Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. IT’S ALIVE! (Editorial del Boletín de noticias de E-Science grid facility for Europe and Latin America, EELA)

Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. IT’S ALIVE! (Editorial del Boletín de noticias de E-Science grid facility for Europe and Latin America, EELA)

No, I’m not talking about Dr. Frankenstein’s creature, I’m talking about the EELA-2 production infrastructure which woke up and started to run its first jobs on last December. (Descargar EELA NEWS)

Por Leandro N. Ciuffo EELA-2 NA3 (Applications Support)

The release of such an infrastructure gave new blood to the Project and lots of work came with it. A new Website providing technical information for either Grid site administrators or application developers has been designed by SA1 (http://eoc.eu-eela.eu/doku.php).

Also, the workflow of an application inside the EELA-2 project was remodelled (http://applications.eu-eela.eu/app_status.php). At the time this bulletin was released 95 users were registered in the EELA-2 Virtual Organization (VO) and 33 applications are able to run on the EELA-2 production infrastructure. Part of them thanks to the organization of several “Gridification Weeks” in the last 3 months.

As a matter of fact, the period since the last issue of this bulletin was quite intensive and full of accomplishments. The success of the first EELA-2 conference (ably organized by the UNIANDES people) has helped to attract new partners to our community as well as to renew the collaborative spirit of EELA-2. The strong words of the Project Coordinator during the conference have pushed the partners to reinforce their commitments and to catch up with the metrics foreseen in the DoW(1).

At that time the project was about to held its First Periodic Review (http://indico.eu-eela.eu/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=193) at the EC premises in Brussels. Afterwards, the overall progress of the project during its first year was seen as satisfactory by the EC Reviewers, who recognize the difficulties faced by the project and the strategies adopted to tackle with them.

Currently, around 20 new institutions are joining the project and 2 new countries were incorporated to the EELA-2 map: Uruguay and Panama.

There are still lots of work to do in the forthcoming months. The Workshop + User Forum in Uruguay, the Second Grid School in Mexico and the Second Conference in Venezuela will be the main events from now till the end of the project. Many proposed applications are still not ready to run on the production infrastructure and those currently “gridified” need to intensify the usage of the infrastructure resources.

Also, many institutions still need to integrate their Grid sites. Keep in mind that now we have less than 1 year to the end of the project and that EELA-2 is a collaborative project by is nature. Its members should grab this opportunity and do not

just keep standing in the wrong line – like in the movie scene narrated by the JRA1 manager at the conference closure:

“Jimmy Rabbitte: What do you play?
Failed Drug Buyer: I used to play football in school.
Jimmy Rabbitte: I mean, what instrument?
Failed Drug Buyer: I don’t.
Jimmy Rabbitte: What are you doing here, then?
Failed Drug Buyer: Well, I saw everyone else lining up, so, uh - I thought you were selling drugs.”

The Commitments (1991)

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