EGI-InSPIRE:Amb 2014-01-28
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Activity Reports
NA1
NA2
NA2.2
- Media mentions
- GÉANT article on sonification of Voyager data
NA2.3 Strategic Planning and Policy Support
Major work done
- Pay for Use: preparatory call with two private partners, kick-off meeting, note taking and circulation, separate phone call with French SME, (https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_Pay-for-Use_PoC)
- Solutions White Papers: improved structure for white papers, review in progress
- Inspired newsletter: wrote article for Inspired newsletter
- Participated in data and cloud steering committee
- Brainstorming business associate program for EGI and dedicated VT to kick-start the activity
- MoU with APARSEN: drafting
- Attended NIL meeting
Major Events Attended
- (Sergio) Info Day on Connecting Europe Facility, 15-16.01.2014, Luxembourg
- (Sergio) Helix Nebula/EUDAT Meeting, 21.01.2014, CERN
Major Events Planned
- (Sergio, Carmela) EU Space Conference, 28-29.02.2014, Brussels
- (Carmela) CloudScape VI, 24-25.02.2014, Brussels
- (Carmela) EC Info Day on Future Internet, 31.01.2014, Brussels
- (Sy, Sergio) FedSM Working Meeting, 29-31.01.2014, Barcelona
- (Sergio) Meeting at EC on structural funds and cloud, Brussels, 6.2.2014
- (Sergio, Carmela) Info Days on Research Infrastructure WP, 13-14.20.2014, Brussels
- (Carmela) CloudScape, 24-25.02.2014, Brussels
NA2.4 Events
NA2.5 Technical outreach
EGI-InSPIRE
- UCB meeting
- NGI International Liaisons meeting
- EGI Engagement Strategy scoping phase:
- Support for DIRAC service at EGI (mailing list)
- Meeting with a prospective NGS use case
- Article about DCC (Inspire newsletter)
- EGI robot usage knowledge transfer to Operations (Malgorzata)
ER-flow
- Skype conference about ER-flow platform tutorials, hackathlon.
- Nagios instance for shiwa-workflow.eu VO
- Configuring VAPOR for testing shiwa-workflow.eu VO
- ER-flow website proposed updates for the end users
- Hands on using SSP latest portal within shiwa-workflow.eu VO (certificate, environment setup, workflow creation and job submission)
- Reporting bugs/issues to the SHIWA User Forum
BioVeL
- ST-weekly meeting
- Handle certificate problem for BGBM.org users
Major Events Planned
- (Nuno) 2nd LifeWatch Operational/Working Meeting, 3-4.02.2014, Granada
- (Gergely) BioVeL Strategy Workshop, 12-14.02.2014, Finland
- (Gergely) ER-flow project meeting, 8-10.04.2014, Trieste
SA1
https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Inspire_sa1_2014-01-28
SA2
SA4
Summary
TSA4.1 - Management
- weekly report collation
- TSA4.12 is consistently too late with handing in reports, i.e. missing the AMB reporting deadlines.
TSA4.2 - MOOC
bi-weekly reporting
TSA4.3 - Liferay
Progress
- INFN finished work
- SZTAKI finished work
- CESNET continuing evaluation of the new version 6.2 of Liferay
TSA4.4 - OCCI for CMF
rOCCI-core
- stable, released
rOCCI-api
- feature freeze, testing & debugging
rOCCI-cli
- feature freeze, testing & debugging
rOCCI-server
- private instance deployed at CESNET, testing in progress
- moving towards public beta (scheduled site downtime for new week,
for necessary soft. & infra. upgrades)
- working on installation & configuration docs
ToDo for next week
- finish basic tests and move on to interoperability testing
- in parallel, continue working on the rOCCI framework
Problems
- None
Delays
- Still approx. one month (== Florian's contribution), no further delay
TSA4.5 - CDMI in CMF
Progress
- release of the 0.1 alpha version
- new deployments at CESNET, BSC
- bugfixes from feedback
- development of openstack support. Solving technical issues relating
to the single-threaded server + blocking openstack-swift library takes longer.
Plans for the next period
- release of 0.2 version with bugfixes + openstack support
- work on API GUI for stoxy
- expansion of cdmi probe
- following back on DESY status.
Problems we encounter, but can solve
- 1.3 month delay caused by effort rescheduling
TSA4.6 - OCCI CompClouds
- no report given
TSA4.7 - AppDeployment
bi-weekly reporting
TSA4.8 - CloudCapabilities
bi-weekly reporting
TSA4.9 - VAPOR
Progress
- Fixed problem of too long delay in the computing of the white list of CEs.
- Code cleanness: improvement of comments in the code, clean up of files and properties.
- Started the development of the next Data Management feature: handling of dark data and lost files: develop a dump file script i.e. recursively list the content of an SE using the GFAL2-python API.
- Fixed a long lasting issue of excessive failure rate on JobMonitor: several issues were found:
- Wrong synchronisation of the machine due to ntp port blocked by firewall.
- GridFTP ports blocked by firewall.
- JSAGA generated proxy certificate issue.
- JAVA 7 incompatibility: on version until Jdk7u5 will manage to generate a proxy certificate.
Plans for next period
- Keep on the development of the handling of dark data and lost files: make a diff between LFC and SE files using SE and LFC file dumps.
- Re-check the results of the JobMonitor against the Nagios alarms to see if JobMonitor does no longer fail where Nagios probes work (follow-up of the issue fixed during the last period).
Problems we encounter, but can solve
None.
Problems and issues we need external help with
None.
TSA4.10 - CompReports
Progress
[CompEng] Local executions of calculation
[CompEng] Added license text
[CompEng] In progress: Support the use of Availability Profiles in the computations
[CompEng] In progress: Investigate the compute requirements for A/R
[WebUI] Web page to compare the results between CERN and us at any time
[WebUI] Enabled invalidation of caches via the programmatic interface
[Ops] In progress: Automation of the packaging
[Ops] In progress: Installation of Lavoisier on ~okeanos
[Ops] In progress: Automate the execution of the A/R computations
[Ops] Installation guide
Plans for next sprint
[CompEng] Re-iterate the validation of results
[CompEng] Support the use of Availability Profiles in the computations
[CompEng] Investigate the compute requirements for A/R
[WebUI] Management of recomputations
[WebUI] Management of availability profiles
[WebAPI] Return daily and monthly results for Service Flavors
[WebAPI] Scheduling of recomputations
[WebAPI] History of recomputations
[Ops] Automation of the packaging
[Ops] Installation of Lavoisier on ~okeanos
[Ops] Automate the execution of the A/R computations
Problems we encountered, but can solve
None
Problems and issues we need external help with
None
TSA4.12 - AllocateFedRes
bi-weekly reporting
JRA1
Report: Inspire jra1 2014-01-28