EGI User Virtualisation Workshop Discussions

12 May 2011, 10:00 → 13 May 2011, 16:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Z011 (Turingzaal) (Science Park, Amsterdam)

This workshop will bring together three critical groups (resource providers, end-users and technology providers) within the European production infrastructure to ask the following series of questions: * Should EGI move towards providing an 'Infrastructure as a Service' model (a.k.a. cloud computing) tuned to support data intensive research communities? * Should this service be provided by federations of resource providers from the research community, commercially by ad hoc agreements between users and resource providers, or by collective negotiation and purchase of resources on behalf of different communities? * What sort of use (consuming communities and use cases) would the research community make of such a capability? * What are the major issues (e.g. technical, policy, governance, etc.) that need to be resolved for this use to happen? Over the workshop through a series of presentations and breakouts we will try to answer these questions in order to end the meeting with a set of critical observations that can be developed into a roadmap that will meet the growing need for virtualised resources from the European research communities. The meeting schedule will deliberately not spend a lot of time on technology related presentations or provide an introduction for cloud computing. There are plenty of meetings that can provide that information. A selection of recent events are provided below: * CloudScape III, Brussels, March * EGI User Forum - Cloud & Virtualisation sessions, Vilnius, Lithuania, April * SIENA Grids and Clouds standards roadmap * DCI Collaborative Roadmap It would be useful to have short specific presentation understanding the use cases from the e-science community to help motivate the discussions.

EGI Cloud Architecture EGI_Cloud_Architecture-v7.pdf

HEPIX WG Notes - May 2011 Book-a4.pdf

Thursday, 12 May

10:00 → 10:30 Welcome & Vision

Describe the aims of the workshop and what we want to get out of it by the end.

Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

10:30 → 11:30 Validating the Use Cases

Participating projects and user communities validate the EGI Cloud Architecture Use Cases by presenting overlap and disparity of their own use cases: - Which project/community use cases fit well with the EGI Cloud Architecture Use Cases? - Which project/community use cases do not fit in? This is an open session where projects and communities can align their planned use of clouds to the 6 identified scenarios and where their planned use goes beyond these 6 scenarios.

CSC-ELIXIR use cases CSC_Elixir-v3.ppt

EGI Virtualisation Six Scenarios Six_Scenarios.ppt

Slides EGIUVW1.pptx

StratusLab use cases StratusLab_-_EGI_Profile.pptx

Template UseCaseVerificationTemplate.ppt

WLCG Trusted Virtual Images HEPiX_VWG_-_EGI_Amsterdam.pdf

WLCG Use Cases WLCG-Amsterdam-clouds.pptx

11:30 → 12:00 Identifying and endorsing new use cases

Following on from the Use Case validation session, which of the 6 scenarios are going to be adopted? What are the clouds usage models that are not supported by these 6 scenarios? Can we group and prioritise these usage models and decide if they are things we need to consider now or are marked for inclusion into future iterations of the EGI Cloud Architecture document.

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:00 Breakout session: Accounting

Speaker: Dr John Gordon (STFC)

Minutes BreakoutsessionAccounting.doc

Slides Accounting-breakout.pptx Gordon-EGI-Cloud_Workshop-accounting1.pptx

13:00 → 15:00 Breakout session: VM Management

Speaker: Mr Alexander Papaspyrou (Technische Universität Dortmund)

Minutes EGI_UserVirt-VM-mgt.docx

Slides EGIUserVirt-VMManagement-session.ppt

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee

15:30 → 17:30 Breakout session: Information

Speaker: Mr MORRIS RIEDEL (JUELICH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE)

Minutes EGI-UserVirt-Information.docx

Slides 2011-05-12_EGI-UserVirt-Information_Summary.ppt EGI-UserVirt-Information.ppt

15:30 → 17:30 Breakout session: Monitoring

Speaker: Jeffrey Templon

Minutes BreakoutsessionMonitoring-VangelisFloros.doc BreakoutsessionMonitoring.doc

Paper virtmon.txt

Slides monitoring-notes.pptx

Friday, 13 May

09:00 → 10:00 Breakout session stand-ups

A representative summarises the findings of the respective breakout session using the provided template.

Speakers: Mr Alexander Papaspyrou (Technische Universität Dortmund), Jeffrey Templon, Dr John Gordon (STFC), Mr MORRIS RIEDEL (JUELICH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE)

Accounting Gordon-EGI-Cloud_Workshop-accounting2.pptx

Information 2011-05-12_EGI-UserVirt-Information_Summary.ppt

Monitoring egi-virt-monitoring-rept.pptx

VM Management EGI-UVW_-_VM_Management_Breakout_Results.pptx

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee

10:30 → 12:00 Technical discussion: Gap analysis

Using the information reported from the breakout sessions, this plenary performs a gap analyisis by triaging the presented issues and merges them into a single prioritised list of work items for Technology Providers to pick up.

Slides Summary-BreakOuts.pptx

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:30 Technical discussion: Implementation roadmap

From the prioritised gap analysis and list of issues developed in the previous session, Technology Providers and other members of the community have an opportunity to show how their work can fill now, or how their implementation roadmaps will soon fill, the identified gaps.

Slides EMI-Cloud-position.ppt

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee

15:00 → 16:00 Wrap-up and next steps

A final review of the technology gaps that remain unfilled from the earlier requirements sessions and providers presentations, and the identification of groups to start the deployment of these technologies. There should be a clear list of actions to be tackled before the attendees depart.