This is an EMI workshop on gathering the requirements of Authentication and Authorization
Infrastructure (AAI) for various Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs).
This workshop surveys AAI needs in DCIs in order to pick the most relevant ones that have to be supported by the EMI common security infrastructure.
There will be presentations from Grid User groups, ESFRI projects and DCIs on which Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) systems they currently use or expect to use in the foreseeable future.
Bilateral discussions on legal and financial matters with EC Unit's legal and financial officer
EGI Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) is responsible for all aspects of operational security aiming at achieving a secure infrastructure within EGI. The EGI CSIRT ensures both the coordination with peer grids and with the NGIs and NREN CSIRTs. The EGI CSIRT acts as a forum to combine efforts and resources from the NGIs in different areas, including Grid security monitoring, Security training and dissemination, and improvements in responses to incidents (e.g. security drills).
EGI CSIRT security team is organized in following groups.
The session will present current work and status of EGI CSIRT and most important we will also discuss the further plans.
All EGI CSIRT members should attend this session, but this session is also open to NGI security officers, site security contacts, site manager and system administrators who wish to be involved or are just interested in Grid operational security.
The purpose of this session is two-fold: to present the current status of the EGI infrastructure after the transition from EGEE, and to pave the way towards the operations of an integrated set of DCIs making different types of grid middleware and resources (desktop grids, HPC, virtualization) easily accessible to international user communities.
In the first part, we will provide an overview of the EGI global services, of the infrastructure composition and usage, and of the new procedures and operational units that entered production during the first quarter of the EGI-InSPIRE project.
The second part will concentrate on the evolution of EGI operations. The future plans and operational issues related to the integration of heterogeneous resources and services will be explored from different points of view: the site, the NGI, and the DCI.
The operational issues arising at the site level with the deployment of StratusLab virtualized services will be explored. NGI_DE - one of the larges national grid infrastructures in EGI - will then present its plans and operational issues towards the integration of multiple grid middleware stacks. Finally, the European Desktop Grid Federation will provide its view on the current status of the EDGI infrastructure, the application use cases that an integrated infrastructure addresses, and the related operational challenges.
In the broader scope of the EGI era, a major operational and scientific challenge is a better understanding of the e-science requirements and infrastructure usage. The first goal of the session is to provide a transversal view of the related developments and analysis, covering the full scope of the High Performance Ecosystem - from the Peta-Scale world to Cloud, EGI and EMI – The session will also contribute to fostering collaboration between information providers and users.
Introduction
This session provides introduction to the concepts of Grid Computing, and to the architecture, components
and user support services of the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI).
The session consists of short talks and demonstrations that introduce
The course does not require prior knowledge of grid computing and of EGI. It aims to demonstrate the value of
EGI for data- and compute-intensive e-Science projects, and give practical information on the steps that need to
be taken to benefit from EGI services. Attendees will have the opportunity to become familiar with the structure and
components of the European Grid and how these can advance e-Science applications.
Speakers
Speakers are from European research institutes and universities and operate User Community Support services in EGI.
Detailed schedule
Registration
The tutorial is part of the main program of the EGI Technical Forum, no additional registration is required.
The purpose of this two-part session is to present and discuss the role of the VRC in the EGI era. EGI defines the VRC as a "self-organising group that collects and represents the interests of a focussed collection of researchers across a clear and well-defined field". During the first half a number of presentations will be made on behalf of communities that could become VRCs. During the second half the working relationship between VRCs and EGI wil be discussed and refined.
This is an EMI workshop on gathering the requirements of Authentication and Authorization
Infrastructure (AAI) for various Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs).
This workshop surveys AAI needs in DCIs in order to pick the most relevant ones that have to be supported by the EMI common security infrastructure.
There will be presentations from Grid User groups, ESFRI projects and DCIs on which Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) systems they currently use or expect to use in the foreseeable future.
Bilateral discussions on legal and financial matters with EC Unit's legal and financial officer
EGI Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) is responsible for all aspects of operational security aiming at achieving a secure infrastructure within EGI. The EGI CSIRT ensures both the coordination with peer grids and with the NGIs and NREN CSIRTs. The EGI CSIRT acts as a forum to combine efforts and resources from the NGIs in different areas, including Grid security monitoring, Security training and dissemination, and improvements in responses to incidents (e.g. security drills).
