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This page provides an overview of which NGIs and Resource Centres (or federated resource centres) expressed interest in being a resource provider through the grid services or the EGI federated cloud in the future to support new user communities. <br />
<br />
Resource Centre representatives are requested to provide below information about the available capacity, the business model and local policies that need to be met to make these resources available to new user communities, and the international collaborations already supported. <br />
<br />
This information will be used to define the available capacity when approaching international collaborations and the conditions to make it available. <br />
<br />
Resource Centres that will become part of the [[Fedcloud-tf:Main|EGI Federated Cloud]] will become storage and/or compute cloud providers to satisfy a number of use cases (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS). Many [http://go.egi.eu/PoC Proof of Concepts] have been successfully demonstrated on the EGI Federated Cloud which is based on the federation of storage and compute resources through standard interfaces (OCCI and CDMI). The EGI Federated Cloud will be part of the hybrid cloud of Helix Nebula. <br />
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{| border="1" class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| '''NGI''' <br />
| '''Resource Centre Name''' <br />
| '''Contact''' <br />
| '''Planned resources by April 2014''' <br />
Please specify resources that the RC will provide for each category (Grid storage, grid computing, cloud storage, cloud computing) <br />
<br />
| '''Planned resources by December 2014''' <br />
Please specify resources that the RC will provide for each category (Grid storage, grid computing, cloud storage, cloud computing) <br />
<br />
| '''Resource allocation policies and business models''' <br />
Provide information about the local policies for gaining access to the resources and the foreseen model (free, pay per use, etc.) <br />
<br />
| '''Area of expertise''' <br />
Areas of technical and user support expertise <br />
<br />
| '''National and international collaborations''' <br />
Current or planned collaborations with national/international user-oriented projects or Research Infrastructures <br />
<br />
|-<br />
| CERN <br />
| CERN <br />
| D. Foster <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NDGF <br />
| NDGF <br />
| O. Smirnova <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_CH <br />
| UNIBE-LHEP, UZH<br />
| S. Maffioletti, Sigve Haug<br />
| <br />
| UNIBE-LHEP will offer access to its grid (ARC-based) infrastructure; UZH will offer Cloud-based services (still exploring EGI fedcloud)<br />
| Cloud infrastructure: free for projects of national interest (or under the national program business model). TBD for other usecases.<br />
| Openstack, Application integration, Science gateways.<br />
| National: Swiss Academic Compute Cloud, systemsX.ch. International: Elixir, SCI-BUS, LCG-WLCG,<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_CZ <br />
| CESNET <br />
| M. Ruda <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_DE <br />
| JUELICH, FhG <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_DE <br />
| KIT <br />
| A. Heiss, A. Petzold, A. Streit <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_DK <br />
| DCSC Regional operating centres <br />
| [http://www.dcsc.dk/contact.html R. Belso] <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_GRNET <br />
| GRNET SA <br />
| K. Koumantaros&nbsp; <br />
| We will offer a&nbsp;% of our GRID and CLOUD infrastructure.&nbsp; <br />
| TBA <br />
| TBA <br />
| Operations, Monitoring,A/R, APPDB, Software Privisioning <br />
| EUDAT, PRACE, FORGE, CLARIN-GR, Stratuslab, Hellasgrid, CHAIN-RED, GN3, Open Discovery Space, GREENET, LDA, ICT-AGRI, CELAR<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_HR <br />
| <br />
| D. Dobrenic <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_SE <br />
| <br />
| J. Koster <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_PT <br />
| NCG-INGRID-PT <br />
| G. Borges, J. Gomes <br />
| Grid computing: 2900HS06, Grid storage: 10TB, Cloud computing: 128 cores, Cloud storage: 10TB <br />
| Same capacity is secured but upgrade expected in 2014 <br />
| Free for projects of national interest and Pay per use for others <br />
| Virtualization, HPC, services high-availability, grid core services, monitoring, application porting, parallel computing, Infiniband, Lustre, Networking, X.509, <br />
| Civil engineering, life sciences, ICT, astroparticles, high energy physics, Portuguese Grid Initiative, IBERGRID, LifeWatch<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_ES <br />
| PIC <br />
| J. Fix <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_ES <br />
| CSIC <br />
| J. Marco/I. Campos <br />
| Grid storage: ~2 PB, Grid computing: ~4000 cores&nbsp; Cloud storage: ~1 PB&nbsp; Cloud computing: ~2000 cores <br />
| Grid storage: ~2 PB, Grid computing: ~4000 cores&nbsp; Cloud storage: ~2 PB; Cloud computing: ~4000 cores <br />
| Resource allocation by VOs /centers, 20% resources are open to projects agreed within NGI, 10% resources prioritized under pay per use (at 0.05 euros/core for "external" users) <br />
| Cloud: OpenStack, VOMS, Image Contextualization, MPI/parallel framework, Integration of supercomputing resources, GPFS/HPC storage <br />
| LHC-WLCG, LIFEWATCH, PLANCK, FET projects, ICT projects, SMEs projects (modeling, parallel)<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_ES <br />
| CESGA <br />
| I. Lopez/C. Fernandez <br />
| Grid storage: ~100 TB, Grid computing: ~720 cores, Cloud storage: ~10 TB, Cloud computing: ~280 cores <br />
| Grid storage: ~100 TB, Grid computing: ~720 cores, Cloud storage: ~10 TB, Cloud computing: ~280 cores <br />
| Resource allocation by VOs /centers, 20% resources are open to projects agreed within NGI, resources can be prioritized under pay per use (at 0.05 euros/core for external users) <br />
| Cloud: OpenNebula, Image Contextualization, MPI/parallel framework, Integration of supercomputing resources, Lustre, Grid/Cloud Accounting, Software provisioning <br />
| LHC-WLCG, SMEs projects<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_ES <br />
| BIFI <br />
| A. Tarancon/R. Valles <br />
| Grid storage: 4TB, Grid computing: 864 cores - Cloud storage: 4TB - Cloud computing: 432 cores <br />
| Grid storage: 4TB, Grid computing: 864 cores - Cloud storage: 6TB - Cloud computing: 600 cores <br />
| The access to grid resources is free for research institutes and users that belong to research groups from University. The access to cloud resources is the same for researchers from some University or research groups but the companies have to pay depending on the resources they need. <br />
| We provide technical support for both, users and system administrators from <br />
other research institutes. One of this support is to fusion VO within EGI. <br />
<br />
| CloudSME, Collaboration with users and companies, SCI-BUS, Development and deployment of Scientific Gateways and users support.<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_ES <br />
| UPVLC <br />
| I. Blanquer/M. Caballer <br />
| 90 Grid cores and 40 cloud virtual cores. 1TB of Grid Storage and 1TB of cloud storage. <br />
| 90 Grid cores and 100 cloud virtual cores. 1TB of Grid Storage and 1TB of cloud storage. <br />
| Free access to research groups from Universities and public research centres. For cloud infrastructures, we will request a short report on the purpose of the usage. We will offer additional services such as VM catalogues, automatic contextualization and automatic scaling. <br />
| We will provide technical support for users and application developers on exploiting the infrastructure and the services. <br />
| [http://www.eubrazilopenbio.eu EUBrazilOpenBio], [http://www.eubrazilcloudconnect.eu EUBrazilCC], CODECLOUD (National project).<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_FR <br />
