EGI-Engage:AMB-2015-12-16
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
- looking for reviewers https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bWplJENMUiBergGZrJ-9pbbj_j2ApCu6jxS1V6G9WZw/edit#gid=0
- change in how surveys should be collected https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI-Engage:Quality_Assurance#Project_communication_and_outputs
- scheduling risk registry review
- managing deliverables and milestones review process
- Creation of template for software review https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=2492
WP2 (NA2) (Sergio Andreozzi)
Milestones & Deliverables
- Sy offered to be a reviewer for: M2.2; D1.3; D1.4
- D2.6: “Report on data sharing policies and legal framework in fishery and marine sciences data sector” (FAO)
- Connected Anton (author) with relevant information from CCs (through Gergely)
- ToC available at: https://documents.egi.eu/document/2699
- Need to confirm moderators and reviewers now for early feedback to ensure output of deliverable is useful for EGI
- D2.7: “Market Report on the fishery and marine sciences data sector” (ENG)
- ToC available at: https://documents.egi.eu/document/2700
- Need to confirm moderators and reviewers
- D2.9: "EGI Sustainability and Business Development Plan" (EGI.eu)
- Internal draft of ToC; will be circulated by 18 Dec
Task NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination
Task NA2.2 Strategy, Business Development and Exploitation
- Pay-for-Use
- Group call 14 Dec
- Full requirements gathering and analysis for e-GRANT P4U instance v2
- Chipster call 15 Dec
- Service Management
- Brochure discussed with Comms Team
- FitSM Training Calendar updated on EGI website; initial discussion with Yannick for 2016 calendar
- FitSM Foundation Course 10 Dec (paid)
- FitSM webpage banner on EGI site (with Comms Team)
Task NA2.3 SME/Industry Engagement and Big Data Value Chain
- SME Engagement
- Group call 2 Dec
- Identified potential collaborations through PLANETIC, CESAR
- Discussed JRES Conference in France with large industrial participation and material to present with Comms Team
- UberCloud newsletter article + EGI News Item + picked up by HPCwire and Primeur Magazine + disseminated through 15 LinkedIn groups
- Arctur call 2 Dec
- Luna Technologies call 3 Dec
- Supporting ESA and Stimulus project (was TerraDue tech. requirements) call 3 Dec
- Brochure discussed with Comms Team 14 Dec
- Market Analysis
- Group call 2 Dec
- Need someone to attend RDA Workshop on "Data Service/Tool Discoverability" in Greece (April 2016)
WP3 (JRA1) (Diego Scardaci)
Milestones & Deliverables
- D3.2: Design of the EGI Service Registry and Marketplace (PM12)
- D3.3: Accounting Repository release (PM12)
- D3.4: First release of the operational tools (PM12)
- D3.5: Analysis on techniques to manage big data on the EGI accounting system (PM12)
- M3.2: User requirements on data accounting collected (PM12)
Task JRA1.1 Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure
- Document 'EGI AAI Pilot - Architecture & Roadmap' available in google doc: 00 EGI.eu - EGI-Engage > WP3 (JRA1) tools > AAI
- Meeting
Task JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace
- Assessment of technologies to implement the marketplace still on-going: first draft by Dean ready
Task JRA1.3 Accounting
- Survey on data accounting sent to several possible interested communities
- Make UserCPU import more robust and identified problems with 0,14% of the current data set.
- Work on implementation of the navigation in the New Accounting Portal
- Fixed problems with custom WSGI module and Apache configuration.
- Implemented view templating and URL dispatcher in Django.
- Fixed problems with Cross-domain AJAX XMLHttpRequest
- Optimized XHR times.
- Demo of the Portal in the ATB
- Implemented Indexes for new queries.
- Implemented min-max-avg modifiers for Storage view metrics.
Task JRA1.4 Operations Tools
Operations Portal
- Migration of data of VAPOR
- Set up of a robot certificate for VAPOR
- migration to gitlab
GOCDB
- v5.5 released
- Integration of Elixir IdP and EGI-Proxy IdP with gocdb-test
- Development for v5.5.1: Reserved scopes, .properties file upload for multiple k=v pairs
SAM & ARGO
No report received
Secure Monitoring
No report received
Task JRA1.5 Resource Allocation – e-GRANT
- taking part in coordinating new e-GRANt's testing phase
- gathering remarks and requirements from Pay-for-Use team
- implementation of the bugfixes for first reported bugs from testng phase
WP4 (JRA2) (Matthew Viljoen)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data
- Finalization of use cases for Open Data Platform prototype
- Discussion with OpenAIRE on integration with Open Data Platform
Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud
- Ongoing work on D4.3.
- OCCI 1.2 drafts finalized, going through final OGF process for approval.
Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration
Task JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing
Coordination with CESNET/MU partner of MoBrain CC in order to:
- add their GPU nodes to the cloud testbed (i.e. via OCCI, not interested in extending the grid testbed)
- preparing a GPU-enabled VM image with Gromacs and Amber, and test them in the FedCloud
- cloning the Gromacs and Amber WeNMR portals and interface it to the testbed above