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This page collects information about surveys relevant to the EGI Opreations Community and the EGI Technology Providers (such as EMI, IGE, etc.). Surveys are conducted to collect information about deployed software, oprational tools and generally speaking to collect feedback from Resource Infrastructure Providers and Resource Centres.

Usage and future maintenance of deployed software

• Release date: 06 March 2012
• Deadline for submission: 20 March 2012

Overview

Several EC-funded projects that are sourcing code currently deployed in the EGI production infrastructure, will terminate in 2013. Among these are EMI (ARC, dCache, gLite, UNICORE) and IGE (Globus). EGI needs to define the list of software products whose maintenance and supported is considered to be high priority in order to ensure service continuation to the end-users. The information collected through this survey is of great importance, and will be used by EGI to define a software support plan. Please make sure that your input to the survey is accurate and correctly reflects the position of your community. Purpose of this survey is to:

• Define the list of products that are considered to be high priority
• Assess current usage of these high priority products:
  • which communities are using what
  • current workload
• Assess which operations and/or user communities will directly contribute to software development and maintenance after 2013 (last question of the survey)

This survey is targeted to virtual research communities and resource infrastructure providers (EIROs and NGIs), who are responsible of collecting information from their users and resource centres respectively.

Instructions

Please participate to the survey by submitting your contribution here (Please, read carefully the overview and the instructions). You can find here a PDF version of the survey.

Platform, software and VM deployment plans

• Release date: 06 March 2012
• Deadline for submission: 20 March 2012

Overview

Grid software is being provided for multiple OS platforms. For example, the number of platforms supported will increase with EMI 2.0, which is expected in Spring 2012: in EMI 2.0 it is expected that all products will be released for sl6, and a subset also for Debian. EGI operations consequently need to review the list of early adopter sites, to make sure that staged rollout resources are allocated for testing of software on the platforms of interest. In addition, EGI SA2 is deploying a new Market Place based on StratusLab. The new Market Place will include different Virtual Machines with different middleware services ready to be used, verified and tested by SA2 team. We need to assess your interest in this service.

All Resource infrastructure Providers are requested to consult with their site managers to define their priorities. Please provide your feedback according to the instructions below.

Instructions

Please participate to this survey by supplying your input at here