EGI-Engage:AMB-2017-05-18
Activity Reports
WP1 (NA1) (Yannick Legre)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task NA1.1 Administrative and Financial Management
Proposal for payment at next PMB 25 May 2017
attached to agenda PMB:https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3308/
Task NA1.2 Technical Management
- Submission and review of PY2 pending deliverables
- Preparation of activity report for May Collaboration Board
- Preparation of May PMB agenda
Task NA1.3 Quality and Risk Management
No progress - quality manager on holidays and attending EGI conference (Collaboration board meeting)
WP2 (NA2) (Sergio Andreozzi)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination
Task NA2.2 Strategy, Business Development and Exploitation
- Strategy
- Opened survey for the EGI Council for strategy update - deadline end May
- IMS
- Individual meetings being held with Process Managers and Service Owners
- Preparation for 1 of 3 internal audits - 30 June
- Pay-for-Use
- Presentation in EGI Marketplace session in Catania; updated requirements
- FitSM
- EBI In-house Foundation training - 19 May in Cambridge
- FitSM WG F2F 29-30 May in Munich (planning)
- Promotion and organisation of June batch open registration trainings
- Procurement
- Organised session in Catania to disseminate the results and discuss future activities
- Oganised session at e-IRG to disseminate project results
Task NA2.3 SME/Industry Engagement and Big Data Value Chain
- Webinar “How to engage SMEs for NGIs” to be held 31 May 15:00-16:00
- Draft promotional text being finalized
- Draft presentation structure
- Workplan covering final months of project in progress
WP3 (JRA1) (Diego Scardaci)
Milestones & Deliverables
- D3.14 - Data Accounting: submitted to EC
- D3.13 and M3.6 (Marketplace): submitted to EC
Next deliverables:
- M28: D3.15 Second Data Accounting prototype
- M28: D3.16 Final report on EGI Service Registry and Marketplace
- M30: D3.17 Final release of the accounting and operational tools
Task JRA1.1 Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure
- CheckIn moving to beta
- Connectors to Perun for managing VO memberships under testing
- Working to support the new LoA levels (from AARC)
- Working to support the EGI FedCloud
- Connectors to Ops Portal to gather information about VOs
Task JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace
- Marketplace SDTP ready for SSB review
- Specification for RT queue to store service orders: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qJ0Af60qCv9cF7Cm-uKklLnkn8MwHXr6iy2Hp76Sv0I/edit#heading=h.dvopl56vjyxx
- Platform to manage orders in PrestaShop
- Service order queue created in RT
- Integration with RT on-going
- Defined the workflow to integrate the Applications On Demand Platform
Task JRA1.3 Accounting
- Cloud accounting:
- New solution for accounting of the long running VMs under testing --> it should be ready next week
- Minor change on the cloud accounting usage record to increase the performance
- Meeting at the EGI Conference in Catania to discuss Cloud Accounting evolution:
- new usage record to be defined for block storage
- new usage record to be defined for public IP addresses
- Data accounting:
- Meeting at the EGI Conference in Catania with OneData team to agree on how to proceed with test. For more details see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1__vC6nVptyfnvKNnkOHrv_8aR4midG9gXNf4mhwIgR8/edit?usp=sharing
- New release of the portal under testing. New main features:
- 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)
- Maps to show the graphical distribution of the accounting data in country views
- Discipline account report
- New restricted views
Task JRA1.4 Operations Tools
- Ops Portal: Working on integrating CheckIn and the new messaging. Interface for CheckIn to extract VO information
- GOCDB: new roadmap until the end of the project defined: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/TASK_JRA1.4_Operations_Tools#GOCDB
- ARGO: module for probes management under development, new messaging infrastructure under testing
- SECANT: integration with the AppDB ongoing
Task JRA1.5 Resource Allocation – e-GRANT
- see TJRA1.2
WP4 (JRA2) (Matthew Viljoen)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data
- Security/documentation review work is ongoing The next (and final) review will be at the end of this month.
- EGI DataHub now upgraded to rc14
- Earth Observation PoC to start using CESNET Copernicus datasets using EGI DataHub
Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud
- Nothing new to report
Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration
- iMarine/D4Science plan to move to production this month
- Demo at Catania by CANFAR integration people showing how EU-side identities can be used to effectively share data with researchers on the Canadian side.
Task JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing
- Positive feedback from LXD hypervisor users over KVM.
WP5 (SA1) (Peter Solagna)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task SA1.1 Operations Coordination
- OMB Chaired and agenda preparation
- Discussion with SA1.2 about the possible security improvements for the fedcloud
- Update of the policies page: link between policies and referring agreements (OLA, SLA, UA...)
Task SA1.2 Development of Security Operations
- Preparation of the CSIRT F2F
- Sessions at the EGI Conference
- Discussion about the Fedcloud security issues
Task SA1.3 Integration, Deployment of Grid and Cloud Platforms
Terradue
- DLR InSAR Browse Medium Resolution in production @ BEGRID-BELNET
- Reconfiguration of BELgrid network to secure VMs
- Initial actions to respond to a security incident
WP6 (SA2) (Gergely Sipos)
- All CC tasks presented in Catania. Gergely to follow-up individually questions and outputs aiming at project final report
Milestones & Deliverables
Task SA2.1 Training
Preparation for the following f2f events:
- EUDAT Summer School, EGI FedCloud theme, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 3-7/7/2017
- CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School: http://indico.ictp.it/event/7974 (Contribute with a FedCloud tutorial), Trieste, 10-21/July/2017
Preparation for the following webinar events:
- Webinar about the Applications On Demand Platform (mainly for NGIs and their USTs)
- A webinar for NGIs on how to engage and work with industry.
- Since the Workload Management System is coming to end-of-life, EGI is trying to push for the adoption of DIRAC. We are evaluation the possibility to have another webinar (depends on DIRACT staffing)
Task SA2.2 Technical User Support
- Preparation of EGI talks at Community Application Support workshop (Catania)
- Updated paper about Applications On Demand Service for International Workshop on Science Gateways
- EMSODEV and ICOS presentations in the CC sessions (Catania)
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
PMs have been transferred from Umu and UAB to CPPM to be able to do the final developments of the Dirac portal. Decided at the Collaboration Board meeting in Catania.
Continued work on the EISCAT_3D data model, with a two-day face-to-face meeting in Kiruna between UmU and EISCAT, including development engineers.
Work have been started on D6.21: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W6WVvWEzFBp0xon7Vmgra0DHMRMrWQMi4YqTkBJAujI
Task SA2.9 EPOS
Task SA2.10 Disaster Mitigation