| IN2P3 <br />
| G. Lamanna, Pierre-Etienne Macchi, F. Chollet (dep) <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_FR <br />
| RC Federation <br />
| G. Mathieu <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_IT <br />
| ReCaS sites <br />
| G. Maggi, G. Russo/INFN <br />
| <br />
Bari: 400 cloud_cores, &nbsp;400 TB cloud_storage <br />
<br />
Napoli: 400 grid_cores, 400 TB grid_storage <br />
<br />
| <br />
Bari: &nbsp;3000 cloud_cores, 1 PB cloud_storage <br />
<br />
Napoli: &nbsp;3000 cloud_cores, 1 PB cloud_storage <br />
<br />
Catania: &nbsp;200 cloud_cores, 100 TB cloud_storage <br />
<br />
Cosenza: 100 cloud_cores, 100 TB cloud_storage <br />
<br />
| TBD <br />
| <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">OpenStack (VOMS enabled, EC2, web interface, Batch System on demand),&nbsp;</span>&lt;span style="line-height: 1.5em;" /&gt;<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em;">Object Storage (S3)</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em;">Porting o scientific application over grid/cloud infrastructure,&nbsp;</span>&lt;span style="line-height: 1.5em;" /&gt;<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em;">Lustre HPC file-system,&nbsp;GPU Computing,</span><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Infiniband (by the end of 2014),</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Tape Library (by the end of 2014)</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Software Provisioning&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;for Grid/Local Batch access,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;"> Science_gateways</span></div> <br />
| LCG-WLCG, BioVeL, Belle2, KM3Net, PRISMA, ELIXIR-ITA<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_IT <br />
| INFN T1 <br />
| G. Maron, L. dell'Agnello <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI Latvia <br />
| <br />
| Kaspars Krampis <br />
| EGI fed cloud: <br />
| EGI fed cloud: <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_MD <br />
| 2 sites/RENAM <br />
| P. Vaseanovici, N. Iliuha <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| open to new user communities and collaborations <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_NL <br />
| NIKHEF/SARA <br />
| A. Berg, M. Bouwhuis, J. Templon, R. Trompert <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_PL <br />
| CYFRONET <br />
| T. Szepieniec <br />
| <br />
Grid: ~20k cores, ~1PB <br />
<br />
Cloud: ~120 cores, ~4TB <br />
<br />
| up to 50% as cloud resources <br />
| Users need to apply for a resource allocation through PL-Grid. A representative from Polish Science confirming scientific collaboration is needed. <br />
| Service Level Management, Operations in federated infrastructure, OpenStack, OpenNebula <br />
| CTA, EPOS, various national domain-specific infrastructures<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_UK <br />
| STFC <br />
| D. Britton, N. Geddes, J. Gordon <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
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<div><!-- {{Template:RC menubar}} {{TOC_right}} --> <br />
<br />
This page provides an overview of which NGIs and Resource Centres (or federated resource centres) expressed interest in being a resource provider through the grid services or the EGI federated cloud in the future to support new user communities. <br />
<br />
Resource Centre representatives are requested to provide below information about the available capacity, the business model and local policies that need to be met to make these resources available to new user communities, and the international collaborations already supported. <br />
<br />
This information will be used to define the available capacity when approaching international collaborations and the conditions to make it available. <br />
<br />
Resource Centres that will become part of the [[Fedcloud-tf:Main|EGI Federated Cloud]] will become storage and/or compute cloud providers to satisfy a number of use cases (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS). Many [http://go.egi.eu/PoC Proof of Concepts] have been successfully demonstrated on the EGI Federated Cloud which is based on the federation of storage and compute resources through standard interfaces (OCCI and CDMI). The EGI Federated Cloud will be part of the hybrid cloud of Helix Nebula. <br />
<br />
{| border="1" class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| '''NGI''' <br />
| '''Resource Centre Name''' <br />
| '''Contact''' <br />
| '''Planned resources by April 2014''' <br />
Please specify resources that the RC will provide for each category (Grid storage, grid computing, cloud storage, cloud computing) <br />
<br />
| '''Planned resources by December 2014''' <br />
Please specify resources that the RC will provide for each category (Grid storage, grid computing, cloud storage, cloud computing) <br />
<br />
| '''Resource allocation policies and business models''' <br />
Provide information about the local policies for gaining access to the resources and the foreseen model (free, pay per use, etc.) <br />
<br />
| '''Area of expertise''' <br />
Areas of technical and user support expertise <br />
<br />
| '''National and international collaborations''' <br />
Current or planned collaborations with national/international user-oriented projects or Research Infrastructures <br />
<br />
|-<br />
| CERN <br />
| CERN <br />
| D. Foster <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NDGF <br />
| NDGF <br />
| O. Smirnova <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_CH <br />
| UNIBE-LHEP, UZH<br />
| S. Maffioletti, Sigve Haug<br />
| <br />
| UNIBE-LHEP will offer access to its grid (ARC-based) infrastructure; UZH will offer Cloud-based services<br />
| Cloud infrastructure: free for projects of national interest (or under the national program business model). TBD for other usecases.<br />
| Openstack, Application integration, Science gateways.<br />
| National: Swiss Academic Compute Cloud, systemsX.ch. International: Elixir, SCI-BUS, LCG-WLCG,<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_CZ <br />
| CESNET <br />
| M. Ruda <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_DE <br />
| JUELICH, FhG <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_DE <br />
| KIT <br />
| A. Heiss, A. Petzold, A. Streit <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_DK <br />
| DCSC Regional operating centres <br />
| [http://www.dcsc.dk/contact.html R. Belso] <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_GRNET <br />
| GRNET SA <br />
| K. Koumantaros&nbsp; <br />
| We will offer a&nbsp;% of our GRID and CLOUD infrastructure.&nbsp; <br />
| TBA <br />
| TBA <br />
| Operations, Monitoring,A/R, APPDB, Software Privisioning <br />
| EUDAT, PRACE, FORGE, CLARIN-GR, Stratuslab, Hellasgrid, CHAIN-RED, GN3, Open Discovery Space, GREENET, LDA, ICT-AGRI, CELAR<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_HR <br />
| <br />
| D. Dobrenic <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_SE <br />
| <br />
| J. Koster <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_PT <br />
| NCG-INGRID-PT <br />
| G. Borges, J. Gomes <br />
| Grid computing: 2900HS06, Grid storage: 10TB, Cloud computing: 128 cores, Cloud storage: 10TB <br />
| Same capacity is secured but upgrade expected in 2014 <br />
| Free for projects of national interest and Pay per use for others <br />
| Virtualization, HPC, services high-availability, grid core services, monitoring, application porting, parallel computing, Infiniband, Lustre, Networking, X.509, <br />
| Civil engineering, life sciences, ICT, astroparticles, high energy physics, Portuguese Grid Initiative, IBERGRID, LifeWatch<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_ES <br />
| PIC <br />
| J. Fix <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_ES <br />
| CSIC <br />
| J. Marco/I. Campos <br />
