This double-session provides an overview of the current state of the art of the EGI Cloud Infrastructure Platform (CLIP).
After a brief introduction, Mr. David Blundell of 100% IT begins with a keynote on a commercial Cloud provider's viewpoint and motivation on joining the federation providing the CLIP.
Next, Mr. David Wallom of OeRC will give an overview of the current state of the art and future plans on the EGI Cloud Infrastructure Platform.
Following, task leaders from the EGI-InSPIRE project explain in more detail the technical background and current state of implementations of key capabilities of the EGI CLIP.
The session will conclude with a comprehensive live demonstration of the capabilities of the EGI Cloud Infrastructure Platform, including a live demonstration from the ESA and BioVeL user communities.
EGI supports world-class research conducted by more than 22,000 scientists and researchers across 50 countries. However, given the distributed nature of EGI and access policies across 200 Virtual Organisations, it is difficult to understand the excellent science being done thanks to the use of e-Infrastructures. In turn, demonstration of this impact to governments and funding agencies is hindered, which leads to increased uncertainty of future funding. A number of activities are taking place across the e-Infrastructure community to increase this knowledge and thus promote scientific results and impact. In particular, collaboration has been established with the OpenAIRE to provide the necessary services to tackle this issue. This session will provide an update on the progress of the implementation of the new processes, tools and services for the tracking of scientific output made through EGI and to better map the scientific impact.
The aim of this session is to bring the NGI International Liaisons (NILs) together to discuss how to push forward the strategic non-operational activities taking place within the EGI ecosystem. These activities include outreach to and engagement with new and existing user communities, marketing & communications or training.
Building on feedback from previous meetings at the EGI forums, the NIL session will be structured as an interactive discussion with an open agenda. This move from the classic format organised around individual presentations, will provide a better opportunity to make the most of the NILs collective experience and expertise. The result will be a focused discussion about how to proceed with non-operational issues and a stronger NIL network at work for the benefit of the wider EGI community.
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
This is the V meeting of the Resource Centre Forum, which puts together experts and representatives from the EGI Resource Centres and EGI user communities to discuss operational and technical issues that concern various topics such as:
- support of MPI,
- resource allocation to user groups,
- deployment of new technologies like GPGUS,
- local configuration systems, etc.
The goal of the Resource Centre Forum is to improve support to multiple disciplines, foster collaboration between Resource Centres from different NGIs and to allow sharing of expertise between them. This 3 h session is aimed at VO operations managers, to site representatives and NGI operations teams.
Various components of operating systems as well as grid middleware typically produce a lot of information about their operations. The logs contain important details and are invaluable source of information that is important to reveal misconfigurations, etc. Logs also play very important role during investigation of security incidents since they make it possible to track down activites of users and applications.
In the sessions we will present best practices about how logs can be collected and what tools are needed to establish a central logging instance. We will also present current works focusing on efficient log management.
We will try to collect people from other NGIs that have experience in this area to share during the sessions.
The expected audience of the session is the site administrators and security officers.
This tutorial is organized as a training session where administrators and developers of science gateways will be able to learn the technical basis of gUSE/WS-PGRADE. SCI-BUS is a project with 15 partners, 6 subcontractors and 4 associated partners that are developing their own gateways: they are part of the target audience expected in the session as well as several participants around other Science Gateway projects or gUSE/WS-PGRADE technology.
The tutorial is organized as an extension of other training activities carried out by the project as the Code Camp 2012 or the Summer School 2013 (http://www.sci-bus.eu/tutorials). Attendees are expected to learn about the gUSE/WS-PGRADE technology and they will be able keep in touch with the main technical team of the project.
e-Infrastructure communities heavily rely on third party software and technology providers, both for infrastructure service providers and the researchers that use them. Some technology providers that have supported EGI over the last years were co-funded through EC projects (e.g. EMI, IGE). For the first time in the last decade, the co-funding mechanism of the EC has no continuity and the involved organisations are exploring new business models and governance structures to continue deliver their value to the e-infrastructures community (eg. See the MeDIA initiative). This session aims at discussing the emerging business models, governance frameworks and their relationship to EGI in order to support the discussion on the best way forward.
This double-session provides an overview of the current state of the art of the EGI Cloud Infrastructure Platform (CLIP).
After a brief introduction, Mr. David Blundell of 100% IT begins with a keynote on a commercial Cloud provider's viewpoint and motivation on joining the federation providing the CLIP.
Next, Mr. David Wallom of OeRC will give an overview of the current state of the art and future plans on the EGI Cloud Infrastructure Platform.
Following, task leaders from the EGI-InSPIRE project explain in more detail the technical background and current state of implementations of key capabilities of the EGI CLIP.
The session will conclude with a comprehensive live demonstration of the capabilities of the EGI Cloud Infrastructure Platform, including a live demonstration from the ESA and BioVeL user communities.
please see more detail on this session and register to participate here:
https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1850
The aim of this session is to bring the NGI International Liaisons (NILs) together to discuss how to push forward the strategic non-operational activities taking place within the EGI ecosystem. These activities include outreach to and engagement with new and existing user communities, marketing & communications or training.
