EGI-InSPIRE:MS108 Grid oversight
Notes to contributors
Assessment: (Provide an assessment of the delivery of services over the past year from a managerial perspective; highlight positive areas and areas for improvement; do not include future plans; text should be roughly 1-2 paragraphs)
Score: (assign a numerical score from 1 to 5 with a succinct explanation of what needs to be improved to increase your score – remove numerical description references upon completion) 1 = An unacceptable level of service was delivered
2 = A level of service that was below expectations was delivered
3 = An acceptable service level has been delivered
4 = A level of service that exceeded expectations was delivered, but there is scope for even further improvement
5 = An excellent service has been delivered that should be considered as best practice
# | Name | Assessment | Score | How to Improve |
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# | Grid oversight | Currently we are quite happy with how things are going. The Polish and Dutch NGI both contribute to this activity in a coordinating role. All NGIs contribute to this activity by peforming grid oversight in their own region. Most NGIs do this quite well. Sometimes corrective action needs to be taken when a NGIs are not carrying out their task according to grid oversight standards. But this is within acceptable limits and all in all I would say that things are under control. Just a single reminding email suffices in the vast majority of cases.
I am also very happy with the Polish-Dutch collaboration. This has proven to be very effective. With respect with level of funding and workload I would say that the 1 fte allocated for grid oversight coordination is barely sufficient but it does not allow for more tasks to be taken onboard. |
4 | In the EGEE days when this activity was coordinated by France there were only about 10 ROCs to recon with. Then it was fairly easy to create a grid oversite community and have regular face to face meetings where most ROCs were represented. Now that we have many more NGIs then we have had ROCs this creation of a community with regular face to face meetings is somewhat more difficult. Currently, we try to create this community by publishing a newsletter every month and by organising sessions at the EGI tech and user forums. |