• 6. Cooperation with other Grid projects
  (DATAGRID, GRIDSTART, GRIDLAB, GLOBUS, CONDOR,
  FP6 ...)
• 7. Dissemination and outreach
• 7.1 Workshops and conferences
• 7.2 Scientific publications
• 7.3 Participaion in Grid standardization bodies
• 7.4 PR materials (brochures, newsletters, etc.)
• 7.5 Websites update
• 8. Resource consumption
• 9. Plans for the next year
• 10 Concluding remarks
• 11. List of abbreviations

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Required Inputs and Deadlines

• To be of value to the Commission 14 days ahead
  of the
• 2nd review - March 2th
• Compilation, quality check and shipment to
  Brussels - February 28th
• WP Executive summaries from WPL
• Compiled Dissemination Report (Algos) ready
• Monthly reports for last quarter submitted
• February 15th