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= Activity Reports = | = Activity Reports = | ||
== NA1 == <!-- Catherine --> | == NA1 == <!-- Catherine --> | ||
* Progress on Milestones & Deliverables | |||
Preparations for the QR14 - metrics and draft being collected | |||
* Major work done during the past week by task | |||
TNA1.1 Activity management | |||
* Changes to activity plan to reflect management changes, central budget updates to be finalised | |||
* Change in NA2 and SA1 work package leaders approved by PMB on 13 November | |||
TNA1.2 Project and consortium management | |||
* Payment schedule for PQ11 and PY3 agreed with PO and paid | |||
* Final Form C's for PY3 sent to EC, payment being reviewed | |||
* Feedback being received on 2014 invoices | |||
* Effort allocations to be verified for PY5 | |||
* Interviews completed for Business Development Expert, Technical Outreach Expert and Senior Ops Officer until 20th November | |||
TNA1.4 Quality assurance | |||
* QR14 materials and metrics gathered for 8 November | |||
* Project level metrics to be related to the human networks impact Through White Papers | |||
== NA2 == <!-- Sergio --> | |||
== NA2.2 == | |||
<!-- Neasan --> | |||
# News Items/Articles | |||
#* [http://www.egi.eu/news-and-media/newsfeed/news_2013_0052.html MOOC News Item] published | |||
#* [http://www.egi.eu/news-and-media/newsfeed/news_2013_0053.html LOFAR News Item] published | |||
# Media mentions | |||
#* [http://www.astroblogs.nl/2013/11/19/nederlandse-supertelescoop-lofar-vindt-eerste-pulsars-2/ LOFAR Press release] (in Dutch) | |||
# Events | |||
#* Attending SC13 in Denver | |||
#* Working through contacts made at ICT2013 in Vilnius | |||
# Human Networks | |||
#* Compiling NILs dispatch | |||
#* Collecting ResearchChampion's travel plans for 2014 | |||
#* Drafted description etc for "Technology Champions" | |||
# Publications | |||
#* First batch of edits to Scientific Use Cases document done | |||
# Webinars | |||
#* Scheduling a second webinar on GSI-SSHTerm (RMcL) | |||
# Other Projects | |||
#* ERFlow leaflet on astrophysics workflows drafted | |||
#* ENVRI Website review done | |||
<!-- # Deliverables/Milestones --> | |||
<!-- # Staffing --> | |||
#* Outreach Officer and Graphic Designer start week beginning 25th of November | |||
<!-- # Other --> | |||
== NA2.3 == | |||
Major work done during the past week by task | |||
* Quarterly Report: delivered contribution for NA2.3 | |||
* Interview/selection for BDE position | |||
* Discussion on cloud strategy between FedCloud and Helix Nebula | |||
* Attended meeting for EGITF14 | |||
* Development of agenda for EGI Towards H2020 workshop, cloud session | |||
* Review of solution white paper from Neasan | |||
Major Events Attended | |||
* None | |||
Major Events Planned | |||
* (Sergio?) Helix Nebula F2F Meeting: Suppliers & Users, 4 Dec 2013, Brussels | |||
* (Sergio, Sy, Carmela), EGI workshop, 4-6 Dec 2013, Amsterdam | |||
* (Carmela?) CoPoRi Workshop, 4 Dec 2013, Brussels | |||
== Technical Outreach to New Communities == | == Technical Outreach to New Communities == | ||
== NA2.5 == | == NA2.5 == | ||
* NIL meeting (preparation of Dist. Comp. Centre; Outreach plan for PY5; H2020 preparation) | |||
* Telcon with reps of Computer and Automation Institute of Hungary, leaders of the HEXAA project, funded in the OpenCall of GEANT3plus - to continue with Peter Solagna before the H2020 workshop | |||
* Meeting with Afons (EGI Champ) to discuss next steps towards a life science workshop at EGI CF2014 | |||
* EGI CF 2014 PC meeting | |||
* Planning EGI participation in EGU session with DRIHM | |||
* NILs contacts (wiki, web tables, SSO group validation/updates) | * NILs contacts (wiki, web tables, SSO group validation/updates) | ||
**user support map contacts/details validation and requests for the updates | **user support map contacts/details validation and requests for the updates | ||
* FedCloud user support: baby-sitting new VOs creation | |||
* Update EGI robot certificates statistics | |||
* Support user on grid usage @ VU.nl | |||
* Disseminate grid MOOC course: blog, twitter, and EGI UCB/portals/SGs mailing lists | |||
* Assessment 1st week MOOC grid course | |||
* Abstract submitted by invitation to [http://nmr.chem.uu.nl/~joao/ejibce/ EJIBCE 2013] | |||
=== BioVeL === | |||
