User and General EGI Sustainability

24 Jan 2012, 10:00 → 26 Jan 2012, 16:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Turing Hall, CWI (Amsterdam)

The funding model within EGI is going to change. EMI's funding ends in April 2013 and the continued support for the user facing services will depend much more on the commitment the users of those individual services are willing to make to their support. The infrastructure is also changing. The exploration of a federated cloud infrastructure has the potential to empower user communities, or those acting on their behalf, to deploy the software that they want, when they want, providing it can be encapsulated within a virtual machine. This will change the dynamic as to the services coming from the user community and the services coming from the e-Infrastructure. The provision of these two sets of services needs to be sustainable in the long-term either within our current structures or through the definition and implementation of new structures. This workshop is split into two parts. The first part allows the user communities to identify the key services they need and how they expect them to be sustained. If not sustained by themselves, what is the business case for the e-infrastructure provider (or other entity) to sustain them? The second half of the workshop brings in other sustainability issues from the e-infrastructure and technology providers to consider the sustainability of the EGI ecosystem as a whole. Who should attend? * Representatives of user communities * Representatives of e-Infrastructure providers * Representatives of technology providers

Paper https://documents.egi.eu/document/12

Tuesday, 24 January

10:00 → 10:15 Welcome and Introduction

Welcome and the background to the meeting

Convener: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

10:00 Welcome and Introduction

Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

10:15 → 12:45 Background

The challenge facing EGI in supporting its user communities, and the requirements from EGI's user communities in their future needs for services from EGI and how these services (their operation, maintenance and development) can be jointly sustained.
*** Community presentations welcomed ***

Convener: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

10:15 EGI 2.0: Preparing for the next decade

The support that EGI is able to provide its users is changing. Centrally managed, supported and delivered user-oriented services available for all are likely to be a thing of the past. What services are needed specifically by the different user communities and which services need to be provided by the infrastructure to enable consistent collaboration? And how are the services used directly by the user community going to be supported?

Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

Slides Sustain-KO-Jan12.pptx

10:45 WLCG e-infrastructure needs

Slides WLCG-EGI-Sustainability-240112.pptx

11:00 Sustainably Supporting the Life Science Community

Slides lsgc-egi-sustain-workshop.pdf

11:15 An environment for the NMR community

Slides 2012-01-WeNMR-sustainability.pptx

11:30 ASTRO astronomy community: the big picture

Slides A&A-HUC-v5.ppt

11:45 MAPPER - Fusion, Hydrology, Physiology, Nano and Comp. Bio.

Slides WP5_Sustain-1.ppt

12:00 COMPCHEM

Slides amst-jan-12.ppt

12:15 Humanities

Slides Wynne_EGI_UserSustainability.pdf

12:45 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:15 Breakouts - User Community Service Needs

This session will focus on capturing the key needs of the user communities with respect to e-infrastructure.

Conveners: Richard McLennan (EGI.EU), Stephen Brewer (EGI.EU)

slides User_Community_Services.xlsx User_Community_Sustainability.pptx

13:30 Introduction to 'community needs' discussion

During this session the participants will form into breakout groups to discuss community needs under various topics. The following list is indicative and other topics may be added. Themes may be sub-divided depending on the number and configuration of the break out groups: - data storage - compute resources and capabilities - user interfaces, portals, APIs and work-flow engines - outreach, user recruitment, support and training - accounting, monitoring, metering and reporting

Speaker: Stephen Brewer (EGI.EU)

Slides User_Community_Sustainability_v3.pptx

Table User_Community_Services.xlsx

13:45 User Community Service Needs

User Community Service Needs will be discussed under the following topics: Community-specific services Common front-end services: interfaces, portals, gateways, APIs and apps Services to access infrastructure resources Back-end services: monitoring, accounting , metering and reporting Further information is available in the accompanying slides. The conveners should spend 15 minutes ensuring that they have captured information in the spreadsheet provided and have produced any further slides summarising the discussions if required.

13:45 User Community Service Needs

User Community Service Needs will be discussed under the following topics: Community-specific services Common front-end services: interfaces, portals, gateways, APIs and apps Services to access infrastructure resources Back-end services: monitoring, accounting , metering and reporting Further information is available in the accompanying slides. The conveners should spend 15 minutes ensuring that they have captured information in the spreadsheet provided and have produced any further slides summarising the discussions if required.

