EGI-InSPIRE:Amb 2013-10-22

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Activity Reports

NA1

• Progress on Milestones & Deliverables

Preparations for the QR14 - template circulated, metrics being collected

• Major work done during the past week by task

TNA1.1 Activity management

• Changes to activity plan to reflect management changes, central budget updates
• Change in NA2 and SA1 work package leaders proposed
• PO notified of change to Project Director, LEAR being updated

TNA1.2 Project and consortium management

• Payment schedule for PQ11 and PY3 closing costs prepared
• Budget for 2014 revised to be voted on at the Council meeting on 24 October
• Effort allocations to be verified
• Proposals for appointments made to the EB for Graphic Designer and Outreach Intern
• Applications open for Business Development Expert, Technical Outreach Expert and Senior Ops Officer

TNA1.4 Quality assurance

• QR14 materials and metrics being gathered for 8 November
• Project level metrics to be related to the human networks impact

NA2.2

1. Media mentions
   • Article in iSGTW on FitSM
   • GÉANT article on Nobel Prize for Physics
   • Financial Times article on physics and music
2. Human Networks
   • Met with CG, GS, RMcL and SC to discuss handover
3. Deliverables/Milestones
   • MS243, reviewed, edited. With the PMB
4. Staffing
   • Interviewed 2 candidates for Outreach Officer role, one F2F, other via skype
   • Interviewed 3 candidates for Graphic Designer role, all F2F
5. Other
   • 5th, 6th and 7th Webinars uploaded

NA2.3

• Major work done during the past week by task

  MoU review for Helix Nebula

  Drafted change management process for scientific disciplines classification and internally reviewed

  Shared template for solution white paper

  Contribution to AAI proposal

  Attended NILs/Champions meeting and provided

  Drafted service management plan for EGI.eu (part of FitSM implementation)

  Prepared and internally reviewed presentation for FedSM review (29/30 Oct)

• Major Events Attended

  None

• Major Events Planned

  (Sy) FedSM 1st Project Review, 29-30 Oct 2013, Bruxelles

  (Sergio) e-IRG Workshop, 4-5 Nov 2013, Vilnius

  (Sergio) ICT2013, 6-8 Nov 2013, Vilnius

  (Sergio, Sy, Carmela?), EGI workshop, 4-6 Dec 2013, Amsterdam

  (Carmela?) CoPoRi Workshop, 4 Dec 2013, Brussels

  (Carmela?) Helix Nebula Suppliers face-to-face meeting, 4 Dec 2013, Brussels

NA2.5

• Review new VT proposal and kick-off VT: Promoting Desktop Grid solutions - https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/VT_Promoting_Desktop_Grids
• Teleconference with NILs & Champions about EGI-InSPIRE PY4-5, H2020, CF2012; Discuss survey to be setup this week for NILs and Champs with Tiziana
• Propose collaboration opportunitites to PRACE (EGU-2014 hydro-meteorology session; science gateways) - meeting to be arranged with Jules Wolfrat
• Meeting about CF2014 with Richard and Tiziana - event scope, structure, content
• Discuss human network management with press team and Richard (handover from Richard to Sara)
• Teleconference with EISCAT_3D study case - next step is to define a 2TB data pilot + planning to H2020 proposal
• ER-flow review (1 day for Gergely) - the project received a GOOD mark
• Send out request for QR14 input to TNA2.5 teams
• Record EGI Introduction lecture for Grid Computing MOOC (mini-project in SA4)
• Attend review rehearsal of the BioVeL project (webex session)
• Search for VRE projects (potential EGI customers) on the EC Cordis website - results relevant for ER-flow and EGI-InSPIRE NA2.5
• Article about BioVeL FedCloud usage into Inspired

SA1

Report: Inspire_sa1_2013-10-22

SA4

Summary

• MOOC progresses with assembling the course material, but has some issues with temporary grid certificates.
• Liferay is working towards a replacement module for the EGI blog
• rOCCI is extending the test coverage on the framework, and a number of skeleton APIs reflecting the adjusted objectives (as also reported in MS801)
• Contextualisation/AppdDeployment is testing the new OpenStack Horizon release for compatibility.
• The CloudCaps project works on new documentation and publications, and works with WeNMR on updated images.
• The CompReports project is currently validating results for September 2013, self-check mechanisms and custom filters.

