EGI-InSPIRE:SA1 slots for EGI Technical Forum

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Baseline proposal

Sessions already inserted in the proposal by the project director and relevant to sa1:

• EGI User Support Services, coord Marios Chatziaggelou, 90 min
• EGI Production Infrastructure Roadmap, 90 Min -> please rename to EGI Production Infrastructure
• A coherent security infrastructure (EGI, EMI and IGE), 90 min
• Infrastructure metrics, 90 min
• Roadmap for the EGI helpdesk and NGI support teams, coord Gergely Sipos
• HPC and HTC Grid, coord J. Kennedy
• Operational Security

Grid oversight (new session)

• 60 min Documentation
• 120 min ROD
• Operations training
  • 270 min ROD training sessions: 3 slots 90 min each

Security (to SN: replaces "Operational security", more time needed)

TOT 11 h

Comments: security sessions including training to be split across two contiguous days; Only topic "security vulnerability group" fits in the proposed EGI-EMI security session

• A coherent security infrastructure (focus on the software output) 90 min. Who will chair this session?
• SVG (security vulnerability group) 90 min (confirmed)
• SPG (security policy group) 90 min (confirmed)
• Security All Hands 90 min (to be confirmed)
• EGI CSIRT team face to face meeting 180 min (confirmed)

This talk will include information on Security Drills, i.e. results from Security Service Challenge4, status of the Security-Drills Tool-set, invited presentation by one Site which scored best, round table for next Security Drill

Security training (new session)

TOT 3 h

• 90 min software security group (SSG) training (to be confirmed)
• 90 min EGI csirt training (confirmed)

User support (SA1/SA3/NA3) (to SN: new session, I think this complements EGI User Support services which is NA3) to SN: replaces Roadmap for the EGI helpdesk and NGI support teams, more time needed

TOT 240 min. Chair: R.Trompert, T.Antoni

Comment: check if existing support sessions cover all topics mentioned below

• 180 min GGUs, SU and ticket workflow implementation, application

middleware support, support from other VCR projects/communities, inter-project support (EMI and other DCIs)

• 30 min TPM
• 60 min Network support (M.Reale)

OLA Workshop (to SN: new session)

TOT: 2 h. Chair: Christos Kanellopoulos

Comments: not in parallel with JRA1 sessions and accounting sessions Discussion in collaboration with JRA1 developers of new types of OLAs to define and monitor

Operations Management Board (to SN: new session, closed)

TOT: 2 h

Comment: avoid parallelism with other SA1 sessions

Grid operations interoperability (to SN: may overlap with HPC and HTC Grids, depends on content of the latter. This session will focus on monitoring and procedures)

Discuss with M. Lechner what workshops could be organized. Michaela should participate to the organization of the "HPC and HTC Grids" session (J. Kennedy)

Software rollout to the production infrastructure (SA1/SA2/JRA1) to SN: existing session

TOT: 2 x 1.5h sessions (Chair: Mario David and Michaela Lechner)

Comment: might include participation of the SW providers (EMI, IGE, Unicore, ARC and EGI-JRA1). Overview, status and experiences of the SW rollout process.