| Grid storage: ~2 PB, Grid computing: ~4000 cores&nbsp; Cloud storage: ~1 PB&nbsp; Cloud computing: ~2000 cores <br />
| Grid storage: ~2 PB, Grid computing: ~4000 cores&nbsp; Cloud storage: ~2 PB; Cloud computing: ~4000 cores <br />
| Resource allocation by VOs /centers, 20% resources are open to projects agreed within NGI, 10% resources prioritized under pay per use (at 0.05 euros/core for "external" users) <br />
| Cloud: OpenStack, VOMS, Image Contextualization, MPI/parallel framework, Integration of supercomputing resources, GPFS/HPC storage <br />
| LHC-WLCG, LIFEWATCH, PLANCK, FET projects, ICT projects, SMEs projects (modeling, parallel)<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_ES <br />
| CESGA <br />
| I. Lopez/C. Fernandez <br />
| Grid storage: ~100 TB, Grid computing: ~720 cores, Cloud storage: ~10 TB, Cloud computing: ~280 cores <br />
| Grid storage: ~100 TB, Grid computing: ~720 cores, Cloud storage: ~10 TB, Cloud computing: ~280 cores <br />
| Resource allocation by VOs /centers, 20% resources are open to projects agreed within NGI, resources can be prioritized under pay per use (at 0.05 euros/core for external users) <br />
| Cloud: OpenNebula, Image Contextualization, MPI/parallel framework, Integration of supercomputing resources, Lustre, Grid/Cloud Accounting, Software provisioning <br />
| LHC-WLCG, SMEs projects<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_ES <br />
| BIFI <br />
| A. Tarancon/R. Valles <br />
| Grid storage: 4TB, Grid computing: 864 cores - Cloud storage: 4TB - Cloud computing: 432 cores <br />
| Grid storage: 4TB, Grid computing: 864 cores - Cloud storage: 6TB - Cloud computing: 600 cores <br />
| The access to grid resources is free for research institutes and users that belong to research groups from University. The access to cloud resources is the same for researchers from some University or research groups but the companies have to pay depending on the resources they need. <br />
| We provide technical support for both, users and system administrators from <br />
other research institutes. One of this support is to fusion VO within EGI. <br />
<br />
| CloudSME, Collaboration with users and companies, SCI-BUS, Development and deployment of Scientific Gateways and users support.<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_ES <br />
| UPVLC <br />
| I. Blanquer/M. Caballer <br />
| 90 Grid cores and 40 cloud virtual cores. 1TB of Grid Storage and 1TB of cloud storage. <br />
| 90 Grid cores and 100 cloud virtual cores. 1TB of Grid Storage and 1TB of cloud storage. <br />
| Free access to research groups from Universities and public research centres. For cloud infrastructures, we will request a short report on the purpose of the usage. We will offer additional services such as VM catalogues, automatic contextualization and automatic scaling. <br />
| We will provide technical support for users and application developers on exploiting the infrastructure and the services. <br />
| [http://www.eubrazilopenbio.eu EUBrazilOpenBio], [http://www.eubrazilcloudconnect.eu EUBrazilCC], CODECLOUD (National project).<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_FR <br />
| IN2P3 <br />
| G. Lamanna, Pierre-Etienne Macchi, F. Chollet (dep) <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_FR <br />
| RC Federation <br />
| G. Mathieu <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_IT <br />
| ReCaS sites <br />
| G. Maggi, G. Russo/INFN <br />
| <br />
Bari: 400 cloud_cores, &nbsp;400 TB cloud_storage <br />
<br />
Napoli: 400 grid_cores, 400 TB grid_storage <br />
<br />
| <br />
Bari: &nbsp;3000 cloud_cores, 1 PB cloud_storage <br />
<br />
Napoli: &nbsp;3000 cloud_cores, 1 PB cloud_storage <br />
<br />
Catania: &nbsp;200 cloud_cores, 100 TB cloud_storage <br />
<br />
Cosenza: 100 cloud_cores, 100 TB cloud_storage <br />
<br />
| TBD <br />
| <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">OpenStack (VOMS enabled, EC2, web interface, Batch System on demand),&nbsp;</span>&lt;span style="line-height: 1.5em;" /&gt;<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em;">Object Storage (S3)</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em;">Porting o scientific application over grid/cloud infrastructure,&nbsp;</span>&lt;span style="line-height: 1.5em;" /&gt;<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em;">Lustre HPC file-system,&nbsp;GPU Computing,</span><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Infiniband (by the end of 2014),</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Tape Library (by the end of 2014)</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Software Provisioning&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;for Grid/Local Batch access,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;"> Science_gateways</span></div> <br />
| LCG-WLCG, BioVeL, Belle2, KM3Net, PRISMA, ELIXIR-ITA<br />
|-<br />
| NGI_IT <br />
| INFN T1 <br />
| G. Maron, L. dell'Agnello <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI Latvia <br />
| <br />
| Kaspars Krampis <br />
| EGI fed cloud: <br />
| EGI fed cloud: <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_MD <br />
| 2 sites/RENAM <br />
| P. Vaseanovici, N. Iliuha <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| open to new user communities and collaborations <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_NL <br />
| NIKHEF/SARA <br />
| A. Berg, M. Bouwhuis, J. Templon, R. Trompert <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| NGI_PL <br />
| CYFRONET <br />
| T. Szepieniec <br />
| <br />
Grid: ~20k cores, ~1PB <br />
<br />
Cloud: ~120 cores, ~4TB <br />
<br />
| up to 50% as cloud resources <br />
| Users need to apply for a resource allocation through PL-Grid. A representative from Polish Science confirming scientific collaboration is needed. <br />
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*please do not provide a list of participants, only give the number of people that attended<br />
*for outcome, please list tangible agreements, decisions instead of listing program points or presentations you made. (Do not write just that "X gave a presentation about Y" <br />
*include your local events only if there was any EGI-related topic on the agenda<br />
*provide an indico URL to your presentation (if available) or to the event itself.<br />
**If your presentation is not available online, please send the slides to erika.swiderski@egi.eu. <br />
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===1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED===<br />
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== 2. ACTIVITY REPORT ==<br />
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===2.1. User Support achievements===<br />
NGI_CH user support activities for new communities during the 14th quarter focused on the following main streams:<br />
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* Support to the DEWA/GRID-Geneva group (http://www.grid.unep.ch/) for enabling the SWAT hydrological model on a federated cloud infrastructure. The plan is to integrate the usecase as part of the supported portfolio at the national level first, and then link it to the eventual EGI FedCloud infrastructure.<br />
* Support to the SwissExperiment project (http://www.swiss-experiment.ch/) for extending the current supported usecase on the national cloud infrastructure. The requirement for the extended usecase will call for a larger number of resources than those available at the national level; the EGI FedCloud infrastructure will be explored.<br />
* Followup on the activities in Chemistry, Molecular & Materials Science and Technology Virtual Team<br />
* Preparation and participation to the EGI Technical Forum 2013<br />
* Continued the effort in the national cloud strategy group aimed to establish and academic national cloud infrastructure. The outcome of this strategy should harmonize with the European cloud infrastructure roadmap that is also one of the targets of EGI.<br />
* Continued the implementation of the Community Distributed Support model: contacts and site visits with 2 institutes (EPFL and UZH).<br />
