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Email with timeline and instructions sent to Admin-Finance mailing list for effort report and cost claim: | Email with timeline and instructions sent to Admin-Finance mailing list for effort report and cost claim: | ||
EGI-Engage Project ends on August 31st, 2017. The financial report is due within 40 days (due to the review date) thus the following timeline will apply to prepare the final cost statement: | EGI-Engage Project ends on August 31st, 2017. The financial report is due within 40 days (due to the review date) thus the following timeline will apply to prepare the final cost statement: | ||
FINANCIAL REPORTING PERIOD: 1/03/2016 - 31/08/2017 - 18 months | FINANCIAL REPORTING PERIOD: 1/03/2016 - 31/08/2017 - 18 months | ||
* by Fri 15/09/17: Partners report efforts and costs in Authore (see below) | |||
* 18-22/09/17: Checking data by the Project Office | |||
* Tues 26/09/17: AMB review of financial report + feedback to project office | |||
* Mon 09/10/17: Submission 1st draft financial report: (2nd review rehearsal planned on 10/10/17) | |||
* Mon 16/10/17 -strict-: Submission 2nd draft financial report to EC reviewers | |||
* Thu 23-24/10/17: Project Review in Brussels | |||
EFFORTS AND COSTS REPORT IN AUTHORE: | EFFORTS AND COSTS REPORT IN AUTHORE: | ||
* log in using your EGI SSO account: https://egi.authore.com | |||
** please adjust efforts in M13-18 and in M19-M24 where needed and enter actual personnel and travel costs | |||
** please complete efforts in M25-30 (Mar-Aug 2017) and enter actual personnel and travel costs | |||
** inform Project office if actual efforts and costs deviate from the plan; | |||
** contact Project office for ADJUSTMENT OF P1 | |||
Only the actual costs of personnel and travels are eligible, i.e., those costs that are verifiable in your books. The 25 % flat overhead is automatically calculated in Authore. | * Only the actual costs of personnel and travels are eligible, i.e., those costs that are verifiable in your books. The 25 % flat overhead is automatically calculated in Authore. | ||
** FAQ / Guidelines attached for your convenience (or visit our wiki here and here) | |||
After the Project Review the submission of the costs on the EC portal -deadline 30/10/2017- is done by each lead beneficiary based on the Form C validated/extracted from Authore. The lead beneficiary will encode in the system the Form C of the 3rd parties and the system will combine them into a consolidated financial statement. | After the Project Review the submission of the costs on the EC portal -deadline 30/10/2017- is done by each lead beneficiary based on the Form C validated/extracted from Authore. The lead beneficiary will encode in the system the Form C of the 3rd parties and the system will combine them into a consolidated financial statement. | ||
=== Task NA1.2 Technical Management === | === Task NA1.2 Technical Management === | ||
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** Relevant for the EGI FedCloud | ** Relevant for the EGI FedCloud | ||
* In progress: Ops Portal and ARGO integration | * In progress: Ops Portal and ARGO integration | ||
* Draft of a service brochure for CheckIn | |||
=== Task JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace === | === Task JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace === | ||
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* New bugs found in latest Onedata version, next planned date for upgrade of EGI DataHub is the end of the week | * New bugs found in latest Onedata version, next planned date for upgrade of EGI DataHub is the end of the week | ||
=== Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud === | === Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud === | ||
For the JRA the missing bits from the DoW are (Alvaro expects them to be | |||
completed before the end of the project though): | |||
- Finalise and release glue 2.1 support for the cloud info provider. | |||
- Release the VM resize support in ooi (code is ready, releasing it | |||
during this week). | |||
- Finalise and release the OCCI 1.2 implementation of rOCCI. | |||
The CloudKeeper has been developed and it is currently pursuing the | |||
verification process and CMD integration. | |||
=== Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration === | === Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration === | ||
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* problem in the GGUS tickets response time computation, solved | * problem in the GGUS tickets response time computation, solved | ||
* started the recertification process of MK-04-FINKICLOUD | * started the recertification process of MK-04-FINKICLOUD | ||
* Discussion with SA2 about the iMarine SLA, and a possible extension (end expansion) | |||
=== Task SA1.2 Development of Security Operations === | === Task SA1.2 Development of Security Operations === |
Latest revision as of 13:01, 10 August 2017
Activity Reports
WP1 (NA1) (Yannick Legre)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task NA1.1 Administrative and Financial Management
Email with timeline and instructions sent to Admin-Finance mailing list for effort report and cost claim:
EGI-Engage Project ends on August 31st, 2017. The financial report is due within 40 days (due to the review date) thus the following timeline will apply to prepare the final cost statement:
FINANCIAL REPORTING PERIOD: 1/03/2016 - 31/08/2017 - 18 months
- by Fri 15/09/17: Partners report efforts and costs in Authore (see below)
- 18-22/09/17: Checking data by the Project Office
- Tues 26/09/17: AMB review of financial report + feedback to project office
- Mon 09/10/17: Submission 1st draft financial report: (2nd review rehearsal planned on 10/10/17)
- Mon 16/10/17 -strict-: Submission 2nd draft financial report to EC reviewers
- Thu 23-24/10/17: Project Review in Brussels
EFFORTS AND COSTS REPORT IN AUTHORE:
- log in using your EGI SSO account: https://egi.authore.com
- please adjust efforts in M13-18 and in M19-M24 where needed and enter actual personnel and travel costs
- please complete efforts in M25-30 (Mar-Aug 2017) and enter actual personnel and travel costs
- inform Project office if actual efforts and costs deviate from the plan;
- contact Project office for ADJUSTMENT OF P1
- Only the actual costs of personnel and travels are eligible, i.e., those costs that are verifiable in your books. The 25 % flat overhead is automatically calculated in Authore.
