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* Peter Kacsuk, [http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu MTA SZTAKI] ([http://www.sci-bus.eu/ SCI-BUS] project coordinator) | * Peter Kacsuk, [http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu MTA SZTAKI] ([http://www.sci-bus.eu/ SCI-BUS] project coordinator) | ||
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* Tamas Kiss, [http://www.westminster.ac.uk/home University of Westminster] (SCI-BUS User Support WP leader) | * Tamas Kiss, [http://www.westminster.ac.uk/home University of Westminster] (SCI-BUS User Support WP leader) | ||
* Rubén Vallés Pérez, University of Zaragoza - [http://bifi.es/en/ BIFI] (SCI-BUS dissemination VP leader) | * Rubén Vallés Pérez, University of Zaragoza - [http://bifi.es/en/ BIFI] (SCI-BUS dissemination VP leader) |
Revision as of 16:03, 7 May 2012
General Project Information
- Leader: Agnes Szeberenyi, 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
- 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)
- Agnes Szeberenyi, MTA SZTAKI
- 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)