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===2.2. Plans===<br />
<br />
In the next quarter NGI-CH will focus on:<br />
* Prepare the user communities to participate in the national funding program for a national cloud infrastructure<br />
* Continue the support effort towards the current user communities<br />
* Organize a workshop for the Collaborative Distributed Support<br />
* Organize a workshop for SwiNG (and the related user communities) to discuss the national community enabling program and the preparation to the Horizon2020.<br />
<br />
===2.3. Issues and mitigation===<br />
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Please check the previous quarterly report to see the type of input I expect: https://documents.egi.eu/document/999. <br />
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*please do not provide a list of participants, only give the number of people that attended<br />
*for outcome, please list tangible agreements, decisions instead of listing program points or presentations you made. (Do not write just that "X gave a presentation about Y" <br />
*include your local events only if there was any EGI-related topic on the agenda<br />
*provide an indico URL to your presentation (if available) or to the event itself.<br />
**If your presentation is not available online, please send the slides to erika.swiderski@egi.eu. <br />
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===1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED===<br />
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== 2. ACTIVITY REPORT ==<br />
<!--''Note: just report activities relevant to this Quarter.''--><br />
<br />
===2.1. User Support achievements===<br />
NGI_CH user support activities for new communities during the 14th quarter focused on the following main streams:<br />
<br />
* Support to the DEWA/GRID-Geneva group (http://www.grid.unep.ch/) for enabling the SWAT hydrological model on a federated cloud infrastructure. The plan is to integrate the usecase as part of the supported portfolio at the national level first, and then link it to the eventual EGI FedCloud infrastructure.<br />
* Support to the SwissExperiment project (http://www.swiss-experiment.ch/) for extending the current supported usecase on the national cloud infrastructure. The requirement for the extended usecase will call for a larger number of resources than those available at the national level; the EGI FedCloud infrastructure will be explored.<br />
* Followup on the activities in Chemistry, Molecular & Materials Science and Technology Virtual Team<br />
* Preparation and participation to the EGI Technical Forum 2013<br />
* Continued the effort in the national cloud strategy group aimed to establish and academic national cloud infrastructure. The outcome of this strategy should harmonize with the European cloud infrastructure roadmap that is also one of the targets of EGI.<br />
<br />
===2.2. Plans===<br />
<br />
In the next quarter NGI-CH will focus on:<br />
* Prepare the user communities to participate in the national funding program for a national cloud infrastructure<br />
* Continue the support effort towards the current user communities<br />
* Organize a workshop for the Collaborative Distributed Support<br />
* Organize a workshop for SwiNG (and the related user communities) to discuss the national community enabling program and the preparation to the Horizon2020.<br />
<br />
===2.3. Issues and mitigation===<br />
<!-- Describe any issue here that you were unable to resolve with the processes and mechanisms that exist within the project. Describe issues that can delay or can have other types of negative effect on the delivery of User Support activities. --><br />
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Please check the previous quarterly report to see the type of input I expect: https://documents.egi.eu/document/999. <br />
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*please do not provide a list of participants, only give the number of people that attended<br />
*for outcome, please list tangible agreements, decisions instead of listing program points or presentations you made. (Do not write just that "X gave a presentation about Y" <br />
*include your local events only if there was any EGI-related topic on the agenda<br />
*provide an indico URL to your presentation (if available) or to the event itself.<br />
**If your presentation is not available online, please send the slides to erika.swiderski@egi.eu. <br />
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===1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED===<br />
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== 2. ACTIVITY REPORT ==<br />
<!--''Note: just report activities relevant to this Quarter.''--><br />
<br />
===2.1. User Support achievements===<br />
NGI_CH user support activities for new communities during the 14th quarter focused on the following main streams:<br />
<br />
* Support to the DEWA/GRID-Geneva group (http://www.grid.unep.ch/) for enabling the SWAT hydrological model on a federated cloud infrastructure. The plan is to integrate the usecase as part of the supported portfolio at the national level first, and then link it to the eventual EGI FedCloud infrastructure.<br />
* Support to the SwissExperiment project (http://www.swiss-experiment.ch/) for extending the current supported usecase on the national cloud infrastructure. The requirement for the extended usecase will call for a larger number of resources than those available at the national level; the EGI FedCloud infrastructure will be explored.<br />
* Followup on the activities in Chemistry, Molecular & Materials Science and Technology Virtual Team<br />
* Preparation and participation to the EGI Technical Forum 2013<br />
* Continued the effort in the national cloud strategy group aimed to establish and academic national cloud infrastructure. The outcome of this strategy should harmonize with the European cloud infrastructure roadmap that is also one of the targets of EGI.<br />
<br />
===2.2. Plans===<br />
<br />
<br />
===2.3. Issues and mitigation===<br />
<!-- Describe any issue here that you were unable to resolve with the processes and mechanisms that exist within the project. Describe issues that can delay or can have other types of negative effect on the delivery of User Support activities. --><br />
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Please check the previous quarterly report to see the type of input I expect: https://documents.egi.eu/document/999. <br />
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<!--=====GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR ALL EVENTS REPORTED IN THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS:=====<br />
*please do not provide a list of participants, only give the number of people that attended<br />
*for outcome, please list tangible agreements, decisions instead of listing program points or presentations you made. (Do not write just that "X gave a presentation about Y" <br />
*include your local events only if there was any EGI-related topic on the agenda<br />
*provide an indico URL to your presentation (if available) or to the event itself.<br />
**If your presentation is not available online, please send the slides to erika.swiderski@egi.eu. <br />
Note1: Complete the tables below by adding as many rows as needed. <br />
Note2: Complete the tables below by adding as many rows as needed. <br />
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===1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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== 2. ACTIVITY REPORT ==<br />
<!--''Note: just report activities relevant to this Quarter.''--><br />
<br />
===2.1. User Support achievements===<br />
NGI_CH user support activities for new communities during the 14th quarter focused on the following main streams:<br />
<br />
