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This page will list the EGI.eu core activities provided by EGI.eu partners for the period: May 2016 - December 2017
Proposals are in evaluation phase.
List of the bidding activities
Please, find the information about the biddings in the Bidding page
Documentation:
- EGI.eu Confirmation letters 2016
- EGI.eu Confirmation letters 2017
- EGI.eu Operation Level Agreements
Each activity is obligated to deliver every 6 months report.
Contact:
- internal communication across activity leaders: core-egi-activities [at] mailman.egi.eu
- to contact activity separately please use GGUS Support Unit
- in case of any general questions: operations [at] egi.eu
Service/Activities
Message brokers
Overview
The message broker network is a fundamental part of the operations infrastructure ensuring message exchange for monitoring, the operations dashboard and accounting. As such it is a critical core infrastructure platform service component whose continuity and high availability configuration must be ensured.
Consortium: GRNET, SRCE
Contact: Christos Kanellopoulos (skanct@grnet.gr), Kostas Koumantaros (kkoum@grnet.gr)
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Accounting repositories and portal
Overview
The Accounting Infrastructure provides storage and access to usage information across the EGI Federation. At a central level it includes the repositories for the persistent storage of usage records and a visualization portal for users and resource providers. The central databases are populated through individual usage records published by the Resource Centres, or through the publication of summarised usage records.
Consortium: STFC, CESGA
Contact: Stuart Pullinger (stuart.pullinger@stfc.ac.uk), Carlos Fernández (carlosf@cesga.es), Iván Díaz (idiaz@cesga.es)
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Monitoring services
Overview
Central systems are needed for accessing and archiving infrastructure monitoring results of the services provided at many levels (Resource Centres, Operations Centres and EGI.EU), for the generation of service level reports, and for the central monitoring of EGI.eu operational tools and other central monitoring needs.
Infrastructure operations require in some cases monitoring activities to be conducted centrally to support specific service and capability monitoring, like UserDN publishing in accounting records, GLUE information validation, and of software versions of deployed middleware.
Consortium: GRNET SRCE CNRS
Contact: Christos Kanellopoulos (skanct@grnet.gr), Kostas Koumantaros (kkoum@grnet.gr)
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Service registry (GOCDB)
Overview
EGI relies on a central registry (GOCDB) to record information about different entities such as the Operations Centres, the Resource Centres, service endpoints and the contact information and roles of people responsible for operations at different levels. GOCDB is a source of information for many other operational tools, such as the broadcast tool, the Aggregated Topology Provider, the Accounting Portal, etc.
Consortium: STFC
Contact: David Meredith (david.meredith@stfc.ac.uk)
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Services for AAI
Overview
Services and activities are needed for a flexible multi-technology AAI platform for user authentication and authorization.
Consortium: GRNET
Contact: Christos Kanellopoulos (skanct@grnet.gr), Kostas Koumantaros (kkoum@grnet.gr)
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Activities and services for the long tail of science
Overview
Small research collaboration lacking ICT resources and tools need dedicated processes and support systems to easily gain access to services and expertise provided at a European level. The EGI services for the long tail of science aim at reducing the entry barriers by streamlining activities like user management, resource allocation and SLA negotiation.
Consortium: Vrije Universiteit Brusse,l CYFRONET
Contact: Tomasz Szepieniec (t.szepieniec@cyfronet.pl), Rosette van den Broucke (rosette.vandenbroucke@vub.ac.be)
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Helpdesk (GGUS)
Overview
EGI provides support to users and operators through a distributed helpdesk with central coordination (GGUS). The central helpdesk provides a single interface for support. The central system is interfaced to a variety of other ticketing systems at the NGI level in order to allow a bi-directional exchange of tickets.
Consortium: KIT
Contact: Guenter Grein (guenter.grein@kit.edu)
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Helpdesk human support
Overview
EGI provides support to users and operators through a distributed helpdesk with central coordination (GGUS). The central helpdesk provides a single interface for support. The helpdesk support activities are grouped in 1st and 2nd level support.
Consortium: CESNET (CZ) CYFRONET
Contact: CESNET: Zdeněk Šustr (sustr4@cesnet.cz) Petr Hanousek (petr.hanousek@cesnet.cz) CYFRONET: Tomasz Szepieniec (t.szepieniec@cyfronet.pl) Patryk Lasoń (p.lason@cyfronet.pl)
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Collaboration tools
Overview
Collaborations tools are services needed by the EGI back-office and supporting EGI collaboration.
Consortium: CESNET (CZ)
Contact: Martin Kuba (makub@ics.mun i.cz) (main and administrative contact) Michal Stava (michal.stava@cesnet.cz)
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Application DB (virtual appliances and applications library)
Overview
The EGI Applications Database (AppDB) is a central service that provides:
- Information about software solutions in the form of native software products and virtual appliances, linking the programmers and the scientists who are involved, and the publications derived from the registered solutions
- The tools for the distribution of the virtual machine images in the cloud sites part of the the federated cloud
Consortium: GRNET
Contact: Kostas Koumantaros (kkoum@grnet.gr), Marios Chatziangelou (mhaggel@iasa.gr)
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Operations Portal
Overview
EGI.eu provides a central portal for the operations community that offers a bundle of different capabilities, such as the broadcast tool, VO management facilities, a security dashboard and an operations dashboard that is used to display information about failing monitoring probes and to open tickets to the Resource Centres affected. The dashboard also supports the central infrastructure oversight activities. It is fully interfaced with the EGI Helpdesk and the monitoring system through messaging. It is a critical component as it is used by all EGI Operations Centres to provide support to the respective Resource Centres. Moreover the Operations Portal provides tools supporting security operations, VO management, broadcast, availability reporting.
Consortium: CNRS
Contact: Cyril L’Orphelin (cyril.lorphelin@cc.in2p3.fr)
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Security coordination and security tools
Overview
Security is recognised as an important aspect of e-Infrastructures and requires coordination between the EGI participants at various levels, in particular for the prevention and handling of incidents.
To keep a distributed infrastructure secure there is need for a coordination activity of the security effort at NGI and resource center level, and for tools that automatically test the EGI sites for vulnerabilities.
Consortium: STFC (UK), FOM-Nikhef (NL), CERN, CESNET (CZ), GRNET
Contact: David Kelsey (david.kelsey@stfc.ac.uk), Christos Kanellopoulos (skanct@grnet.gr), Kostas Koumantaros (kkoum@grnet.gr)
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UMD quality assurance
Overview
The quality criteria are the functional and nonfunctional requirements that a product must fulfill to be released in UMD; these include generic requirements applicable to every product, and specific requirements applicable to the capabilities supported by a component.
The Staged Rollout is a procedure by which certified updates of the supported middleware are first tested by Early Adopter (EA) sites before being made available to all sites through the production repositories. This procedure permits to test an update in a production environment that exposes the product to more heterogeneous use cases than the certification and verification phase. This allows the discovery of potential issues and the addition of corresponding mitigation information to the UMD release notes.
Consortium: Ibergrid
Contact: Jorge Gomes (jorge@lip.pt), Mário David (david@lip.pt), Joao Pina (jpina @lip.pt) Isabel Campos (isabel@campos-it.es ), Enol Fernandez (enolfc@ifca.unican.es) Carlos Fernandez (carlosf@cesga.es)
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UMD software provisioning infrastructure
Overview
The software provisioning infrastructure provides the technical tools to support the UMD release process from pulling packages from the developers repositories to the build of a release.
Consortium: GRNET
Contact: Kostas Koumantaros (kkoum@grnet.gr)
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