NGI International Task Review MS124 Germany
In the table below, you should provide your self-assessment for the EGI-InSPIRE "NGI International Tasks" for milestone MS124 "NGI International Tasks Review"
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Notes:
- This milestone is an assessment of services from a managerial perspective and should be reported as an evaluation of the services (e.g. objectives being met; resources to effort; issues; suggested strategic changes).
- 'DO NOT' report what your NGI did for those tasks/services as this is covered by the Quarterly Reports.
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Community Engagement
EGI-InSPIRE Task | Task Name | Assessment | Score | How to Improve | After EGI-InSPIRE** |
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*NA2U.2E | Marketing |
Not well known in the scientific user communities. Product of EGI is unclear for the end users. | 2 | ||
NA2.1N | NGI International Liaison |
Information is distributed from EGI to the national partners and back. There are monthly meetings on the national level. | 4 | - | |
NA2.6N | Distributed Competency Centre |
VT is a good concept. | 4 | - | - |
*Please provide your external assessment on the quality of the service, which is delivered as a Global Task (scores and feedback will be included as part of MS123 - Global Task Review).
**Please comment on the continuation or service impact at the end of EC funding regarding the EGI-InSPIRE task/service.
Operations
EGI-InSPIRE Task | Task Name | Assessment | Score | How to Improve | After EGI-InSPIRE** |
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SA1.1N | NGI Activity Management | NGI-DE has a fortnightly ops meeting to coordinate nationally and report to the German OMB member and from the OMB to the sites. NGI-DE regularly participates in the OMB meetings. | 5 | It's already fully operational. | no funding at the moment, no changes. |
SA1.2N | A Secure Infrastructure | Overall security monitoring is good, since there is an active group of security officers in the NGI-DE, and coordination with DFN-CERT is operational at the national level. | 5 | - | unsecure funding |
SA1.3N | Service Deployment | NGI-DE is actively participating in the staged roll-out process and is early adopter for some components. | 4 | - | unsecure funding |
SA1.4N | Infrastructure for Grid Management | Monitoring is in production. | 4 | unsecure funding | |
SA1.5N | Accounting | Accounting is activated for all EGI-Sites in Germany. | 4 | - | unsecure funding |
SA1.6N | Helpdesk Infrastructure | NGI-DE provides a joined help desk for Germany and Switzerland in EGI-InSPIRE, it is synced with GGUS. | 5 | - | unsecure funding |
SA1.7N | Support Teams | NGI-DE provides a joined help desk for Germany and Switzerland in EGI-InSPIRE, ROD shifts are done together with the Swiss. | 5 | It's already fully operational. | unsecure funding |
SA1.8N | Providing a Reliable Grid Infrastructure | Core Services are active on a national level for the middlewares (Globus, UNICORE, gLite). National services are linked with central services, where applicable. | 4 | Better integration of “new” middlewares like Globus and UNICORE in EGI | unsecure funding |
**Please comment on the continuation or service impact at the end of EC funding regarding the EGI-InSPIRE task/service. If you have no information you can leave this column blank.