Building on feedback from previous meetings at the EGI forums, the NIL session will be structured as an interactive discussion with an open agenda. This move from the classic format organised around individual presentations, will provide a better opportunity to make the most of the NILs collective experience and expertise. The result will be a focused discussion about how to proceed with non-operational issues and a stronger NIL network at work for the benefit of the wider EGI community.
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
This is the V meeting of the Resource Centre Forum, which puts together experts and representatives from the EGI Resource Centres and EGI user communities to discuss operational and technical issues that concern various topics such as:
- support of MPI,
- resource allocation to user groups,
- deployment of new technologies like GPGUS,
- local configuration systems, etc.
The goal of the Resource Centre Forum is to improve support to multiple disciplines, foster collaboration between Resource Centres from different NGIs and to allow sharing of expertise between them. This 3 h session is aimed at VO operations managers, to site representatives and NGI operations teams.
The double session brings together the work of the technology providers already contributing to the EGI ecosystem, and the developers of new solutions that are thought to address new use cases for the EGI user communities and resource providers.
What are now the priorities and the technical roadmaps of the product teams after the end of the European funded middleware projects? What can be the contribution of new technology provider to the EGI technological ecosystem? How the new products and new features can improve or change the users' workflows and the processes of who manages the resource centres?
The session focuses on the services that provide access to distributed resources: compute resources, storage and data management and the services that enable the federation of the infrastructure.
The goal of the workshop is to gather feedback from the EGI communities to be used as an input for the definition of the IOTA profile.
During the Community Forum, the Federated AAI workshop included a presentation about the "Light-weight Identity Vetting Environment" authentication profile under definition within IGTF. Using the input from several identity providers and non-EGI resource providers, the profile has been further developed so as to relax some of the requirements presented during the Forum AAI workshop.
This workshop follows up and extends the authentication profile discussion.
The workshop aims to:
* Present the new Identifier-Only Trust Assurance (IOTA) profile to the EGI communities
* Get feedback from the EGI resource providers about the profile profile minimum requirements to enable the CAs in the resource centres (e.g. minimum incident response, traceability or ID common name).
* Get feedback from the EGI user communities about how a differentiate level of assurance 'can bring in'/'reach out to' new users.
This session introduces a new concept to the EGI community: Lightning talks.
On the background of an established platform (the EGI Cloud Infrastructure Platform), a number of invited contributors introduce a topic of their choice in a very succinct and time-constrained manner to the audience.
Within a timeslot of 5 minutes (3-4 minutes talk, 1-2 minutes Q&A) each of the six speakers will highlight the benefit of their solution, offering or needs (as Technology Provider, Resource Provider or Research Community, respectively) and how it will add value to the EGI Cloud Infrastructure Platform ecosystem.
After a brief voting, three speakers will be invited to come forward and provide more information in a dedicated 10 minutes timeslot each, and to further discuss specific collaborations and actions for the time ahead.
Please register at https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1869
Following a distance learning seminar delivered via a webinar in June, this training session will add practical face to face practice and experience to the previous theory.
The training will simulate real and potentially stressful conditions where experts can face confrontational interviewers and audiences. Video recording of practical sessions and follow up analysis of behaviours will enhance the learning experience.
The session will be led by Martin Ince and Wendy Barnaby, two highly experienced experts from the world of professional media - intended for EGI Champions.
Full agenda and register to join this training at:
https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1811
This security training event is aimed at experienced Linux administrators. Similar training events have been held at a number of recent meetings and have been very popular.
The participants will learn basic incident response and forensic skills in a virtualized environment. After a couple of introductory lectures on field forensics and incident response, most of the time will be taken up by a tournament where the participants form teams that are given full root access to simulated HPC sites. Their task is to defend against and analyze realistic attacks of increasing sophistication, while keeping their systems up and running. The teams will be scored on their performance! At the end of the event we will discuss the findings. The crucial point here is to find how the site was attacked and which steps could be taken to prevent this from happening again. This should result in some best practices on how to reduce the attack surface of your site.
The maximum number of participants will be 18, on a first come, first served basis
The EC-funded Helix Nebula project is a step towards a European cloud-based scientific e-Infrastructure composed of resources and services from commercial and publicly owned providers. This workshop is an opportunity to share the progress on interoperability and integration activities performed over the last year. The following aspects will be addressed: technical standards road-mapping, service management in federated infrastructures, security guidelines and recommendations, and business models for sustainable coexistence of private and publicly funded organisations.
This workshop tackles a key topic in the area of federated clouds and can be beneficial for many stakeholders in the area, especially for policy and decision makers. (See brochure http://go.egi.eu/hnws3-brochure)
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
Session will include a presentation of the integration activities conducted to facilitate data access, transfer, replication and processing across EGI, EUDAT and PRACE.
The session is aimed at representatives of new user communities, NGI operations, and representatives of other e-Infrastructures.
