User:Nunolf/VT/SG primer
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General Project Information
- Leader: Peter Kacsuk, SCI-BUS
- Mailing List: vt-science-gateway-primer@mailman.egi.eu
- Status: planned
- Start Date: 01/06/2012
- End Date: 30/11/2012
- Meetings: see dedicated page
Motivation
Access to the EGI e-infrastructure is possible through a range of different service interfaces. Science gateways are an emerging interface for communities to engage more actively with the e-infrastructure by enabling community members to define and perform custom research scenarios.
An EGI science gateway is a community-specific set of tools, applications, and data collections that are integrated together via a web portal or a desktop application, providing access to resources and services from the European Grid Infrastructure. These gateways can support a variety of capabilities including workflows, virtualization software and hardware, visualization as well as resource discovery, job execution services, access to data collections, applications, and tools for data analysis.
The e-infrastructure underlying science gateways is quite complex, and hiding it from researchers is not a trivial undertaking. As more and more communities build science gateways, a set of best practices starts to emerge (policies, technical approaches, ...), and should be re-used by gateway enablers. This is the motto to have a 'Science gateway Primer'.
Output
The expected output of this project is a comprehensive document, a primer for science gateway developers. These are just some ideas for the primer structure:
- Building the gateway
- Planning and design of gateways
- Gateways characteristics
- Enabling technologies
- Connecting to EGI resources
- VO Portal Policy
- Job Submission mechanisms (robots, ...)
- Data storage and file management
- Operations and maintenance practices
- Integration of web-based gateways in EGI SAM central instance
- Security and accounting
- Sustainability
A list of established EGI policies is available in the EGI.eu Policies and procedures webpage. All relevant policies to the primer should be incorporated.
Tasks
- Agree and define a set of standardised information - DONE
- Define the tools necessary to collect/publish the data - DONE
- Define how to present the data online - DONE
- Perform the first iteration of information gathering from the NGIs/EIROs - DONE
Members
- Sergio Andreozzi, EGI.eu
- Damir Marinovic, EGI.eu
- Sy Holsinger, EGI.eu
- Stuart Kenny, Ireland
- Nicolai Iliuha, Republic of Moldova
Resources
- EGI Compendium Questionnaire (fillable PDF)
- EGI VT Website Info request form: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/File:NGI_questions_for_website.pdf
- TERENA Compendium: http://www.terena.org/activities/compendium/
- EGI DS KB: http://knowledge.eu-egi.eu/knowledge/index.php/Main_Page
- e-IRG KB: http://www.e-irg.eu/knowledge-base.html
Progress
The VT completed all the actions and launched the data collection on 25/Mar/2012 with a dedicated survey; the invitation was sent to the 38 EGI.eu participants/associated participants (EGI Council contacts and NILs where available). The deadline for filling the questionnaire is 27/Apr/2012