EGI CSIRT security team is organized in following groups.
The session will present current work and status of EGI CSIRT and most important we will also discuss the further plans.
All EGI CSIRT members should attend this session, but this session is also open to NGI security officers, site security contacts, site manager and system administrators who wish to be involved or are just interested in Grid operational security.
A growing EGI production infrastructure has to define a basic set of operational interfaces, this touches tools as well as procedures and policies. It should be in the interest of the NGIs to push development in this field and spread their wishes and requests to achieve a smoothless experience for a regional operator on duty.
This session introduces you to the new field of operational interoperability and confronts you with different ideas and approaches to achieve the desired state. We will see already successful examples when it comes to integration of middleware stack services in the current EGI production infrastructure as well as examples where they real work hasn't even started yet. More exact requirements have to be defined and a basic understanding of different viewpoints is hopefully established during this session.
In the broader scope of the EGI era, a major operational and scientific challenge is a better understanding of the e-science requirements and infrastructure usage. The first goal of the session is to provide a transversal view of the related developments and analysis, covering the full scope of the High Performance Ecosystem - from the Peta-Scale world to Cloud, EGI and EMI – The session will also contribute to fostering collaboration between information providers and users.
This session will highlight the software provisioning process taking place in EGI. This will include an overview of the Unified Middleware Distribution Roadmap process and the software service and verification process quality assurance.
This session aims to introduce the role, the achievements and the key challenges of the User & Community Support Team/Activity in the EGI era and to present the current status, as well as the future plans, of the supportive technical services that are (or will be) available to all users of the European DCIs."
The purpose of the OLA workshop is to provide a short overview of the current status of the OLAs in EGI as adapted from EGEE, identify new OLAs and extesions to existing OLAs, and dicuss on future plans using the feedback recieved from the OLA questionnaire
This purpose of the EGI Software Vulnerability Group (SVG) is to eliminate
existing software vulnerabilities from the EGI infrastructure and prevent
the introduction of new ones. Thus reducing the likelihood of Security
Incidents. The first talk in this session describes the scope and process for
handling vulnerability issues in the EGI infrastrucutre and ensuring their
resolution, and more general activities. The second talk describes work
being carried out to assess software for vulnerabilities.
Workshop bringing together developers within the EGI-InSPIRE and EMI projects involved with accounting, and the resource providers in the NGIs and user communities that have requirements relating to accounting information.
Detailed agenda https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=135
Workshop bringing together developers within the EGI-InSPIRE and EMI projects involved with accounting, and the resource providers in the NGIs and user communities that have requirements relating to accounting information.
This session will review policy and strategic issues around data management arising from the work of a number of recent influential expert activities and touch on how EGI and NGIs can and should respond to the recommendations and requirements as seen from each area/activity.
The scope of the session is to update on the status of support to MPI parallel applications from the users perspective, operational and middleware point of view. In the first presentation we will have an update of the users experience based mainly on the Computational Chemistry VO. Afterwards the operational support and procedures to validate and certificate middleware will be outlined. In the last part of the session there will be representatives from glite, ARC and Unicore to discuss the different support strategies provided by each middleware, and the technical possibilities to offer an unified support in the framework of the EGI infrastructure.
As the eInfrastructure landscape changes across Europe, so do the routes for communicating the successes of your work. This session aims to introduce the new dissemination team at the EGI to the community and explain how they go about sourcing, writing and promoting success stories from the grid world. Also at the session will be a journalist who will explain what they are looking for in a story and what they want from you. The eScienceTalk team will also be on hand to explain their project and how researchers can help them (and themselves) with the project’s products.
The purpose of this two-part session is to present and discuss the role of the VRC in the EGI era. EGI defines the VRC as a "self-organising group that collects and represents the interests of a focussed collection of researchers across a clear and well-defined field". During the first half a number of presentations will be made on behalf of communities that could become VRCs. During the second half the working relationship between VRCs and EGI wil be discussed and refined.
