User:Nunolf/VT/SG primer

General Project Information

• Leader: Peter Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI
• Mailing List: vt-science-gateway-primer@mailman.egi.eu
• Status: planned
• Start Date: DD/05/2012
• End Date: DD/MM/2012
• Meetings:

Motivation

Access to the EGI e-infrastructure is possible through a range of different service interfaces. Science gateways are an emerging interface for communities to engage more actively with the e-infrastructure by enabling community members to define and perform custom research scenarios.

An EGI science gateway is a community-specific set of tools, applications, and data collections that are integrated together via a web portal or a desktop application, providing access to resources and services from the European Grid Infrastructure. These gateways can support a variety of capabilities including workflows, virtualization software and hardware, visualization as well as resource discovery, job execution services, access to data collections, applications, and tools for data analysis.

The e-infrastructure underlying science gateways is quite complex, and hiding it from researchers is not a trivial undertaking. As more and more communities build science gateways, a set of best practices starts to emerge (policies, technical approaches, ...), and should be re-used by gateway enablers. This is the motto to have a 'Science gateway Primer'.

Output

The expected output of this project is a comprehensive document, a primer for science gateway developers. These are just some ideas for the primer structure (to be refined later):

• 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
  • Traceability and Logging Policy
  • Grid Security Policy
  • Security Incident Response Policy

• 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.

Tasks

• Agree and define primer structure -

Members

• Peter Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI (SCI-BUS project coordinator)
• Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster (SCI-BUS User Support WP leader)
• Rubén Vallés Pérez, University of Zaragoza - BIFI (SCI-BUS dissemination VP leader)
• Elisa Cauhé Martín, University of Zaragoza - BIFI
• Shayan Shahand, Academisch Medisch Centrum
• Gergely Sipos, EGI.eu (UCST)
• Nuno Ferreira, EGI.eu (UCST)
• Karolis Eigelis, EGI.eu (UCST)