TSA4.1 - Management

• compiling weekly reports
• finishing adjusting objectives for TSA4.4 (volunteer developers had left)

TSA4.2 - MOOC

• recorded & edited two use cases
• reworked slides on grid certificates
• added content to storage on grid
• created WS-PGrade exercises
• created new version of VM

• We're experiencing some issues with temporary grid certificates which don't allow us to save data on dcache. Our sysadmins and the dcache developers are looking into this.

TSA4.3 - Liferay

• INFN - work done
• SZTAKI - no report, but agreed to attend a videoconf next week
• CESNET - still working on hooks for EGI blog replacement

TSA4.4 - OCCI for CMF

rOCCI framework

• extended test coverage to improve QA on rOCCI-core
• a bunch of bug fixes improving OCCI rendering, attribute validation and error handling in rOCCI-core

rOCCI-server

• implemented a skeleton of the internal backend API (Core <-> BackendManager)
• implemented a skeleton of the OCCI-parsing module
• started implementing a reference backend

ToDo for next week

• continue working on rOCCI-server integration with rOCCI-core and back-ends
• in parallel, continue extending test coverage on rOCCI framework, primarily rOCCI-core

Problems

• None (yet :-))

Delays

• Still approx. one month (== Florian's contribution), no further delay
• Postponed fixes for non-critical rOCCI-* bugs reported during Cloud Plugfest, to minimize the delay
• Implemented changes proposed in MS801, to minimize the delay

TSA4.5 - CDMI in CMF

Progress:

• due to work on EUDAT project no progress was made

Plans for the next period:

• from next week the effort is back on EGI project, continuing with the prev. weeks plans.

Problems we encounter, but can solve:

• "second half" of the work load has required 100% commitment for the last month, project demo rush.

Problems and issues we need external help with:

• None.

TSA4.6 - OCCI CompClouds

no report given

TSA4.7 - AppDeployment

Progress:

• Testing the OCCI extension with the latest OpenStack codebase.
• Creation of base images for new use cases
• Continue with the frontend development.

Plans for next week:

• Development of frontend
• Add applications for new use cases

TSA4.8 - CloudCapabilities

Progress:

• Discussions with WeNMR community about new images
• Planning publication about our activities
• Documentation changes

Plans for next week

• Contact Martin Wynne regarding BNCweb
• PeachNote firewall clearances
• AutoFS for BioVel images

Problems we encountered, but can solve in the mini-project:

Problems and issues we need external help with:

TSA4.9 - VAPOR

bi-weekly reporting

TSA4.10 - CompReports

Progress

• [Ops] Updated the documentation about the deployment of the infrastructure
• [Ops] Added 1 more hadoop node
• [Ops] Finished the validation of results for September
• [Ops] Added monitoring of raw data via nrpe checks on consumer instance
• [Sync] Investigation of issue with missing data
• [Sync] Implemented of a self-check mechanism for consumer
• [Sync] Resolved issues with the HEPSPEC sync
• [Sync] Testing new version the stomp.py library
• [WebUI] Filter results for custom periods
• [WebUI] Filter results for predefined periods

Plans for next sprint

• [Ops] Installation guide for Lavoisier
• [Ops] Installation guide for Hadoop
• [Ops] Packaging for the WebAPI
• [Ops] Repackage the A/R compute package
• [Ops] Automation of the packaging
• [Sync] Reference implementation of the hepspec sync component
• [Sync] Add license text to all code artifacts (Sync Components)
• [Sync] Update the stomp.py library on the production instance
• [CompEng] Support the use of Availability Profiles in the computations
• [CompEng] Support the use of custom factors in the Availability Profiles
• [WebUI] Web page to compare the results between CERN and us at any time
• [WebUI] Improve the selection of granularity

Problems we encountered, but can solve:

• None

Problems and issues we need external help with

• None

TSA4.12 - AllocateFedRes

bi-weekly reporting

JRA1

Report: Inspire_jra1_2013-10-22