The purpose of the Memorandum of Understanding between ETICS 2 and EDGeS is to define a framework of collaboration between the projects. Both The parties shall get advantages from this collaboration:

- The ETICS System efficiency, correctness and completeness depend on the involvement of software engineering professionals and of project developing distributed software for as many communities and applications as possible. Providing early access to new functionality and receiving expert feedback from the users of the system is of great importance for the ETICS 2 project in order to improve the efficiency, breadth and depth of its tools and services.

- The success of EDGeS project depend partially on the software quality and reliability of the Desktop Grid enabled applications to be executed on donor’s computer providing highly heterogeneous computational platform with limited capacities. During the testing and validation phases of these applications the EDGeS application support teams must rely on well-established and automated tools in order to build and test the mostly third-party applications before their execution on the production DG infrastructures of EDGeS. The ETICS services would help accelerate and make more efficient these essential steps in the EDGeS application validation procedure. On the other hand, the migration of some key components of EDGeS Grid middleware (such as SZTAKI Desktop Grid, 3G Bridge) under the ETICS Build and Test system would ease the build, deployment, test and maintenance of these components. Moreover, obtaining an AQCM certificate for the developed Grid middleware core components could contribute to the successful promotion of EDGeS achievements and solutions towards industrial partners.


Results of collaboration:

[1] ETICS-DJRA2.6
http://etics.web.cern.ch/etics/deliverables/ETICS-DJRA2.6-1063818-Complete_test_management_system_%28final_release%29-v1.6.pdf
(pages 50-53)

[2] ETICS-DJRA2.5

http://etics.web.cern.ch/etics/deliverables/ETICS-DJRA2%205-Test_management_%20system_%20%28prototype%29-v1%206.pdf
(pages 32-40)

[3] Integrated service and desktop grids for scientific computing.
http://dcabes.meeting.whut.edu.cn/DCABES2009/Files/DCABES%202009%20Proceedings.pdf
(pages 251-255)