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EGI-Engage:AMB-2015-09-30

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EGI-Engage project: Main page WP1(NA1) WP3(JRA1) WP5(SA1) PMB Deliverables and Milestones Quality Plan Risk Plan Data Plan
Roles and
responsibilities
WP2(NA2) WP4(JRA2) WP6(SA2) AMB Software and services Metrics Project Office Procedures



Activity Reports

WP1 (NA1) (Yannick Legre)

Dissamination reports

Milestones & Deliverables

Task NA1.1 Administrative and Financial Management

Task NA1.2 Technical Management

Task NA1.3 Quality and Risk Management

WP2 (NA2) (Sergio Andreozzi)

Dissamination reports

Milestones & Deliverables

D2.3 “Marketplace Concept”

  • Updated from AMB/PMB review, final check by Yannick, updated and approved as final

Task NA2.1 Communication and Dissemination

  • Recruitment process of a Communications Officer
  • Commission of issue 21 of newsletter
  • Work on CF2015 organisation
  • Preliminary work for eInfra Forum in September 2016
  • Review, design of EGI publications (EGI brochure, Engage factsheet, Open Science Commons)
  • Writing news items
  • Organisation of participation in events (BMB and ICT2015)

Task NA2.2 Strategy, Business Development and Exploitation

Risk Management

  • Meeting between SPT and Malgorzata
  • Identified risks described in spreadsheet

Communications Officer Recruitment support

  • CV/Cover letter review; shortlisting
  • 4 interviews conducted

Service Management

  • 1st FitSM Working Group Meeting + ITEMO F2F (Munich)
  • Several SDTPs produced
  • Service and Solutions Board Call on 29 Sept

Pay-for-Use

  • 2 resource requests sent by FMI
  • Information and coordination attempt for CERN Cloud Market Survey
  • Dedicated discussion for e-GRANT development roadmap + requirements
  • Call held on 22 Sept + minutes and actions

EGI CF’15

  • Big data session planning + coordination with other data sessions

Events

  • Cloud Forward Conference - Pisa - 6-8 Oct (attendance planning; submitted paper previously reported)

Policy Groups

  • Contacted chairs of each to update ToR
  • Information request as input to Council regarding main achievements, frequency of meetings and plans for next year

Task NA2.3 SME/Industry Engagement and Big Data Value Chain

Business Engagement

  • ESA stimulus project participation closer to final (€6.5k)
  • Ubercloud MoU: made final
  • Dropbox MoU: close to final
  • Call held on 29 Sept + minutes and actions

Market Analysis

  • Call held 22 Sept + minutes and actions
  • AgroKnow SME engagement and market analysis questionnaire/survey for EGI cloud services
  • Attended call on big data session planning to harmonize activities

WP3 (JRA1) (Diego Scardaci)

Dissamination reports

Milestones & Deliverables

Task JRA1.1 Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure

Task JRA1.2 Service Registry and Marketplace


Task JRA1.3 Accounting

  • Fixed SSM and DBloader for storage records.
  • Added SITE filtering to default storage view.
  • Deleted stale DB recors
  • Compiled Intermediate report metrics for WP6 activities.
  • FedCloud meetings
  • Dojo tests.
  • Asynchronous Javascript updates.
  • Implementing new charts in new Accounting Portal.

Task JRA1.4 Operations Tools

Task JRA1.5 Resource Allocation – e-GRANT

WP4 (JRA2) (Tiziana Ferrari)

Dissamination reports

Milestones & Deliverables

Task JRA2.1 Federated Open Data

- Integration with OpenAIRE issues, open discussion on the common model of the exchange data sets. - Implementation of the new type of the onedata data space ready to be treated as open data set.

Task JRA2.2 Federated Cloud

  • OpenStack monitoring probe deployed.
  • rOCCI: working on documentation.
  • Argus integration is being studied in rOCCI, ooi, Synnefo.

Task JRA2.3 e-Infrastructures Integration

  • CANFAR: The integration is proceeding starting the first tests with the SSO systems.
  • gCUBE/iMarine: Continue with the creation of VM images for publishing in AppDB

Task JRA2.4 Accelerated Computing

  • We had a meeting with WP4 manager and Derek Ross of STFC/Emerald (LSF8 based GPU cluster) to derscribe the goal of the task and the possibility for Emerald RP to join the GPGPU testbed for testing CREAM
  • Maui scheduler installed on CIRMMP cluster, BLAH component for enabling GPGPU support in CREAM for Torque/Maui is now under development
  • GLUE2.1 draft has been analysed as starting point for developing the new Torque infoproviders with GPGPU support, and the critical issues tracked in https://issues.infn.it/jira/browse/CREAM-177
  • GPGPU activities related to CREAM, including the GLUE2.1 issues, were presented at the OMB meeting held at the end of September.
  • For the cloud side, integration work with EGI-FedCloud has continued

WP5 (SA1) (Peter Solagna)

Dissamination reports

Milestones & Deliverables

Task SA1.1 Operations Coordination

Task SA1.2 Development of Security Operations

Task SA1.3 Integration, Deployment of Grid and Cloud Platforms

WP6 (SA2) (Gergely Sipos)

Dissemination reports

Milestones & Deliverables

  • Metrics and KPIs submitted for EGI-Engage intermediate report

Task SA2.1 Training

  • Training coordination call was held and progress with the implementation on the training plan was discussed. Progress according to schedule. Details in meeting notes: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2655
  • Preparation for tutorials to be held in Bari. EGI Training infrastructure will be used for several tutorials.
  • Promoting the EGI training infrastructure to CCs (in email) and in the EGI News

Task SA2.2 Technical User Support

Task SA2.3 ELIXIR

  • Next meeting will be held on October 30th.

Task SA2.4 BBMRI

Task SA2.5 MoBrain

Networking / dissemination:

CLOUD related task

  • populated EGI AppDB enmr.eu repository with EGI Fedcloud Clients, EGI Ubuntu 12.04 and EGI Ubuntu 14.04 appliances
  • built a docker container for the PowerFit cryo-EM application (https://github.com/haddocking/powerfit)

GPGPU task:

  • enabled enmr.eu VO at INFN-PADOVA-STACK cloud site, some testing VMs launched by Laura del Caño
  • progresses with GPGPU activities already reported in https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI-Engage:AMB-2015-09-30#Task_JRA2.4_Accelerated_Computing
  • setup a prototype MD calculation for a large system (about 180k explicit atoms), which has been running for a few 100's ns already
  • modified the AMBER implementation on GPGPUs to introduce proper treatment of NOE restraints for pseudoatoms
  • exporting the CIRMMP partner MD refinement script of NMR structures to GPGPUs

Task SA2.6 DARIAH

  • Online interview with DARIAH WG leaders - dissemination the CC outcomes
  • Working on a new Virtual organization for Arts and Humanities (writing a content)
  • New version of gLibrary released
  • Regular CC monthly teleconference

Task SA2.7 LifeWatch

  • Present at "Ecology at interface" congress (Rome, 21st-25th September). Demo regarding the status and advances in EGI-Lifewatch Competence Centre. http://www.ecologyatinterface.eu/.
  • Meeting: Citizen Science group at RJB (Madrid). IFCA, Gbif.es, BIFI, RJB. Definition of Citizen Science Use case: Orchidee identification. Draft Agenda Citizen Science Event.

Task SA2.8 EISCAT_3D

Weekly meetings

Working on the portal specification Document Q&A

Task SA2.9 EPOS

Task SA2.10 Disaster Mitigation