* Cloud training & produce tutorial slides (ongoing) | |||
* New FedCloud use case: EDIT; Requirements assessed | |||
* Management of 2nd ENM WF Play day | |||
=== ER-flow === | |||
* Investigations about what can be done to increase VOs' reliability with VO Nagios box and Vapor | |||
* Define detailed dissemination strategy and tasks | |||
* WP leaders meeting | |||
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== SA1 == <!-- Malgorzata --> | |||
[[Inspire_sa1_2013-11-19| report]] | |||
== SA2 == <!-- Peter --> | |||
=== Del and Ms === | |||
* Dave Kelsey agreed to be the main author MS246 | |||
=== SA2.1 === | |||
* SA2 weekly call | |||
* URT meeting | |||
* Reviewed SA2 effort reports | |||
* Producted SA2 QR contribution | |||
* Contacts with PT about the globus dependencies pushed in EPEL | |||
=== SA2.2 === | |||
* working on verification machines contextualization to facilitate the verifiers work | |||
=== SA2.3 === | |||
* Testing release candidates for the UMD updates | |||
=== SA2.4 === | |||
* Preparation of the release candidate for the UMD update | |||
== SA4 == | |||
==== Summary ==== | |||
* The rOCCI framework reached 90% QA and testing coverage, which led to a further set of discovered and fixed bugs. Both dummy and reference backend are 90% complete. | |||
* The A/R reporting component now aggregates values according to HEPSPEC. | |||
==== TSA4.1 - Management ==== | |||
* weekly reports | |||
* assembling QR14 report and contributions | |||
==== TSA4.2 - MOOC ==== | |||
bi-weekly reporting | |||
==== TSA4.3 - Liferay ==== | |||
=====Progress===== | |||
* INFN finished work | |||
* SZTAKI finished work | |||
* CESNET is evaluating Liferay capabilities for organization of non-public document repositories and wikis, compared to MediaWiki's private namespaces | |||
====TSA4.4 - OCCI for CMF==== | |||
=====rOCCI framework===== | |||
* test coverage almost done (> 90 %) | |||
* fixed a hand-full of critical bugs discovered while developing the new rOCCI-server | |||
* improved error handling and reporting | |||
=====rOCCI-server===== | |||
* still working on a reference backend, towards the first alpha version | |||
* dummy backend 90 % done | |||
* continuously adding docs and unit tests (specs) for implemented features | |||
* server now correctly responds to basic OCCI commands with the dummy backend! | |||
=====ToDo for next week===== | |||
* finish up the dummy backend for rOCCI-server | |||
* start porting the OpenNebula backend for rOCCI-server | |||
* in parallel, continue fixing bugs in rOCCI-core | |||
=====Problems===== | |||
* discovered another batch of bugs in rOCCI-core affecting critical functionality of rOCCI-server; see ToDo | |||
=====Delays===== | |||
* Still approx. one month (== Florian's contribution), no further delay | |||
====TSA4.5 - CDMI in CMF==== | |||
=====Progress:===== | |||
- cli first version, finishing tests before pushing to public repo (STOX-22) | |||
- debugging issue related to file cleanup (STOX-25) | |||
- EUDAT API discussion with EPCC (STOX-30) | |||
=====Plans for the next period:===== | |||
- Implement fine grained metadata property retrieval (STOX-24) | |||
- Setup demo instance for testing (STOX-27), hopefully on a new KTH | |||
OpenStack, plan B - AWS. | |||
- Continue with EUDAT API (STOX-30) | |||
=====Problems we encounter, but can solve:===== | |||
- 1.75 month delay caused by effort rescheduling | |||
=====Problems and issues we need external help with:===== | |||
None. | |||
====TSA4.6 - OCCI CompClouds==== | |||
=====Progress===== | |||
- Upgraded OCCI connector to SlipStream v2. This is being deployed on a test system this week for testing. | |||
- Upgraded version committed to GitHub | |||
- Need to complete OCCI connector on fedcloud services (ongoing) | |||
=====Problems we encounter, but can solve:===== | |||
None | |||
=====Problems and issues we need external help with:===== | |||
None | |||
====TSA4.7 - AppDeployment==== | |||
=====Progress===== | |||
* built vm image for computational chemistry users | |||
* talking with astrophysics users, the services may suit their needs | |||
* built cloud-init debian package | |||
* improving documentation | |||
=====Plans for next week:===== | |||
- development of fronted | |||
====TSA4.8 - CloudCapabilities==== | |||
=====Progress:===== | |||
