EGI-Engage:AMB-2016-09-07
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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
- reviewing intermediate report input
- handling deliverables review
- attending PMB
WP2 (NA2) (Sergio Andreozzi)
Milestones & Deliverables
- D2.10: Market Analysis report of selected sectors (M18 - GRNET)
- Updated version from external review: https://documents.egi.eu/document/2843
- Awaiting external reviewer approval
- Contribution to intermediate report + metrics updates
- Received feedback from QM, need some improvements
Task NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination
- Website redevelopment: design is complete, content is being added at a good pace, image selection ongoing
- Service publication: design work commissioned; brief prepared & discussed with the designer; first draft of the content is ready
- EGI Conference 2017: begin of preparatory work (discussing / thinking options)
- DI4R 2016: contribution to the event's website and related communication efforts
Task NA2.2 Strategy, Business Development and Exploitation
- Strategic Planning and Evaluation
- Support of business development aspects around the thematic platform services activity
- EO: reviewed EGI inputs to MAOES survey with E. Mondon
- Service & Solution Strategy
- SSB meeting held 6 Sept
- FitSM trainings
- 27 Sept (DI4R)
- Logistics (ordering exams; confirming invigilator)
- Sent several dissemination emails to promote training
- Nov trainings (Amsterdam): promotional e-mail to past participants
- Preparation for FitSM WF F2F (Munich - 22-23 Sept)
- 27 Sept (DI4R)
- ISO Certification: planned pre-audit with preparatory activity 20-22 Sep
- Pay-for-use Implementation
- Several internal discussions on e-GRANT development and future direction/objectives of P4U activity
- Input provided to EGI Marketplace Workflow for Discovery/Request/Activation of Services: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N17nvK5GptdPm9gYQmcJ3l00JpX4jI5Zelfzr0hq14Y/edit#heading=h.ambobuy6endx
- Circulated information regarding HNSciCloud Tender
- Collaboration Partnerships
- Preparation for Helix Nebula General Assembly - Rome (20-22 Sept)
Task NA2.3 SME/Industry Engagement and Big Data Value Chain
- SME engagement
- SME engagement session at DI4R
- Call held with session participants
- Updated and finalised agenda
- Draft version of the Terradue business case
- Call with UberCloud and outline of Webinar and related activities (18 Oct at 16:00 TBC)
- SME Engagement activity meeting (7 Sept)
- Questionnaire; structuring provider service offers (ties into other activities as well e.g. P4U, CloudSME; input to dissemination plan; identify concrete use cases
- Pilot on Sentinel data
- organised progress call, CYFRONET put online the DataHub: https://datahub.egi.eu
- Call with EOMAP to discuss possible collaborations
- SME engagement session at DI4R
- Big Data value chain
- Planned attendance to BDVA Activity Group meeting scheduled for 7 Sep
- Engagement with industry
- Initial call with Vodafone
WP3 (JRA1) (Diego Scardaci)
Milestones & Deliverables
- WP3 Intermediate report: done
- D3.7 First release of the EGI Service Registry and Marketplace prototype: in preparation
Task JRA1.1 Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure
- Support for OpenID Connect services available
- meeting to define next steps scheduled for Thu 8th of Sept
Task JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace
- Evaluation of Prestashop and OpenIRIS live instances
- Definition of the EGI service options (third level in the EGI service catalogue)
- Workflow to access EGI infra from the marketplace and interface with other tools (e-grant, LTOS)
Task JRA1.3 Accounting
- Accounting repo: meeting to be organised to verify the status of the developments
- Accounting portal prototype reviewed. Next steps:
- Bug fixing
- Introduce on-line help and descriptive text in each view
- Make the menu uniform with the EGI service catalogue
Task JRA1.4 Operations Tools
- GOCDB: working on the write API
- ARGO: OTAG meeting scheduled for next Monday Sept 12
Task JRA1.5 Resource Allocation – e-GRANT
- Assessment on how e-Grant should be integrated in the Marketplace workflow and in the LTOS platform
WP4 (JRA2) (Tiziana Ferrari)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data
- https://datahub.egi.eu now up and running. Work is being done to make open EA datasets available in time for Krakow.
Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud
Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration
- Matthew taking over from Enol as task leader while Enol is on paternity leave.
- Meeting with CANFAR/OneData looking at integration into VOSpace. They are keen to do this and a number of actions have been identified from the meeting 1) a technical demo of OneData will be given; 2) work will be done to integrate OneData as a backend storage via POSIX; 3) to properly integrate the ODP, the metadata catalogs of OneData and VOSpace will need to interoperate. This will require development effort.
Task JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing
WP5 (SA1) (Peter Solagna)
Milestones & Deliverables
- Updating the metrics for the intermediate report
- Preparing survey for user satisfaction to VO SLA contacts
Task SA1.1 Operations Coordination
- Circulated survey to collect cost information for core activities
- Contacting VOs for DIRAC testing
- Support for VO SLAs
- Preparation for OMB
- Preparation for OTAG on Monitoring
- Revision of the certification process in the light of new monitoring tools
- Support sites in adding new resources to fedcloud
Task SA1.2 Development of Security Operations
- Discussion with SA1.1 for the evolution of the security monitoring in the short and long term
Task SA1.3 Integration, Deployment of Grid and Cloud Platforms
- A new URP release has been deployed to support the new notification workflow [1] (need to test it);
- Configuration of the CESGA resources (grid and cloud) to support the LToS VO;
- Supporting the integration of the EC3 in the LToS [2];
- Discussed with Marios about the integration of the EGI dashboard in the LToS;
- Discussed with Enol and UPV team about the integration of the Alces Flight in the LToS;
- Included Chipster in the VO-wide list for the vo.access.egi.eu VO;
- Checking with Mischa Salle the MAN12 [3];
- Created an OLA for URP;
- Updated OLA of LToS resource providers.
- Configuration of production resources for D4Science
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