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Activity Reports
NA1
NA2
NA2.2
- News Items/Articles
- News item on CfP for Community Forum published
- Published latest issue of Inspired
- News item on latest issue of Inspired published
- News item on Yannick joing as Director published
- News item on APARSEN-EGI workshop published
- News item on EGI Community Forum 2014 deadline extension published
- News item on APARSEN MoU published
- VisIVO case study almost ready to publish
- Working on possible LOFAR use case for site
- Media mentions
- Article on the Resource Allocation Pool published on page 33 in issue 14 of GÉANT's CONNECT magazine
- Events
- Booking EGI booth at EBEC meeting
- Booking EGI booth at ECCB meeting
- Attending CloudScapeVI next week in Brussels
- Publications
- Working on new version of the Why EGI? brochure
- Working on poster for EGI Solutions Portfolio
- Webinars
- Webinar on Federated Cloud postponed again
- Other Projects
- Compiling list of people to be sent the e-ScienceTalk briefings compendium
- Planning e-ScienceTalkToo proposal
- Supplied short description for executive board
- Deliverables/Milestones
- Supplied Communications Team input to QR15
- Other
- Compiled list of 430 scientific papers that used EGI during 2013
- Six of these are being investigated for use cases
- Another seven are being confirmed as grid use cases
- Compiled list of 430 scientific papers that used EGI during 2013
NA2.3 Strategic Planning and Policy Support
Major work done
- Pay for Use: managed a telecon, minute taking (https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_Pay-for-Use_PoC)
- Solutions White Papers: final draft for "Community-driven Innovation and Support" and "Federated Operations"
- Chaired data steering committees
- Reviewed VT structure for SME business engagement
- MoU with APARSEN: signature
Major Events Attended
- (Sergio, Carmela) Info Days on Research Infrastructure WP, 13-14.02.2014, Brussels
Major Events Planned
- (Carmela) CloudScape VI, 24-25.02.2014, Brussels
- (Sergio) H2020 and Open Access, 25.02.2014, Brussels
NA2.4 Events
NA2.5 Technical outreach
EGI-InSPIRE
- Meeting with CENIEH (palenteology) institute
- Engagement strategy plan: scoping phase
- Scheduling meetings with NILs for all ESFRIs/Communities with red/yellow code
- Support DIRAC 4 EGI and Protein Sequencing/NGS prospective VT's
- EGI Federated Cloud
- input to weekly meeting
- schedule meeting with DRIHM: prospective use case
- support to user from Univ. Bradford: potential RP/TP and use case provider
- Start engagement with BSIM2 SME (from PT)
- H2020 Data SC telcon
- Planning for NIL meetings
- Engagement strategy discussions with Swiss NIL
- FedCloud:Summary for RNA-analysis use case
- Support of a Greek user to run NAMD and AMBER simulations on EGI
- Follow-up Matlab execution environment setup with Greek and Portuguese NILs
ER-flow
- Submitted Hackathon abstract for the EGI CF 2014
- Investigating SSP submission service for using VAPOR white list of resources
- Investigating job submission failure from SSP using shiwa-workflow.eu VO (works fine from gLite UI, but not from SSP portal)
- Getting-started and platform pages for ER-flow website (presenting the available services for the users)
- Events table updates
- Planning for possible follow-up project
BioVeL
- Dissemination: OpenModeller @ CloudScape VI (ePoster & demo)
- Schedule meeting on how EGI can monitor BioVeL services
- ST-weekly call
- Strategy Workshop - sustainability planning
Major Events Planned
SA1
https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Inspire_sa1_2014-02-18
SA2
SA4
TSA4.1 - Management
- weekly reporting
- resolved confusion around mini projects being represented at CF14
- Connected EGI press team with VAPOR to get a news article out
- Introduced VAPOR to the idea of becoming a component of the Cloud Infrastructure Platform
TSA4.2 - MOOC
- Working on certificate for course completion.
- Creating evaluation questionnaire.
TSA4.3 - Liferay
bi-weekly reporting
TSA4.4 - OCCI for CMF
rOCCI-core
- bugfix release 4.2.10
rOCCI-api
- stable release v4.2.0
rOCCI-cli
- stable release v4.2.0
rOCCI-server
- beta deployed at CESNET (w/ VOMS authentication)
- working on installation & configuration docs
ToDo for next week
- work on additional backends (CloudStack has the highest priority)
- do quick bug -> bugfix -> another beta release iterations
Problems
- None (yet :-))
Delays
- Still approx. one month (== Florian's contribution), no further delay
TSA4.5 - CDMI in CMF
bi-weekly reporting
TSA4.6 - OCCI CompClouds
no report given
TSA4.7 - AppDeployment
Progress
- Update packages at AppDB for FedCloud
- VM launching with application context from the front-end functional
- Overall improvement of the front-end design
- Management of proxies with myproxy
Plans for next week
- Continue the front-end implementation
Issues
- Still delayed on the front-end implementation, but we are putting most of our effort there.
TSA4.8 - CloudCapabilities
Progress
- Published a new blog post about keeping images small from within and thinking about decomposing applications.
- Supported the PeachNote Community with accessing CDMI after server side changes.
- Started structuring and discussing the workshop planned at EGI CF14
- Contacted BNCweb about how to stress test their application to measure our success
Plans for next week
- work on full contextualization of BNCweb application, i.e. configure mysql-proxy and
- stress test new BNCweb application
- cloud-init for Debian Wheezy needs to be tested also in OS to check that it can retrieve a configuration from the metadata service. Also, the basic configuration should be aligned and documented.
Problems we encountered, but can solve in the mini-project
none
Problems and issues we need external help with
none
TSA4.9 - VAPOR
bi-weekly reporting
TSA4.10 - CompReports
bi-weekly reporting
TSA4.12 - AllocateFedRes
no report given
JRA1
Report: Inspire jra1 2014-02-18