* Support to the DEWA/GRID-Geneva group (http://www.grid.unep.ch/) for enabling the SWAT hydrological model on a federated cloud infrastructure. The plan is to integrate the usecase as part of the supported portfolio at the national level first, and then link it to the eventual EGI FedCloud infrastructure.<br />
* Support to the SwissExperiment project (http://www.swiss-experiment.ch/) for extending the current supported usecase on the national cloud infrastructure. The requirement for the extended usecase will call for a larger number of resources than those available at the national level; the EGI FedCloud infrastructure will be explored.<br />
* Followup on the activities in Chemistry, Molecular & Materials Science and Technology Virtual Team<br />
* Preparation for the EGI Technical Forum 2013<br />
<br />
===2.2. Plans===<br />
<br />
<br />
===2.3. Issues and mitigation===<br />
<!-- Describe any issue here that you were unable to resolve with the processes and mechanisms that exist within the project. Describe issues that can delay or can have other types of negative effect on the delivery of User Support activities. --><br />
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| NGIInternationalLiaison_Assessment = Average<br />
| NGIInternationalLiaison_Score = 3<br />
| NGIInternationalLiaison_HowToImprove = Focus on fewer key communities and adapt the infrastructure to met their requirements<br />
| NGIInternationalLiaiso_AfterEGI-InSPIRE = Will probably remain at national level (and more importantly, organised at national level)<br />
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| DistributedCompetencyCentre_Assessment = Average<br />
| DistributedCompetencyCentre_Score = 3<br />
| DistributedCompetencyCentre_HowToImprove = Have more focused activities with clear objectives aimed to extend the infrastructure to to better serve the key communities targeted by NA2.1<br />
| DistributedCompetencyCentre_AfterEGI-InSPIRE = Will continue those activities that have a national impact<br />
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| NGIActivityManagement_Assessment = Overall good <br />
| NGIActivityManagement_Score = 4<br />
| NGIActivityManagement_HowToImprove = Funding concerns often dominate the management activities; no simple solution for that <br />
| NGIActivityManagement_AfterEGI-InSPIRE = Less focus on central operation/services<br />
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| ASecureInfrastructure_Assessment = Overall good, but difficult to guarantee x509 user certs + site security. Still ok given the low criticality of the infrastructure (as it is perceived from the outside?) <br />
| ASecureInfrastructure_Score = 3<br />
| ASecureInfrastructure_HowToImprove = In the long term reduce x509 necessity? <br />
| ASecureInfrastructure_AfterEGI-InSPIRE = Move security procedures to VOs/local teams within the NGIs<br />
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| ServiceDeployment _Assessment = Often important updates are delayed into UMD -> the repository might not be used after the end of the project. The Documentation is VERY POOR + yaim is going to bedeprecated (MAJOR problem)<br />
| ServiceDeployment_Score = 2<br />
| ServiceDeployment_HowToImprove = simplify repository structure if possible, follow Linux distros procedures when possible. Consider dropping an official repository in case (e.g. with ARC) <br />
| ServiceDeployment_AfterEGI-InSPIRE = several repo from the software providers, involve non HEP VOs for maintenance (difficult)-> cloud/VM templates better for certain use cases<br />
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| InfrastructureforGridManagement_Assessment = Overall good, as mostly based on WLCG <br />
| InfrastructureforGridManagement_Score = 4 <br />
| InfrastructureforGridManagement_HowToImprove = involve non HEP VOs -> cloud solutions. WLCG can live without extra management<br />
| nfrastructureforGridManagement_AfterEGI-InSPIRE = WLCG can live without extra management. Expand cloud solutions for non HEP users (from hep centered to non HEP centered?)<br />
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| Accounting_Assessment = ARC accounting is still not fully integrated. <br />
| Accounting_Score = 3 <br />
| Accounting_HowToImprove = <br />
| Accounting_AfterEGI-InSPIRE = Difficult to maintain/improve after the end of the project <br />
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| HelpdeskInfrastructure_Assessment = Overall good. The required effort seems however fairly high<br />
| HelpdeskInfrastructure_Score = 4 <br />
| HelpdeskInfrastructure_HowToImprove = Render more efficient (less manpower required) and involve non HEP VOs if possible <br />
| HelpdeskInfrastructure_AfterEGI-InSPIRE = Difficult to maintain/improve after the end of the project-> VOs should take over this effort (non HEP VOs will face major problems)<br />
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| SupportTeams_Assessment = Overall good, but difficult to maintain after the end of the project<br />
| SupportTeams_Score = 4<br />
| SupportTeams_HowToImprove = Allow 1 to 1 interaction (via chat/phone) with sys admins/users, when needed. <br />
| SupportTeams_AfterEGI-InSPIRE = move this effort to the VOs when possible. Non HEP VOs will face major problems.<br />
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| ProvidingaReliableGridInfrastructure_Assessment = Overall good, but mostly because based on WLCG, which also provides some internal monitoring and quality assurance <br />
| ProvidingaReliableGridInfrastructure_Score = 5<br />
| ProvidingaReliableGridInfrastructure_HowToImprove = Better and more efficient monitoring<br />
| ProvidingaReliableGridInfrastructure_AfterEGI-InSPIRE = move monitoring to VOs, drop some unnecessary tasks<br />
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[[Category:Metrics]]</div>Smaffiolhttps://wiki.egi.eu/w/index.php?title=EGI-InSPIRE:Switzerland-US-QR10&diff=44371EGI-InSPIRE:Switzerland-US-QR102012-11-02T12:17:09Z<p>Smaffiol: /* 2.2. Plans */</p>
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This report covers support activities to existing user communities, and belongs to EGI-InSPIRE SA1 (Task SA1.7 - Support Teams). The outreach to new communities activities that NGIs perform under NA2 are gathered through the Virtual Teams. However, there may be outreach activities that do outside of VTs. You can report about these in your 2.2.3 paragraph as well.<br />
Please check the previous quarterly report to see the type of input I expect: https://documents.egi.eu/document/999. <br />
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"<br />
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!scope="col"| Partner Name<br />
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==1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION ==<br />
<!--=====GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR ALL EVENTS REPORTED IN THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS:=====<br />
*please do not provide a list of participants, only give the number of people that attended<br />
*for outcome, please list tangible agreements, decisions instead of listing program points or presentations you made. (Do not write just that "X gave a presentation about Y" <br />
*include your local events only if there was any EGI-related topic on the agenda<br />
*provide an indico URL to your presentation (if available) or to the event itself.<br />
**If your presentation is not available online, please send the slides to erika.swiderski@egi.eu. <br />
Note1: Complete the tables below by adding as many rows as needed. <br />
Note2: Complete the tables below by adding as many rows as needed. <br />
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===1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED===<br />
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"<br />
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|-<br />
!scope="col"|Date||Location||Title||Participants||Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) <br />
|-<br />