* Discussed next steps about BNCweb use case. Unfortunately, a telephone conference had to be canceled. A new date has not been found yet. | |||
* Posted to EGI Blog about shrinking images for easier distribution and deployment. This lead to a short discussion about how to deal with Windows images. Obviously, there is a demand for this. | |||
* Exploring BioVel image to see whether our suggestions have been followed, particularly data provisioning | |||
* Checking PeachNote image for a rarely observed problem of loosing IP addresses. This could not be verified at Juelich. ICMP Ping only lost packets while the VM was rebooting. | |||
* Contacted CSGF whether they're happy. | |||
=====Plans for next week===== | |||
* PeachNote telephone conference & follow-up work | |||
* Prepare Blog post about cloud application architecture (particularly storage options) | |||
=====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==== | |||
=====Progress:===== | |||
* [Ops] Completed: Removed stomp.py from the Koji building service (it is provided now by EPEL) | |||
* [Ops] Completed: New package for the A/R sync component | |||
* [Ops] Completed: Update the stomp.py library on the production instance | |||
* [Ops] Started: License & Copyright | |||
* [Sync] Completed: Use the latest version of stomp.py that resolved the issue about the missing data from the consumer | |||
* [Sync] Completed: Reference implementation of the hep spec components | |||
* [Sync] Completed the component for retrieving VO topology | |||
* [WebAPI] Completed: Support configuration from an external file | |||
* [CompEng] Started: Background work for supporting the use of Availability Profiles in the computations | |||
* [CompEng] Started: Background work for supporting the use of custom factors in the Availability Profiles | |||
* [WebUI] Started: Web page to compare the results between CERN and us at any time | |||
* [Ops]: Started: Prepare requirements list for the task force | |||
* [Ops]: Started: Installation of Lavoisier on ~Okeanos | |||
=====Plans for next sprint===== | |||
* [Sync] Add license text & copyright to all code artifacts (Sync Components) | |||
* [CompEng] Support the use of Availability Profiles in the computations | |||
* [CompEng] Support the use of custom factors in the Availability Profiles | |||
* [WebUI] Web page to compare the results between CERN and us at any time | |||
* [Management]: Meeting of the Requirements Gathering Task Force | |||
* [WebUI]: New package for the WebUI (Lavoisier) | |||
* Face 2 Face meeting in Thessaloniki | |||
== | =====Problems we encountered, but can solve:===== | ||
None | |||
== | =====Problems and issues we need external help with===== | ||
None | |||
== | ====TSA4.12 - AllocateFedRes==== | ||
No report provided | |||
== JRA1 == <!-- Diego --> | == JRA1 == <!-- Diego --> |
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Activity Reports
NA1
- Progress on Milestones & Deliverables
Preparations for the QR14 - metrics and draft being collected
- Major work done during the past week by task
TNA1.1 Activity management
- Changes to activity plan to reflect management changes, central budget updates to be finalised
- Change in NA2 and SA1 work package leaders approved by PMB on 13 November
TNA1.2 Project and consortium management
- Payment schedule for PQ11 and PY3 agreed with PO and paid
- Final Form C's for PY3 sent to EC, payment being reviewed
- Feedback being received on 2014 invoices
- Effort allocations to be verified for PY5
- Interviews completed for Business Development Expert, Technical Outreach Expert and Senior Ops Officer until 20th November
TNA1.4 Quality assurance
- QR14 materials and metrics gathered for 8 November
- Project level metrics to be related to the human networks impact Through White Papers
NA2
NA2.2
- News Items/Articles
- MOOC News Item published
- LOFAR News Item published
- Media mentions
- LOFAR Press release (in Dutch)
- Events
- Attending SC13 in Denver
- Working through contacts made at ICT2013 in Vilnius
- Human Networks
- Compiling NILs dispatch
- Collecting ResearchChampion's travel plans for 2014
- Drafted description etc for "Technology Champions"
- Publications
- First batch of edits to Scientific Use Cases document done
- Webinars
- Scheduling a second webinar on GSI-SSHTerm (RMcL)
- Other Projects
- ERFlow leaflet on astrophysics workflows drafted
- ENVRI Website review done
