EGI-InSPIRE:Amb 2013-11-05

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Activity Reports

NA2.2

1. News Items/Articles
   • News item on EGI presence at ICT2013 published
   • News item on Life Science resource pool with OSG published
2. Case Studies
   • Published new Earth Sciences' case study
3. Media mentions
   • FedSM article in eIRG October newsletter (page 13)
   • CSC Press Release (Finnish version) about CF14
   • CSC press release picked up by Presse Box
   • CSC press release picked up by HPCWire
   • Referenced in item about some work spun out of CESNET
4. Events
   • Attending ICT2013 in Vilnius
5. Human Networks
   • Meeting with CG and RMcL about handover of various activities
6. Deliverables/Milestones
   • Provided input to QR14 and attendant slide
7. Staffing
   • Outreach Officer and Graphic designers role filled. Successful candidates start later this month
8. Other
   • Created first draft of white paper on the "Community networks and support” solution
9. Champions
   • Investigated and chased various Travel Request issues
   • Proposed funding Champ travel for H2020 workshop
10. Webinars
    • Arranged and conducted webinar on High Throughput Data for ENVRI
    • Updating Procedure sheet for webinars.
    • Edit and Upload of recorded webinar to DocDB and Indico.
11. Community Forum CF14
    • Setting up of PC. Contacting no show invited members individually - Doodle poll for 1st meeting on 15 Nov
    • Setting up agenda for site visit
    • preparing and participating in LOC meeting
    • Follow up on C4Me issues
    • Developing/refining/sharing room allocation tables
    • Keynote speakers
12. H2020 workshop
    • progressing invitation to participate and various other issues

Technical Outreach to New Communities

UCST

EGI-InSPIRE 2.5

1. AppDB
   • Start assessment of OpenAIRE API to connect AppDB with OpenAIRE (scientific publications)
   • Engagement with: gCube framework team, and Bin2Xcor2sac team
2. Science Gateway Primer: meeting with Silvia Olabarriaga group; discuss the anatomy of SG's and sync activities.

1. Webex bookings, indico setup
   • support for Ingemar (setting up JDK/Firefox support was provided)
2. Investigation of requirements from George Mikuchadze
   • Finding suitable VO (most suitable is DRIHM.EU, can we contact Christian Straube - VO manager ?)
   • Requirements:
     • 1. Local area weather forecast models such as WRF-ARW/NMM (8-16 CPUs)
     • 2. Quantum chemical calculation of macromolecules such as DNA (4 or 8 pair nucleotides) using DFT methods (16-64 CPUs)
     • 3. Interaction of plasma with high intensive laser beams using openmp (maximum number of CPUs per WN)
     • 4. The needed storage space is approx. 5 GB."
3. PPT TNA2.1/TNA1.7 unspent effort calculation
4. Survey for NILs summary
5. GlobusOnline.eu and EGI SSO
   • GGUS user support (Mario Rucio from CERN) for using myproxy.egi.eu

BioVeL

1. Autumn newsletter proof reading contribution (BioVeL / OpenBio / EGI collaboration)
2. ENM Play Day
   • Manage 2nd Play Day (15th Nov. 2013 @ 15 CET)
   • Manage 1st Play Day post-mortem topics: ENM WF dependencies; WF tests.
3. R @ EGI: disseminate findings;engage BioVeL with UNICORE team
4. EUBON use case meeting

ER-flow

1. Finding data providers for the 4 ER-flow communities
   • Collections of the research repositories by subject:
     • - http://www.re3data.org/browse/by-subject/
     • - http://databib.org/index_subjects.php
     • - http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/content.php?pid=226364&sid=1874263
     • - www.datacite.org/repolist
2. additional data about VREs

SA4 (collecting in progress)

TSA4.1 - Management

• Collecting weekly reporting

TSA4.4 - OCCI for CMF

rOCCI framework

• extended test coverage to improve QA on rOCCI-core (continuous, right now focusing on Occi::Collection and Occi::Model coverage)
• a bunch of fixes for bugs discovered while implementing the server

rOCCI-server

• working on a reference backend, towards the first alpha version
• added a request parser
• added Occi::Model integration (i.e. the server now correctly responds to GET /-/)
• added support for resource_tpl and os_tpl for the dummy backend
• continuously adding docs and unit tests (specs) for implemented features

ToDo for next week

• continue working on rOCCI-server backends
• 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

TSA4.6 - OCCI CompClouds

Progress:

• Upgrading OCCI connector to SlipStream v2. Needed to support Ruby runtime, since using rOCCI
• New connector will be enabled in the next upgrade of SlipStream v2 instance for Helix Nebula

Problems we encounter, but can solve:

None

Problems and issues we need external help with:

None

JRA1

Report: Inspire_jra1_2013-11-05