EGI-InSPIRE:Czech Rep-QR14
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Quarterly Report Number | NGI Name | Partner Name | Author |
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QR14 | NGI_CZ | Czech Republic | Miroslav Ruda |
1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION
1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED
Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
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1.2. OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
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September 16-20 | Madrid | EGI Technical Forum | 10 | https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1417 |
October 7-9 | Linköping, Sweden | EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Joint Security Training and Workshop | 1 | |
October 14-18 | Amsterdam | CHEP | 1 | http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=214784#20131014 |
1.3. PUBLICATIONS
Publication title | Journal / Proceedings title | Journal references Volume number Issue Pages from - to |
Authors 1. 2. 3. Et al? |
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2. ACTIVITY REPORT
2.1. Progress Summary
Regular maintenance of national SAM Nagios, VO Nagios, TopBDII. Regular maintenance and gradual upgrade to EMI3 of WMS, LB, VOMS, UI, MyProxy services provided for Auger, FedCloud and VOCE VOs. Grid services run smoothly on all sites.
Continued coordination and technical work of software support unit, in the reporting period 99 tickets were handled. Details in SA1.7-QR14.
Continued support of FedCloud activities (resource provider, rOCCI development, support for user communities), participation in mini-projects TSA4.4: Providing OCCI support for arbitrary Cloud Management Frameworks and TSA4.8: Transforming Scientific Research Platforms to Exploit Cloud Capacity. CESNET continued its support for existing use cases and user communities while adding support for new ones, including but not limited to ESA (The European Space Agency), Chain-REDS project and PeachNote (a music score search engine and analysis platform)
Performance evaluation of the DIRAC File Catalogue - continuation of the work. Auger software compilation for the /cvmfs
distribution.
Regular activities undertaken in EGI CSIRT, including taking several weekly shifts and attending weekly/monhtly phone conferences. Providing assistence with monotoring of criticial security vulnerabilities exposed by EGI sites.
A Liferay instance with plugins Liferay Sync and Liferay Social Office was installed and evaluated its features compared to the current EGI back office implementation.
2.2. Main Achievements
Upgrade of the whole site praguelcg2 to SL6. The ATLAS Tier2 in Prague recognized as T2D (sites with full mesh data transfers) thanks to better data transfers performance with LHCONE connection.
CESNET was one of two providers which successfully passed ESA cloud use-case during FedCloud evaluation.
2.3. Issues and mitigation
Issue Description | Mitigation Description |
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