Common use of Identification of existing and new application sectors Clause in Contracts

Identification of existing and new application sectors. Building upon considerable existing experience of the state of the Grid applications sector in Europe, the partners in this activity will work closely with the dissemination and training teams to identify and qualify suitable existing and new applications domains from across Europe, using a well defined integration process. The selection process will focus on: • Identification of suitable user sectors and their applications who have a demonstrated need to make use of the EGEE infrastructure in cooperation with the dissemination and training teams. • Establishing contact with suitable users within these sectors who are keen to commit time and effort to understanding the benefits of the infrastructure to their particular application(s). • Undertaking feasibility studies to understand the complexity of application migration to be useful on the Grid infrastructure. • Training, with the direct help of Activity NA3, and support, with the direct help of Activity SA1 to these new domains. Where new application domains are identified we will focus on the production of one of more pilot applications from these domains to encourage the active participation of users who can be convinced, through these early success stories, of the benefits that the EGEE infrastructure will bring to their particular field. We are keen to ensure the widest possible spread of application sectors and will in particular focus on the outreach required to bring new applications from the industrial and commercial sectors into the Grid domain. We see this as key to establishing the widespread uptake of Grid technologies across Europe. For industrial applications we will seek applications from: • European consortia of SMEs; • Large companies involved in projects using collaborative work intensively; • Companies willing to test the coupling of their own computing facilities with the EGEE production facility. For the industrial and services companies, the objective is to demonstrate the economic advantages of the GRID notably in terms of time to market and return on investment. This will be the object of a detailed study of the different uses of the GRID infrastructures (data-computing, applications on demand etc.) in order to propose associated business models and services. The result of this work will depend also on the availability of administration tools, especially for accounting, billing and monitoring.