During the session status and next steps in integration activities of new infrastructures and user communities will be presented.
PLEASE REGISTER FOR THIS TRAINING EVENT AT:
https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1781
DETAILED AGENDA: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1781
The glue-validator command is a very useful command for system administrators and middleware developers who want to validate whether the information published by the service they are managing or developing is compliant with Glue 2.0. In particular, the glue-validator is able to validate against the EGI profile for GLUE 2.0
This training will present the glue-validator and how to validate the information published by a site or a resource against the EGI profile for GLUE 2.0. It will present the different command line options and possible output formats. The training will explain how to deal with the different failure messages from a practical point of view. An overview of the deployment of GLUE 2 validation in production will be introduced, explaining what type of errors will raise alarms for the sites and how support to sites will be given by ROD. Finally, details on the status of GLUE 2 will be presented, highlighting the most common errors and what to do to overcome them.
Please register at https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1869
Following a distance learning seminar delivered via a webinar in June, this training session will add practical face to face practice and experience to the previous theory.
The training will simulate real and potentially stressful conditions where experts can face confrontational interviewers and audiences. Video recording of practical sessions and follow up analysis of behaviours will enhance the learning experience.
The session will be led by Martin Ince and Wendy Barnaby, two highly experienced experts from the world of professional media - intended for EGI Champions.
This session is dedicated to a F2F meeting for the EGI Federated Clouds Task.
Participants will discuss and identify the next steps according to the roadmap.
Full agenda and register to join this training at:
https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1811
This security training event is aimed at experienced Linux administrators. Similar training events have been held at a number of recent meetings and have been very popular.
The participants will learn basic incident response and forensic skills in a virtualized environment. After a couple of introductory lectures on field forensics and incident response, most of the time will be taken up by a tournament where the participants form teams that are given full root access to simulated HPC sites. Their task is to defend against and analyze realistic attacks of increasing sophistication, while keeping their systems up and running. The teams will be scored on their performance! At the end of the event we will discuss the findings. The crucial point here is to find how the site was attacked and which steps could be taken to prevent this from happening again. This should result in some best practices on how to reduce the attack surface of your site.
The maximum number of participants will be 18, on a first come, first served basis
The EC-funded Helix Nebula project is a step towards a European cloud-based scientific e-Infrastructure composed of resources and services from commercial and publicly owned providers. This workshop is an opportunity to share the progress on interoperability and integration activities performed over the last year. The following aspects will be addressed: technical standards road-mapping, service management in federated infrastructures, security guidelines and recommendations, and business models for sustainable coexistence of private and publicly funded organisations.
This workshop tackles a key topic in the area of federated clouds and can be beneficial for many stakeholders in the area, especially for policy and decision makers. (See brochure http://go.egi.eu/hnws3-brochure)
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
This session will feature presentations about the science gateway frameworks that exist and are offered by the EGI community for scientific communities. Science gateway frameworks simplify the setup of community-specific Virtual Research Environments that integrate tools, applications, data collections for scientific users, and provide simple interfaces to interact with resources and services of the EGI. Providers of science gateway frameworks will be invited using the up to date entries of the EGI Applications Database as a basis.
Besides the presentations about the latest capabilities of the frameworks, a generic presentation will highlight the support that exists in EGI for the science gateway community.
GO TO THE AGENDA:
https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1851
The User Community Board develops policies, strategy and technical priorities concerning the deployment of the production infrastructure by the main EGI user comies munities.
In this session the evolution user communities are invited to meet with NGI operations to discuss technical requirements, new use cases, problems that are experienced with the use of the infrastructure and its tools for monitoring, accounting and support.
This session is aimed at user communities, the NGI operations managers and the partners responsible of EGI operations services and tools.
This CloudWatch workshop on Cloud standards profiles is the first out of a total of six workshops over the project's course of two years.
Speakers are invited to present real-world cases that are not supported by existing Cloud standards. Where available, strawman or proof-of-concept extensions and profiles to existing Cloud standards should be included in these presentations.
The goal of this specific workshop is to identify a first set of use cases that require profiling, together with candidate Standards Development Organisations that may host a relevant working group.
Potential topics for discussion are:
- Authentication (e.g. extending RFC2617 with complex tokens)
- Contextualisation extension for OCCI
The purpose of this session is to provide a platform on which EGI's VTs and Mini-projects explain how grid computing issues can be addressed by well formed groups of people working together across a dispersed Virtual Team environment. To be successful, such 'teams' rely on the formation of closely knit Human Networks through which effective communication and coordination activities can take place. VT and Mini-project leaders will report on their project results, showing how the project was planned, how the size of the team was established, how results were validated and all these activities depend on successful human networks. Semi-flash (less than 10 min) type presentations will be delivered by both current and completed VTs and Mini-projects.
Full agenda and register to join this training at:
https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1811
This security training event is aimed at experienced Linux administrators. Similar training events have been held at a number of recent meetings and have been very popular.