- Outreach Officer and Graphic Designer start week beginning 25th of November
NA2.3
Major work done during the past week by task
- Quarterly Report: delivered contribution for NA2.3
- Interview/selection for BDE position
- Discussion on cloud strategy between FedCloud and Helix Nebula
- Attended meeting for EGITF14
- Development of agenda for EGI Towards H2020 workshop, cloud session
- Review of solution white paper from Neasan
Major Events Attended
- None
Major Events Planned
- (Sergio?) Helix Nebula F2F Meeting: Suppliers & Users, 4 Dec 2013, Brussels
- (Sergio, Sy, Carmela), EGI workshop, 4-6 Dec 2013, Amsterdam
- (Carmela?) CoPoRi Workshop, 4 Dec 2013, Brussels
Technical Outreach to New Communities
NA2.5
- NIL meeting (preparation of Dist. Comp. Centre; Outreach plan for PY5; H2020 preparation)
- Telcon with reps of Computer and Automation Institute of Hungary, leaders of the HEXAA project, funded in the OpenCall of GEANT3plus - to continue with Peter Solagna before the H2020 workshop
- Meeting with Afons (EGI Champ) to discuss next steps towards a life science workshop at EGI CF2014
- EGI CF 2014 PC meeting
- Planning EGI participation in EGU session with DRIHM
- NILs contacts (wiki, web tables, SSO group validation/updates)
- user support map contacts/details validation and requests for the updates
- FedCloud user support: baby-sitting new VOs creation
- Update EGI robot certificates statistics
- Support user on grid usage @ VU.nl
- Disseminate grid MOOC course: blog, twitter, and EGI UCB/portals/SGs mailing lists
- Assessment 1st week MOOC grid course
- Abstract submitted by invitation to EJIBCE 2013
BioVeL
- Cloud training & produce tutorial slides (ongoing)
- New FedCloud use case: EDIT; Requirements assessed
- Management of 2nd ENM WF Play day
ER-flow
- Investigations about what can be done to increase VOs' reliability with VO Nagios box and Vapor
- Define detailed dissemination strategy and tasks
- WP leaders meeting
AppDB (19/11/2013)
- Outdated sw items has been enabled into production
- A monthly email is sent to sw entry owners after 3 years of inactivity.
- 'Freshness' option has been added to the faceted search mechanism.
- First steps for personalize the home page of the logged in users, have been made [1].
- A structure for the Scientific classification API has been proposed to EGI [2]. Waiting for feedback in order to start the implementation.
Ongoing tasks:
- Integration with the Operation portal secured API, in order to get each user roles (this info will be needed for the VO image lists management)
- Investigating alternative Authentication mechanisms to cover the login process into our service (Portal + API). The selected approach should offer the ability for the user to login either using his egi sso username/password or his personal certificate. The aim is the final solution to be expandable to third-party authentication sources as well (i.e. facebook etc.)
Next tasks:
- Fetching user details from VOMS servers about their VO membership.
- Change the authentication mechanism based on the outcome of the investigation that we are currently performing.
- Extend the authorization module in our system in order to map VO related permissions to the existed of future user profiles.
- Implement a separate permissions tab for every registered sw/va item, from where the owner could set/unset by whom the given item will be accessible and/or managed.
- Extend the software (not the VAs) items metadata in order the user to be able to set the license under which an item is available.
[1]. https://appdb-dev.marie.hellasgrid.gr/ (... and login)
[2]. https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=6245
SA1
SA2
Del and Ms
- Dave Kelsey agreed to be the main author MS246
SA2.1
- SA2 weekly call
- URT meeting
- Reviewed SA2 effort reports
- Producted SA2 QR contribution
- Contacts with PT about the globus dependencies pushed in EPEL
SA2.2
- working on verification machines contextualization to facilitate the verifiers work
SA2.3
- Testing release candidates for the UMD updates
SA2.4
- Preparation of the release candidate for the UMD update
SA4
Summary
- The rOCCI framework reached 90% QA and testing coverage, which led to a further set of discovered and fixed bugs. Both dummy and reference backend are 90% complete.
- The A/R reporting component now aggregates values according to HEPSPEC.