A number of European projects are collaborating to better understand
the value cloud computing could bring to today's researchers. To
succeed with this there is a need to learn, by testing, what is
possible to do today, and the implications these services has on
economy, security, vendor lock-in, and last but not least the
usability and quality.
To succeed with this objective, international collaboration is key,
and in this session six collaborating projects share their findings
and roadmaps.
Topics in this session covers ongoing studies of the use of open
source softwares as well as commercial products, and their
combinations. One common goal is to identify the value in cloud
computing to HPC users; end-user interfaces provided by cloud
technologies and identify possible added value to today's grid and
standard HPC interfaces. Concretely this amounts to e.g.
During the OGF28 a 2 hr 25 min ECEE workshop was conducted, with a
common guiding document, and collaboration web site, was produced
(web: www.scientific-cloud.org).
This guiding document will be updated during the workshop. Outline of
current document:
1.Roadmaps
a.Sharing roadmaps
b.Avoiding ‘built in’ interoperability problems later on
Use cases
a.Gap analysis
b.“Market analysis” – today’s users, tomorrow’s
c.Guidelines – best practices, quick start one-pager + checklist
(cloud, grid, hpc, something else?), rules of thumb
Offering
a.Compared to existing (and evolving) public services – what do/can we offer?
b.Service levels – how to handle, in practice
c.Some mentioned last mile, customer support (application specific
needs), platforms for specific users (like rendering example from
BalticCloud)
Focus areas
a.Security – access and ID mgmt in line with local requirements
b.Metering (what), Accounting, Billing, Business models
c.Federation of clouds (cf grids)
d.Network
e.Licenses
f.Scheduling, load balancing (resource sharing, application correlation)
g.Technical solutions studied –list of tested solutions, their pros and cons
Trends of small/medium DCIs and cloud computing
a.Will they change their mode of operation?
6.GAP analysis
a.Identified overlaps
i. E.g. compare project’s current deliverables
b.Identified gaps
i.What projects did not include into the plan
ii.What is posing the main problem for the projects. E.g. lack of
user communities, grid legacy
c.Identify already existing policies, best practices and
recommendations, and technology from the grid community – to be used
as is, or modified
Input from projects such as EnviroGRIDS (ES), PARTNER (LS) and ULICE (LS). Also other related projects / activities either in areas directly relevant for the Heavy User Communities or else those interested in adopting these technologies in the immediate future.
Modern research communities often require access to both HPC and HTC computing infrastructures to enable leading edge research.
Ambitious research projects leverage the power of the different infrastructures and engage in HPC through projects like DEISA/PRACE as well as in HTC through projects under the umbrella of EGEE/EGI.
Current work in the field is paving the way towards a future seamless infrastructure which will allow research communities worldwide to exploit both HPC and HTC facilities with minimum overhead.
This session highlights the current state of HPC/HTC Inter-operation.
Focus is placed on the definition of standards to enable inter-operation and existing projects which currently utilize both HPC and HTC facilities.
As the eInfrastructure landscape changes across Europe, so do the routes for communicating the successes of your work. This session aims to bring together all the people tasked with dissemination who are attending the conference. It is not limited to these and anyone with an interest in being involved or understanding the people and frameworks in place for outreach are welcome to attend.
Ognjen Prnjat - HP-SEE
Federico Ruggieri - CHAIN
Alberto Masoni - EUIndiaGrid2
Bernard Marechal - GISELA
The gSLM project (www.gslm.eu) brings together experts from the grid community with experts in IT service management in order to apply IT service management concepts, methods and technologies in grid environments.
gSLM is a collaborative, European project with the primary goal of supporting policy development for e-Infrastructures in the area of service delivery and service level management with a specific focus on grid infrastructures and their user communities.
The project started in September 2010. The formal kickoff meeting is co-located with the EGI Technical Forum and attended by representatives from all partners in the gSLM consortium: LMU (Munich), UvA (Amsterdam), UPC (Barcelona), CYFRONET (Krakow) and ETL (London).
This session will include status updates from all technical tasks and sub-tasks in SA3, more detail of which can be found here.
In summary, this activity provides continued support for activities previously supported by EGEE while they transition to a sustainable support model within their own community or within the production infrastructure by:
Who should attend this session?
