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VTP_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.
VTP_Motivation =  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 community-specific capabilities including workflows, virtualisation software and hardware, visualization as well as resource discovery, job execution, access to data collections, applications, tools for data analysis. A science gateway enables community members to define and perform custom research scenarios. Science gateways can hide the complexities of distributed infrastructures from researchers, therefore more and more communities build and would like to build science gateways for their members.  


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 User Community Support Team togehter with its partners from the NGIs and VRCs has setup dedicated webpages to collect basic information about [http://www.egi.eu/services/support/science-gateways/science_gateways_for_users.html ready to use science gateways] and about [http://www.egi.eu/services/support/science-gateways/science_gateways_for_developers.html science gateway enabling technologies] for gateway developers. However, identifying and using the right set of technologies from this set, collecting best practices and solutions to create a science domain specific gateway is a difficult task. This VT aims to help gateway developers by providing an 'EGI gateway primer', a manual that collects useful information from the EGI community for science gateway developers.  
 
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'.
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The expected output of this project is a comprehensive document, a primer for science gateway developers.
* Up to date and complete information in the EGI Application Database about EGI science gateways and science gateway enabling technologies
These are just some ideas for the primer structure (to be refined later):
* Recommendations on how to improve the EGI Application Database and the EGI website in order to better support science gateway developers
 
* A comprehensive document, an 'EGI gateway primer' for science gateway developers that collects information about technologies, policies, solutions that exist from the EGI community for gateway developers.
*  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
** [https://documents.egi.eu/secure/ShowDocument?docid=81 Traceability and Logging Policy]
** [https://documents.egi.eu/secure/ShowDocument?docid=86 Grid Security Policy]
** [https://documents.egi.eu/secure/ShowDocument?docid=82 Security Incident Response Policy]
 
*Sustainability


A list of established EGI policies is available in the [http://www.egi.eu/about/policy/policies_procedures.html EGI.eu Policies and procedures webpage]. All relevant policies to the primer should be incorporated.
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Revision as of 17:42, 7 May 2012

General Project Information

  • Leader: Agnes Szeberenyi (NGI HU, MTA SZTAKI)
  • Mailing List: vt-science-gateway-primer@mailman.egi.eu
  • Status: Proposed
  • Start Date: DD/05/2012
  • End Date: DD/MM/2012
  • Meetings:

Motivation

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 community-specific capabilities including workflows, virtualisation software and hardware, visualization as well as resource discovery, job execution, access to data collections, applications, tools for data analysis. A science gateway enables community members to define and perform custom research scenarios. Science gateways can hide the complexities of distributed infrastructures from researchers, therefore more and more communities build and would like to build science gateways for their members.

The User Community Support Team togehter with its partners from the NGIs and VRCs has setup dedicated webpages to collect basic information about ready to use science gateways and about science gateway enabling technologies for gateway developers. However, identifying and using the right set of technologies from this set, collecting best practices and solutions to create a science domain specific gateway is a difficult task. This VT aims to help gateway developers by providing an 'EGI gateway primer', a manual that collects useful information from the EGI community for science gateway developers.

Output

  • Up to date and complete information in the EGI Application Database about EGI science gateways and science gateway enabling technologies
  • Recommendations on how to improve the EGI Application Database and the EGI website in order to better support science gateway developers
  • A comprehensive document, an 'EGI gateway primer' for science gateway developers that collects information about technologies, policies, solutions that exist from the EGI community for gateway developers.

Tasks

  • Agree and define primer structure -

Members

Resources

Progress

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