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee

15:45 → 17:30 Breakouts - Service Development

Conveners: Richard McLennan (EGI.EU), Stephen Brewer (EGI.EU)

15:45 Introduction to Service Development

Two more breakout sessions will be conducted to build on the previously identified services required by the user communities. The discussions will focus on how these services can and should be developed in the future. What elements should the communities fund and take responsibility for themselves and which should be developed and supported by EGI and/or the NGIs and other partners and projects? The slides from the first breakout session explain this in more detail.

16:00 Breakout Session

Service development responsibilities will be discussed under the following topics: Community-specific services Common front-end services: interfaces, portals, gateways, APIs and apps Services to access infrastructure resources Back-end services: monitoring, accounting , metering and reporting The conveners should spend 15 minutes ensuring that they have captured information in the spreadsheet provided and have produced any further slides summarising the discussions if required.

16:00 Service Development breakout groups

Service development responsibilities will be discussed under the following topics: Community-specific services Common front-end services: interfaces, portals, gateways, APIs and apps Services to access infrastructure resources Back-end services: monitoring, accounting , metering and reporting The conveners should spend 15 minutes ensuring that they have captured information in the spreadsheet provided and have produced any further slides summarising the discussions if required.

Wednesday, 25 January

09:00 → 10:00 Report from Breakouts and discussion

Convener: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

09:00 Report from yesterday's breakout sessions

Speaker: Stephen Brewer (EGI.EU)

Slides

• 01_Day_II_-_Intro.pptx
• Summary_of_BreakOut_Sipos.pptx
• User_Community_Sustainability_-_report_back.pptx

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee

10:30 → 12:00 User Community Sustainablity

Present the core component of user level capability required from the infrastructure provider and identify how the directly accessed user services will be sustained in the years to come.

Convener: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

10:30 User Community Sustainability Discussions

Discussions and plans around sustainability for: * Development * Integration * Deployment * Operation * Maintenance

Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:30 A Sustainable EGI

What is it that we want to sustain within the EGI ecosystem - and who is it that is going to sustain it? We will have input from the user communities as to their expectation and contribution towards sustainability. The infrastructure providers, both its national and European components, need to define which capabilities they feel able to sustain and at what level.

Convener: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

13:00 Welcome and Context

Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

13:30 Value and Governance in the EGI Ecosystem

Speaker: Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)

Slides EGI-Value-Governance-V4.pptx

13:50 NGI International Task Sustainability

Speaker: Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)

Slides sustainability-operations-v2.pptx

14:10 ScienceSoft Initiative

Speaker: Alberto Di Meglio (EMI)

Slides ScienceSoft_EGI_SW_0.2.ppt

14:30 → 15:00 Break

15:00 → 18:00 Sustainability Breakouts

Conveners: Dr Gergely Sipos (EGI.EU), Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)

15:00 Introduction to the Breakout sessions

15:15 European Sustainability: Services for User Communities

15:15 National Sustainability: NGIs & their Resource Centres

Speaker: Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)

Paper NGI-breakout-assignement-V2.docx

16:45 Report back from breakouts

Slides

• National-Sustainability-breakout-report.pptx
• User_BreakOut2_Sipos.pdf
• User_BreakOut2_Sipos.pptx

Thursday, 26 January

08:30 → 10:00 Strategic Sustainability Discussions

How can we integrate the input received over the last two days into a roadmap for EGI and its users? What should the aspects of this roadmap be?

Convener: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

08:30 Introduction to discussion topic (TBC)

Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

08:45 Breakout 1

Slides User_Community_Sustainability_-_Resource_allocation_discussion.pptx

08:45 Breakout 2

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee

10:30 → 12:00 Wrapping Up and Next Steps

What are the issues that have come out that we need to work on over the next two months and beyond? Who will commit resources to develop these ideas?

Convener: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)

10:30 Report from breakouts

Slides GlobalTasks-Jan12.pptx

11:00 Discussion and Next Steps

Speaker: Steven Newhouse (EGI.EU)