|17-21 September 2012 || Prague || EGI Technical Forum 2012 || || http://tf2012.egi.eu/<br />
|-<br />
|25.09.2012 || Karlsruhe || LSDMA workshop || 50 || https://indico.desy.de/confRegistrationFormDisplay.py/creationDone?authkey=dad6901daf765f66f7ba4235a45de4db&registrantId=87&confId=6264<br />
|-<br />
| 12.09.2012 || Zurich || Open Cloud Initiative || 40 || http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/70109912/<br />
|-<br />
| 17-21.09.2012 || Prague || EGI TF 2012 || || http://tf2012.egi.eu/ <br />
|}<br />
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===1.3. PUBLICATIONS===<br />
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!scope="col"|Publication title||Journal / Proceedings title||align="left" |Journal references<br> ''Volume number<br> Issue<br><br>Pages from - to''||align="left" |Authors ''<br>1.<br>2.<br>3.<br>Et al?''<br />
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|}<br />
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== 2. ACTIVITY REPORT ==<br />
<!--''Note: just report activities relevant to this Quarter.''--><br />
<br />
===2.1. User Support achievements===<br />
<br />
There has been an ongoing discussion with various groups from 'earth' science. Especially the followup of the [http://envirogrids.net/ envirogrid] project.<br />
<br />
===2.2. Plans===<br />
<br />
In the next quarter we plan to establish contacts with the EGI 'earth' VO and negotiate access details with them.<br />
<br />
===2.3. Issues and mitigation===<br />
<!-- Describe any issue here that you were unable to resolve with the processes and mechanisms that exist within the project. Describe issues that can delay or can have other types of negative effect on the delivery of User Support activities. --><br />
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"<br />
|-<br />
!scope="col"| Issue Description<br />
!scope="col"| Mitigation Description<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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Please, fill the table below. You can add a line copyng the two lines<br />
|-<br />
| Issue Description || Issue mitigation<br />
--></div>Smaffiolhttps://wiki.egi.eu/w/index.php?title=EGI-InSPIRE:Switzerland-US-QR10&diff=44370EGI-InSPIRE:Switzerland-US-QR102012-11-02T12:16:26Z<p>Smaffiol: /* 2.1. User Support achievements */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:NGI QR Reports]]<br />
<br />
<!-- VERY IMPORTANT<br />
This report covers support activities to existing user communities, and belongs to EGI-InSPIRE SA1 (Task SA1.7 - Support Teams). The outreach to new communities activities that NGIs perform under NA2 are gathered through the Virtual Teams. However, there may be outreach activities that do outside of VTs. You can report about these in your 2.2.3 paragraph as well.<br />
Please check the previous quarterly report to see the type of input I expect: https://documents.egi.eu/document/999. <br />
--><br />
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"<br />
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!scope="col"| Partner Name<br />
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==1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION ==<br />
<!--=====GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR ALL EVENTS REPORTED IN THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS:=====<br />
*please do not provide a list of participants, only give the number of people that attended<br />
*for outcome, please list tangible agreements, decisions instead of listing program points or presentations you made. (Do not write just that "X gave a presentation about Y" <br />
*include your local events only if there was any EGI-related topic on the agenda<br />
*provide an indico URL to your presentation (if available) or to the event itself.<br />
**If your presentation is not available online, please send the slides to erika.swiderski@egi.eu. <br />
Note1: Complete the tables below by adding as many rows as needed. <br />
Note2: Complete the tables below by adding as many rows as needed. <br />
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===1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED===<br />
<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"<br />
<!-- |+Provided by each SA1 partner. Just report events relevant to SA1 activities.--><br />
|-<br />
!scope="col"|Date||Location||Title||Participants||Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) <br />
|-<br />
|17-21 September 2012 || Prague || EGI Technical Forum 2012 || || http://tf2012.egi.eu/<br />
|-<br />
|25.09.2012 || Karlsruhe || LSDMA workshop || 50 || https://indico.desy.de/confRegistrationFormDisplay.py/creationDone?authkey=dad6901daf765f66f7ba4235a45de4db&registrantId=87&confId=6264<br />
|-<br />
| 12.09.2012 || Zurich || Open Cloud Initiative || 40 || http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/70109912/<br />
|-<br />
| 17-21.09.2012 || Prague || EGI TF 2012 || || http://tf2012.egi.eu/ <br />
|}<br />
<br />
===1.3. PUBLICATIONS===<br />
<!--List all publications as bullet points, detailing: Publication title, author(s), journal title, number/issue, date. Also mention any articles published further to interviews given by members of your activity.--><br />
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"<br />
|-<br />
!scope="col"|Publication title||Journal / Proceedings title||align="left" |Journal references<br> ''Volume number<br> Issue<br><br>Pages from - to''||align="left" |Authors ''<br>1.<br>2.<br>3.<br>Et al?''<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== 2. ACTIVITY REPORT ==<br />
<!--''Note: just report activities relevant to this Quarter.''--><br />
<br />
===2.1. User Support achievements===<br />
<br />
There has been an ongoing discussion with various groups from 'earth' science. Especially the followup of the [http://envirogrids.net/ envirogrid] project.<br />
<br />
===2.2. Plans===<br />
<br />
<br />
===2.3. Issues and mitigation===<br />
<!-- Describe any issue here that you were unable to resolve with the processes and mechanisms that exist within the project. Describe issues that can delay or can have other types of negative effect on the delivery of User Support activities. --><br />
<br />
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"<br />
|-<br />
!scope="col"| Issue Description<br />
!scope="col"| Mitigation Description<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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<!--<br />
Please, fill the table below. You can add a line copyng the two lines<br />
|-<br />
| Issue Description || Issue mitigation<br />
--></div>Smaffiolhttps://wiki.egi.eu/w/index.php?title=EGI-InSPIRE:Switzerland-US-QR10&diff=43853EGI-InSPIRE:Switzerland-US-QR102012-10-30T10:20:28Z<p>Smaffiol: /* 1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:NGI QR Reports]]<br />
<br />
<!-- VERY IMPORTANT<br />
This report covers support activities to existing user communities, and belongs to EGI-InSPIRE SA1 (Task SA1.7 - Support Teams). The outreach to new communities activities that NGIs perform under NA2 are gathered through the Virtual Teams. However, there may be outreach activities that do outside of VTs. You can report about these in your 2.2.3 paragraph as well.<br />
Please check the previous quarterly report to see the type of input I expect: https://documents.egi.eu/document/999. <br />
--><br />
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__NOTOC__<br />
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"<br />
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!scope="col"| NGI Name<br />
!scope="col"| Partner Name<br />
!scope="col"| Author <br />
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|-<br />
|}<br />
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==1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION ==<br />
<!--=====GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR ALL EVENTS REPORTED IN THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS:=====<br />
