May 23, 2008

1Scientific Council Meeting, Bern

Executive Board Report and Plans for 2008

Swiss National Grid Association (SwiNG)Executive Board

executive-board@swing-grid.ch

May 23, 2008

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Organisational Structure

May 23, 2008

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Organization of the Executive Board

Members of the EB• Dean Flanders, FMI (SwiNG president)

• Nabil Abdennadher, HES-SO

• Peter Kunszt, CSCS

• Heinz Stockinger, SIB

• Wibke Sudholt, UZH (EB chair)

• Christoph Witzig, SWITCH

Means of collaboration• Mailing list: executive-board@swing-grid

.ch

• Monthly in-person meetings at rotating venues

• Initially in addition weekly phone conferences

• Document and project management systems on web server

Common activities• Strategy

• Science and applications

• Infrastructure

Areas of responsibility• National

• International

• Finance & Legal

• Interior

• Outreach

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National Area of Responsibility

Lead: Peter Kunszt, CSCS

Backup: Christoph Witzig, SWITCH

Relations and support of SwiNG within Switzerland• Assuring that SwiNG is adequately represented within Switzerland

towards relevant bodies and funding agencies

• Establishing of national contacts (with Universities, funding agencies, politicians, etc.), also via SwiNG Assembly and Scientific Council

• Lobbying for SwiNG

• Fund raising and organization of proposals for funding

• National dissemination activities for SwiNG (distribution of dissemination material, presence at relevant venues, etc.)

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International Area of Responsibility

Lead: Heinz Stockinger, SIB

Backup: Wibke Sudholt, UZH

European and worldwide relations of SwiNG• Assuring that SwiNG is adequately represented in international activities

(events, meetings, conferences, etc.)

• International dissemination activities for SwiNG (e.g., flyer distribution, workshop or booth setup), making SwiNG known internationally

• Support of international projects in SwiNG (e.g., EU projects)

• Establishment of international contacts

• Interface to European and worldwide initiatives and projects relevant to SwiNG (e-IRG, other EU NGIs, standardization bodies, etc.)

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Finance & Legal Area of Responsibility

Lead: Christoph Witzig, SWITCH

Backup: Peter Kunszt, CSCS

Formal and money-related aspects of SwiNG• Planning and control of the SwiNG budget

• Handling of financial issues (bank account, receipts, bills, membership fee, etc.)

• Organization and assignment of resources (e.g., alternative offers for purchases)

• Legal issues (statutes, by-laws, trade register entry, etc.) and communication with our lawyer

May 23, 2008

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Interior Areas of Responsibility

Lead: Wibke Sudholt, UZH

Backup: Nabil Abdennadher, HES-SO

Internal organization, coordination, and management of SwiNG• Coordination of the SwiNG Working Group activities and projects

• EB interface to the SwiNG Assembly and Scientific Council and their chairs

• Organization of SwiNG meetings

• SwiNG internal communications

• Management of the SwiNG reporting activities (status reports, etc.)

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Outreach Area of Responsibility

Lead: Nabil Abdennadher, HES-SOBackup: Heinz Stockinger, SIB

Dissemination and outreach material and organization of SwiNG• Coordination of the SwiNG education activities (e.g., presentations,

lectures, tutorials)• Organization of documentation about SwiNG (e.g., manuals, white

papers, publications)• Preparation of dissemination and education material (logo, flyers,

posters, slides, booth, etc.)• Web presence and editing of the web page contents• Press releases• Contacts with industry

May 23, 2008

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Formal Association Setup

Postal address• PO box at Sihlpost in Zurich• Swiss National Grid Association

(SwiNG)Postfach 1958CH-8021 ZürichSwitzerland

• Mail forwarded to EB Chair

Bank account• UBS• Kontokorrent CHF No. 0206-

405396.01X• IBAN No. CH88 0020 6206 4053

9601X• SWIFT No. UBSWCHZH80A

Web site• Server located at CSCS• Joomla! CMS• http://www.swing-grid.ch/• http://www.swiss-grid.org/• http://www.gridinitiative.ch/

Mailing lists• Information: info@swing-grid.ch• Assembly:

assembly-members@swing-grid.ch• SC: scientific-council@swing-

grid.ch• EB: executive-board@swing-grid.ch• External announcements:

announce@swing-grid.ch• Further mailing lists for WGs and

administration

May 23, 2008

10Scientific Council Meeting, Bern

Rules and Regulations

Submitted to mailing lists• EB organisation

• Assembly chair role description

• Scientific Council chair role description

Prepared with lawyer and agreed on by Assembly• Statutes

Prepared with lawyer and issued by EB• By-laws

Issued by EB• Expense regulations

• Internal regulations

Under discussion with Assembly and SC• Strategy

Document storage on web page• http://www.swing-grid.ch/index.php?

option=com_rsfiles&Itemid=46

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Institutional Members in AssemblyETH domain• École Polytechnique Fédérale de

Lausanne (EPFL)• Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule

Zürich (ETHZ)• ETH Research Institutions (EAWAG,

EMPA, PSI, WSL)• Swiss National Supercomputing Centre

(CSCS)

Cantonal universities• Universität Basel (UniBas)• Universität Bern (UniBE)• Université de Geneve (UniGE)• Université de Neuchâtel (UniNE)• Université de Lausanne (UNIL)• Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)• Universität Zürich (UZH)

Universities of Applied Sciences• Berner Fachhochschule (BFH)• Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz

(FHNW)• Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse

Occidentale (HES-SO)• Hochschule Luzern (HSLU)• Scuola Universitaria Professionale della

Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)

Specialized institutions• Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI)• Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)• Swiss Academic and Research Network

