SG Policy Document

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During the preparation of deliverable D4.1 (SEE-GRID-1) some first hints on the way that SEE partners start to address this issue were collected and presented in the following paragraphs which –encouragingly– exhibit agreement in some fundamental points but still has some way to go towards a truly cohesive regional resource sharing and access policy. It is interesting that all partners agree to the following set of core policies:

  • The sharing of resources will be such that the available infrastructure per country will be fairly allocated between the SEE-GRID common usage (i.e. SEE-GRID-oriented applications) and National-oriented usage (i.e. Local/National applications and user groups).
  • Non-profit communities shall only be supported: the commercial use of the SEE-GRID will be strictly prohibited and the organizations that will join SEE-GRID shall use the infrastructure’s resources only for scientific and educational purposes.
    • It is still open how the business communities interested in grid may (or may not) be supported/encouraged to use the grid
  • The main source of data for the identification of the application-interested groups at Regional and National level will be derived from the SEE-GRID on-line questionnaire developed within WP2 with its results being used in the deliverable D2.1. This indicates that a re-run of the questionnaire may be needed at country level at periodic intervals (e.g. yearly) in order to assess the user group trends and interests of the scientific communities for particular types of grid applications.
  • Policies how new communities (with applications as subset) will be handled (e.g. “CountryXGRID infrastructure will support the target community of Y” etc.) need to be derived in detail per country. Indicative first drafts were prepared by the SEE countries and are given below.
  • Policies how new resource centers will be handled (e.g. “when new cluster wants to join, its users will get access to same amount of the infrastructure proportional to what they contribute” – something which is also in line with what the NorduGrid representative highlighted in the SEE-GRID Policy Workshop: “There is no such thing as free cycles!”) need to be derived in detail per country. Indicative first drafts were prepared by the SEE countries and are given below.
  • Bilateral agreements will be needed between the infrastructure provider and the user groups in order to govern access and usage of the resources.
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