A number of European projects are collaborating to better understand
the value cloud computing could bring to today's researchers. To
succeed with this there is a need to learn, by testing, what is
possible to do today, and the implications these services has on
economy, security, vendor lock-in, and last but not least the
usability and quality.
To succeed with this objective, international collaboration is key,
and in this session six collaborating projects share their findings
and roadmaps.
Topics in this session covers ongoing studies of the use of open
source softwares as well as commercial products, and their
combinations. One common goal is to identify the value in cloud
computing to HPC users; end-user interfaces provided by cloud
technologies and identify possible added value to today's grid and
standard HPC interfaces. Concretely this amounts to e.g.
During the OGF28 a 2 hr 25 min ECEE workshop was conducted, with a
common guiding document, and collaboration web site, was produced
(web: www.scientific-cloud.org).
This guiding document will be updated during the workshop. Outline of
current document:
1.Roadmaps
a.Sharing roadmaps
b.Avoiding ‘built in’ interoperability problems later on
Use cases
a.Gap analysis
b.“Market analysis” – today’s users, tomorrow’s
c.Guidelines – best practices, quick start one-pager + checklist
(cloud, grid, hpc, something else?), rules of thumb
Offering
a.Compared to existing (and evolving) public services – what do/can we offer?
b.Service levels – how to handle, in practice
c.Some mentioned last mile, customer support (application specific
needs), platforms for specific users (like rendering example from
BalticCloud)
Focus areas
a.Security – access and ID mgmt in line with local requirements
b.Metering (what), Accounting, Billing, Business models
c.Federation of clouds (cf grids)
d.Network
e.Licenses
f.Scheduling, load balancing (resource sharing, application correlation)
g.Technical solutions studied –list of tested solutions, their pros and cons
Trends of small/medium DCIs and cloud computing
a.Will they change their mode of operation?
6.GAP analysis
a.Identified overlaps
i. E.g. compare project’s current deliverables
b.Identified gaps
i.What projects did not include into the plan
ii.What is posing the main problem for the projects. E.g. lack of
user communities, grid legacy
c.Identify already existing policies, best practices and
recommendations, and technology from the grid community – to be used
as is, or modified
A session dedicated to the presentation of the status and future plans for the operational tools developed within the EGI project. Focus will be on the Operation Portal, the GGUS Helpdesk, the GOCDB, the Nagios/MyEGI Monitoring Framework and the Metrics Portal. All the accounting related tools developments will be presented at the accounting workshop on Wednesday.
Ognjen Prnjat - HP-SEE
Federico Ruggieri - CHAIN
Alberto Masoni - EUIndiaGrid2
Bernard Marechal - GISELA
The EGI Security Policy Group (SPG) is charged with developing and
maintaining Security Policy for use by EGI and the NGIs. Each NGI and EIRO
member of EGI.eu is entitled to appoint one voting member of SPG.
SPG should, wherever possible, aim to prepare and maintain simple and
general policies which are not only applicable to EGI/NGIs but that are also
of use to other Grid infrastructures and DCIs in Europe and across the world.
The adoption of common policies by multiple infrastructures eases the problems of
interoperability. The membership should also include expertise from other
stakeholders, including site security officers, site
system administrators, operational experts, middleware experts, VRCs and other DCIs.
This session will present the current status of the EGI security policies and discuss the future plans.
Members of SPG should definitely attend, but the session is also open to
anyone who wishes to be involved or is just interested in learning about this work.
A number of European projects are collaborating to better understand
the value cloud computing could bring to today's researchers. To
succeed with this there is a need to learn, by testing, what is
possible to do today, and the implications these services has on
economy, security, vendor lock-in, and last but not least the
usability and quality.
To succeed with this objective, international collaboration is key,
and in this session six collaborating projects share their findings
and roadmaps.
Topics in this session covers ongoing studies of the use of open
source softwares as well as commercial products, and their
combinations. One common goal is to identify the value in cloud
computing to HPC users; end-user interfaces provided by cloud
technologies and identify possible added value to today's grid and
standard HPC interfaces. Concretely this amounts to e.g.
During the OGF28 a 2 hr 25 min ECEE workshop was conducted, with a
common guiding document, and collaboration web site, was produced
(web: www.scientific-cloud.org).
