Provisioning of Grid Middleware for EGI in the framework of EGI-InSPIRE

Abstract

The European Grid Initiative (EGI) will provide a sustainable pan-European Grid computing infrastructure for e-Science based on a net-work of regional and national Grids. Although EGI will emerge from the structure established by the pro ject Enabling Grids for E-SciencE (EGEE), the organizational and operational aspects will be deeply changed. The transition to the new model will also impact on the middleware development and deployment aspects. Under the new model, Ibergrid is now coordinating the middleware deployment processes in EGI. This paper describes the EGI middleware strategy and the middleware rollout workflow being planned by Ibergrid for the whole European infrastructure.