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Core Activities and Services PHASE III

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This page will list the EGI.eu core activities provided by EGI.eu partners for the period: January 2018 - December 2020

Proposals have been evaluated and the results have been used as inputs for the EOSC-hub project (funded).

Bidding phase III is now closed

List of the bidding activities

Please, find the information about the biddings in the Bidding page


Documentation:

  • EGI.eu Confirmation letters ...
  • 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

Accounting repositories and portal

Overview: The Accounting repositories store computing (serial and parallel jobs), storage, and cloud resources accounting data collected from Resource Centres of the EGI Federation. Accounting information is gathered from distributed sensors into a central accounting repository where it is processed to generate summaries that are available through the EGI Accounting Portal. The Accounting Repository, based on the APEL software, has a MySQL database backend and needs to ensure the exchange of accounting information with peer e-Infrastructures.

The Accounting Portal receives and stores the site, user, and VO level summaries generated by the Accounting Repository and provides views via a web portal, for example, by aggregating sites in a country on custom time intervals. The databases are organized into a CPU record database, a User record database, and a topology database.

Consortium: CESGA, STFC

Contacts: Adrian Coveney - adrian.coveney<AT>stfc.ac.uk

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
  • A dashboard to operate virtual machines in the fedcloud sites

Three types of software solutions are offered through the EGI Applications Database:

  • Software items, in its classical sense, i.e. applications, tools, utilities, etc..,
  • Virtual Appliances: composed by one or more pre-configured virtual machine images packaged with an operating system and software application(s)
  • Software Appliances: one or more a set pairs of a virtual appliance and a contextualization script. A Contextualization Script (CS) is the script launched on VM boot time and could be used for installing, configuring and preparing software upon boot time on a pre-defined virtual machine image

Consortium: IASA

Contacts: Marios Chatziangelou (mhaggel<AT>iasa.gr), Paraskevas Sphicas (sphicas<AT>iasa.gr)

Collaboration tools

DIRAC4EGI

Helpdesk (GGUS)

Helpdesk human support

Marketplace and resource allocation

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

Contacts: Christos Kanellopoulos (skanct@grnet.gr), Kostas Koumantaros (kkoum@grnet.gr)

Monitoring

Overview: Monitoring services archive and provide access to the infrastructure monitoring results of the services. These data are accessible at many levels (Resource Centres, Operations Centres and EGI.EU), and it is used 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 created ad-hoc to support specific operational activities, for example UserDN publishing in accounting records and of software versions of deployed middleware.

Consortium: GRNET, SRCE, CNRS

Contact: Kostas Koumantaros (kkoum<AT>grnet.gr)

Online CA

Overview: The Online CA will generate X.509 certificates upon user request making available through the delegation service long-lived X.509 proxies.

The Online CA is a critical component to enable access to the EGI infrastructure to a wider range of users: the operation of this activity will be executed in tight collaboration with the CheckIn Activity.

The RCauth CA is already accredited as an IOTA CA in IGTF and the delegation portal is and will remain R&S and SIRTFI compliant.

Consortium: GRNET, NIKHEF

Contacts: Kostas Koumantaros (kkoum<AT>grnet.gr), David Groep (davidg<AT>nikhef.nl)

Operations Portal

Security coordination and security tools

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

Contacts: Ian Collier (ian.collier@stfc.ac.uk), George Ryall (George.ryall@stfc.ac.uk)

Services for AAI (CheckIn)

Overview: The CheckIn service is the AAI Platform for the EGI infrastructure. The CheckIn service provides the following capabilities:

  • Integration of IdPs (from eduGAIN and individual institutions) with the EGI services through an IdP/SP proxy
  • Credential translation service:
    • SAML2 <--> SAML2
    • SAML2 <--> OIDC
    • SAML2/OIDC --> X.509 through the connection with the RC Auth online-CA
  • Attribute harmonization and policy enforcing

The activity supports as well some legacy services for the authorization and authentication of users in EGI:

  • Classic catch-all CA
  • Catch-all and for dteam VO VOMS

PERUN is a group management system, developed, maintained and operated by CESNET, that is in use by some scientific communities.

Consortium: CESNET, GRNET

Contacts: Michal Prochazka ( michal.prochazka@cesnet.cz ), Nicolas?

UMD and CMD quality assurance

UMD and CMD software provisioning infrastructure