EGI-Engage:WP6-PY1-Roadmap

This page is providing yearly activity plan for WP6 in PY1:

• TASK SA2.1 Training
• TASK SA2.2 Technical User Support
• TASK SA2.3 ELIXIR (start in M6)
• TASK SA2.4 BBMRI (start in M7)
• TASK SA2.5 MoBrain
• TASK SA2.6 DARIAH
• TASK SA2.7 LifeWatch
• TASK SA2.8 EISCAT_3D
• TASK SA2.9 EPOS
• TASK SA2.10 Disaster Mitigation

Project month	Project Tasks	Work to be done	Goal  (measurable)	Owner (reponsible person)	Comments
3	Task 6.1	Define EGI's training plan for the 1st year of EGI-Engage	M6.1 Joint training programme for the first project year (With EUDAT, PRACE, CCs, NGIs, UCB)	Gergely Sipos	ACHIEVED. Document was delivered at the end of May: http://go.egi.eu/trainingplan
5	Task 6.1	Setup training VO on the Federated Cloud Register training robot certificate, generate proxies for students and trainers Prepare training materials for 3.5 course (slides + hands-on exercises incl. VM images and datasets)  Test training material and setup by July 15, deliver courses in second part of July	Deliver two courses on EGI Federated Cloud at 'Software Carpentry workshop' (SAP, UK) and HPCS (Amsterdam)	Gergely Sipos	ACHIEVED.
10	Task 6.1	Work with Resource providers of the training VO to identify suitable business model for continued provisioning of thevirtualised training e-infrastructure that can operate 24/7 to serve EGI-related courses and self-paced training needs.	Suitable business model for continued operation of the training VO in EGI	Gergely Sipos	Capacity is secured at least until the end of EGI-Engage.
10	Task 6.1	Prepare module based on the joint use case that has been identified and documented during the EGI-EUDAT meeting at the EGI Conference in Lisbon. (FedCloud, B2Find, B2Drop, B2Safe)	Joint training module with EUDAT	Diego Scardaci	Ongoing, aiming at F2F delivery at the EGI Community Forum
8	Task 6.1	After the platform components are integrated and tested develop training for the NGI user support teams and EGI.eu staff on how to support long-tail users with the platform.	Training module on the 'EGI long tail of science' platform	Diego Scardaci, Peter Solagna	Ongoing, aiming at F2F delivery at the EGI Community Forum
8	Task 6.1	A module about security policy, procedures and interoperability solutions in the various e-infrastructures, with possible involvement of EUDAT. The content will be developed for a joint event that will be held in the autumn, then will be shared as a training module in the marketplace.	Joint event and training module with PRACE	Dave Kelsey	Topics to be identified at WISE workshop in Oct.
5	Task 6.1	The module will target those who prepare and those who endorse VM images for scientific/training purposes. The module will define the characteristics of ‘secure’ VM images, will teach how to prepare such images, and will demonstrate how to assess the security characteristics of such images.	Training module on Virtual Machine preparation and certification in the EGI Federated Cloud.	Vincenzo Spinoso	TOPIC development is ongoing. To be developed by security experts funded in T6.1: CERN, CESNET, LIP, NIKHEF
10	Task 6.1	Define incident handling process - by CSIRT	Training module on Incident handling in the EGI Federated Cloud.	Dave Kelsey	Topic development ongoing. Training in Bari. To be developed by security experts funded in T6.1: CERN, CESNET, LIP, NIKHEF
12	Task 6.1	Exploring possibility of training module developments with other tasks on the following topics: . Open Data Processing solution from EGI (by members of task JRA2.1). . GPGPU-computing in EGI (by members of task JRA2.4 and NGI-BG). . Deploying clouds and federated clouds for scientific and educational purposes (by members of the Federated Cloud collaboration). . iRODS training (in collaboration with NGI-FR and the DIRAC team).	Additional training modules	Gergely Sipos	Waiting for developments to finish.
4	Task 6.1	Ensure that the Training Marketplace is used accross EGI, and that it can collect and provide the relevant details about events, content, etc and the impact. Provide templates and surveys for EGI trainers to be able to collect relevant metrics.	Mechanisms and tools to assess impact of training activities.	Gergely Sipos	TMP seems to be going down. We need to find an alternative.
1	Task 6.2	Definition of the technical use cases support process	Establishment of a procedure for handling use case support, RT queue for tracking use cases	Gergely Sypos / Enol Fernandez	ACHIEVED.
12 (15)	Task 6.2	Finalise use case and requirements document (M6); Selection of technologies potentially matching requirements (M9); Basic tests and feedback (M12); Final tests and feedback (M15)	Pilot usage of EGI infrastructure by HBP	Lukasz Dutka / Enol Fernandez	Ongoing (in JRA2)
12	Task 6.2	Arrange collaboration agreement with LOFAR/SKA and possibly other projects from the ASTERICS cluster project; Collect and document e-infrastructure use cases and requirements from the communities; Analyse requirements, propose implementation plan and roadmap	Implementation roadmap for LOFAR/SKA	Tiziana Ferrari / Enol Fernandez
12	Task 6.3 (ELIXIR)	Collect use cases from ELIXIR-EXCELERATE, CC members, EGI members (e.g. GAPF VT), then select the most relevant ones for the CC to work with. Analyse use cases from the technical perspective to capture requirements for e-infra and ELXIR RI services.  Life science requirements analysis and driver use case(s) with implementation roadmap are agreed	M6.3: Life science requirements analysis and driver use case(s) with implementation roadmap are agreed.	Tommi Nyronen	Started in October
12	Task 6.4 (BBMRI)	Collect use cases from the BBMRI community and from CC members then select the most relevant ones for the CC to work with. Analyse use cases from the technical perspective to capture requirements for e-infra and BBMRI RI services. Design suitable technical architecture to address the requirements.	M6.2: Security and privacy requirements and secure storage architectural design are agreed	Petr Holub	To start in October
