The profile of organizations is both academics and companies
active in the ‘service research’ domain that need to run experiments to further
test, consolidate or optimize their
service platform, software services or tools that can be encapsulated in a set
of VMs.
The rules of participation are the same as for any FP7
project. We foresee to have typically
one, maximum two participant organizations per experiment.
The activities to be carried out in the experiment related
to this call are the following:
- Design an
experiment and explain the motivation
- Plan and
deploy the concrete tests about the overall experiment on the BonFIRE
infrastructure
- Define the
metrics and check monitoring data, preferably using the BonFIRE monitoring
facilities
- Support the
rest of the technical activities in the project, by providing feedback
about the use of the facility and proposing key strategic functionalities
that would be interesting to include in the facility in future versions
- Prepare a
show case about the experiment that can be used for dissemination purposes
- Report the
necessary effort and costs according to FP7 rules and management practices
requested by the Coordinator.
A general Gantt diagram for
experiment is presented in Annex II of the call announcement. Each experiment
can adapt the plan to their particular needs, although the time line and the
structure of tasks will be synchronized across the selected experiments. The
duration of a proposed experiment should be less than 12 months covering all
phases. We expect that new partners join the BonFIRE consortium and start their
activities in September 2012. | 
