EGI gateway primer ToC
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Current ToC
- Introduction
- Some background and summary of current status
- Mandate
- Target audience
- Definitions
- Terms that are necessary to understand what we call a "Science Gateway”
- Distinction between an "enabling technology", a "SG framework", and "SG instance"
- For SG (framework) developers and maintainers
- What it is their role
- What it is expected from them
- Who are these players in Europe and what are their production and in which maturity level (it could be just a list of pointers to the EGI App Database that is the result of the other Task in our VT)
- For SG (instance) developers and operators
- What it is their role
- What it is expected from them
- Who are these players in Europe and what are their production and in which maturity level (it could be just a list of pointers to the EGI App Database that is the result of the other Task in our VT)
Other topics agreed to be included:
- Monitoring of portals/gateways
- Comparison of Science Gateway enabling technologies
- EGI.eu policies
Past ToCs
These are just some ideas for the primer structure (to be refined later by the VT project):
- Building the gateway
- Planning and design of gateways
- Gateways characteristics
- Enabling technologies
- Connecting to EGI resources
- VO Portal Policy
- Job Submission mechanisms (robots, ...)
- Data storage and file management
- Operations and maintenance practices
- Integration of web-based gateways in EGI SAM central instance
- Security and accounting
- Sustainability
A list of established EGI policies is available in the EGI.eu Policies and procedures webpage. All relevant policies to the primer should be incorporated.