7	Task 6.5 (MoBrain)	Discuss options for the implementation of a fully integrated MoBrain portal (built on N4U and WeNMR technologies, considering work in WestLife VRE project). Reach agreement on the concept of the integrated portal and on CC partners' responsibilty for developing it.	Agreement on the concept of the integrated portal and on CC partners' responsibilty for developing it.	Alexander Bonvin	Discussions took place. Suggestion is to postpone D6.4 to see clearer the WestLife plans.
12	Task 6.5 (MoBrain)		D6.4: Fully integrated MoBrain web portal (OTHER)	Alexander Bonvin	DELAY DELIVERY DATE?
11	Task 6.5 (MoBrain)	Learn about the 'Accelerated Computing platform' of EGI (GPGPU facility) at the EGI Community Forum; Perform initial tests on it with GROMACS and AMBER.	Initial tests on the 'Accelerated Computing platform' of EGI	Alexandre Bonvin, Peter Solagna	Depends on progress of Task JRA2.4
4	Task 6.6 (DARIAH)	Prepare user survey to be used by the CC to collect needs and requirements from digital humanities communities and users. Interview leaders of relevant DARIAH WGs, run the survey in relevant groups	User survey and interviews conducted	Karolj Skala, Davor Davidovic	Ongoing. Presentation in Bari.
9	Task 6.6 (DARIAH)	Collect and analyse the outcome of the user survey and interviews, feed findings into CC activities (both technical and community related)	Analysis of user interview and survey outcome	Karolj Skala, Davor Davidovic	Ongoing. Presentation in Bari.
11	Task 6.6 (DARIAH)	Integrate gLibrary into the DARIAH gateway, Perform tests, Import dataset from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Provide materials for digital humanities researchers on how to use the data reportisoty.	D6.2 Data repository for DARIAH (OTHER)	Roberto Barbera	Ongoing.
12	Task 6.6 (DARIAH)	Decide about the best approach to integrate the application with EGI platforms and with the DARIAH gateway services. Implement the integration.	D6.5 Final version of Multi-Source Distributed Real-Time Search and Information Retrieval application (OTHER)	Tibor Kalman	Ongoing. Status to check
9	Task 6.7 (LifeWatch)	Develop tools for analysing input from citizens (e.g. pictures)	D6.1 Assisted pattern recognition tools integrated with EGI for citizen science (OTHER)	Jesús Marco	Ongoing.
12	Task 6.7 (LifeWatch)	Provide access to R and related analysis tools in Virtual Machines for the processing of data from Ecological Observatories	Data flow handler and basic R tools to integrate and process data from Ecological Observatories on EGI (DEM)	Jesús Marco	Ongoing.
2	Task 6.8 (EISCAT)	Scope the investigation plan, and get each party agree on the task force. Set up weekly meeting for discussion and progress monitoring.	Reach agreement on task responsibilities of participating parties	Yin Chen (EGI)	Agreement was achieved by May
6	Task 6.8 (EISCAT)	Identify priority development components, draft the first version of Portal Design Specification	First version of the portal design specification to be delivered	Ingemar Haggstrom(EISCAT)/Yin Chen(EGI)	SLOW. WILL RESULT LATE D6.3.
6	Task 6.8 (EISCAT)	Present the first version of design specification to EISCAT community and get feedback and approval	Present the first version of the design specification to EISCAT community, and get feedback and approval.	Ingemar Haggstrom(EISCAT)/Yin Chen(EGI)	Achieved.
10	Task 6.8 (EISCAT)	Develop the portal prototype based on the first version of the design specification.	Portal prototype to be delivered	Ake Sandgren(SNIC)	Depends on specification
12	Task 6.8 (EISCAT)	Based on the feedback from EISCAT community, identify priority development areas. Refine the first version of the design specification, adding new functional elements and to draft the second version of the design specification. Present the second version of design specification to EISCAT community and get feedback	Second version of the portal design specification to be delivered, feedback to be obtained from EISCAT community	Ingemar Haggstrom(EISCAT)/Yin Chen(EGI)	Depends on specification
12	Task 6.8 (EISCAT)	Deliver the Portal prototype, and identify a few EISCAT users to test it.	Present the protal EISCAT community, and get feedback.	Ake Sandgren(SNIC)	Depends on specification
12	Task 6.9 (EPOS)	EPOS requirements analysis and outline of pilot use cases are agreed	AAI requirements analysed and the EPOS AAI architecture envisaged. Basic multidisciplinary AAI use case defined: it deals with the discovery of heterogeneous data from the ICS-C portal An extended, single discipline, computational oriented use case defined	Daniele Balio (EPOS/INGV), Diego Scardaci (EGI.eu/INFN)	Achieved.
6	Task 6.10 (DM CC)	Collect details about the use cases from each CC member. This should cover: Details of the disaster event(s) to be simulated/predicted; details on required data; details on simulation applications, tool and gateways to interact with the data; necessary visualisation tools; implementation roadmap and timeline	Integrated information about the use cases that the CC members will work with	Simon Lin, Eric Yen	SLOW.
6	Task 6.10 (DM CC)	Planning participation and contributions to the 40th APAN meeting	Contributions and meeting at the 40th APAN meeting (<a href="http://www.apan.net/meetings/KualaLumpur2015/">http://www.apan.net/meetings/KualaLumpur2015/</a>)	Simon Lin, Eric Yen	Achieved.
8	Task 6.10 (DM CC)		Specification of the web portals for tsunami wave propagation simulations and for WRF-based weather simulation	Simon Lin, Eric Yen	??? The portals will be implemented and delivered as D6.9 in M14.