EGEE - JRA4

The activity described here match closely with activities proposed for the GN2 project. EGEE as a major Grid project served by GEANT and the NRENs will collaborate in defining requirements, specifications and interfaces to new services provided by the network.

Full exploitation of these capabilities by EGEE requires their integration into the Grid middleware through appropriate interfaces and mechanisms, to allow automated access to the services provided or information derived. This means:
>> making it possible for Grid middleware to access service levels and bandwidth reservation through an interface to the control plane of the network, in order to create the connections and flows by Grid applications through the dynamic reconfiguration of the network, and
>> creating tools that allow measurements of network characteristics to be presented from a number of perspectives and for various purposes, allowing network performance to act as an input into the way Grid middleware organises and allocates resources to perform a Grid job.