1. EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE www.eu-egee.org EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Robin McConnell Activity Manager UEDIN (NeSC) EGEE-III First Review, 24-25 June, 2009 NA3: Training and Induction

2. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 2 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 Activity Overview 2

3. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 3 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 NA3 Objectives in EGEE-II Expand and refine the training material and courses, to provide training resources for an ever-widening range of Grid applications. Train a wide variety of users, within & outside EGEE consortium Develop mechanisms for passing on knowledge to end- users of EGEE related projects. Expand online learning services, meeting the needs of an expanded project and larger user-base. Support the provision of t-infrastructure on the GILDA testbed by developing/maintaining training resources to cover diverse range of application scenarios.

4. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 4 NA3 Tasks TNA3.1 Course Content, Scheduling, Organisation & Delivery –Lead Partner – University of Edinburgh –Partners – All TNA3.2a Trainer Support Systems –University of Edinburgh TNA3.2b Training Infrastructure Provision –Lead partner – INFN, Catania –Partners – 9 TNA3.3 Activity Management & Partner Coordination –Lead partner – University of Edinburgh, Deputy – MTA SZTAKI –Partners - 6

5. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 5 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 Training Events 56 Locations 99 Training Events (Target 60) 1383 Participants (Target 600) 4439 “participant days” (Target – 1500) 29 Countries

6. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 6 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 Geographical spread of events http://bit.ly/EGEEtrainingmap

7. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 7 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 Training Event Locations

8. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 8 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 Training Event Data in EGEE-II < Event Duration Average course length 2.5 days Average evaluation score 5.1 (out of 6) (n=60) Comparison Vs previous years

9. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 9 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 Breakdown by Event Type

10. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 10 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 EGEE Collaboration events

11. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 11 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 IWSGC’09 Resources NA3 Management ran Programme Committee EGEE Training Material Tutors GILDA – provided testbed for ALL technologies gLITE 5 “technology weeks” ~15 hours per week (student average) 37 Participants

12. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 12 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 Digital Library - updates 1 Rebranding Introduction of “Feeds”

13. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 13 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 Digital Library - updates 2 “Cloud tags”

14. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 14 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 Digital Library - updates 3 Improved Search & Filter New eLearning modules

15. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 15 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 GILDA t-Infrastructure Training Infrastructure for EGEE and other European projects, providing resources for training events ~2Tb storage 180 cpu

16. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 16 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 GILDA t-Infrastructure Available for Grid novices training – 24/7 Bookable for Training events (also commercial events) –Year 1 – 85 events GILDA available for porting applications tutorials –Testbed availability for new applications Improved documentation and facilities offered to grid beginners –Online tutorials available (wiki & linked from eLearning modules) example:

17. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 17 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 GILDA improvements Stability of GILDA vastly improved –Close match to production infrastructure  updated with the latest middleware releases  2nd WMS installed  GILDA performance exceptional during ISSGC’08 (45 students, 4 middlewares) –Efforts to install monitoring tools  GILDA is monitored by GStat  Plans to register sites with GOCDB, enabling production monitoring Improved Interfaces –Classic interface updated in response to increased demand –Provides UI for GridWay, P-Grade and GANGA

18. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 18 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 Development of EGEE Trainers “Training the Trainers” –Provide Partner autonomy –Experts ensure quality of message –Balance - Technical vs Pedagogy

19. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 19 Trainer Registry –Currently lists 102 trainers –Records trainer history/details –Event organisers can browse trainer experience

20. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 20 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 Industrial Training Potential solution for commercial training (Business Associate) –EGEE provided Linalis with:  Training (Train the Trainer event)  Access to training material  Use of t-Infrastructure (GILDA) –Linalis now working with EGEE Business group

21. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 21 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 Issues GILDA sites Low number active in early Year 1 –Previous sites dropping out, requiring maintenance –Delay in new sites coming online –Infrastructure now enlarged International Summer / Winter Schools in Grid Computing no longer funded –Winter School resource intensive to ensure it happened. –Summer school2008 took place in Balatonfured, 2009 will be in July in Sophia Antipolis Digital Library “hit” rate lower than expected –Survey - 33% awareness, 92% found useful –Response – Promoted at EGEE08, promotional material to launch new website

22. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 22 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 Year 2 Plans Sustainability –Ensure autonomous training groups  Assist Training groups where possible in becoming self-sufficient  Continue to develop Trainers  Train the trainer events –Integration of t-Infrastructure into Production  Running as Training VO Scalability –Continue e-learning facilities  Further development of library  Further development of modules Participants  Committed Users –Ensure potential users aware of assistance available (e.g App Porting)

23. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 23 NA3 – Robin McConnell - EGEE-III First Review 24-25 June 2009 Summary 99 training events delivered, and with wider geographical coverage than anticipated, well above target metrics Support Services continuously enhanced during EGEE- III, in response to need for greater scalability Improvements to GILDA have provided larger infrastructure with better performance Expanding trainer base to ensure sustainable training geographically