The participants will learn basic incident response and forensic skills in a virtualized environment. After a couple of introductory lectures on field forensics and incident response, most of the time will be taken up by a tournament where the participants form teams that are given full root access to simulated HPC sites. Their task is to defend against and analyze realistic attacks of increasing sophistication, while keeping their systems up and running. The teams will be scored on their performance! At the end of the event we will discuss the findings. The crucial point here is to find how the site was attacked and which steps could be taken to prevent this from happening again. This should result in some best practices on how to reduce the attack surface of your site.
The maximum number of participants will be 18, on a first come, first served basis
The goal of the session is to provide and update on some developments in WLCG for the next run of collisions (Run2). The selected talks are of interest to people from LHC and other communities. Among the several ongoing projects, this session focus for data transfers, data access, monitoring and how WLCG testing activities are better integrated into EGI software releasing procedures. The speakers of the workshop are the key developers/deployers of the technology and new tools.
As of today, special focus is on Data and on how to optimize Data Access on the grid. This is in part because of real world experience with running services for VOs of various sizes and characteristics; in part also because of technology evolution, with fibre optics communications evolving at a much faster pace than other components of the computing systems. This evolution has opened the possibility for remote data access to become the norm, which in turn influences how we use data transfer, which may drift towards being more of a load balancing tool rather than a data access enabler. Dataset Catalogues need to evolve in parallel, so that users and applications can quickly and efficiently find the datasets they need. In parallel, network monitoring (perfsonar-PS, WLCG data transfer monitoring) are becoming crucial tools to monitor data transfers and remote accesses performance, and monitoring the health of the network.
Remote connection through Vidyo available: https://vidyoportal.cern.ch/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=zVtRGf5euR2y
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
Open data is the new paradigm that proclaims that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or any other mechanisms of control. This is especially important in publicly funded research where taxpayers have already paid for the results, therefore should be open for reuse. The European Commission has established its own strategy for ensuring the increased openness and availability of scientific data produced via EU funded projects. This does not mean a reduction of business opportunities, in fact, there are new areas of potential business around open data such as applications that can be built on top around data mining and analysis. This session aims to raise the awareness of the opportunities from open science, discuss how EGI can help implementing the policy and understand how user communities can benefit from opening up their research outputs.
This session will feature presentations about the science gateway frameworks that exist and are offered by the EGI community for scientific communities. Science gateway frameworks simplify the setup of community-specific Virtual Research Environments that integrate tools, applications, data collections for scientific users, and provide simple interfaces to interact with resources and services of the EGI. Providers of science gateway frameworks will be invited using the up to date entries of the EGI Applications Database as a basis.
Besides the presentations about the latest capabilities of the frameworks, a generic presentation will highlight the support that exists in EGI for the science gateway community.
The sessions will provide an opportunity for sites to ask questions about how they should plan and execute the upgrade to the new APEL Client. In addition it will provide a forum to explore whether deploying a Regional APEL Server and Accounting Portal is appropriate for their region.
This session is aimed at sites installing new versions of the Accounting software; the new APEL Client (released as part of EMI 3), the Regional APEL Server and the Regional Accounting Portal.
There will be three 20 minute slots.
The first will cover the installation of the latest version of the APEL Client and will include possible upgrade scenarios for sites running previous versions.
The second will describe how to set up a Regional APEL Server. As the Regional APEL Server is available only for sites running the EMI 3 APEL Client, it is important to attend the first part of this session as well.
The third slot will introduce the new Regional Accounting Portal and describe how this can be set up with a Regional APEL Server.
Separate event - please contact the Convener direct, marco@ifca.unican.es
For full details, please see: http://www.cloudplugfest.org/cloud-interoperability-week
OpenMoLE (www.openmole.org) is a platform which eases the development of massively parallel applications at a cluster, a grid or a cloud scale. It provides a reliable and high-level abstraction of execution environments to the end users and to the web portals. Indeed, the platform deals with software installations, file transfers, job failures, and renders the distributed execution entirely transparent. In this training session we propose to teach how to design OpenMoLE workflows. Attendees will learn how to:
- embed an external application in OpenMOLE,
- design large scale OpenMoLE workflows generating several hundred of thousand of jobs,
- gather / aggregate / store produced data,
- delegate the computing load to EGI / DIRAC / clusters / ad-hoc desktop-grids..
A practical session during which the audience of up to 20 will use OpenMoLE to design grid and cluster enabled applications.
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
This is the fourth workshop that focuses on the need for an EGI integrated infrastructure for middleware services discovery across heterogeneous grid infrastructures - based on ARC, gLite, GLOBUS, UNICORE – and virtualized resources. The workshop will assess the status of the activities proposed during the previous workshops, which include developments in middleware services and operations tools, as well as high level policies and standards definition and application. The workshop will define the actions to continue the work towards the implementation of a common strategy, and it is a good opportunity to discuss with the developers and resource providers use cases and requirements.
