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EGI-InSPIRE:UK-QR10
| Quarterly Report Number | NGI Name | Partner Name | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| QR 10 | NGI_UK | STFC | Denise Small and Claire Devereux |
1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION
1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED
| Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/9/12 | Oxford, UK | Sustainability of Core UK e-Infrastructure | 26 | The workshop contained presentations on the Cores Services for UK e-Infrastructure and a discussion session surrounding business models for their sustainability. Demos of some tools including the Training Marketplace were also held. http://digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk/programme/sustain |
| 8-12/8/2012 | Abingdon | Using e-Infrastructures for Research | 29 | Summer School: http://www.ngs.ac.uk/communities/using-e-infrastructures-for-research-summer-school-2012 |
1.2. OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
| Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29-30/8/2012 | Panama City | TAGPMA Meeting | 1 | Representing interests of EGI and WLCG: http://indico.rnp.br/conferencedisplay.py?confId=142 |
| 4-6/9/2012 | Karlsruhe | Operational Tools Sustainability | 2 | http://www.ogf.org/OGF36/ |
| 6-7/9/2012 | Utrecht | TERENA VAMP Meeting | 1 | 2 presentations on FIM4R activity |
| 10-12/9/2012 | Lyon | EUGridPMA Meeting | 1 | http://www.eugridpma.org |
| 17-21/9/2012 | Prague | EGI Technical Forum | 9 | Multiple workshops and presentations, including accounting, GOCDB, GLUE2, Info Discovery,.. http://tf2012.egi.eu |
| 17-18/10/2012 | CERN | Atlas Software and Computing Workshop | 2 | |
| 26-27/9/2012 | Oxford | GridPP | 9 | GridPP Collaboration http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/gridpp29/ |
| 14-18/10/2012 | Shonan, Japan | 1 | Grid and Cloud Security | http://www.nii.ac.jp/shonan/ |
1.3. PUBLICATIONS
| Publication title | Journal / Proceedings title | Journal references Volume number Issue Pages from - to |
Authors 1. 2. 3. Et al? |
|---|
2. ACTIVITY REPORT
2.1. Progress Summary
The UK NGI has moved NGI_IE VOs into its VOMS framework in preparation for the withdrawal of NGI_IE from EGI InSPIRE at the end of 2012. The VOMS servers and their operation has moved from the Manchester Research Computing group to the Manchester Physics team, although its staffing remains the same. THE UK is hosting the EGI Community Forum 2013 and is busy making preparations for a successful meeting, including getting co-located meetings and workshops signed up.
2.2. Main Achievements
Glasgow - Further development of the IPv6 test cluster. Integration of test cluster into production test environment. Co-ordinated gLite 3.1 service updating. Also update the WMS setup, increasing VO support and additional hardware to handle higher loads. Worker node migration is the next big step to take. Some sites have moved and we are examining the outcomes, so that the NGI makes a phased transition. NA62 VO reached commenced production campaigns, which is a noteworthy milestone.
Imperial College - We have been busy getting rid of all our Glite nodes, including the CE's, APEL host and the two top-BDII's and repacing them with EMI versions. We have submitted two EMI-1 CREAM CE, two EMI-2 CREAM CE and one EMI WMS staged-rollout reports. We have been contributing to the ROD rota. We have continued to maintain and develop the 'state of the nation' web-pages (http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/~dbauer/grid/state_of_the_nation.html) tracking the roll out of EMI services in the UK.
University of Manchester - Robert Frank joined the group at the start of September from the University of Manchester NGS team, and has been updating the GridPP/NGS VOMS system as it transitions to being a GridPP responsibility again. He has co-ordinated this with VOMS backup installations being set up at other GridPP sites (Oxford and Imperial).
Manchester is a member of the WLCG middleware deployment and perfsonar deployment coordination task forces. After installing the perfsonar machines at this site help was given to other 3 sites installing theirs. Helped debug UK connections with FZK. Manchester staff are coordinating the transition of sites to EMI-2 on the atlas side coordinating with GridPP operations.
2.3. Issues and mitigation
| Issue Description | Mitigation Description | |
|---|---|---|
| T2 Scotgrid Power/cooling Problems | Specific issues to be dealt with at affected sites | - |
| T2 London Glexel tarball | EMI WN awaiting a tarball | - |
| T2 London Problem interacting with dcache SE | to be worked on | - |