EGI-Engage:AMB-2017-08-01
Activity Reports
WP1 (NA1) (Yannick Legre)
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
- D2.13 (+D2.12) “EGI Sustainability and Business Development Plan” (M30 - EGI.eu)
- Ongoing content writing; chasing of allocated actions on specific individuals: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dOg4p3fQDc3QzR8tczCPMU2nEy6BuZp9OWdCCOQNDHs/edit#
- D2.14 “Final Report on Communications, Dissemination and Engagement” (M30 - EGI.eu)
- Content maturing; chasing individuals for content: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pxv63WZ0DSGg6rPiJYj1rb65m9DqH3jrct-eRNp5DN0/edit
Task NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination
Task NA2.2 Strategy, Business Development and Exploitation
- Strategy
- EGI Strategy Update 2017
- Editorial Board Set
- First meeting held 20 July; 4 scheduled for August: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/category/208/
- EGI Strategy Update 2017
- IMS Updates
- Management Review held 27 July: https://confluence.egi.eu/display/IMS/2017-07-27+Management+review
- New internal training and certification discussed for conducting Audits: https://confluence.egi.eu/display/IMS/Auditor+Certification
- Numerous usage of the IMS too many to list
- FitSM
- SURFsara In-House Training
- Service offer accepted for a total of 6 courses (4 FND + 2 ADV)
- Scheduled over Aug and Sept
- OSG (US) discussions for providing FitSM support ongoing (New)
- EXIN call on 27 July presenting FitSM (large certification and accreditation provider, potential to replace the void left by TUV SUD) + internal FitSM WG dicussions
- SURFsara In-House Training
- Pay-for-Use
- Contributions to be provided within D2.13, D2.14 and D3.16
- Additional providers under discussion thanks to NextGEOSS (clarity that P4U includes the possibility of charging for only human effort)
- Collaborations
- GEANT: Meeting held 31 July
Task NA2.3 SME/Industry Engagement and Big Data Value Chain
- SME Engagement
- Main activity is to collect contributions to D2.14
- Ongoing collaborations under discussion: T-Systems, UK start-up, BfR,EODC
- Market Analysis
- 2 documents being prepared by FAO, several interviews conducted:
- Service Delivery Model from data centre to community: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L1VOOdulWU_J7IaVIm7dPmsstmQYSouV3DiX2gZuGQU/edit?ts=59761450
- 2 documents being prepared by FAO, several interviews conducted:
Legal interoperability and data sharing - Concrete Use Case: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z1akX-SaIPopdsignRHod_cjHqt5D8XzDwHFrgVDM8c/edit?ts=59511a6c#heading=h.ddqrsgrf90g3
- BDVA
- Prepared a one pager according to of iSpaces for state of the art presentation.
- Prepared input for SRIA on EOSC
- EO Pilot
- Waiting for newest version of OneData for integration with CESNET resources
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
Task JRA1.5 Resource Allocation – e-GRANT
WP4 (JRA2) (Matthew Viljoen)
Milestones & Deliverables
- D4.9 Open Data Platform: Demonstrator, Experience Report and Use Cases (PM29) Final checks, almost ready for submission
- D4.10 Final CANFAR integration release (PM29) Under review (Peter and Andre Schaaff)
- M4.3 Open Data Platform in the Production (PM30) Under lightweight review (Peter and Tiziana)
Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data
- New bugs found in latest Onedata version, next planned date for upgrade of EGI DataHub is the end of the week
Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud
Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration
- ENES EGI/EUDAT work now being followed by regular monthly calls. They are testing with B2STAGE/B2SAFE hosted at STFC
- d4science have asked for an increase in EGI resources. Current usage is unclear due to possible problems in the accounting.
Task JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing
- IISAS working with APEL team in testing GPGPU changes to accounting. If everything goes to plan, the production upgrade with this functionality will be in August
WP5 (SA1) (Peter Solagna)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task SA1.1 Operations Coordination
- EGI Core Services reports
- SLA report: mobrain
- site-bdii probes failing on some cloud sites: investigations
- VO decommissioned: vo.londongrid.ac.uk
- VAPOR 2.3 release
- WOrk on the delverable 5.4
- Chaired and agenda preparation ofOMB
- FedCloud meetings
- problem in the GGUS tickets response time computation, solved
- started the recertification process of MK-04-FINKICLOUD
Task SA1.2 Development of Security Operations
Task SA1.3 Integration, Deployment of Grid and Cloud Platforms
WP6 (SA2) (Gergely Sipos)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task SA2.1 Training
Task SA2.2 Technical User Support
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
Task SA2.9 EPOS
Task SA2.10 Disaster Mitigation