EGI-Engage:AMB-2015-06-11
Activity Reports
WP1 (NA1) (Yannick Legre)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task NA1.1 Administrative and Financial Management
Task NA1.2 Technical Management
Collection of Yearly project plan, organization of activities around the EGI Marketplace, drafting of the AAI roadmap in collaboration with the AARC project, review of status of EGI accounting tools
Task NA1.3 Quality and Risk Management
- Assessment of the status of the metrics portal
- Review and finalization of metrics and KPIs for delivery of the first project quality plan
- Finalizing quality plan deliverable
WP2 (NA2) (Sergio Andreozzi)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination
Preparation of the programme of the EGI Community Forum 2015, setting up of the Programme Committee, preparation of flyer for the BDVA summit in Madrid, preparation of June monthly letter
Task NA2.2 Strategy, Business Development and Exploitation
Strategic meeting with NeCTAR (Australian research cloud) for discussion of collaboration plans
Strategic meeting with OSDC (Open Science Data Cloud, US) for discussion of collaboration plans
Engagement with Compute Canada for discussion of collaboration plans
Contribution to marketplace concept development
Initial discussion on how to kickoff and organize service portfolio management activities so that a draft service portfolio can be ready by mid July
Task NA2.3 SME/Industry Engagement and Big Data Value Chain
BDVA survey preparation
WP3 (JRA1) (Diego Scardaci)
- First draft of the document "ELIXIR Compute Platform Recommendations for EGI" containing EGI answers to ELIXIR recommendations available here
- 1st meeting - make EGI tools x509-less - Friday 12/06 14-16 CEST: GOCDB, Monitoring and Accounting
- Next WP3 monthly meeting 17/06/2015: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2554
Milestones & Deliverables
- M3.1 Operations Tools roadmap: contributions received by all product teams except AAI (JRA1.1) and ARGO & Messaging (JRA1.4)
Task JRA1.1 Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure
- No report received
Task JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace
- Presentation of the Marketplace concepts to several life science institutes in Paris (~40 in attendance). Individual meetings with 6 life science technology platforms in Paris.
- Roadmap update
- Requirements update (Excel sheet based on input from Diego and Sy).
- Requests from EGI to accelerate timeline in EGI Engage of deliverables (Tiziana).
- Analysis of activity diagrams.
- Preparation of survey for NGIs and competency centers.
Task JRA1.3 Accounting
- No report received
- Next Accounting Portal OTAG: 16/06 10-11 CEST
Task JRA1.4 Operations Tools
- preparation of the milestone 3.1
- Deploy gocdb v5.4 for testing, preparation for AAI integration meetings
Task JRA1.5 Resource Allocation – e-GRANT
- dev specification for e-GRANT regarding P4U activity
- e-GRANT roadmap update
WP4 (JRA2) (Tiziana Ferrari)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data
- Analysis of ArgiKnow open data problems
- Summary of the open data usecases presented in the Towards Open Data Cloud session at Lisobon meeting.
Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud
- Populate RT ticket queue with initial set of requirements: https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Dashboards/4121/Federated%20Clouds
- OCCI VM resize extension requested to be considered into OCCI 1.2 public comment phase https://redmine.ogf.org/boards/29/topics/446
- Added OpenStack OCCI implementation into OpenStack's CI infrastructure: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/187526/
- OpenStack OCCI and rOCCI integration tests.
Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration
- Defined metrics for the task
- Defined new RT queue for tracking integration activities
- Started discussion with CERN, IHEP and NeCTAR about integration with EGI
Task JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing
WP5 (SA1) (Peter Solagna)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task SA1.1 Operations Coordination
Task SA1.2 Development of Security Operations
Task SA1.3 Integration, Deployment of Grid and Cloud Platforms
WP6 (SA2) (Gergely Sipos)
Milestones & Deliverables
M6.1 EGI Training Plan was produced and made available for PMB review. (http://go.egi.eu/trainingplan)
Task SA2.1 Training
- Production of M6.1
- Preparation for two upcoming Federated Cloud tutorials. This includes setup of a new VO for training (trianing.egi.eu), preparing VM images, writing instuctions for students, pulling together
- EGI FedCloud tutorial at Software Carpentry workshop: https://harnesscloud.github.io/2015-07-15-feltham/
- EGI FedCloud tutorial at HPCS conference: http://hpcs2015.cisedu.info/
Task SA2.2 Technical User Support
- Engagement with LOFAR and SKA (planning of meeting at the end of June), ongoing activities for the Human Brain Project.
- Enabling access for DIRAC team.
Task SA2.3 ELIXIR
Task SA2.4 BBMRI
Task SA2.5 MoBrain
Task SA2.6 DARIAH
- A DARIAH WG proposal draft is now available in the DARIAH Wiki
- Text needs further polishing
- Marteen, Evelin,Tibor in charge
- User questionnaire for digital humanities researchers
- Questions are nearly finalised in an online lime survey: http://grid.ct.infn.it/surveys/index.php/922586/lang-en (currently under further development and therefore unavailable)
- Issue: Too long (73 questions). But not all sections need to be filled by everyone
- Plans:
- Davor to have a call with Eveline to discuss dissemination strategy; Austrian dataset integration into gLibrary
- Davor to have a call with Zoltan to discuss infrastructure setup
- Davor to establish regular CC teleconferences
Task SA2.7 LifeWatch
Task SA2.8 EISCAT_3D
Working document for the EISCAT-3D CC Portal Specification continuously updated.
Download at http://piratepad.net/ep/pad/export/ro.WwFTADePnzF/latest?format=html
Task SA2.9 EPOS
Task SA2.10 Disaster Mitigation