EGI-InSPIRE:Poland-QR9

Quarterly Report Number	NGI Name	Partner Name	Author
9 - in preparation	NGI_PL	CYFRONET	Tadeusz Szymocha

1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION

1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED

Date	Location	Title	Participants	Outcome (Short report & Indico URL)

1.2. OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

Date	Location	Title	Participants	Outcome (Short report & Indico URL)
10-11.05.2012	Amsterdam, Netherlands	36th TF-CSIRT meeting	1	http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-csirt/meeting36/
13-14.05.2012	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Project Managment Board of EGI-InSpire project	1
04-06.06.2012	Omaha, Nebraska	ICCS 2012, International Conference on Computational Science	1	http://www.iccs-meeting.org/
18-20.06.2012	Hamburg, Germany	International Supercomputing Conference 2012	1	http://www.isc-events.com/isc12/
02-06.07.2012	Madrid, Spain	Workshop on Fusion Distributed Applications (WFDA 2012), Intl. Conf. High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS 2012)	1	http://hpcs2012.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop-21-wfda

1.3. PUBLICATIONS

Publication title	Journal / Proceedings title	Journal references Volume number Issue Pages from - to	Authors 1. 2. 3. Et al?
Application Scenarios Using Serpens Suite for Kepler Scientific Workflow System	Procedia Computer Science	Volume 9, 2012, Pages 1604-1613	Marcin Płóciennik at all.

2. ACTIVITY REPORT

2.1. Progress Summary

1. Unicore
   1. Staged rollout testing: UNICORE/X 6.5.0
      
   2. Monitoring: testing and verification of SAM Update 17
   3. Corrections to tests Workflow Service, Service Orchestrator and Registry
   4. Preparation of unicore probes for EMI-2.0
2. Availability/Reliability metrics - TODO
   1. NGI_PL metrics:  May ava 100% rel 100%, June ava 100% rel 100% , July ava ???% rel ???% ;All sites above the targets.
   2. BDII metrics: May 100%, June 100%, July 100%
      
3. NGI_PL security team
   
   1. Regular operational actions within EGI CSIRT IRTF
   2. Taking part in weekly and monthly meetings of EGI CSIRT
   3. Work within Risk Assessment Metagroup, preparing D4.4 "Security Risk" - 1 representative
   4. EGI CSIRT presentation on 36-th TERENA TF-CSIRT meeting, 10-11 May, in Amsterdam.  Talk given by NGI_PL Security Officer
      
4. ROD NGI_PL
   1. ROD team didn't exceed ROD performance index target 
5. Changes on sites
   1. ICM
      1. New hardware: storage -  360TB
   2. WCSS64
      1. SE migration from gLite 3.2 to EMI-1.0
   3. WCSSS-PPS
      1. Migration of services to EMI-2.0
   4. CAMK
      1. New hardware: new switch IB QDR
      2. New hardware: 128 cores on Xeon E5-2665 + 2GB RAM/core
6. Task forces in which NGI_PL participate
   1. UNICORE Integration TF
      
   2. Federated Clouds TF
   3. EGI Accounting TF

2.2. Main Achievements

Based on SLM maturity survey presented during last Community Forum NGI_PL works towards raising level in the area of SLA negotiation and signing. All the biggest sites (CYFRONET-LCG2, PSNC, WCSS, TASK, ICM) in NGI_PL support a wide range of middlewares (glite, UNICORE, QCG) to adapt to the demands and needs of users.

2.3. Issues and mitigation

Issue Description	Mitigation Description