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Quarterly Report Number	NGI Name	Partner Name	Author
QR11	NGI_IBERGRID	LIP & CSIC	Esteban Freire (CESGA), Alvaro Simón (CESGA)

1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION

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1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED

Date	Location	Title	Participants	Outcome (Short report & Indico URL)
7-9 Nov 2012	Lisbon, Portugal	IBERGRID 2012, 6th Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference	50	The 2012 IBERGRID conference was organized by LIP in Lisbon, Portugal. The main topics of IBERGRID 2012 Conference were: Infrastructures, Services and Operations Innovation in the provision of IT services: virtualization and cloud computing Data Management and Storage Systems IT Management and Green Computing EGI and WLCG Grid Computing Activities Digital Repositories and Preservation Community Oriented Services User and Applications Technology Transfer to Society This is the annual meeting gathering IBERGRID operators and user communities to reassess the past activities, debate problems and define joint strategies. Conference URL: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2012

1.2. OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

Date	Location	Title	Participants	Outcome (Short report & Indico URL)
4-5 Nov 2012	CERN	CMS Offline and Computing Week	1	* IFAE: Followup of the CMS computing activities and its impact on the Tier1 operations and plans, https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=171869
7-9 Nov 2012	Lisbon, Portugal	IBERGRID 2012, 6th Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference	50	Conference Programe URL: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2012/index.php?option=2 BIFI-UNIZAR A. Giner et al, Hadoop Cloud SaaS access via WS-PGRADE adaptation CAFPE-GRANADA Julio Lozano-Bahilo, Pierre Auger Collaboration on Grid CESGA: A. Simon et al, New deployments on EGI Verification and Staged Rollout processes A. Simon et al, EGI Fedcloud Task Force CIEMAT A. Delgado et al, Synchronization and Versioning of Cluster Configuration with Csync M. Cárdena Montes et al, New Computational Developments in Cosmology IFCA P. Orviz et al, Production change management using Puppet, Git, Jenkins and Gerrit E. Fernandez et al, IberCloud: federated access to virtualized resources E. Fernandez, IberCloud Symposium: Theory and practice IFIC M. Kaci et al, Response of the Iberian Grid Computing Resources to the ATLAS activities during the LHC data-taking M. Kaci et al, Data Management and Data Processing within a Grid Computing Model for AGATA IFISC-GRID A. Tugores and P. Colet, Poster: Integration of Web4Grid with intranet at CSIC A. Tugores and P. Colet, Poster: Efficient file management LIP G. Borges et al, IBERGRID: Deploying User Oriented Services G. Borges et al, IBERGRID Infrastructure Status J. Gomes et al, Clustering TopBDII systems with dynamic round-robin DNS G. Borges et al, Operations Management discussions PIC V. Méndez, Running in Federated Clouds with DIRAC UNICAN C. Blanco et al, WRF4SG: A Scientific Gateway for the Weather Research and Forecasting model community UB R. Graciani, Dirac Tutorial UMINHO-CP V. Oliveira, Even Bigger Data: Preparing for the LHC/ATLAS Upgrade UPV I. Blanquer et al, Requirements of Scientific Applications in Cloud Offerings M. Caballer et al, Towards SLA-driven Management of Cloud Infrastructures to Elastically Execute Scientific Applications USC V. Fernandez, User access to CVMFS software repositories on Ibergrid
16 Nov 2012	Madrid (Spain)	BigData Spain 2012	1	* IFISC-GRID: Programme available at http://www.bigdataspain.org/en/
28-29 Nov 2012	Bilbao (Spain)	RedIris Network	(~ 20)	Annual workshop organised by NREN. Followup of technical issues related to network, programme available at http://www.rediris.es/jt/jt2012/ IFAE: Presentation from PIC on the plans from LHC to exploit the new high performance network infrastructure Rediris-Nova through LHCONE IFIC RedIRIS USC
13-14 December 2012	CERN	LHCONE Point-to-Point Service Workshop	1	* IFAE: Network workshop focused on the technical details of the deployment of a dedicated high performance network infrastructure to connect Tier2s and Tier1s, https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=215393
28-30 Jan 2013	Amsterdam	Evolving EGI Workshop and co-located e-FISCAL Workshop	1	* CESGA: Programme available at https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=1252#20130130

1.3. PUBLICATIONS

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Gestión Eficiente de Recursos Grid Basada en la Búsqueda Dispersa. Facilitando la Auto-adaptación de Aplicaciones	Proceeding of the "XXIII Jornadas de paralelismo 2012"	Available online at http://www.jornadassarteco.org/?page_id=166 (See Section #2C)	María Botón-Fernández Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez Francisco Prieto
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2. ACTIVITY REPORT

2.1. Progress Summary

1. Follow up with sites which were publishing accounting data with unknown UserDNs.
2. Follow up with sites that had to republish accounting data, and coordinate with the Accounting Repository staff for the republishing of large amounts of data.
3. Provide information about the sustainability status of the NGIss (Portugal and Spain) after May 2014 and about the EGI Global operations services.
4. Collect and report experience about national VOs running on EMI WN
5. Collect and provide information about the IBERGRID and site-specific resource allocation policies
6. Dissimination of the UMD upgrade calendar and of the imposed policies to follow up the implementation of such calendar.
7. Follow up site's UMD upgrade within IBERGRID. NGI GGUS tickets were opened to sites requesting upgrade plans. Tickets were reviewed on a weekly basis.
8. Follow up all questions from IBERIAN sites regarding the upgrade to UMD (doubts, issues, questions).
9. Coordination for the migration of important regional services (R-Nagios, VOMS, LFC, WMS and Top-BDIIs)
10. Follow up the monthly A/R report for IBERIAN sites failing the threshold.
11. Follow up security issues with IBERIAN sites according to what is reported in the security dashboard,
12. Follow up of the status of IBERIAN sites in GSTAT
13. Decommission procedure for BIFI-IBERGRID and UMINHO-CP in progress

2.2. Main Achievements

1. A systematic 100% A/R (6 months in a row) for the TopBDII service (after the implementation of the TopBDII HA mechanism).
2. Major UMD upgrades for services operated by the NGI were successfully carried out with minimum interference in users activity (including R-NAGIOS).
3. The majority of the sites are following the calendar for UMD migration. Currently only 5 sites have opened tickets regarding unsupported gLite middleware.
4. Implementation of a monthly review of security issues by the regional security staff.

2.3. Issues and mitigation

Issue Description	Mitigation Description
Some sites in the IBERIAN region are requesting the use of relocatable tarballs for UIs and WNs. This is a know issue which is already being followed by EGI Operations through: https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=4351 https://ggus.eu/tech/ticket_show.php?ticket=74675 https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=81496	The problem is still not solved
CESGA is affected by a SAM issue (nagios binary compatiblity with SL6+) and as a consequence, it had 0% A/R in September and October https://tomtools.cern.ch/jira/browse/SAM-2999 https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=86451	A new binary is upgraded in the regional IBERGRID SAM instance. Recomputation of A/R has been requested in https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=87660 (for Sep 2012) https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=88118 (for Oct 2012)