EGI-Engage:AMB-2017-07-11
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Activity Reports
WP1 (NA1) (Yannick Legre)
Milestones & Deliverables
Task NA1.1 Administrative and Financial Management
- Sept-26: CB provides updated use of efforts per partners/tasks for all project duration
- Oct-2: AMB updates accordingly assessment in "Overview overspending partners" for prioritization of overspending partners
- Sept date to define with PMB: PMB approves the AMB proposal
- action on Yannick: circulate a proposal defining the process and timeline to proceed with the definition of the final payment https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=13045
- November: CB to prepare final payment following PMB recommendations
Task NA1.2 Technical Management
- Planning of final review dates
- Preparation of Open Research Cloud meeting in September
- Preparation of DI4R 2017 Programme Committee
Task NA1.3 Quality and Risk Management
- processes review
- preparing Authore tool for periodic report
WP2 (NA2) (Sergio Andreozzi)
Milestones & Deliverables
- D2.14 “Final Report on Communications, Dissemination and Engagement” (M30 - EGI.eu)
- ToC + ongoing writing
- D2.13 (+D2.12) “EGI Sustainability and Business Development Plan” (M30 - EGI.eu)
- ToC + First draft of content and allocation of actions on specific individuals to start to populate content (deadline 26 July): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dOg4p3fQDc3QzR8tczCPMU2nEy6BuZp9OWdCCOQNDHs/edit#
Task NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination
- Newsletter and communication channels:
- Commissioning issue 28
- Four news items, 1 blog post
- Publications:
- EGI Use Cases brochure: published! and advertised. Started collection of addresses for mailings in September. If you want to send this to your contacts - add addresses here
- EGI CSIRT leaflet/report (although perhaps not Engage work)
- First steps towards a EGI for RIs publication
- Production of the business cards
- Events:
- DI4R17 : progress with logistic arrangements (we will manage the programme) and PC
- Europe's future: open innovation, open science, open to the world
- Support to the EGI Council meeting
- Website: new pages, maintenance
- Social media
Task NA2.2 Strategy, Business Development and Exploitation
- Strategy
- EGI Council meeting dedicated sessions on reviewing the EGI 2020 strategy implementation and updates to new version (29-30 June)
- Progress with setting up the SIB (4 names accepted so far), planning first virtual meeting in September
- IMS Updates
- Internal Audit of ITSM related processes (30 June)
- CI
- Complete revision of audit findings and all suggestions for improvement
- Formal Process Review of CI (10 July)
- Formal Process review of BDS (11 July)
- FitSM
- SURFsara In-House Training Request
- Formal service offer prepared and set providing overall cost/prices for 6 courses
- Follow-up discussions regarding trainer availability and potential dates for courses between August-December 2017
- SURFsara In-House Training Request
- Pay-for-Use
- Follow-up with Diego about functionality implementation in the Marketplace
- Collaborations
- Planning meeting to review progress with GEANT
Task NA2.3 SME/Industry Engagement and Big Data Value Chain
- SME Engagement
- T-Systems call to discuss potential collaboration Open Telekom Cloud (27 June)
- NDA signed for support of UK start-up + call held 10 July as initial discussion/actions; initial support provided free with commercial agreement to follow testing phase
- BfR (German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) contact during AGINFRA+ meeting; follow-up; interest in paid support of a future project starting in Jan 2018 through D4Science and EGI
- EODC call set for 19 July; internal discussions on MoU
- Mail circulated to populate D2.14 (deadline 26 July)
- Market Analysis
- Follow-up call with FAO regarding concrete use case via D4Science (6 July)
- BDVA
- Prepared a one pager according of iSpaces for state of the art presentation.
- Prepared input for SRIA on EOSC
- EO Pilot
- Waiting for newest version of OneData for integration with CESNET resources.
- Start of drafting of EOSC MoU topics (Tiziana)
- Initial discussions of MoU with D4SCIENCE (Tiziana)
WP3 (JRA1) (Diego Scardaci)
Milestones & Deliverables
- M28: D3.15 Second Data Accounting prototype: ToC defined. Work delayed since Adrian Coveney was on sick leave forsome days. STFC promised a full draft by end of this week.
- M28: D3.16 Final report on EGI Service Registry and Marketplace: Draft available in the doc server. To be completed this week
- M30: D3.17 Final release of the accounting and operational tools: TOC available in the doc server. Today is the deadline for contributions from the product teams.
Task JRA1.1 Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure
- Done: Provisioning of VOMS information through SAML/OIDC interfaces (Connectors to Ops Portal) done. RFC: https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=13179
- This enables the moving into production of the AppDB VMOps dashboard
- Done: Mapping of personal X.509 DN(s) to EGI ID in COmanage
- Done: RCauth.eu CA - Integration guide for SGs added to wiki
- In progress: Translation of VO information into VOMS proxies
- In progress: Self-service web UI for managing OIDC/Oauth2 tokens
- Relevant for the EGI FedCloud
Task JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace
- New version of the module integrating the Marketplace with RT released last Fri
- Problems on setup this new version into the Marketplace: CYFRONET nodified
- This version includes:
- Marketplace Integration with RT
- Workflow to automate AoDS service order management
- Integration with CheckIn service to record users in the vo.access.egi.eu VO
- Dashboard in PrestaShop customised according EGI needs: to be tested
- Integration with the Applications on demand service: New category added. Specification: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fEu3bfHD7CpuH5Uvu7D8K1kBcG_7lb1JyWh0jVG4UGs
Task JRA1.3 Accounting
- Cloud Accounting
- Cloud schema v0.4 rollout finalised.