TSA4.1 - Management
- weekly reports
- assembling QR14 report and contributions
TSA4.2 - MOOC
bi-weekly reporting
TSA4.3 - Liferay
Progress
- INFN finished work
- SZTAKI finished work
- CESNET is evaluating Liferay capabilities for organization of non-public document repositories and wikis, compared to MediaWiki's private namespaces
TSA4.4 - OCCI for CMF
rOCCI framework
- test coverage almost done (> 90 %)
- fixed a hand-full of critical bugs discovered while developing the new rOCCI-server
- improved error handling and reporting
rOCCI-server
- still working on a reference backend, towards the first alpha version
- dummy backend 90 % done
- continuously adding docs and unit tests (specs) for implemented features
- server now correctly responds to basic OCCI commands with the dummy backend!
ToDo for next week
- finish up the dummy backend for rOCCI-server
- start porting the OpenNebula backend for rOCCI-server
- in parallel, continue fixing bugs in rOCCI-core
Problems
- discovered another batch of bugs in rOCCI-core affecting critical functionality of rOCCI-server; see ToDo
Delays
- Still approx. one month (== Florian's contribution), no further delay
TSA4.5 - CDMI in CMF
Progress:
- cli first version, finishing tests before pushing to public repo (STOX-22) - debugging issue related to file cleanup (STOX-25) - EUDAT API discussion with EPCC (STOX-30)
Plans for the next period:
- Implement fine grained metadata property retrieval (STOX-24) - Setup demo instance for testing (STOX-27), hopefully on a new KTH OpenStack, plan B - AWS. - Continue with EUDAT API (STOX-30)
Problems we encounter, but can solve:
- 1.75 month delay caused by effort rescheduling
Problems and issues we need external help with:
None.
TSA4.6 - OCCI CompClouds
Progress
- Upgraded OCCI connector to SlipStream v2. This is being deployed on a test system this week for testing. - Upgraded version committed to GitHub - Need to complete OCCI connector on fedcloud services (ongoing)
Problems we encounter, but can solve:
None
Problems and issues we need external help with:
None
TSA4.7 - AppDeployment
Progress
- built vm image for computational chemistry users
- talking with astrophysics users, the services may suit their needs
- built cloud-init debian package
- improving documentation
Plans for next week:
- development of fronted
TSA4.8 - CloudCapabilities
Progress:
- Discussed next steps about BNCweb use case. Unfortunately, a telephone conference had to be canceled. A new date has not been found yet.
- Posted to EGI Blog about shrinking images for easier distribution and deployment. This lead to a short discussion about how to deal with Windows images. Obviously, there is a demand for this.
- Exploring BioVel image to see whether our suggestions have been followed, particularly data provisioning
- Checking PeachNote image for a rarely observed problem of loosing IP addresses. This could not be verified at Juelich. ICMP Ping only lost packets while the VM was rebooting.
- Contacted CSGF whether they're happy.
Plans for next week
- PeachNote telephone conference & follow-up work
- Prepare Blog post about cloud application architecture (particularly storage options)
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
Progress:
- [Ops] Completed: Removed stomp.py from the Koji building service (it is provided now by EPEL)
- [Ops] Completed: New package for the A/R sync component
- [Ops] Completed: Update the stomp.py library on the production instance
- [Ops] Started: License & Copyright
- [Sync] Completed: Use the latest version of stomp.py that resolved the issue about the missing data from the consumer
- [Sync] Completed: Reference implementation of the hep spec components
- [Sync] Completed the component for retrieving VO topology
- [WebAPI] Completed: Support configuration from an external file
- [CompEng] Started: Background work for supporting the use of Availability Profiles in the computations
- [CompEng] Started: Background work for supporting the use of custom factors in the Availability Profiles
- [WebUI] Started: Web page to compare the results between CERN and us at any time
- [Ops]: Started: Prepare requirements list for the task force
- [Ops]: Started: Installation of Lavoisier on ~Okeanos
Plans for next sprint
- [Sync] Add license text & copyright to all code artifacts (Sync Components)
- [CompEng] Support the use of Availability Profiles in the computations
- [CompEng] Support the use of custom factors in the Availability Profiles
- [WebUI] Web page to compare the results between CERN and us at any time
- [Management]: Meeting of the Requirements Gathering Task Force
- [WebUI]: New package for the WebUI (Lavoisier)
- Face 2 Face meeting in Thessaloniki
Problems we encountered, but can solve:
None
Problems and issues we need external help with
None
TSA4.12 - AllocateFedRes
No report provided
JRA1
Report: Inspire_jra1_2013-11-19