EGI-Engage:AMB-2015-09-08
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
Task NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination
- Reviewing applications for the Communications Officer job opening
- Preparing the online programme of the CF2015
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
- D3.1 Technical design of the new Accounting Portal and implementation plan (https://documents.egi.eu/document/2545) --> to EC
Task JRA1.1 Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure
Task JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace
Task JRA1.3 Accounting
- Fixed SSM and DBloader for storage records.
- Reconfigured DBLoader logging to minimize disk use.
- Deleted stale DB recors
- Fixed site tree for Tier2 views.
- Fixed problems with DH cryptography in REBUS service.
- Compiled Intermediate report metrics for WP6 activities.
- Added third level to Cloud Tier2 view
- Final revision of the deliverable D3.1 "Technical Design of the New Accounting Portal"
- FedCloud meetings
Task JRA1.4 Operations Tools
GOCDB
- Presented a proposal to JISC/REFEDS legal guys to hash the ePPN using a project-owned secret salt as a way to securely re-publish and correlate attributes/IDs within a project. Those legal guys have no concerns and want to document this within UKAMF/REFEDS. Needs agreement from EGI details
- Working on role logic to allow different roles per-project in a single Gocdb (v5.5).
Task JRA1.5 Resource Allocation – e-GRANT
- initial development of possibility to request for more than one type of 'Other' type of VM (cloud resources)
- testing phase of negotiation process in p4u instance
WP4 (JRA2) (Tiziana Ferrari)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data
- Preparation the system architecture based on requirements analysis of the communities.
- Preparation of the first milestone report
Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud
- Preparing first release of "ooi".
- Continuing with the integration of Keystone-VOMS and rOCCI in UMD.
- Evaluating initial implementation of VM templates/flavors profile in "ooi": https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8768
- Started implementation of VO information publishing for cloud resources: https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=9095
- Ongoing discussions within OGF OCCI WG regarding the VM resize extension.
Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration
- Finalising CANFAR Roadmap deliverable (D4.1)
- OpenStack integration:
- monitoring probe now available
- Ongoing integration of KISTI resources:
- OCCI and AAI now available
- Reconfiguring site to install neutron instead of nova-network.
Task JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing
- Implemented the parser on CREAM core for the new JDL attributes GPUNumber and GPUMode
- Tested AMBER remote job submission to the new CREAM prototype installed on CIRMMP cluster, some troubleshooting is underway
- The managers of STFC/Emerald (LSF8 based GPU cluster, via Stuart Pullinger), IFCA (SGE based GPU cluster, via Pablo Orviz) and INFN-CNAF (LSF9 based GPU cluster, via Stefano Dal Pra) have been contacted if they can provide a testing instance for extending CREAM GPU support to LSF and SGE LRMSes. Other volunteer sites are welcome, especially a SLURM based GPU cluster. Can AMB spread the word among the EGI Community service providers?
- Starting process of integration of the cloud site to EGI FedCloud
- Keystone VOMS support being integrated
- OCCI in preparation, installation planned in September
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
Task SA2.1 Training
- Preparing a new wiki page about training services, resources, activities. Link this to the main Wiki (in the Engagement and user support section)
- Start organising an SA2.1 teleconference for later in September
Task SA2.2 Technical User Support
- Preparation of a summary document about engagement cases and progress for the next council meeting and the engagement meeting.
- Support for pan-cancer, HBP, BILS.
Task SA2.3 ELIXIR
Task SA2.4 BBMRI
Task SA2.5 MoBrain
- Involved in PhenoMeNal
- Preparing survey in MoBrian to collect further requirements
- Involved in WestLife VRE project. Kick-off in November, but first meeting only in January 2016
- MoBrain meeting - f2f at BMB Symposium? + demo at EGI booth? - To discuss
- MoBrain CC teleconference
- Scipion cloud integration discussion