*please do not provide a list of participants, only give the number of people that attended<br />
*for outcome, please list tangible agreements, decisions instead of listing program points or presentations you made. (Do not write just that "X gave a presentation about Y" <br />
*include your local events only if there was any EGI-related topic on the agenda<br />
*provide an indico URL to your presentation (if available) or to the event itself.<br />
**If your presentation is not available online, please send the slides to erika.swiderski@egi.eu. <br />
Note1: Complete the tables below by adding as many rows as needed. <br />
Note2: Complete the tables below by adding as many rows as needed. <br />
--><br />
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===1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED===<br />
<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"<br />
<!-- |+Provided by each SA1 partner. Just report events relevant to SA1 activities.--><br />
|-<br />
!scope="col"|Date||Location||Title||Participants||Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) <br />
|-<br />
|17-21 September 2012 || Prague || EGI Technical Forum 2012 || || http://tf2012.egi.eu/<br />
|-<br />
|25.09.2012 || Karlsruhe || LSDMA workshop || 50 || https://indico.desy.de/confRegistrationFormDisplay.py/creationDone?authkey=dad6901daf765f66f7ba4235a45de4db&registrantId=87&confId=6264<br />
|-<br />
| 12.09.2012 || Zurich || Open Cloud Initiative || 40 || http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/70109912/<br />
|-<br />
| 17-21.09.2012 || Prague || EGI TF 2012 || || http://tf2012.egi.eu/ <br />
|}<br />
<br />
===1.3. PUBLICATIONS===<br />
<!--List all publications as bullet points, detailing: Publication title, author(s), journal title, number/issue, date. Also mention any articles published further to interviews given by members of your activity.--><br />
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"<br />
|-<br />
!scope="col"|Publication title||Journal / Proceedings title||align="left" |Journal references<br> ''Volume number<br> Issue<br><br>Pages from - to''||align="left" |Authors ''<br>1.<br>2.<br>3.<br>Et al?''<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== 2. ACTIVITY REPORT ==<br />
<!--''Note: just report activities relevant to this Quarter.''--><br />
<br />
===2.1. User Support achievements===<br />
===2.2. Plans===<br />
<br />
<br />
===2.3. Issues and mitigation===<br />
<!-- Describe any issue here that you were unable to resolve with the processes and mechanisms that exist within the project. Describe issues that can delay or can have other types of negative effect on the delivery of User Support activities. --><br />
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"<br />
|-<br />
!scope="col"| Issue Description<br />
!scope="col"| Mitigation Description<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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<!--<br />
Please, fill the table below. You can add a line copyng the two lines<br />
|-<br />
| Issue Description || Issue mitigation<br />
--></div>Smaffiolhttps://wiki.egi.eu/w/index.php?title=NGI_International_Task_Review_MS116_Switzerland&diff=33414NGI International Task Review MS116 Switzerland2012-02-24T08:24:06Z<p>Smaffiol: </p>
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<div>{{MS115_MS116<br />
<br />
<!-- EGI Global Tasks Review --><br />
<br />
<br />
| EGIDissemination_Assessment = a probably too passive approach has been taken during P1Y; user communities were informed and invited to try the infrastructure but little has been done in understanding their requirements and their modus operandis. As a result, only few user groups that already have been involded in similar projects, could really profit from the infrastructure.<br />
| EGIDissemination_Score = 2<br />
| EGIDissemination_HowToImprove = The most effective way of reaching out user communities is to get involved in their field of activities; estblish direct contact and collaborate in enabling/porting their usecases. Active participating in scientific communities key dissemination events (workshops, conferences) would also increase visibility of the project.<br />
<br />
<br />
<!-- NGI International Tasks Review --><br />
<br />
<br />
| NGIPolicy_Assessment = your assessment here<br />
| NGIPolicy_Score = 0-5<br />
| NGIPolicy_HowToImprove = your assessment here<br />
<br />
| NGIDissemination_Assessment = NGI-CH focused on reaching out communities for the national infrastructure where a fine grained control of the resources as well as of the funding mechanism allow us to evaluate the capacity that can be offered to the various communities.<br />
| NGIDissemination_Score = 3<br />
| NGIDissemination_HowToImprove = For Iterate this effort at the international level, we need to clarify the resource allocation mechanism as well as the repartition of costs.<br />
<br />
| NGIRequirements_Gathering_Assessment = Requirements have been gathered for already quite few years in similar projects (see EGEE). It's still unclear what logic is used when filtering these requirements for the implementation roadmap.<br />
| NGIRequirements_Gathering_Score = 2<br />
| NGIRequirements_Gathering_HowToImprove = Furhter clarify the requirements evaluation process.<br />
<br />
| NGIApplication_Database_Assessment = Quite some effort has been invested at the EGI level as well at several NGI level for setting up and maintain these sort of information repository. Not clear whether and how these information are effectively used and what real benefit are bringing to user groups and/or support units.<br />
| NGIApplication_Database_Score = 3<br />
| NGIApplication_Database_HowToImprove = Not clear whether such a tool would be really needed.<br />
<br />
| NGITraining_Marketplace_Assessment = your assessment here<br />
| NGITraining_Marketplace_Score = 0-5<br />
| NGITraining_Marketplace_HowToImprove = how to improve<br />
<br />
| NGIConsultancy_Assessment = Consulting is done on an everyday basis; direct contact with user groups through all possible media (mail, skype, phone, in-person). The process implies an understansing of what a given user is trying to achieve, what he/she is curently using and what are his/her projection in terms of scaling. Several time, end-to-end solutions are implemented to spare users from low level details of the overall infrastructure. <br />
| NGIConsultancy_Score = 4<br />
| NGIConsultancy_HowToImprove = This effort and model should be further expanded.<br />
<br />
}}</div>Smaffiolhttps://wiki.egi.eu/w/index.php?title=VT_EGU-GA-2012&diff=32077VT EGU-GA-20122012-02-03T15:58:10Z<p>Smaffiol: </p>
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<div>{{VirtualTeamProject | <br />
VTP_Leader = Steve Brewer, EGI.eu |<br />
VTP_ML = |<br />
VTP_Status = active |<br />
VTP_StartDate = 15/12/2011|<br />
VTP_EndDate = 27/04/2011| <br />
VTP_Meetings = [[VT_EGI_xyz| see dedicated page]]<br />
|<br />
VTP_Motivation = To organise a high impact presence for EGI at the 2012 European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly <br />
* To host a stand to promote EGI<br />
* To disseminate material to this community describing how EGI can support them and how existing researchers are utilising grid technology<br />
* To participate in the session on Grid and Cloud computing<br />
* To identify in advance of the meeting sub-communities within Geoscience/Earth Sciences (especially those connected with ESFRI projoects and/or connected to the NGIs <br />
|<br />
VTP_Output = <br />
The expected outputs of this project are:<br />
* To host a stand at the event, <br />
* raise the profile of EGI to this community and to <br />
* identify and activate new sub-communities with grid-related needs that EGI can help satisfy.<br />
| <br />
VTP_Tasks = <br />
