EGI-Engage:PY2 review

EGI-Engage project:	Main page	WP1(NA1)	WP3(JRA1)	WP5(SA1)	PMB	Deliverables and Milestones	Quality Plan	Risk Plan	Data Plan
	Roles and responsibilities	WP2(NA2)	WP4(JRA2)	WP6(SA2)	AMB	Software and services	Metrics	Project Office	Procedures

WP1

• ISO 9k and 20k certification
• 2 risk registry reviews conducted

WP2

• Task2.1
  • New website
  • EGI service catalogue brochure
  • Events: supported DI4R execution and EGI Conference 2017 preparation

• Task 2.2 (Sergio/Sy)
  • Integrated Management System implemented + ISO9000/ISO2000 Certification
  • Pay for use in production (5 total providers signed LoI - 2)
  • 2 new pay-for-use providers having sent formal Letter of Intent
    • Request via wiki + email in place
    • Request via the EGI Marketplace in progress
  • Service portfolio approved / Catalogue published
  • Procurement study

• Task 2.3 (Sy/Roberta)
  • MoUs: CloudSME, Terradue
  • Marine Fisheries Strategy through BlueBridge; defined business model for collaboration between EGI, BlueBridge and early adopters
  • Expanded the network of relationships with key stakeholders in the EO sector (e.g. DG Grow, large companies, SMEs)
  • Agriculture Market Analysis
    • Thanks to the inclusion of agriculture (GRNET/AgroKnow) within EGI-Engage, EGI was invited into AGINFRA+ project consortium, to which collaboration is continuing https://www.egi.eu/about/newsletters/aginfra-food-and-agriculture-research/
  • Success stories:
    • IBM Research through PSNC (paid)
    • Pilot on hybrid cloud for exploiting Copernicus data
    • NUMECA SME: training support with EGI FedCloud
    • UberCloud Case Study

WP3

• JRA1.1
  • Technical enhancement on CheckIn service
  • Community and operations tools integration

• JRA1.2
  • Service order management process
    • Integration with LTOS platform and e-Grant
  • PrestaShop Marketplace prototype
  • OpenIRIS prototype
  • Technology assessment

• JRA1.3
  • New accounting portal
  • New Cloud Usage Record
  • Data Accounting prototype

• JRA1.4
  • GOCDB, ARGO, Ops Portal new releases
  • New messaging infrastructure

• JRA1.5
  • Activities re-organised according to the outcome of JRA1.2

WP4

• (JRA2.1) Release of first prototype of Open Data Platform with support for open data management, DOI and PID support and OAI-PMH interfaces for open data metadata publishing
• (JRA2.1) Establishment of EGI DataHub service based on Open Data Platform serving as a repository for reference data sets, currently mirroring a subset of Sentinel-2 data set
• (JRA2.2) OCCI 1.2 released for OpenStack and OpenNebula, including support for snapshots and resizing of images.
• (JRA2.2) Design and first implementation of new image distribution method, providing better integration with CMFs.
• (JRA2.3) gCube/D4Science integrated into the EGI Federated Cloud, enabling the use of EGI resources for users of the VREs
• (JRA2.3) CANFAR integration ready to accept credentials from Europe and Canada, VOSpace prototype available.
• (JRA2.3) EGI/EUDAT use cases showing the combined use of both infrastructures started and first pilots deployed.
• (JRA2.4) Establish GPGPU specific VO acc-comp.egi.eu for accelerated computing, create VO-specific image list with pre-installed GPGPU software
• (JRA2.4) Support for GPGPU on OpenNebula (site deployment and certification, upgrade of rOCCI server to support GPGPU in resource template)
• (JRA2.4) Deployment and experimentation with support GPGPU via nova-lxd (LXC container instead of KVM hypervisor)

WP5

• Operational integration of new services such as WebDAV, DataHub and CheckIn
• Harmonization of cloud and HTC service provisioning
• New SLAs
• Security: threat risk assessment follow up and mitigations
• Strengthen of the site security through new procedures and security trainings
• Security: international collaboations
• Support of iMarine and ESA TEP use cases
• Long tail of science

WP6

Training (SA2.1):

• Reusable content (reference material) on cloud CMDline & API; DataHub; Security role-play

Technical support for new communities (SA2.2):

• Finalised and released the Application platform for the Long-tail of science
• Pilot use of EGI cloud and storage services by EMSO, ICOS, Euro-Argo
• ISO-certification for Opportunity prioritization and CRM process (incl. regular interviews with customers)

Competence centres (SA2.3-10):

• Infrastructure integration concluded for early adopters: ELIXIR, DARIAH, BBMRI. They entered into application development and external promotion phase.
• Application demonstrators have been setup by EPOS and DMCC
• Active exploitation of services with uptake of new services: MoBrain (GPGPU), LifeWatch (cloud)