This guiding document will be updated during the workshop. Outline of
current document:
1.Roadmaps
a.Sharing roadmaps
b.Avoiding ‘built in’ interoperability problems later on
Use cases
a.Gap analysis
b.“Market analysis” – today’s users, tomorrow’s
c.Guidelines – best practices, quick start one-pager + checklist
(cloud, grid, hpc, something else?), rules of thumb
Offering
a.Compared to existing (and evolving) public services – what do/can we offer?
b.Service levels – how to handle, in practice
c.Some mentioned last mile, customer support (application specific
needs), platforms for specific users (like rendering example from
BalticCloud)
Focus areas
a.Security – access and ID mgmt in line with local requirements
b.Metering (what), Accounting, Billing, Business models
c.Federation of clouds (cf grids)
d.Network
e.Licenses
f.Scheduling, load balancing (resource sharing, application correlation)
g.Technical solutions studied –list of tested solutions, their pros and cons
Trends of small/medium DCIs and cloud computing
a.Will they change their mode of operation?
6.GAP analysis
a.Identified overlaps
i. E.g. compare project’s current deliverables
b.Identified gaps
i.What projects did not include into the plan
ii.What is posing the main problem for the projects. E.g. lack of
user communities, grid legacy
c.Identify already existing policies, best practices and
recommendations, and technology from the grid community – to be used
as is, or modified
This session aims at giving an overview of the tools and processes put in place to offer a complete set of user support services for th whole EGI landscape.
This session is intended to offer a open forum to allow various security-related topics to be discussed. It is also an opporunity to bring together representatives of the various security groups within EGI/EMI. The session starts from a brief introduction of each security groups in EGI and EMI projects. Each group will present current work/status. The second half session will be open discussion session, where one can raise question or initiate any interesting topic for discussion.
This session is open to anyone who is interested in Grid security.
This session will include status updates from all technical tasks and sub-tasks in SA3, more detail of which can be found here.
In summary, this activity provides continued support for activities previously supported by EGEE while they transition to a sustainable support model within their own community or within the production infrastructure by:
Who should attend this session?
The stated goal of EGI is to provide significant added value for existing and new user communities. The main providers
of User Support service in EGI are National Grid Initiatives (NGIs), under the coordination of a central body, the EGI.eu
organisation. While the primary responsibility of the User Support Teams of NGIs is to serve and support the development
of users inside their own countries, the EGI.eu UCST assures that these national efforts fit together at the European
level and satisfy multi-national, large scientific collaborations.
The session includes an overview presentation on the User Support services of EGI, followed by presentations from
different NGIs that actively search for and serve user communities. Services provided by these NGIs include:
This training session is a joint effort between EGI CSIRT and EGI/EMI middleware security team. The frist half session will focus on operational security while the second half session will focus on various Grid services. One should expect to learn some practical tips and tiricks in both fields from security experts.
The training session is open to anyone, but particularly to EGI/NGI site system managers and administrators.
Objectives: Bring together the SW providers and early adopter sites to provide information on the current SW rollout process, and what is planed for the future. Get feedback and comments from all involved parties.
The EDGI (European Desktop Grid Initiative) project develops middleware that consolidates the results achieved in EDGeS (Enabling Desktop Grids
for e-Science) concerning the extension of Service Grids with Desktop Grids in order to support EGI and NGI user communities that are heavy users of
DCIs and require extremely large number of CPUs and cores. EDGI goes beyond existing DCIs that are typically cluster Grids and supercomputer
Grids, and extends them with public and institutional Desktop Grids and Clouds. EDGI integrates software components of ARC, gLite, Unicore,
BOINC, XtremWeb-HEP, 3G Bridge, and Cloud middleware (such as OpenNebula and Eucalyptus) into SG->DG->Cloud platforms for service provision.
The aim of the session is to introduce the current state and the roadmap of the EDGI infrastructure to EGI user communities already utilizing this
infrastructure, and to attract new EGI user communities as potential users for the EDGI infrastructure. Case studies from EGI and external user
communities supported by the DEGISCO (Desktop Grids for International Scientific Collaboration) project and utilising the EDGI/EDGeS infrastructure
will be presented, followed by an open discussion.
