EGI-Engage:AMB-2015-10-14
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
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
Task JRA1.1 Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure
Task JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace
Task JRA1.3 Accounting
Task JRA1.4 Operations Tools
Operations Portal
- Integration of GLUE2 requests
- Development of resources browser
- Integration of Cloud information into the browser
- Detection of faulty publication in GLUE2
Task JRA1.5 Resource Allocation – e-GRANT
WP4 (JRA2) (Tiziana Ferrari)
Milestones & Deliverables
M4.1 “Open Data Platform: requirements and implementation plans (1/9/15)”
- Approved by AMB/PMB on 9 Oct, now submitted.
D4.2 “VM snapshot support: OCCI extension, final specification (1/12/15)”
D4.3 “Resource template changes: OCCI extension, final specification (1/12/15)”
Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data
- Milestone report improvments.
- Problems of standards in metadata description
Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud
Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration
- D4Science image created and available on AppDB
- Organising meeting to discuss registry usage in CANFAR integration
Task JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing
- Derek Ross of STFC/Emerald (LSF8 based GPU cluster) send us the AUP to sign to access Emerald GPGPU testbed, in order to start GPGPU-enabled CREAM prototyping for LSF.
- A thread on the WP4.4 and VT-GPGPU mailing lists has started with the APEL team for investigating how to address GPGPU accounting for Torque and other LRMSes.
- For the cloud side, nova3.ui.savba.sk GPGPU enabled cloud testbed has been integrated with the EGI-FedCloud, and tests with OCCI interface have started.
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
- Preparation for tutorials in Bari
- Support for the NGS tutorial to be held in Greece
- Support for the FedCloud tutorial to be held in Hungary
Task SA2.2 Technical User Support
- Attended Cloud Forward conference, made contact with several potential new user
- Support from the user perspective for the setup of the long-tail of science
Task SA2.3 ELIXIR
- CC kickoff teleconference was held on Sept 30. Meeting page with notes available at: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2664
- VO was setup in EGI (vo.elixir-europe.org) to test integration of EBI OpenStack site, PERUN, AppDB.
- VO website: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/ELIXIR_Virtual_Organisation
- Next steps: Integrate EBI (and other?) sites (Steven); Check EGI policies (Gergely); Setup and integrate ELIXIR IdP (Miroslav)
- Identification of scientific use cases is ongoing
Task SA2.4 BBMRI
- Kick-off teleconference arranged for October 15. Proposed agenda:
- Overview of tasks & deliverables
- Status report of BiobankCloud project
- Application to the BBMRI use cases and modifications needed to run on EGI platform
- Upcoming events
Task SA2.5 MoBrain
- CC meeting was held on the 8th of Oct. Agenda page with slides and meeting notes: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2665
- GPU task:
- Integration with GPUs is progressing in three ways: 'Direct access' to GPUs; Access to GPUs in OpenStack (Slovakian partner); Experimenting with Docker and then possibly accessing GPUs from Docker containers (to be developed/tested)
- Some new portals will be developed in the coming months, which will adapted at a later stage to make use of grid or cloud GPGPU resources
- Related deliverable is due for review at end of February. This deadline can be met.
- Cypion in the cloud task:
- Porting image framework to cloud. Working with EGI FedCloud experts from IFCA, Valencia, CESNET
- We still need to understand which workflow element we can port to the cloud which we cannot
- Understanding and trying to deal with network bandwidth bottleneck with DANTE, Surfsara, CESNET
- Integrating the micro- (WeNMR/INSTRUCT) and macroscopic (NeuGRID4you) virtual research communities task
- Makes no sense to implement this now because there is a chance that WestLife or EGI Marketpalce makes this obsolete. Suggest delaying this deliverable to when we will be able to decide and use the effort more wisely. Gergely to request this from the Project Office.
Task SA2.6 DARIAH
- EGI VO was registered and approved. INFN cloud site
- Working towards 1st deliverable: D6.2 - Data repository for DARIAH (OTHER) (M11):
- Setup and configure a gLibrary instance for this VO.
- Start drafting content for a promotional webpage (and leaflet?) which would describe at least the possible use cases of the system, some example use cases (e.g. Bavarian langugage or others from the past) and guide for new users.
- Start filling document based on template from https://documents.egi.eu/document/2501.
Task SA2.7 LifeWatch
- Teleconference was held about the first deliverable: D6.1 Assisted pattern recognition tools integrated with EGI for citizen science (OTHER), M09, 11.2015. Actions from the meeting:
- Jesús: Start completing the document (Software: https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=2501)
- Francisco: requirements (he already sent some) in terms also of storage space.
- Enol: check available hardware with GPUs.
- Fernando: Set up a git hub repository at https://github.com/EGI-Lifewatch-CC.
- Fernando: Check code quality INDIGO WP3. I have been reading the INDIGO D3.1, that has a section of code quality.
Task SA2.8 EISCAT_3D
Task SA2.9 EPOS
- meeting to define AAI architecture. Plan to test the LToS Platform AAI architecture
- EPOS will include the ESA exploitation Platforms in its architecture that will exploit the FedCloud resources. The Satellite Data use case will be integrated on the EGI FedCloud through the GeoHarzard ESA exploitation platform