The EGEE project officially ended on the 31 March 2006
EGEE II started on 1 April 2006 and the new EGEE website can be found at:
http://www.eu-egee.org
What is CIC?
The Core Infrastructure Centres (CIC) have two fundamental roles: to operate essential grid infrastructure services that are not required at each Resource Centre; and to act as a Grid Operations Centre providing monitoring and operational troubleshooting services. In addition they play a crucial role as second-level support to the ROCs for operational problems.
There are four CICs located at CERN, UK (CCLRC), Italy, and France. Although there will be a common set of activities and responsibilities, each of these will have specialist expertise or be responsible for certain aspects of distributed operations. A fifth CIC will be set up in Russia by the end of project month 12. Its specific roles and responsibilities will be defined during the first year.
The CICs will function as a single distributed entity by sharing operational information on a frequent and regular basis. They will be in continuous contact and collectively they will manage day-to-day operation of the EGEE Grid infrastructure according to the operational policy defined by the EGEE Operations Management Centre. By maintaining transparency of the Grid operational state between them, any one of these EGEE Core Infrastructure Centres will be able to take over the operational responsibilities of another in the event of a serious operational problem. It is essential this function eventually be operated on a 24x7 basis.
Core Infrastructure Centres manage the day-to-day operation of the Grid, including the active monitoring of the infrastructure and the Resource Centres, and take appropriate action to protect the grid from the effects of failing components and to recover from operational problems. For example: a Resource Centre that is causing problems by generating invalid information may be removed from the grid until the problem has been fixed; the operations support line of a Resource Centre which has become inaccessible may be contacted to initiate recovery; a network operations centre may be informed of suspected failures. Many of these support and troubleshooting roles will be undertaken in conjunction with Regional Operation Centres. It is intended that tools will be developed to automate much of this work.
SOURCE : http://egee-sa1.web.cern.ch/egee-sa1/Organisation.htm AUTHOR : EGEE