EGI-InSPIRE:Switzerland-QR3
Quarterly Report Number | NGI Name | Partner Name | Author |
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3 | NGI_CH | Switzerland | Andres Aeschlimann |
1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION
GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR ALL EVENTS REPORTED IN THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS:
- please do not provide a list of participants, only give the number of people that attended
- for outcome, please list tangible agreements, decisions instead of listing program points or presentations you made. Otherwise put: “-“
- include your local events only if there was any EGI-related topic on the agenda
- provide an indico URL to your presentation (if available) or to the event itself.
- If your presentation is not available online, please send the slides to erika.swiderski@egi.eu.
Note: Complete the tables below by adding as many rows as needed. Note: Complete the tables below by adding as many rows as needed.
1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED
Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
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30.11.10 | Bern | Swiss Grid Day | about 50 | http://www.swing-grid.ch/event/242148-swiss-grid-day-2010 |
13.1.10 | Bern | AAA Infoday | total ~100, Grid ~20 | http://www.switch.ch/aaa/events/aaa-info-day-2011/ |
1.2. OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
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22.-24.11.10 | Prague | EMI all hands meeting | 3 from NGI_CH | Work on Argus |
21.-22.1.11 | Thessalonikki (GR) | COST D37 meeting | Sergio Maffioletti (UZH) | Discussed possible synergies within comp.chem VO |
1.3. PUBLICATIONS
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2. ACTIVITY REPORT
2.1. Progress Summary
PSI has been able to hire an additional system administrator with main responsibility for the PSI T3. Start of work: Feb 1st 2011
UZH established several contacts within comp.chem VO and within former chemomentum project. Established also contact with relevant comp.chem potential partners in Switzerland
2.2. Main Achievements
UZH advocated their tools (GC3pie also part of the EGI application DB) as a tool to facilitate the migration of existing comp.chem usecases towards the NGI-CH national infrastructure and towards EGI
2.3. Issues and mitigation
Issue Description | Mitigation Description |
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PSI: Some insecurity due to takeover of SUN by Oracle. Our Storage is based on Sun X4500/X4540 and Solaris as dcache pool servers. The newest machines we bought in December, they now have been taken already out of the program by Oracle. Solaris updates seemingly can now only be gotten via a support contract. All of this forces us to reconsider the architecture this year. As queuing system we use SGE where the future with Oracle also is unclear. |
Following up development of forked product for SGE. Investigating new storage infrastructure for expansion. Maybe freezing Solaris OS on present architecture and run it as long as we use these machines. Also need to study support costs. |