OMII-Europe Month 9 Meeting

The all-hands meeting for month 9 of OMII-Europe was held in Bologna this time. It was quite a nice and rather eventful trip. I had been to Italy once before, but it was to Venice and apparently each region in Italy is quite different and unique. But they share something, decoration and style, you can see it everywhere.

From the point of view of JRA4, it was quite a good meeting. We got the chance to talk to our Chinese partner from U of Beihang to get more input about CROWN Grid and also had some good comments from the Globus representative from U of Chicago. I also got the chance to get some contact points for performance evaluation teams in OMII-UK and for gLite from people in INFN. The internal timeline and planning meeting for Month 12 was not that good though. I wonder whether it was due to the fact that we were terribly tired or that we feel a bit pressured with all the work that is left to be done before the EU Commission reviews in April.





INFN of Bologna was hosting the meeting. The sessions where held in a fantastic 15th century building called Corte Isolani whose preserved mediaeval decoration was quite interesting. And the banquet was also fantastic, six courses of stylish and delicious Italian food. We had a very short time to go sightseeing but we did manage to see a lot of interesting places. We had a half day of extended meetings at INFN’s CNAF site away from the old center of the city and in more modern sections of Bologna. Over all it was quite a good trip.



I should write more about it if I find the time in the future. At the moment I’m under a lot of pressure with exams and project deadlines closing in.