EGI-Engage:AMB-2015-09-30
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
- Instructions for services and software developed in EGI Engage https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI-Engage:Software_and_services
- Data Plan - https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI-Engage:Data_Plan
- Supporting NA1.1 to colect effort reports and create Help wiki pages https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI-Engage:Project_reporting
- Attending PMB meeting and representing NA1
- Work on Risk management:
- Dedicated wiki page with guidelines: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI-Engage:Risk_Plan
- per WP calls regarding risks
- Template for Software/service type deliverables/milestones
WP2 (NA2) (Sergio Andreozzi)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination
- Recruitment process of a Communications Officer
- Commission of issue 21 of newsletter
- Work on CF2015 organisation
- Preliminary work for eInfra Forum in September 2016
- Review, design of EGI publications (EGI brochure, Engage factsheet, Open Science Commons)
- Writing news items
- Organisation of participation in events (BMB and ICT2015)
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
Fixed SSM and DBloader for storage records. Added SITE filtering to default storage view. Deleted stale DB recors Compiled Intermediate report metrics for WP6 activities. FedCloud meetings Dojo tests. Asynchronous Javascript updates. Implementing new charts in new Accounting Portal.
Task JRA1.4 Operations Tools
Task JRA1.5 Resource Allocation – e-GRANT
WP4 (JRA2) (Tiziana Ferrari)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data
- Integration with OpenAIRE issues, open discussion on the common model of the exchange data sets. - Implementation of the new type of the onedata data space ready to be treated as open data set.
Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud
- OpenStack monitoring probe deployed.
- rOCCI: working on documentation.
- Argus integration is being studied in rOCCI, ooi, Synnefo.
Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration
- CANFAR: The integration is proceeding starting the first tests with the SSO systems.
- gCUBE/iMarine: Continue with the creation of VM images for publishing in AppDB
Task JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing
- We had a meeting with WP4 manager and Derek Ross of STFC/Emerald (LSF8 based GPU cluster) to derscribe the goal of the task and the possibility for Emerald RP to join the GPGPU testbed for testing CREAM
- Maui scheduler installed on CIRMMP cluster, BLAH component for enabling GPGPU support in CREAM for Torque/Maui is now under development
- GLUE2.1 draft has been analysed as starting point for developing the new Torque infoproviders with GPGPU support, and the critical issues tracked in https://issues.infn.it/jira/browse/CREAM-177
- GPGPU activities related to CREAM, including the GLUE2.1 issues, were presented at the OMB meeting held at the end of September.
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
- Metrics and KPIs submitted for EGI-Engage intermediate report
Task SA2.1 Training
- Training coordination call was held and progress with the implementation on the training plan was discussed. Progress according to schedule. Details in meeting notes: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2655
- Preparation for tutorials to be held in Bari. EGI Training infrastructure will be used for several tutorials.
- Promoting the EGI training infrastructure to CCs (in email) and in the EGI News
Task SA2.2 Technical User Support
Task SA2.3 ELIXIR
- Next meeting will be held on October 30th.
Task SA2.4 BBMRI
Task SA2.5 MoBrain
Networking / dissemination:
- Presentation advertising EGI / WeNMR / NeuGrid resources at * Benzon Symposium "Structural Biology on the Move), Copenhagen DK (http://www.benzon-foundation.dk/?q=node/30) * Utrecht Bioinformatics Center annual symposium, Utrecht NL, Sept. 14 (https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/ubc-annual-mini-symposium-registration-14956120158) * SMASH-NMR 2015, Baveno IT, Sept. 21-23 (http://smashnmr.org) * RDA meeting, Paris FR, Sept. 22 (https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/sixth-plenary/programme/e-infrastructures-rda-data-intensive-science/infrastructure)
- Publication of the HADDOCK2.2 webserver in J. Mol. Biol. (EGI Engage acknowledged) (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022283615005379) - Publication of a novel stuctural comparison approach in Scientific Reports (EGI Engage acknowledged) (http://www.nature.com/articles/srep09486)
CLOUD related task
- populated EGI AppDB enmr.eu repository with EGI Fedcloud Clients, EGI Ubuntu 12.04 and EGI Ubuntu 14.04 appliances - built a docker container for the PowerFit cryo-EM application (https://github.com/haddocking/powerfit)
GPGPU task:
- enabled enmr.eu VO at INFN-PADOVA-STACK cloud site, some testing VMs launched by Laura del Caño - progresses with GPGPU activities already reported in https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI-Engage:AMB-2015-09-30#Task_JRA2.4_Accelerated_Computing - setup a prototype MD calculation for a large system (about 180k explicit atoms), which has been running for a few 100's ns already - modified the AMBER implementation on GPGPUs to introduce proper treatment of NOE restraints for pseudoatoms - exporting the CIRMMP partner MD refinement script of NMR structures to GPGPUs
Task SA2.6 DARIAH
Task SA2.7 LifeWatch
- Present at "Ecology at interface" congress (Rome, 21st-25th September). Demo regarding the status and advances in EGI-Lifewatch Competence Centre. http://www.ecologyatinterface.eu/.
- Meeting: Citizen Science group at RJB (Madrid). IFCA, Gbif.es, BIFI, RJB. Definition of Citizen Science Use case: Orchidee identification. Draft Agenda Citizen Science Event.
Task SA2.8 EISCAT_3D
Weekly meetings
Working on the portal specification
Document Q&A