This session includes presentations from various projects, communities and initiatives who have experimented with or examined the use and benefits of cloud services for scientific and training purposes. The talks will provide insights into the case studies, applications and pilots that scientific users integrated with academic clouds in Europe, and will include a presentation from the XSEDE project about their recent survey about their 'Cloud Use Survey'.
This workshop will provide opportunity for the established and emerging VRCs of EGI to present their software architecture, operational and support structure, plans, and to discuss and resolve any issues with the help of the community. Particular attention will be given to the short, focussed projects that are run within EGI (pilots, study cases, Virtual Teams) or within some of the NGIs to engage with and establish VRCs for new communities.
The three session would be split between (1) Towards new VRCs in EGI (pilots, study cases, community-oriented VTs), (2) New and emerging VRCs and VOs in the NGIs (3) New developments within existing VRCs.
This workshop aims at defining principles and specifications for the creation of an open schema to certify organisations and services against existing Cloud requirements and technical Cloud profiles. The workshop will be based on existing material, such as ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 17021:2011, ISO/IEC 27006:2011, ISO 19011, existing cloud specific certification schema, such as NIST FedRAMP, and under development and cloud specific certification schemas such as Cloud Security Alliance Open Certification Framework.
It will also collect further information such as the results of ENISA and EC effort under Action 1 of the European Cloud Strategy, “Cutting through the Jungle of Standards”
EGI operational tools are part of the EGI Infrastructure and Collaboration Platform, are technology agnostic and they can be easily extended to meet the operational needs of any distributed Research Infrastructures. The adoption of EGI operations tools, deployed and developed within EGI-InSPIRE, allows the reuse of existing solutions that address the typical needs of any distributed RI. This session is aimed at NGI operators, Research Infrastructure operators and user communities interested in learning about that.
Separate event - please contact the Convener direct, marco@ifca.unican.es
For full details, please see: http://www.cloudplugfest.org/cloud-interoperability-week
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
Grid and cloud computing are now a fundamental element in all analyses and experiments in Life Sciences. In this 2 part workshop, a number of research case studies will focus on the practical applications that are underpinning their success and show how these are relevant for other areas of research within Life Sciences. A final discussion phase will aim to provide clear proposals for future EGI effort. Additionally, hands on demonstrations/training for accessing grid resources either selected from the case studies or from within the scope well known Life Sciences VOs will be provided to researchers, scientists and even software developers.
These two (open) sessions will present an overview of current activities and future plans in all areas related to operational security. This includes the EGI CSIRT, security policy, software vulnerability handling, vulnerability assessment of software, IGTF/EUGridPMA, incident handling, security monitoring, security training/dissemination, and security service challenges. We will also consider issues related to collaboration between EGI and other infrastructures (PRACE, WLCG, OSG, XSEDE, others). We will discuss what more needs to be done in relation to security policy and operations in federated cloud services.
The UMD Release Team is the group that coordinates the contributions to the UMD releases coming from the technology providers, the members are the product teams representatives and the UMD software provisioning team. The target of the meeting is to cover topics that can benefit of a face to face discussion, such as the extension of the workflows and procedures for the release of new products in UMD.
This workshop will provide opportunity for the established and emerging VRCs of EGI to present their software architecture, operational and support structure, plans, and to discuss and resolve any issues with the help of the community. Particular attention will be given to the short, focussed projects that are run within EGI (pilots, study cases, Virtual Teams) or within some of the NGIs to engage with and establish VRCs for new communities.
The three session would be split between (1) Towards new VRCs in EGI (pilots, study cases, community-oriented VTs), (2) New and emerging VRCs and VOs in the NGIs (3) New developments within existing VRCs.
DETAILED AGENDA: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/confModifSchedule.py?confId=1853#20130918
Structured in two sections, this training will be dedicated to both the performance of the network (monitoring,troubleshooting, measurements and optimisation) and to the effect of the end-host in the assessment of the performances and the overall perception of the network behaviour. The training would start with an overview of the current monitoring and troubleshooting strategies (including perfSONAR). Different approaches should be considered: starting from the problem experienced by the user down to the analysis of the hardware failures or starting from monitoring hardware components up the problems experienced by the users. Finally we expect different end-host types (bare-metal and virtualisation solutions) to be analysed and discussed.
EGI operational tools are part of the EGI Infrastructure and Collaboration Platform, are technology agnostic and they can be easily extended to meet the operational needs of any distributed Research Infrastructures. The adoption of EGI operations tools, deployed and developed within EGI-InSPIRE, allows the reuse of existing solutions that address the typical needs of any distributed RI. This session is aimed at NGI operators, Research Infrastructure operators and user communities interested in learning about that.
Separate event - please contact the Convener direct, marco@ifca.unican.es
For full details, please see: http://www.cloudplugfest.org/cloud-interoperability-week
Please refer to separate OGF programme at
http://www.ogf.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/events/ogf-39
Grid and cloud computing are now a fundamental element in all analyses and experiments in Life Sciences. In this 2 part workshop, a number of research case studies will focus on the practical applications that are underpinning their success and show how these are relevant for other areas of research within Life Sciences. A final discussion phase will aim to provide clear proposals for future EGI effort. Additionally, hands on demonstrations/training for accessing grid resources either selected from the case studies or from within the scope well known Life Sciences VOs will be provided to researchers, scientists and even software developers.
