Common use of Resources to be committed Clause in Contracts

Resources to be committed. E-ScienceTalk’s request for funds is primarily to keep together the highly effective consortium established during the first phase of the project, which was identified as one of GridTalk’s strongest assets by the first year reviewers. GridTalk funded the employment of three full time members of staff for the two year duration of the project, one in each partner institution of the consortium. For e-ScienceTalk, while all the products are already established, and the initial effort-intensive period of starting them up has been completed, the nature of cutting edge online dissemination channels such as GridCafé, GridGuide, GridCast, the Real Time Monitor and iSGTW mean that constant redevelopment is needed to keep pace with new software, standards, applications and tools. The wide programme of work already initiated by GridTalk will be maintained during e-ScienceTalk. In the new EGI era of grid computing, a number of highly desirable extensions and expansions to this programme have been identified for e-ScienceTalk, and have been outlined in this document. In order to carry out these extensions and expansions effectively, e-ScienceTalk proposes to add an additional amount of funded effort to the original GridTalk team as detailed below. Partner GridTalk E-ScienceTalk Comments

Resources to be committed. E-ScienceTalk’s request for funds is primarily to keep together the highly effective consortium established during the first phase of the project, which was identified as one of GridTalk’s strongest assets by the first year reviewers. GridTalk funded the employment of three full time members of staff for the two year duration of the project, one in each partner institution of the consortium. For e-ScienceTalk, while all the products are already established, and the initial effort-intensive period of starting them up has been completed, the nature of cutting edge online dissemination channels such as GridCafé, GridGuide, GridCast, the Real Time Monitor and iSGTW mean that constant redevelopment is needed to keep pace with new software, standards, applications and tools. The wide programme of work already initiated by GridTalk will be maintained during e-ScienceTalk. In the new EGI era of grid computing, a number of highly desirable extensions and expansions to this programme have been identified for e-ScienceTalk, and have been outlined in this document. In order to carry out these extensions and expansions effectively, e-ScienceTalk proposes to add an additional amount of funded effort to the original GridTalk team as detailed below. Partner GridTalk E-ScienceTalk CommentsComments XXX.xx Project Manager (0.5 FTE) Project management of the project will be provided by the PM and the admin team at XXX.xx.