- FAQ / Guidelines attached for your convenience (or visit our wiki here and here)
After the Project Review the submission of the costs on the EC portal -deadline 30/10/2017- is done by each lead beneficiary based on the Form C validated/extracted from Authore. The lead beneficiary will encode in the system the Form C of the 3rd parties and the system will combine them into a consolidated financial statement.
Task NA1.2 Technical Management
Task NA1.3 Quality and Risk Management
WP2 (NA2) (Sergio Andreozzi)
Milestones & Deliverables
- D2.13 (+D2.12) “EGI Sustainability and Business Development Plan” (M30 - EGI.eu)
- Ongoing content writing; chasing of allocated actions on specific individuals: D2.13 Google Doc
- External review next week
- D2.14 “Final Report on Communications, Dissemination and Engagement” (M30 - EGI.eu)
- Content maturing; chasing individuals for content: D2.14 Google Doc
Task NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination
- Communication channels:
- DI4R announcements; news about the project positive evaluation
- Publications:
- EGI CSIRT report completed and added to the EGI publication catalogue and Security Coordination service page
- First (layout) drafts and concept for EGI for RIs publication
- CheckIn leaflet: editing the text provided by service owners, first layout
- Events:
- DI4R17: first draft of the event Indico page
- Website: new pages added to the service catalogues
- Reporting work for D2.14
Task NA2.2 Strategy, Business Development and Exploitation
- Strategy
- SIB: 4 members accepted, planning first meeting in September
- EGI Strategy Update 2017
- Editorial Board Set
- First meeting held 20 July; 4 scheduled for August: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/category/208/
- IMS Updates
- Management Review held 27 July: https://confluence.egi.eu/display/IMS/2017-07-27+Management+review
- New internal training and certification discussed for conducting Audits: https://confluence.egi.eu/display/IMS/Auditor+Certification
- Numerous usage of the IMS too many to list
- Organised and chaired: SSB No 29: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3407/
- Created initial service roadmap and planned major changes to be approved for next Council in October https://confluence.egi.eu/display/IMS/Service+Roadmap
- FitSM
- SURFsara In-House Training
- Service offer accepted for a total of 6 courses (4 FND + 2 ADV)
- Scheduled over Aug and Sept
- OSG (US) discussions for providing FitSM support ongoing (New)
- EXIN call on 27 July presenting FitSM (large certification and accreditation provider, potential to replace the void left by TUV SUD) + internal FitSM WG dicussions
- SURFsara In-House Training
- Pay-for-Use
- Contributions to be provided within D2.13, D2.14 and D3.16
- Additional providers under discussion thanks to NextGEOSS (clarity that P4U includes the possibility of charging for only human effort)
- Collaborations
- GEANT: Meeting held 31 July
Task NA2.3 SME/Industry Engagement and Big Data Value Chain
- SME Engagement
- Main activity is to collect contributions to D2.14
- Ongoing collaborations under discussion: T-Systems, UK start-up, BfR,EODC
- Market Analysis
- 2 documents being prepared by FAO, several interviews conducted:
- Service Delivery Model from data centre to community: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L1VOOdulWU_J7IaVIm7dPmsstmQYSouV3DiX2gZuGQU/edit?ts=59761450
- Legal interoperability and data sharing - Concrete Use Case: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z1akX-SaIPopdsignRHod_cjHqt5D8XzDwHFrgVDM8c/edit?ts=59511a6c#heading=h.ddqrsgrf90g3
- 2 documents being prepared by FAO, several interviews conducted:
WP3 (JRA1) (Diego Scardaci)
Milestones & Deliverables
- M28: D3.15 Second Data Accounting prototype. In external review.
- M28: D3.16 Final report on EGI Service Registry and Marketplace. New version implementing reviewers' comment ready in the document server.
- M30: D3.17 Final release of the accounting and operational tools: Internal review. External review will start by today.
Task JRA1.1 Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure
- Done: Provisioning of VOMS information through SAML/OIDC interfaces (Connectors to Ops Portal) done.
- This enables the moving into production of the AppDB VMOps dashboard
- In progress: Translation of VO information into VOMS proxies
- In progress: Self-service web UI for managing OIDC/Oauth2 tokens
- Relevant for the EGI FedCloud
- In progress: Ops Portal and ARGO integration
- Draft of a service brochure for CheckIn
Task JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace
Giuseppe, Peter and Alessandro will manage the activity during my holidays.