These two (open) sessions will present an overview of current activities and future plans in all areas related to operational security. This includes the EGI CSIRT, security policy, software vulnerability handling, vulnerability assessment of software, IGTF/EUGridPMA, incident handling, security monitoring, security training/dissemination, and security service challenges. We will also consider issues related to collaboration between EGI and other infrastructures (PRACE, WLCG, OSG, XSEDE, others). We will discuss what more needs to be done in relation to security policy and operations in federated cloud services.
The UMD Release Team is the group that coordinates the contributions to the UMD releases coming from the technology providers, the members are the product teams representatives and the UMD software provisioning team. The target of the meeting is to cover topics that can benefit of a face to face discussion, such as the extension of the workflows and procedures for the release of new products in UMD.
This workshop will provide opportunity for the established and emerging VRCs of EGI to present their software architecture, operational and support structure, plans, and to discuss and resolve any issues with the help of the community. Particular attention will be given to the short, focussed projects that are run within EGI (pilots, study cases, Virtual Teams) or within some of the NGIs to engage with and establish VRCs for new communities.
The three session would be split between (1) Towards new VRCs in EGI (pilots, study cases, community-oriented VTs), (2) New and emerging VRCs and VOs in the NGIs (3) New developments within existing VRCs.
DETAILED AGENDA: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/confModifSchedule.py?confId=1853#20130918
Structured in two sections, this training will be dedicated to both the performance of the network (monitoring,troubleshooting, measurements and optimisation) and to the effect of the end-host in the assessment of the performances and the overall perception of the network behaviour. The training would start with an overview of the current monitoring and troubleshooting strategies (including perfSONAR). Different approaches should be considered: starting from the problem experienced by the user down to the analysis of the hardware failures or starting from monitoring hardware components up the problems experienced by the users. Finally we expect different end-host types (bare-metal and virtualisation solutions) to be analysed and discussed.
19:30 drinks in the cafeteria at the stadium
20:30 Conference group photo
21:00 Seated for Gala dinner start
For full details, please see: http://www.cloudplugfest.org/cloud-interoperability-week
Closed project meeting - Project Administation Committee and Collaboration Board
Full details for this event can be found at: http://www.egcf.eu/events/globuseurope-2013/
General Information: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/
The Spanish National Grid Initiative (ES-NGI), is organizing the 2013 edition of the Iberian Grid Computing Conference, IBERGRID, 2013. The IBERGRID conference series is organized since 2007 in the context of the bi-lateral agreements between Portugal and Spain in matter of grid computing, super-computing, and scientific data repositories. The IBERGRID conferences have as goal the promotion of the Iberian e-science activities.
This year edition will take place in Madrid, co-located with the EGI Technical Forum 2013. We would like to invite you to attend to this event that will join more than 120 researchers, users and datacenter managers from the most important scientific computing infrastructures in Spain and Portugal. The attendance expected for the EGI TF 2013 is over 500 people.
In the context of IBERGRID, computing centres of Portugal and Spain work together to develop and provide grid, cloud and high performance computing services for the scientific community, which are fully integrated in the European Grid Initiative.
The IBERGRID webpage is at http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/ and any questions on the conference should be directed to conference co-chairs at ibergrid13@upv.es.
The Applications Database (AppDB - http://appdb.egi.eu) is a registry and repository for various types of software tools and services that are available for EGI users. It makes software visible, searchable and usable within, and beyond the EGI community. Technical and research domain specific filters, tags, ratings and comments provide a structure for the content. Notification and broadcast services ensure that users and followers are informed about new software entries and updates made to registered items.
Since March 2013 AppDB enables software developers to share source code or executable software in the repository. Recent integration with Google's search engine makes content from AppDB highly visible for the Google search engine, and ultimately for all e-infrastructure users around the world.
This training session will introduce the rich service set of AppDB to attendees of the EGI Technical Forum. The training will include several use cases that attendees can implement during the session to register and increase the visibility and support of their own software using AppDB. The training will be conducted by members of IASA (Greece) and EGI.eu (Natherlands) and will be relevant to any software developer, platform developer, platform integrator, scientific programmer and software user who is affiliated with EGI, or with any other e-infrastructure in and outside of Europe.
For full details, please see: http://www.cloudplugfest.org/cloud-interoperability-week
This foundation training course in federated IT Service Management introduces the fundamentals of service management and some of the specific challenges faced when managing IT services across complex and federated communities.
The training is carried out across one afternoon and the following morning, and culminates in a short exam. Successfully passing the exam will grant participants a Foundation Certificate in Service Management for Federated IT Infrastructures, provided by the internationally recognised standards organisation TÜV SÜD.
The course is structured around the FitSM-1:2013 standard (see www.fedsm.eu/fitsm for details), which is compatible with ITIL and ISO/IEC 20000. The FitSM standard and the training course are produced and run by the FedSM project, which is funded by the EC to bring improved service management to several infrastructures, including EGI.
