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 the OMC?
The Operations Management Centre is located at CERN and consists of a small team of people with substantial experience in managing existing Grid infrastructures. It has overall management and coordination responsibility for day-to-day operation and service delivery of the Grid infrastructure and defines the operational policy, which is implemented by the Core Infrastructure Centres and Regional Operations Centres. In particular, the Operations Management team and the managers of the CICs and ROCs will work very closely together.
The OMC team will be led by the Operations Manager and will also include a deputy manager and staff with technical and administrative expertise. The OMC team will include two co-ordinators, one each for the ROCs and the CICs, to which the leaders of the operational centres report. There will also be a small team to maintain an operational overview of the Grid, ensuring that problems are being resolved within reasonable time frames and that performance and service delivery targets are being met. The Operations Management Centre will also have a middleware and documentation archivist who maintains a central repository of middleware deployed on the infrastructure.
The Operations Manager and his/her team will consult with the CIC and ROC manager's groups to receive advice on major operational policy issues and with the EGEE project management to whom it is ultimately responsible.
An essential aspect of the role of the OMC is to interface to international grid efforts to ensure interoperability of grid infrastructures. This it will do through encouraging collaborative projects and agreements on tools, service definitions, standards and protocols both directly with other grid projects and through international standards bodies such as the Global Grid Forum.
SOURCE : http://egee-sa1.web.cern.ch/egee-sa1/Organisation.htm AUTHOR : EGEE