- In progress: Service order management tool. Main features are available, minor issues to be fixed. Currently in testing.
- Marketplace Integration with RT
- Workflow to automate AoDS service order management
- Integration with CheckIn service to record users in the vo.access.egi.eu VO
- In progress: Dashboard in PrestaShop customised according EGI needs
Task JRA1.3 Accounting
- Cloud Accounting
- Cloud schema v0.4 rollout finalised.
- Long running VM support is under testing: Some corner cases that are being tracked down. Upgrade to the HW is needed to move the features in production.
- Storage accounting
- 26 RPs have sent storage accounting records within the last two months.
- 20 RPs validated, 3 in progress, 3 are OK but don’t have Alice usage
- New service type added to GOCDB (‘eu.egi.storage.accounting’).
- A few final tweaks and then planning to put into production Aug/Sept.
- Accounting Portal - New release to be deployed by this week.
- API to get accounting data directly from the accounting portal
- Cloud views updated to support the new usage record
- Wallclock time multiplied per the number of CPU cores
- Possibility to select a measurement unit (day, month, etc)
- Discipline account report
Task JRA1.4 Operations Tools
- Ops portal:
- VAPOR 2.3 released. Release note: operations-portal.egi.eu/vapor_dev/releases?name=VAPOR+2.3
- Ops portal 4.2 in preparation:
- integration of complementary metrics for the VO : information about accounting data and AppDB changes
- improvements on the Vo ID Card
- Integration of EGI Checkin
- Use of the new ARGO messaging system
- GOCDB - ongoing tasks that will be completed by end of August:
- Defining allowed methods for write API extension (on the wiki)
- Write API extension for services and service endpoints.
- working on data freshness check
- Move to new STFC infrastructure required for IPv6 support.
- GUI improvements (as defined in https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=11546 & https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=11217)
- Bug fixes of issues in GitHub issues list: https://github.com/GOCDB/gocdb/issues
- Monitoring and messagging:
- many activities in progress. See https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3388/contribution/4/material/slides/0.pdf for details
- SECANT: integration with the AppDB ongoing
Task JRA1.5 Resource Allocation – e-GRANT
- see TJRA1.2
WP4 (JRA2) (Matthew Viljoen)
Milestones & Deliverables
- D4.9 Open Data Platform: Demonstrator, Experience Report and Use Cases (PM29) Final checks, almost ready for submission
- D4.10 Final CANFAR integration release (PM29) Under review (Peter and Andre Schaaff)
- M4.3 Open Data Platform in the Production (PM30) Under lightweight review (Peter and Tiziana)
Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data
- New bugs found in latest Onedata version, next planned date for upgrade of EGI DataHub is the end of the week
Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud
For the JRA the missing bits from the DoW are (Alvaro expects them to be completed before the end of the project though):
- Finalise and release glue 2.1 support for the cloud info provider.
- Release the VM resize support in ooi (code is ready, releasing it during this week).
- Finalise and release the OCCI 1.2 implementation of rOCCI.
The CloudKeeper has been developed and it is currently pursuing the verification process and CMD integration.
Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration
- ENES EGI/EUDAT work now being followed by regular monthly calls. They are testing with B2STAGE/B2SAFE hosted at STFC
- d4science have asked for an increase in EGI resources. Current usage is unclear due to possible problems in the accounting.
Task JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing
- IISAS working with APEL team in testing GPGPU changes to accounting. If everything goes to plan, the production upgrade with this functionality will be in August
WP5 (SA1) (Peter Solagna)
Milestones & Deliverables
- Still waiting inputs for D5.4
Task SA1.1 Operations Coordination
- OMB Discussion: EGI needs to facilitate the sharing of experiences between NGIs who are providing SaaS and other managed services
- Analysis of the reasons behind the VOs decreasing usage
- EGI Core Services reports
- SLA report: mobrain
- site-bdii probes failing on some cloud sites: investigations
- VO decommissioned: vo.londongrid.ac.uk
- VAPOR 2.3 release
- WOrk on the delverable 5.4
- Chaired and agenda preparation of OMB
- Analysis of the survey run among operations centres
- FedCloud meetings
- problem in the GGUS tickets response time computation, solved
- started the recertification process of MK-04-FINKICLOUD
- Discussion with SA2 about the iMarine SLA, and a possible extension (end expansion)
Task SA1.2 Development of Security Operations
- Site Security Challenge currently ongoing (10 sites involved)
Task SA1.3 Integration, Deployment of Grid and Cloud Platforms
WP6 (SA2) (Gergely Sipos)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task SA2.1 Training
Task SA2.2 Technical User Support
Task SA2.3 ELIXIR
Task SA2.4 BBMRI
Task SA2.5 MoBrain
Task SA2.6 DARIAH
Task SA2.7 LifeWatch
Task SA2.8 EISCAT_3D
Task SA2.9 EPOS
Task SA2.10 Disaster Mitigation