Training

Engagement overview

Community requirements

Community events

Training

EGI Webinars

Documentations

Goals and tasks of EGI training

The role of EGI training is to facilitate the uptake of EGI services by scientific communities within research and academia. The EGI-Engage project (task SA2.1) provides foundational training services and coordination to this work. The main goal of this activity is to operate a framework that enables members of EGI community as well as external partners to effectively create, deliver, share, reuse and benefit from training services in the context of e-infrastructures and e-science. The prime objective is to provide ‘glue’ and also facilitation for training activities conducted by Competence Centres, National Grid Initiatives and partner projects (including e-infrastructure and Research Infrastructures), maximising the effectiveness and impact of training across countries and communities. This is achieved by providing a training e-infrastructure, data, software and other online resources, modules, a marketplace and webinar tools for trainers and trainees, and by organising and contributing to the organisation of high-impact training events.

Training plan

The EGI training plan for the March 2016-Feb 2017 period is available at https://documents.egi.eu/document/2810. Coordination/update teleconferences about implementing the plan are held on a regular basis. These are recorded in indico: http://indico.egi.eu/indico/categoryDisplay.py?categId=148

Webinars

EGI runs a Webinar programme, featuring lectures from the EGI and other European e-infrasructure communities. Further information: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_Webinar_Programme.

Training infrastructure

In 2015 the EGI community has established a cloud based e-infrastructure for training. The infrastructure can be used for training events, demonstrations, Webinars and self-paced learning courses. Further information: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Training_infrastructure

Training materials

Training Materials	Service Name	Service Phase	User Manual	Authors or Trainers	Update Date	Training Events
Introduction of the EGI service portfolio				Sergio Andreozzi
Introduction and command line usage of the EGI Federated Cloud	Cloud Computing	Production	https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Federated_Cloud_user_support	Gergely Sipos	5/Oct/2016
The EGI Federated Cloud for application developers (API access)	Cloud Computing	Production	https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Federated_Cloud_user_support	Giuseppe La Rocca, Enol Fernandez del Castillo, Boris Parak	28/Sep/2016	DI4R 2016
The EGI Open Data Platform and DataHub	DataHub	Alpha		Diego Scardaci	30/Sep/2016	DI4R 2016
	Archive Storage	Production	https://www.dcache.org/manuals/Book-2.7/cookbook/cb-clients-srm.shtml Other user manuals could be needed depending on the technology and policies used at the Resource Provider.	Vincenzo Spinoso
	Cloud Container Compute	Beta	https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Federated_Cloud_user_support	Enol Fernandez
	Data Transfer	Beta	https://svnweb.cern.ch/trac/glitefts/wiki/FTSUserGuide, Tutorial: https://webfts.cern.ch/	Peter Solagna
	High-Throughput Compute	Production	https://wiki.italiangrid.it/twiki/bin/view/CREAM/UserGuide,http://www.nordugrid.org/documents/arc-ui.pdf
	Online Storage	Production	File storage can be accessed at different levels, for which different guides are needed: GridFTP user guide http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/docs/latest-stable/gridftp/index.html SRM client guide https://www.dcache.org/manuals/Book-2.7/cookbook/cb-clients-srm.shtml Data Management client https://dmc.web.cern.ch/projects/gfal-2/documentation EGI HOWTO on cloud storage: HOWTO09 in EGI Wiki Swift user guide: https://docs.openstack.org/cli-reference/swift.html OneData client: https://onedata.org/docs/index.html
	Training Infrastructure	Production	https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Training_infrastructure
FitSM training materials	FitSM	Production	User Manual can refer to Google Drive and training materials are available at http://fitsm.itemo.org/fitsm-training-material	Sy Holsinger, Malgorzata Krakowian	2016	https://www.egi.eu/events/fitsm-training-calendar/
The EGI Open Data Platform	DataHub	Alpha		Lukasz Dutka (CYFRONET), Matthew Viljoen (EGI.eu)	17 May 2016	https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/2969/
Workflow applications on EGI with WS-PGRADE	WS-PGRADE			Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI)	26 May 2016	https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/2977/
DIRAC system for EGI communities	DIRAC			Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (CNRS)	7 Jun 2016	https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/2978/
Hadoop on the EGI Federated Cloud	Hadoop			Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster, London, UK), Carlos Blanco (University of Cantabria)	17 Mar 2016	https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/2931/