Places for this session are limited and must be reserved in advance, contact training@fedsm.eu for details.
Full details for this event can be found at: http://www.egcf.eu/events/globuseurope-2013/
General Information: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/
The Spanish National Grid Initiative (ES-NGI), is organizing the 2013 edition of the Iberian Grid Computing Conference, IBERGRID, 2013. The IBERGRID conference series is organized since 2007 in the context of the bi-lateral agreements between Portugal and Spain in matter of grid computing, super-computing, and scientific data repositories. The IBERGRID conferences have as goal the promotion of the Iberian e-science activities.
This year edition will take place in Madrid, co-located with the EGI Technical Forum 2013. We would like to invite you to attend to this event that will join more than 120 researchers, users and datacenter managers from the most important scientific computing infrastructures in Spain and Portugal. The attendance expected for the EGI TF 2013 is over 500 people.
In the context of IBERGRID, computing centres of Portugal and Spain work together to develop and provide grid, cloud and high performance computing services for the scientific community, which are fully integrated in the European Grid Initiative.
The IBERGRID webpage is at http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/ and any questions on the conference should be directed to conference co-chairs at ibergrid13@upv.es.
For full details, please see: http://www.cloudplugfest.org/cloud-interoperability-week
This foundation training course in federated IT Service Management introduces the fundamentals of service management and some of the specific challenges faced when managing IT services across complex and federated communities.
The training is carried out across one afternoon and the following morning, and culminates in a short exam. Successfully passing the exam will grant participants a Foundation Certificate in Service Management for Federated IT Infrastructures, provided by the internationally recognised standards organisation TÜV SÜD.
The course is structured around the FitSM-1:2013 standard (see www.fedsm.eu/fitsm for details), which is compatible with ITIL and ISO/IEC 20000. The FitSM standard and the training course are produced and run by the FedSM project, which is funded by the EC to bring improved service management to several infrastructures, including EGI.
Places for this session are limited and must be reserved in advance, contact training@fedsm.eu for details.
Full details for this event can be found at: http://www.egcf.eu/events/globuseurope-2013/
General Information: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/
The Spanish National Grid Initiative (ES-NGI), is organizing the 2013 edition of the Iberian Grid Computing Conference, IBERGRID, 2013. The IBERGRID conference series is organized since 2007 in the context of the bi-lateral agreements between Portugal and Spain in matter of grid computing, super-computing, and scientific data repositories. The IBERGRID conferences have as goal the promotion of the Iberian e-science activities.
This year edition will take place in Madrid, co-located with the EGI Technical Forum 2013. We would like to invite you to attend to this event that will join more than 120 researchers, users and datacenter managers from the most important scientific computing infrastructures in Spain and Portugal. The attendance expected for the EGI TF 2013 is over 500 people.
In the context of IBERGRID, computing centres of Portugal and Spain work together to develop and provide grid, cloud and high performance computing services for the scientific community, which are fully integrated in the European Grid Initiative.
The IBERGRID webpage is at http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/ and any questions on the conference should be directed to conference co-chairs at ibergrid13@upv.es.
For full details, please see: http://www.cloudplugfest.org/cloud-interoperability-week
This foundation training course in federated IT Service Management introduces the fundamentals of service management and some of the specific challenges faced when managing IT services across complex and federated communities.
The training is carried out across one afternoon and the following morning, and culminates in a short exam. Successfully passing the exam will grant participants a Foundation Certificate in Service Management for Federated IT Infrastructures, provided by the internationally recognised standards organisation TÜV SÜD.
The course is structured around the FitSM-1:2013 standard (see www.fedsm.eu/fitsm for details), which is compatible with ITIL and ISO/IEC 20000. The FitSM standard and the training course are produced and run by the FedSM project, which is funded by the EC to bring improved service management to several infrastructures, including EGI.
Places for this session are limited and must be reserved in advance, contact training@fedsm.eu for details.
General Information: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/
The Spanish National Grid Initiative (ES-NGI), is organizing the 2013 edition of the Iberian Grid Computing Conference, IBERGRID, 2013. The IBERGRID conference series is organized since 2007 in the context of the bi-lateral agreements between Portugal and Spain in matter of grid computing, super-computing, and scientific data repositories. The IBERGRID conferences have as goal the promotion of the Iberian e-science activities.
This year edition will take place in Madrid, co-located with the EGI Technical Forum 2013. We would like to invite you to attend to this event that will join more than 120 researchers, users and datacenter managers from the most important scientific computing infrastructures in Spain and Portugal. The attendance expected for the EGI TF 2013 is over 500 people.
In the context of IBERGRID, computing centres of Portugal and Spain work together to develop and provide grid, cloud and high performance computing services for the scientific community, which are fully integrated in the European Grid Initiative.
The IBERGRID webpage is at http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/ and any questions on the conference should be directed to conference co-chairs at ibergrid13@upv.es.
