MoBrain CC coordination teleconference

Thursday 25 Feb 2016, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Amsterdam

This is a coordination teleconference for members of the MoBrain EGI-Engage Competence Centre. Further information: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/CC-MoBrain AGENDA: - Cryo-EM in the cloud: bringing clouds to the data - GPU portals for biomolecular simulations - Integrating the micro- (WeNMR/INSTRUCT) and macroscopic (NeuGRID4you) virtual research communities - User support and training - EGI Conference

Attendees:
Alberto Redolfi
Alexandre Bonvin
Rob Quick
Chris Morris
Baptiste Grenier
Gergely Sipos

Ales Krenek
José María Carazo

Blanca Elena Benitez Silva

Jesus Cuenca

 

 

 

Discussion topics:

Task 1 - CrymoEM:
- Move data from Leiden to Surfsara, then processing at Surfsara with Cryo-EM
- Team from Madrid will help in the setup and testing of the Cryo-EM

Task 2 - GPU:
- Good progress, related deliverable is due in M14. A draft is already available and was circulated to the CC email list two days ago
- Testbed is up and running

Task 3 - Integrated portal:
- Web portal is up and running - in the cloud on the CESNET site
- Deliverable to be finalised by Alexandre and sent to PO

Task 4: Training
- Tutorial in Utrecht and Taiwan are on track. The former to use CESNET and Surfsara, the latter ASGC and CESNET cloud resources
- Additional Crymo-EM courses are planned in Madrid. Let us know when more details are fixed

Other discussed topics:
- EGI Conference: A MoBrain presentation by Antonio to be included in the CC session on Wednesday. Other contribution is to the GPGPU session on Friday
- 'Design your e-infrastructure' workshop: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/2895/ - Help new communities to define a setup on top of EGI. If you know about any group/community who would benefit from this please inform Gergely
- Project periodic report: We will start working on this next week. Firm deadline to deliver is end of March. We ask partners to be responsive when (if) we ask for input.
- SLA and OLA for MoBrain has been agreed. These gurantee HTC and cloud resources for the MoBrain and its partners from EGI. SLA and OLAs are here: https://documents.egi.eu/document/2751 These will be reviewed annually.