(SWITCH)

Elected Assembly chair• Dean Flanders, FMI

May 23, 2008

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Member Groups in Scientific CouncilCSCS• Distributed High Throughput Computing

Group

EPFL• DIT• LACAL

ETHZ• CMS

ETHZ & UZH• Functional Genomics Centre Zurich

HES-SO• EIG

PSI• CMS

SIB• PIG• Vital IT

SWITCH• Grid Team

UniBas• Biozentrum• DBIS

UniBE• Computer Services Department• LHEP• Mathematical Crystallography

UniGE• HEP

USI• Software Composition

UZH• Computational Structural Biology• IT Services• OCI Computational Chemistry & Grid

Computing

Elected Scientific Council chair• Michael Podvinec, UniBas

May 23, 2008

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Working GroupsFinished WGs• Mandate Letter• Seed Project

Active WGs• ATLAS: High energy physics• Proteomics: Bioinformatics• Infrastructure & Basic Grid Services

— Grid Architecture Team (GAT)— Grid Operations Team (GOT)— Data Management Team (DMT)

• Education & Training

WGs in planning• AAA/SWITCH projects• Grid Workflows• Industry Relations• Desktop Grid / Campus Grid

Seed WG publication• A. Abdennadher, P. Engel, D.

Feichtinger, D. Flanders, P. Flury, S. Haug, P. Jermini, S. Maffioletti, C. Pautasso, H. Stockinger, W. Sudholt, M. Thiemard, N. Williams, C. Witzig,“Initializing a National Grid Infrastructure: Lessons Learned from the Swiss National Grid Association Seed Project”,8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008),Lyon, France, May 19-22, 2008

• http://www.swing-grid.ch/index.php?option=com_rsfiles&task=files.download&path=...Publications...SwiNGSeedProject-Paper%40CCGrid2008.pdf&Itemid=46

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Already Performed EventsAssembly meeting, University of Bern, January 28, 2008

AAA/SWITCH Info Day, University of Bern, January 31, 2008 (presentation)

GEANT2 - A Global Leader conference, Bled/Slovenia, March 3-4, 2008 (invitation)

PRAGMA-SwiNG-EGI Summit, University of Zurich, March 17-18, 2008 (presentation and participation)

EGI Workshop, Rome, March 13-14, 2008 (representation)

e-IRG Open Workshop on e-Infrastructures, ETH Zurich, April 24-25, 2008 (representation)

CCGrid 2008 conference, Lyon/France, May 19-22, 2008 (presentation of Seed Project paper)

Scientific Council meeting, University of Bern, May 23, 2008

May 23, 2008

15Scientific Council Meeting, Bern

Last Assembly Meeting

Date and place• January 28, 2008

• University of Bern

Main topics• Election of the Assembly chair

• Report of the EB

• Statutes and by-laws

• Strategy of SwiNG

• Membership and funding issues

• Plans for the current year

Press Release• “The Swiss National Grid

Association (SwiNG) is now fully operational”on February 10, 2008

May 23, 2008

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Plans in National Area

Contact to national bodies and agencies• CTI • SNF • EUresearch • SBF • BBT

• ETH Rat

• CRUS

• KFH

Follow-up on funding programs• AAA/SWITCH • HPCN

Funding plan for SwiNG

Contact to other computing organisations• SPEEDUP • ICTswitzerland • informatica08 logo

Contact to scientific organisations• CHIPP

• SystemsX.ch

• SCS • … In collaboration with Scientific Council

Contact to industry Postponed to 2009

May 23, 2008

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Plans in International Area

Establishment of SwiNG as NGI

Establishment of representation in EGI Design Study • Country editorship for Swiss NGI website in EGI

Clarification of membership in EGI

Establishment of representation in e-IRG

Plan for events to visit and talks to present • OGF

• NGI-related events

• …

May 23, 2008

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Plans in Finance and Legal Area

Finalization of legal and financial setup• Change of registration in commercial registry (“Handelsregister”) • Organisation of person for legal services • Tax exemption

Detailed budget for 2008

Formal association procedures• Expense regulations • Internal regulations for member institution registration, Member Group

accreditation, Working Group lifecycle, projects within SwiNG

Suggestion of auditors to Assembly

Financial report for 2008 (to be presented in spring 2009)

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Plans in Interior Area

Internal communications• Mailing lists

• Newsletter

• Assembly • Scientific Council chair • Working Groups

Organisation of events• EB meetings • Assembly meetings • SwiNG Road Show • Swiss Grid Day

Internal organisation of SwiNGIn collaboration with Finance

and Legal area of responsibility

Reporting and planning• Annual report for 2008 (to be

presented in spring 2009)

• EB Planning for 2009

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Plans in Outreach Area

Corporate identity• Logo • Banner • Envelope • Slide template • Letter template

Creation of outreach material• Flyer • PosterTo be partly outsourced to

marketing agency

Update of web site• Corporate identity • News items

Media relations• Press release • Contact list

Identification of Grid Computing courses at institutions• HES-SO

• USI

• UZH

• …

May 23, 2008

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Currently Planned EventsAssembly meeting, University of Bern, June 23, 2008

ARC meets SwiNG, University of Bern, June 25, 2008 (co-organisation)

SwiNG Road Show, Member Institutions, Summer/Fall 2008• Presentation about SwiNG• Presentation about local grid activities

Speedup Workshop on High Performance Computing, ETH Zurich, September 8, 2008 (poster)

Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting, University of Zurich, September 11, 2008 (booth)

Swiss Grid Day, October 2008• Presentations of funding agencies• Presentations about grid projects

Swiss Grid School, HES-SO EIG, October 2008 (Education & Training WG)