EGI-InSPIRE:Requirements gathering details
Introduction
The evolution of the European Grid Infrastructure is driven by the users. Therefore capturing and communicating feedback from users to the infrastructure as well as technology operators and providers is a key goal for NA3 and for the project as a whole. The page linked below describes the channels, processes and bodies that the User Community Coordination activity established and runs in order to collect, capture, process, and report requirements and recommendations of users. Input from users are collected by NA3 through various electronic channels and face-to-face communication mechanisms. The User Community Board (UCB), the group of representatives of user communities, then prioritises the collected input with the help of the EGI.eu User Community Support Team (UCST) and the User Services Advisory Group (USAG). The prioritised, weighed requirements prepared by these groups provide direction for the evolution of middleware services as well as the user-oriented technical services provided by EGI. This page also includes links to the requirements and recommendations that have been collected through these processes so far.
Requirement gathering and processing workflow in EGI
- Feedback, requirements and recommendations are collected by the User Community Support Team of EGI.eu from user communities.
- The collected information is normalised by the UCST (i.e. the completeness and correctness of the data is checked; format is changed)
- The data is evaluated by the UCST, and by the User Services Advisory Group.
- The requirements are discussed, prioritised and endorsed by the User Community Board to assure that the user communities interests are correctly represented
- The developers of user services inside EGI-InSPIRE incorporate the endorsed requirements into their development roadmap
- The Technology Coordination Board (TCB) incorporates the endorsed requirements into the UMD (Unified Middleware Distribution) roadmap (Developers outside of EGI-InSPIRE)
- The developers and operators develop test, validate, install new tools on the infrastructure
Requirement documents
These documents are collections of requirements and recommendations provided for EGI by the user communities. The User Community Support Team of EGI.eu processes these documents, captures e-infrastructure requirements from them then merges with inputs from other sources before forwarding to the User Community Board.
Title | Provider | Link to document | Processing status | Link to captured requirements |
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SHARE Roadmap | Healthgrid community | [1] | Processed by UCST | [2] |
ESFRI project requirements for Pan-European e-infrastructure resources and facilities | European E-Infrastructure Forum | [3] | Processed by UCST | [4] |
Production Grid Infrastructure - Use Case Collection v1 | Open Grid Forum | [5] | Processed by UCST | [6] |
Request for Enhancements of gLite to support bio-NMR applications; Updated Request for Enhancements of gLite to support bio-NMR applications | Deploying and unifying the NMR e-Infrastructure in System Biology (e-NMR) | [7], [8] | New | |
gLite requirements collected by the EGEE Project Technical Forum | EGEE project | [9] | New | |
Engaging industry in Grid Computing | OGF under E&T | [10] | New | |
Policy Supporting Grid Education and Training | OGF | [11] [12] | New | |
Policies in Cooperation on t-Infrastructure | OGF | [13] | New | |
Certified Grid Engineer Curriculum | OGF | [14] | New | |
Professional Grid Certification | OGF | [15] | New | |
e-Infrastructure Education and Training | eIRG ETTF | [16] | New | |
Grid Education and Training | OGF under ICEAGE | [17] | New | |
Computing Education | "Distributed Computing Education, Part 5: Intellectual property Rights" Elizabeth van der Meer, Malcolm Atkinson and David Fergusson,, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, (2008), | [18] | New | |
Curricula Development for e-Science | "Distributed Computing Education, Part 6: Curriculum Development" Elizabeth van der Meer, Malcolm Atkinson and David Fergusson,, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, (2009), | [19] | New | |
Strategies and Policies to Support and Advance
Education in e-Science |
"Distributed Computing Education, Part 7: Policy Frameworks" Elizabeth van der Meer, Malcolm Atkinson and David Fergusson,, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, (2009), | [20] | New | |
Training | OGF | [21] | New | |
Training modules | OGF | [22] [23] [24] | New | |
t-Infrastructure | OGF | [25] | New |
Surveys for user communities
Surveys and questionnaires are best suited to collect input from known users and user groups on well defined topics. The User Community Support Team of EGI.eu performed the following surveys in order to receive feedback from user communities on particular topics:
Name of the survey | Topic of the survey | Format of the survey | Sent to | Sent (date) | Deadline to answer | Number of responses | Response rate | Link to survey and to collected responses | Processing status | Link to captured requirements |
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NGI User Support Questionnaire | Discovering the services of NGI User Support Teams; Their capabilities for serving international collaborations; Collecting feedback from NGIs on existing user services and for their improvements | Email with attached doc | Main contacts of every NGI User Support Team | 25.09-05.10/2010 | Continuous collection of responses | 12 (out of XX) | Processed answers | Processed by UCST | NGI USTs | |
VO questionnaire on EMI middleware transition and features | How does the transition of gLite services from v3.1 to v3.2 affect user communities; What enhancements user communities require in the ARC, gLite and UNICORE middleware by April 2011 (foreseen release date of EMI middleware 1.0) | Administrators of every registered EGI VO; Coordinators of Heavy User Communities | 07/10/2010 | 18/10/2010 | 23 (out of 223) | 10.3% | VOs XLS file in EGI.eu Humyo and HUCs XLS file in EGI.eu Humyo | Processed by UCST | VOs and HUCs |
Requirements captured at (user) events
Event | Session (if relevant) | Provider of requirements | Processing status | Link to captured requirements |
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EGI Technical Forum | ESFRI sessions | ESFRI projects | Processed by UCST | EGI TF 2010 Summary |
EGI Technical Forum | HUCs sessions | HUCs | Processed by UCST | EGI TF 2010 Summary |
Our partners in capturing requirements
EEF - European E-infrastructure Forum
EEF homepage - http://www.einfrastructure-forum.eu/
EEF Work documents - https://documents.egi.eu/public/ListBy?topicid=1
2010, ESFRI Projects requirements report by EEF - https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=12
2008, ESFRI Projects requirements report by EEF - http://www.einfrastructure-forum.eu/documents/EEF-report
Members:
- EGI - http://www.egi.eu/
- DEISA - http://www.deisa.eu/
- PRACE - http://www.prace-project.eu/
- Terena - http://www.terena.org/
- GEANT - http://www.geant.net
ESFRI Projects
Requirements of Communities observed at EGI TF 2010 Summary
Reasearch Infrastructures (RIs) - http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=projects
List of ESFRI Infrastructures