Who should attend this session?
We are aiming for all EGI/NGI user communities who are willing to explore how Desktop Grid resources are able to extend the EGI/NGI resources they
currently have access to.
Please register for this session at:
https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=125
This will be a general training session on the Operations Dashboard Portal. There will be an initial 15min overview presentation, and then a hands on session, with experts to provide help. Questions are encouraged.
New ROD Operations personnel are particularly welcome.
NOTE: Special Requirements: Please read the old EGEE documentation at https://documents.egi.eu/document/15
Laptop with network connectivity
Have a valid certificate
Regional Staff role for your NGI in the GOCDB - you must be registered to apply for this role
GGUS registration (as support staff)
Registered in the dteam OPS VO
This training session is a joint effort between EGI CSIRT and EGI/EMI middleware security team. The frist half session will focus on operational security while the second half session will focus on various Grid services. One should expect to learn some practical tips and tiricks in both fields from security experts.
The training session is open to anyone, but particularly to EGI/NGI site system managers and administrators.
Objective
Goal of the tutorial is to provide an introduction into Desktop Grid
computing, programming for Desktop Grids, connecting Desktop Grids to
EGI type of infrasttructures.
Desktop Grids consist of otherwise unused computing resources, that are
collected and made available for scientific applications. A Desktop Grid can,
for instance, consist of office machines in a University or computers in
lecture rooms. These are called local Desktop Grids.
Desktop Grids can also consist of unused computing time donated by
citizens. These are called Volunteer Desktop Grids.
Scientific programmes need to be adapted or ported onto the Desktop Grid.
Desktop Grids can be connected to become part of Europe's main Grid
infrastructure (EGI) by use of EDGeS Bridge technology.
Who should attend?
Anyone who considers setting up a local or Volunteer Desktop Grid.
Scientists and appliaction developers looking for ways to use more
computing power.
NGI/EGI Grid operators who want to extend their services with more
computational power and are considering Desktop Grids.
Organisation
The tutorial is organised by the International Desktop Grid Federation, with
support from the EDGI project and Gridforum.nl. It is facilitated by the EGI
technical Forum. Local organisation: AlmereGrid.
Preliminary programme:
Introduction into Desktop Grid computing
Hands on with setting up and programming for Desktop Grids
Extending EGI type of Grids with Desktop Grids.
Please register for this session at:
https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=125
This will be a general training session on the Operations Dashboard Portal. There will be an initial 15min overview presentation, and then a hands on session, with experts to provide help. Questions are encouraged.
New ROD Operations personnel are particularly welcome.
NOTE: Special Requirements: Please read the old EGEE documentation at https://documents.egi.eu/document/15
Laptop with network connectivity
Have a valid certificate
Regional Staff role for your NGI in the GOCDB - you must be registered to apply for this role
GGUS registration (as support staff)
Registered in the dteam OPS VO
Objective
Goal of the tutorial is to provide an introduction into Desktop Grid
computing, programming for Desktop Grids, connecting Desktop Grids to
EGI type of infrasttructures.
Desktop Grids consist of otherwise unused computing resources, that are
collected and made available for scientific applications. A Desktop Grid can,
for instance, consist of office machines in a University or computers in
lecture rooms. These are called local Desktop Grids.
Desktop Grids can also consist of unused computing time donated by
citizens. These are called Volunteer Desktop Grids.
Scientific programmes need to be adapted or ported onto the Desktop Grid.
Desktop Grids can be connected to become part of Europe's main Grid
infrastructure (EGI) by use of EDGeS Bridge technology.
Who should attend?
Anyone who considers setting up a local or Volunteer Desktop Grid.
Scientists and appliaction developers looking for ways to use more
computing power.
NGI/EGI Grid operators who want to extend their services with more
computational power and are considering Desktop Grids.
Organisation
The tutorial is organised by the International Desktop Grid Federation, with
support from the EDGI project and Gridforum.nl. It is facilitated by the EGI
technical Forum. Local organisation: AlmereGrid.
Preliminary programme:
Introduction into Desktop Grid computing
Hands on with setting up and programming for Desktop Grids
Extending EGI type of Grids with Desktop Grids.