EGI-Engage:AMB-2016-08-10
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Activity Reports
WP1 (NA1) (Yannick Legre)
Milestones & Deliverables
- completed D1.3 (Quality Plan for PY2) with final revision and reorganization of KPIs and metrics, final updates to be implemented by Mal, but Deliverable already with the EC
Task NA1.1 Administrative and Financial Management
- planning of timing for Second Amendment with new project officer
- meeting with new project officer
Task NA1.2 Technical Management
- revision of LTOS services plan and timing (Contact: Giuseppe)
- revision of Marketplace plans and timing (Contact during Diego's leave period: Tiziana)
- planning of revision of eGRANT plans and timing (Contact during Diego's leave period: Tiziana)
Task NA1.3 Quality and Risk Management
WP2 (NA2) (Sergio Andreozzi)
Milestones & Deliverables
- M2.4: EGI Service management practices are audited (M15 - EGI.eu)
- Finalised the milestone and related report: https://documents.egi.eu/document/2807
- D2.10: Market Analysis report of selected sectors (M18 - GRNET)
- First draft circulated for internal review: https://documents.egi.eu/document/2843
- D2.7 (M12 - ENG): Updated/quality checked as per review feedback
Task NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination
- Website redevelopment.
- Content: Service descriptions completed, rest of the website under consideration/rewrite
- Design: ongoing/late from the developer side; from our side: icons, images selected
- Newsletter issue 24: commissioned
- News & Blog: 6 new items + 9 blog posts published
- DI4R 2016 event:
- PC F2F meeting held in Amsterdam
- Communications for the event
Task NA2.2 Strategy, Business Development and Exploitation
- Strategic Planning and Evaluation
- Updated the EGI Implementation strategy in the live document
- Supported the preparation and execution of the EGI Council workshop (28-29 June) to discuss role of EGI in the European Cloud Initiative
- Produced policy brief on benefits of collaborating with commercial cloud providers
- Strategy on exploitation of Copernicus data: organised meetings with DG Growth and drafted a strategy document
- Prepared and submitted an abstract for session on exploitation of Copernicus Data at DI4R
- Contributed to two surveys on exploitation of Copernicus and EC Space strategy
- Impact Assessment
- Defined an activity plan to prepare an EGI impact brochure to be ready by DI4R and ICT Proposers days (Sep 2016)
- Service & Solution Strategy
- Prepared and submitted an abstract for a session at DI4R conference on the joint service catalogue
- Prepared and submitted an abstract for a presentation at DI4R conference on FitSM
- Contributed to review and update of service descriptions
- Planned next SSB for 19.07.2016
- FitSM Trainings:
- Working on co-located a Foundation training at DI4R
- Circulated via the manager’s list proposed dates for the next round of FitSM Trainings in Amsterdam - Need to coordinate your staff members.
- Formal offer sent to INFN from request for FitSM FND+1ADV
- Cross-border procurement of e-Infrastructure services
- Prepared and submitted a session for the DI4R conference
- Pay-for-use Implementation
- Prepared and submitted an abstract for a presentation at DI4R conference
- Identified an ITT and a lead bidder for IaaS cloud resources interested in receiving offers from EGI P4U participants - Deadline 10 July
- Collaboration Partnerships
- Presented at the EARSC workshop on Marketplace for EO services (22 June)
- Presented at Copernicus Value Chain Workshop and participated to panel on role of Big Data industry in the Copernicus programme
- Meetings with Microsoft Research and AWS
Task NA2.3 SME/Industry Engagement and Big Data Value Chain
- SME engagement
- Finalised MoU with CloudSME and signed + written article/news item: www.egi.eu/news-and-media/newsfeed/News_2016_023.html
- Prepared and submitted session on e-Infrastructures engaging with SMEs
- Defined SME onboarding steps to handle collaboration and technical details to ensure access and authentication to resources.
- Initiated collaboration with Funboostr (SME/Starup)
- Participated at I4MS conference
- Initiated discussion with I4MS coordinator to define a strategy to be involved with digital innovation hubs
- Created business use case template; first draft to use Terradue
- TEISS
- Started application testing between Cyfronet and CloudEO (German SME)
- Market analysis and user requirements in selected sectors
- See Deliverable
- Big Data value chain
- Participated at BDVA Activity Group meeting and break-out sessions
- Initiated collaboration with Terrasigna
- Coordinated collaboration with Big Data Europe
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) (Tiziana Ferrari)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data
Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud
Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration
Task JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing
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
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