General Information: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/
The Spanish National Grid Initiative (ES-NGI), is organizing the 2013 edition of the Iberian Grid Computing Conference, IBERGRID, 2013. The IBERGRID conference series is organized since 2007 in the context of the bi-lateral agreements between Portugal and Spain in matter of grid computing, super-computing, and scientific data repositories. The IBERGRID conferences have as goal the promotion of the Iberian e-science activities.
This year edition will take place in Madrid, co-located with the EGI Technical Forum 2013. We would like to invite you to attend to this event that will join more than 120 researchers, users and datacenter managers from the most important scientific computing infrastructures in Spain and Portugal. The attendance expected for the EGI TF 2013 is over 500 people.
In the context of IBERGRID, computing centres of Portugal and Spain work together to develop and provide grid, cloud and high performance computing services for the scientific community, which are fully integrated in the European Grid Initiative.
The IBERGRID webpage is at http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/ and any questions on the conference should be directed to conference co-chairs at ibergrid13@upv.es.
For full details, please see: http://www.cloudplugfest.org/cloud-interoperability-week
This foundation training course in federated IT Service Management introduces the fundamentals of service management and some of the specific challenges faced when managing IT services across complex and federated communities.
The training is carried out across one afternoon and the following morning, and culminates in a short exam. Successfully passing the exam will grant participants a Foundation Certificate in Service Management for Federated IT Infrastructures, provided by the internationally recognised standards organisation TÜV SÜD.
The course is structured around the FitSM-1:2013 standard (see www.fedsm.eu/fitsm for details), which is compatible with ITIL and ISO/IEC 20000. The FitSM standard and the training course are produced and run by the FedSM project, which is funded by the EC to bring improved service management to several infrastructures, including EGI.
Places for this session are limited and must be reserved in advance, contact training@fedsm.eu for details.
General Information: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/
The Spanish National Grid Initiative (ES-NGI), is organizing the 2013 edition of the Iberian Grid Computing Conference, IBERGRID, 2013. The IBERGRID conference series is organized since 2007 in the context of the bi-lateral agreements between Portugal and Spain in matter of grid computing, super-computing, and scientific data repositories. The IBERGRID conferences have as goal the promotion of the Iberian e-science activities.
This year edition will take place in Madrid, co-located with the EGI Technical Forum 2013. We would like to invite you to attend to this event that will join more than 120 researchers, users and datacenter managers from the most important scientific computing infrastructures in Spain and Portugal. The attendance expected for the EGI TF 2013 is over 500 people.
In the context of IBERGRID, computing centres of Portugal and Spain work together to develop and provide grid, cloud and high performance computing services for the scientific community, which are fully integrated in the European Grid Initiative.
The IBERGRID webpage is at http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/ and any questions on the conference should be directed to conference co-chairs at ibergrid13@upv.es.
For full details, please see: http://www.cloudplugfest.org/cloud-interoperability-week
General Information: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/
The Spanish National Grid Initiative (ES-NGI), is organizing the 2013 edition of the Iberian Grid Computing Conference, IBERGRID, 2013. The IBERGRID conference series is organized since 2007 in the context of the bi-lateral agreements between Portugal and Spain in matter of grid computing, super-computing, and scientific data repositories. The IBERGRID conferences have as goal the promotion of the Iberian e-science activities.
This year edition will take place in Madrid, co-located with the EGI Technical Forum 2013. We would like to invite you to attend to this event that will join more than 120 researchers, users and datacenter managers from the most important scientific computing infrastructures in Spain and Portugal. The attendance expected for the EGI TF 2013 is over 500 people.
In the context of IBERGRID, computing centres of Portugal and Spain work together to develop and provide grid, cloud and high performance computing services for the scientific community, which are fully integrated in the European Grid Initiative.
The IBERGRID webpage is at http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/ and any questions on the conference should be directed to conference co-chairs at ibergrid13@upv.es.
For full details, please see: http://www.cloudplugfest.org/cloud-interoperability-week
General Information: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/
The Spanish National Grid Initiative (ES-NGI), is organizing the 2013 edition of the Iberian Grid Computing Conference, IBERGRID, 2013. The IBERGRID conference series is organized since 2007 in the context of the bi-lateral agreements between Portugal and Spain in matter of grid computing, super-computing, and scientific data repositories. The IBERGRID conferences have as goal the promotion of the Iberian e-science activities.
This year edition will take place in Madrid, co-located with the EGI Technical Forum 2013. We would like to invite you to attend to this event that will join more than 120 researchers, users and datacenter managers from the most important scientific computing infrastructures in Spain and Portugal. The attendance expected for the EGI TF 2013 is over 500 people.
In the context of IBERGRID, computing centres of Portugal and Spain work together to develop and provide grid, cloud and high performance computing services for the scientific community, which are fully integrated in the European Grid Initiative.
The IBERGRID webpage is at http://www.ibergrid.eu/2013/ and any questions on the conference should be directed to conference co-chairs at ibergrid13@upv.es.