EGi-XSEDE teleconference
18/6/2014
Meeting webpage: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2270
Notes written by Gergely Sipos (gergely.sipos@egi.eu)


Attendes
- Alessandro Constantini (AC)
- Antonio Lagana (AL)
- Carlo Manuali (CM)
- Mats Rynge (MR)
- Peter Kacsuk (PK)
- Richard Grunzke (RG)
- Sergiu Sanielevici (SS)
- Zoltan Farkas (ZF)
- Gergely Sipos (GS)
- Diego Scardaci (DS)

Agenda
- CMMST/GriF update
- Progress report from the SCI-BUS gateway developer team
- Robot accounting update from EGI, links to XSEDE
- XSEDE14 EGI BoF session
- AOB: EGI Competence Centre call


GriF update (CM)
- Action: Carlo to turn the requirements list into an online google spreadsheet
- Action: Zoltan to assess the spreadsheet items and decide which parameter can be already provided from the gateway, which one needs development in the gateway, which one needs development in the EGI-XSEDE e-infrastructures

CMMST community update (AL)
- XSEDE Resource allocation request is planned to be prepared and submitted by Antonio during XSEDE14
- Working on getting an allocation on PRACE

SCI-BUS update (PK):
- Job submission performance to XSEDE was improved in the last weeks by batching jobs before submitting them through Genesis-2
- WS-PGRADE release that's capable of submitting to XSEDE will be released in max 2 weeks. This means that any community who has XSEDE allocation can setup a community gateway based on the release

Robot/community certificate accounting (DS)
- In XSEDE there are two solutions for community accounting (Mats):
    1. SAML based solution. Information is available, Mats can send this
    2. A new solution to support use cases that don't submit with certificates, but eg. with SSH
- Action: Diego to setup a meeting with Mats, Derek, Sergiu to discuss how these solutions could be used in EGI

BoF session:
- Action: Gergely to try arranging a teleconference for Friday with Alan Sill, Antonio Lagana to discuss the session structure and participants
- Possible panel for the session: Alan, John + someone from XSEDE; Gergely and Antonio from EGI

EGI Competence Centre call:
- Antonio already works on an EGI Competence Centre proposal for the 4th of July deadline. A draft will be available in a few days for discussion with EGI.eu and SCI-BUS. Envisaged projects in the competence Centre are:
    1. HPC-HTC material study simulation
    2. Data format, data coodrination, applications
    3. Proposed by SCI-BUS: Implementation of the quality requirements (in the gateway and in the e-infrastructure?)

Next meeting:
- Gergely to initiate this for before XSEDE14