Conclusions
This is obviously not nearly a thought-through “Plan” for DESY…
Though some of the expected developments are easy to predict!
- And other labs have succeeded in going that way, see FZK
The Grid is an opportunity for DESY to expand and acquire competitive competence to serve the German science community
The grid is a great chance!
It’s a technology, but it’s even more about making science data accessible, to the collaboration, the (smaller) groups, the public!
To take this chance requires to think outside the box, possibly to re-consider and develop the role of DESY as a provider of science infrastructure for the German science community