# Book EGI stand at the event (EGI)<br />
# Submit proposal for session: ESSI2.10 Earth science on Cloud, HPC and Grid (proposal accepted)<br />
# Confirm names of people from NGIs who will be present at the event and willing to support EGI at the booth<br />
# Identify researchers who will be present by country (NILs)<br />
# Ensure that EGI users have appropriate logos on their slides etc.<br />
# Identify individuals that should be contacted during the week as prospective users on the infrastructure<br />
# Produce brochure with compelling use case(s) featuring users making use of grid resources for their science (Sara Coelho)<br />
([[VT_EGI_Tasks|see dedicated page]])<br />
|<br />
VTP_Team =<br />
* Steve Brewer, EGI.eu<br />
* Richard McLennan, EGI.eu<br />
* Catherine Gater, EGI.eu<br />
* Sara Coelho, EGI.eu<br />
* Monique Petitdidier, CETP, IPSL FR<br />
* Horst Schwichtenberg, Fraunhofer, [[NGI DE|NGI-DE]]<br />
* Daniele Cesini, NGI_IT<br />
* Sergio Maffioletti, [[SwiNG|NGI-CH]]<br />
|<br />
VTP_Resources = <br />
* [http://www.egu2012.eu/ European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012]<br />
* [http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/9105 Earth science on Cloud, HPC and Grid]<br />
* <br />
* <br />
}} <br />
<br />
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[https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Virtual_Team_Projects Return to VT Projects]<br />
[[Category:Virtual_Teams]]</div>Smaffiolhttps://wiki.egi.eu/w/index.php?title=NGI_community_interactions&diff=29885NGI community interactions2011-12-16T10:52:35Z<p>Smaffiol: </p>
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<div>Before we could answer the question of "What should be captured about the conversations that NGIs have with scientific communities?", the members of the VT should answer: <br />
<br />
#How much would Your NGI (or team) like to know about the conversations that other NGIs have with user communities? <br />
#What kind of questions would you like to answer using information published by other NGIs? (e.g. Who are the potential users for workflow systems? Are there teams working on using e-infrastructures for fire simulation? Who are working on some type of integration of HPC and EGI cluster resources? etc.) <br />
#Does your NGI already have a system in place to report about interactions with user communities? (e.g. Wiki, blog, newsletter) <br />
#Would your NGI share the same details about conversations with users that you expect from other NGIs?<br />
<br />
'''Please add your answers here:''' <br />
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Germany: Torsten Antoni <br />
<br />
#<br />
#<br />
#<br />
#<br />
<br />
Finland: Vera Hansper <br />
<br />
#A summary at this point, mainly with information about how to involve the communities. It would be useful to also know how interested or involved their community is internationally.<br />
#A little unclear on this question.<br />
#We have information through CSC's web site.&nbsp; I would need to ask our PR people for more information on this.&nbsp; Some emerging communities will certainly have a wiki.<br />
#Yes, of course.<br />
<br />
France: Genevieve Romier <br />
<br />
#<br />
#<br />
#We do not have a specific system for that. On the one hand, we use the France Grilles (French NGI) team tools for internal communication. On the other hand, we distribute a newsletter (not specific to users commmunities). We currently work on a new France Grilles website and foresee to publish more practical informations for users and about user communities such as publications, software for example. <br />
#Yes of course&nbsp;!<br />
<br />
Hungary: Szabolcs Hernath, Robert Lovas, Agnes Szeberenyi <br />
<br />
#Maybe a brief summary, how certain problems are handled..(but not sure about the target of this question) <br />
#What sort of workflow frameworks are most common in your NGI amongst workflow communities (ASKALON, MOTEUR, WS-PGRADE, etc)?|What sorts of DCI middleware are used within your NGI? (ARC, gLite, Unicore, Globus, BOINC, etc.)|How can scientific communities access major computing, data and networking infrastructures and services?|What kind of portal technologies and best practices are the most widely used within your NGI? What is the dropout rate for user in the educating/becoming heavy users process? <br />
#We only have GGUS ticketing in NGI_HU, where users can report their problems. NGI_HU members' news are aggregated at NGI_HU website (these news include those interactions). We support also non-NGI_HU users (Desktop Grid users, SHIWA, SCI-BUS users) for which we have regular newsletter (specific for each community). <br />
#yes<br />
<br />
Lithuania: Jelena Tamuliene <br />
<br />
# Very strong :).<br />
#It will be very useful to know how other NGIs involve the communities. Agree, that it would be useful to also know how interested or involved their community is internationally as well as how received support from the Government...<br />
<br />
# Who are interesting in the international cooperation, i.e. to have possibility to discuss grid using problem in certain field. problem in <br />
# We have user support system where users can report their problems and webpage with common items.<br />
# Yes<br />
#<br />
<br />
<br />
The Netherlands: Tom Visser <br />
<br />
#<br />
#<br />
#<br />
#<br />
<br />
Switzerland: Sergio Maffioletti <br />
<br />
#We would like to understand what 'business model' is established at NGI level. What is offered to user communities in terms of services and whether (and how) these communities are asked to be involved in whatever form.<br />
#How the costs of the NGI are exposed to the user communities. Whether these kind of arguments are clarified upfront when approaching new communities. How expectations from user groups are guaranteed to be met.<br />
#We organize regular national events (Swiss Grid School, Swiss DCI day, Swing scientific advisory meeting); We have national project's mailing list and website where we record most of the information about the discussion with user groups. But it is also true that most of the time, interaction with users happens on apersonal base; for this, we do not have a mehnism for reporting systematically the feedback.<br />
#When possible yes.<br />
<br />
Poland: Mariusz Sterzel <br />
<br />
#<br />
#<br />
#<br />
#<br />
<br />
Portugal: Goncalo Borges, Joao Pina <br />
<br />
# We would like to access all information that NGIs would wish to turn public on this aspect. Our objective would be to learn strategies used by other NGIs to establish contacts with users communities, and what arguments were used to convince those user communites to come on board.<br />
# The final objective is always to gain new users. Therefore, we would like to learn from other NGIs what did they did to obtain new users contacts, how did they approach them the first time, what arguments did they used to sell their product, how did guarantee sustainability (i.e, how did they guarantee that users do come back after the first approach), etc... It would also be nice to have some summary of what applications were introduced so that if we receive an equivalent request, we would not start from zero but have some guidance since someone already did a similar job. <br />
# Together with Spain we promote some initiatives where we expect users to join, namely Ibergrid Conference. This year, we have also produced the first IBERGRID report, a book still in print which a resume of the user activities within Spain in Portugal. We have a Wiki (in PT) but is more oriented to provide help than to capture the essence of this discussion<br />
# In the same way we would like to access information of other NGIs we do not have any problem in providing information. I guess the final objective is to form a network based on trust. This is already done for more technical task and should be done also in this new task of gaining ne wuser communities.<br />
<br />
Slovakia: Jolana Sebestyenova, Peter Kurdel <br />
<br />
#<br />
#<br />
#<br />
#<br />
<br />
Spain: Miguel Angel Nunez-Vega <br />
<br />
#<br />
#<br />
#<br />
#<br />
<br />
United Kingdom: Claire Devereux <br />
<br />
#<br />
#<br />
#<br />
#</div>Smaffiol