SA3 Activity

The main objective of this activity is to support scientists using the BalticGrid infrastructure and to foster the use of Grid by new research communities. The applications needed and used by the scientific communities in Baltic States and Belarus are going to be integrated with the BalticGrid infrastructure. It is of great help to the BalticGrid users, if advanced tools developed by JRA1 and by other projects are deployed on BalticGrid infrastructure. In parallel to providing the support, scientific applications integration and tools, the documentation in form of user guides, usage manuals and Frequently Asked Questions will be created.

In comparison to the BalticGrid project, this activity was added due to an identified need for more attention to user support.

• Grid-specific support for the scientists in Baltic States and Belarus e.g. helping to run batch jobs, MPI jobs, create workflows, help visualize the output, manage the data, etc
• Integration of scientific applications needed by users in Baltic States and Belarus to BalticGrid infrastructure.
• To provide BalticGrid-II users with variety of helper tools like batch job managers, GUIs, VO management software and the likes.

• A specialized group of support personnel will participate in trainings organized by NA2, to acquire knowledge about technical details of the Grids as well as enhance the social skills about how to better help the support seekers in a user friendly way
• Support scientists, who are already using or will start to use the BalticGrid during the duration of this project
• Integrate the applications commonly needed by scientists to Baltic Grid
• Provide general helper tools for users of the Grid
• Provide BalticGrid User pages with documentation about using the Grids, the applications integrated to Grid and about helper tools

• With the above-mentioned tasks accomplished, the BalticGrid-II will be attractive for a broad range of user groups for pooling further resources
• The application collaborations identified by NA3 will be Grid-enabled and integrated to BalticGrid-II