VT EGI Compendium Draft
Structure
No. | Category | Attribute | Description | Status | Notes |
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General |
Full name of the NGI/EIRO (in English) | To add question: Are you NGI or EIRO? | ||
2 | General | Full name of the organisation in national language | |||
3 | General | Abbrevation in English | |||
4 | General | Abbrevation in national language | |||
5 | General | Visiting adress | |||
6 | General | Postal adress (if different form above) | |||
7 | General | Country | |||
8 | General | Fax | |||
9 | General | Phone | |||
10 | General | General e-mail adress | |||
11 | General | Website | |||
12 | General | NGI Director/Coordinator/Manager | |||
13 | General | NGI International Liason | CERN International Liason? | ||
14 | General | Year the first grid operations started |
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15 | General | Year of NGI establishment |
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16 | General | Number of partners in the NGI |
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17 | General | Partner legally responsible |
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18 | General | Leading partner |
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19 | Organisation and Governance | Short description of the history of the organisation (or URL to a webpage) |
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20 | Organisation and Governance | Form of organisation
( ) The NGI/EIRO itself is a legal entity and is a member of EGI.eu ( ) The NGI is not a legal entity; a member is delegated on its behalf and is part of EGI.eu ( ) Others |
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21 | Organisation and Governance | Relation with Government
( ) Hierarchical (e.g. you are subordinate to a responsible government body) ( ) Direct/Formal (e.g. board member; contact with Ministry) ( ) Informal/Indirect (e.g. gov’t liaison; proposals; tenders) ( ) Non existent ( ) Others |
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22 | Organisation and Governance |
Please briefly describe the organisational structure of your NGI/EIRO (in terms of members, governing body, decision making process, etc.) If you have a description of your organisational structure on your website, please give the URL |
Analyse the answers from this question from related survey to clarify the question. | ||
23 | Users | Number of users with valid Grid Certificate |
It is tricky question - Number of valid certificates; % of national users; what about people using e.g. CERN certificate but are national?
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24 | Resource | Number of Resource Centres |
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25 | Resource | Number of CPUs |
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26 | Resource | Total storage (in TB) |
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27 | Users | Please give an estimate of the national and European research communities that are served by the NGI. | |||
28 | Users | Research areas covered (check all that apply):
( ) Archeology ( ) Astronomy ( ) Astrophysics ( ) Civil Protection ( ) Comp. Chemistry ( ) Earth Sciences ( ) Finance ( ) Fusion ( ) Geophysics ( ) High Energy Physics ( ) Life Sciences ( ) Multimedia |
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29 | Resources | Please give an estimate of the applications that are provided by the NGI | |||
30 | Resources | Please give an estimate of the experiments within the NGI | |||
31 | Resources | Please list all the services offered per VO withing you NGI | |||
32 | Policy | Policy groups/task forces within your NGI to handle national issues:
( ) Technological ( ) Operations ( ) Users / Community ( ) Security ( ) Software ( ) Other (Specify) |
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33 | Policy | Please provide a link to your national policy documents for user access | |||
34 | Policy | Does your NGI enforce any additional restrictions on the infrastructure in addition EGI global policies? (e.g. certain countries restricted from use/access; privacy policies, etc.)
( ) Yes ( ) No (If yes, specify – URL or doc reference is also sufficient) |
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35 | Sustainability | How are your NGI activities funded?
( ) European Public Funding ( ) National Public Funding ( ) Private investment ( ) Membership Fees ( ) Projects |
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36 | Sustainability | What is your total current/foreseen operational budget? (staff, equipment, etc.) | |||
37 | Sustainability | How many people are employed NGIs (Head Count and FTE)? | |||
38 | Sustainability | How long has current funding been guaranteed? (e.g. 2 years, 4 years, indefinitely, etc.) |
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39 | Business model | Does your institution or NGI have defined business models for Grid services?
( ) Yes ( ) No |
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40 | Business model | Does your organisation offer services that are directly charged to users either through a fee-based or usage-based revenue model?
( ) Yes ( ) No |