EGI-Engage:AMB-2016-05-18
Activity Reports
WP1 (NA1) (Yannick Legré)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task NA1.1 Administrative and Financial Management
Task NA1.2 Technical Management
Task NA1.3 Quality and Risk Management
WP2 (NA2) (Sergio Andreozzi)
Milestones & Deliverables
- D2.10 "Market Analysis Report of selected sectors" (M18 - GRNET)
- First round of Problem identification & Validation [Nov 2015 - Jan 2016]
- Conduct additional problem validation interviews (10-15) [15 April 2016 - 15 May 2016]
- ToC + Chapter 3 & first results [12 May 2016]
- First draft for review [30 May 2016] – Chapters 1 & 2
- Final draft for review [15 June 2016] – Chapters 3 & 4
- Final version of deliverable [30 June 2016]
- Should have ToC + Chapter 3 Available in a couple of days
Task NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination
- Website redevelopment: on going
- Newsletter issue 23: edited / published
- Newsletter issue 24: commissioning
- News items: 8 new items published
- Publications: EGI Business Engagement brochure ready for print
- Publications: Impact report leaflet, preliminary work
- Case studies: 1 case study published
- Champions programme: rethought / repurposed
- EGI Conference 2016: held and everything went well
- DI4R 2016 event: preparations ongoing, PC F2F meeting booked for Amsterdam, call for abstracts open
- Support work for the EGI review
Task NA2.2 Strategy, Business Development and Exploitation
Task NA2.3 SME/Industry Engagement and Big Data Value Chain
WP3 (JRA1) (Diego Scardaci)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task JRA1.1 Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure
Task JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace
Task JRA1.3 Accounting
Task JRA1.4 Operations Tools
GOCDB
Task JRA1.5 Resource Allocation – e-GRANT
WP4 (JRA2) (Matthew Viljoen)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data
Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud
Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration
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
- M6.5 - Training plan for second period
- D6.10 - Infrastructure tests and best usage practices for life science service providers
Task SA2.1 Training
- Working on M6.5, Training plan for second period
- Preparing for next event: EGI FedCloud tutorial at 'ELIXIR Finland: Using clouds and VMs in bioinformatics training': https://www.elixir-europe.org/events/elixir-finland-using-clouds-and-vms-bioinformatics-training
Task SA2.2 Technical User Support
Task SA2.3 ELIXIR
- Working on D6.10 - Infrastructure tests and best usage practices for life science service providers
Task SA2.4 BBMRI
Task SA2.5 MoBrain
- Good progress in all 4 activities. CC meeting last week, with detailed report on activities on agenda: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/2967/material/minutes/minutes.html
Task SA2.6 DARIAH
- Two cloud sites already in the VO
- CDSTAR - Base system is Dockerised (docker containers); To decide about licence and then release. (The system will be offered for download and installation at local (home) premises. Target users are those with 100s of thousands of scanned images, online service would not be an option because of large data transfer)
- WS-PGRADE - To speak with Zoltan about status
- gLibrary - Writing conference paper to EURALEX2016
- Ongoing: Transform the DARIAH CC wiki page into a page that promotes the DARIAH CC demonstrators and services. Gergely and Giuseppe to create the first version
Task SA2.7 LifeWatch
Task SA2.8 EISCAT_3D
- File download capability added to the DIRAC-EISCAT portal
- Preparing for talk and demo at upcoming EISCAT_3D User Meeting (Uppsala): http://www.space.irfu.se/workshops/EISCAT-3D_User2016/
- Next meeting to focus on security aspect of the portal (certificate-less login; user tracking on infrastructure): May 20, 10:00 Ams time
Task SA2.9 EPOS
- Working with WS-PGRADE team on cloud integration of VERCE portal
- Work on AAI integration use case
- Provided input for training plan