- Long running VM support is under testing: Some corner cases that are being tracked down.
- Storage accounting
- 27 RPs have sent storage accounting records within the last two months.
- Currently getting sites to validate their data (12 sites have, 7 in progress).
- New service type added to GOCDB (‘eu.egi.storage.accounting’).
- A few final tweaks and then planning to put into production Aug/Sept.
- Dataset usage accounting
- Second prototype has been developed more and tested against EGI DataHub.
- Some tweaks made to the data set accounting metrics.
- Drafting report for deliverable D3.15.
- Accounting Portal - New release under testing
- API to get accounting data directly from the accounting portal
- Cloud views updated to support the new usage record
- Wallclock time multiplied per the number of CPU cores
- Possibility to select a measurement unit (day, month, etc)
- Maps to show the graphical distribution of the accounting data in country views: the implementation was too poor. This feature will be removed by this release and included (in a better shape) in the next.
- Discipline account report
Task JRA1.4 Operations Tools
- Ops portal:
- VAPOR 2.3 under testing. Release note: operations-portal.egi.eu/vapor_dev/releases?name=VAPOR+2.3
- Ops portal 4.2 in preparation:
- integration of complementary metrics for the VO : information about accounting data and AppDB changes
- improvements on the Vo ID Card
- Integration of EGI Checkin
- Use of the new ARGO messaging system
- GOCDB - ongoing tasks that will be completed by end of August:
- Defining allowed methods for write API extension (on the wiki)
- Write API extension for services and service endpoints.
- working on data freshness check
- Move to new STFC infrastructure required for IPv6 support.
- GUI improvements (as defined in https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=11546 & https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=11217)
- Bug fixes of issues in GitHub issues list: https://github.com/GOCDB/gocdb/issues
- Monitoring and messagging:
- many activities in progress. See https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3387/contribution/5/material/slides/2.pdf for details
- SECANT: integration with the AppDB ongoing
Task JRA1.5 Resource Allocation – e-GRANT
- see TJRA1.2
WP4 (JRA2) (Matthew Viljoen)
Milestones & Deliverables
Upcoming:
- D4.9 Open Data Platform: Demonstrator, Experience Report and Use Cases (PM29) Under review, due 14 July
- D4.10 Final CANFAR integration release (PM29) Preparing for review: 12 July
- M4.3 Open Data Platform in the Production (PM30) Preparing content.
Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data
- Finalizing SDTP to move EGI DataHub from alpha to beta
- EGI DataHub to be upgraded to latest version next week
Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud
- Working with accounting people to address accounting discrepencies in records (long life machines with wrong start time when they have been rebooted
Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration
- ntr
Task JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing
- ntr (Viet on vacation)
WP5 (SA1) (Peter Solagna)
Milestones & Deliverables
- D5.3 in progress, still some sections to be distributed to sub-authors
Task SA1.1 Operations Coordination
- Working on the Fedcloud use model
- Working on a security certification document for non-EGI services (but interacting with EGI)
- Globus TK support: building communication channels between WLCG/OSG/EGI/...
- RC and RP OLA monthly enforcing
- Review of the wiki page https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Training_Guides
- Finalising the OLA with DIRAC4EGI
- New VAPOR version (2.3) testing
- Preparation of OMB agenda and chairing, as well for UMD meeting
- Release of Preview 1.13 and 2.13
- Yearly review of the monitoring and accounting services OLA
- Testing the new release of the accounting portal
- SLA reports: drihm, terradue
Task SA1.2 Development of Security Operations
- SPG F2F, Community security policies updates
Task SA1.3 Integration, Deployment of Grid and Cloud Platforms
WP6 (SA2) (Gergely Sipos)
Milestones & Deliverables
- M28: D6.21 Second version of enhanced portal for EISCAT_3D (OTHER) - Some sections are still missing
- M29: D6.22 Design larger scale multi-hazards simulation attempting to reduce the uncertainty of climate change assessment (DEM) - Full draft expected next week
- M30: D6.16 Evaluated cloud environment and demonstrator of analysis workflow for biobank studies (DEM) - Under development
- M30: D6.23 Report on evaluation of EPOS EGI pilot studies (R) - Nearly full draft
- M30: D6.15 Demonstrator for ELIXIR workflows implemented in the EGI Federated cloud (DEM) - Under development
- Final and periodic reports - Template is needed
- D2.14 - User engagement (T6.2) - Under preparation in a google doc
- CCs was requested to update/complete dissemination table in Wiki
Task SA2.1 Training
- EGI talk delivered at EUDAT school
- Preparation ongoing to CODATA-RDA summer school (Cloud tutorial)
Task SA2.2 Technical User Support
- Writing input for D2.14
- Updated/updating customers and Business Opportunities in Confluence
Task SA2.3 ELIXIR
- Finalising demonstrators, reporting them in deliverable
- Planning next (final?) EGI-Engage CC telco for late July
- Proposed OLA sent to EBI
Task SA2.4 BBMRI
- Finalising demonstrators, reporting them in deliverable
- VM was prepared for BBMRI.NL in fedcloud
Task SA2.5 MoBrain
No update
Task SA2.6 DARIAH
No update
Task SA2.7 LifeWatch
No update
Task SA2.8 EISCAT_3D
- Finalising deliverable
- New member of staff at CNRS for DIRAC
Task SA2.9 EPOS
- Finalising deliverable (full draft available)
Task SA2.10 Disaster Mitigation
- working on deliverable