EGEE-II INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE Training in EGEE-II Mike Mineter (Some slides from Brendan Hamill)

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September In the first 2 years EGEE Established production quality sustained Grid services –3000 users from at least 5 disciplines –Goal was to integrate 50 sites into a common infrastructure  currently 180 –offer 5 Petabytes (10 15 ) storage Demonstrated a viable general process to bring other scientific communities on board Secured a second phase from April 2006 Pilot New

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September What are trainers for? EGEE Goal: many effective and active users in many locations Technology is supported by a small number of people Training helps to make this feasible and scalable (EDG proved that!) Operations Early trainers users “Routine” training Web Helpdesk User doc. Consultancy VO

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September Without training…. Users uninformed, Support staff overloaded Operations users Helpdesk User doc. Consultancy VO

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September Without training…. Users uninformed, Support staff overloaded Downward slope Operations users Helpdesk User doc. Consultancy VO

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September The EGEE Virtuous Cycle NA2, NA3, NA4 NA3, NA4 SA1 JRA1 Building effective user communities

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September Gaining new and effective users Researchers Decision-makers Designers Induction & User Training Outreach Dissemination Successful Users User Registration Positive Referrals Application Developers Developer Initial Training Application Developers At home on EGEE Positive Referrals Developer Advanced Training New EGEE Applications Pushing Limits Advanced EGEE Applications Success Stories & Experts NA4 NA2

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September SA: service activities - establishing operations NA: network activities - supporting VOs JRA: “joint research activities” - e.g. hardening middleware EGEE-II Activities

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September NA3 Statistics in EGEE-II 30 Active partners (vs. 22 in EGEE) ~ 31 FTEs (4.9% of project budget) 135 Individuals 6 Federations

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September NA3 Activity Partners in EGEE-II

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September NA3 effort in EGEE phase Management, Support eLearning, Web Services WSRF, Biomed Earth Sciences Data t-Infrastructure Portals Application integration Multimedia (SMIL) Industry, SME Operations User Support (GGUS) Portals Earth Sciences Middleware Operations Induction Web Services Single partner Federation CE SEE RUSSIA NORTHERN ~ 1 FTE per partner in NA3 ~ 0.3 FTE per partner within EGEE

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September NA3 effort in EGEE-II New partner Federation CE SEE RUSSIA NORTHERN ~ 1 FTE per partner in NA3 ~ 0.3 FTE per partner within EGEE New Federation SWE DECH Single partner

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September Global participation

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September Reviewers’ recommendations (5) Reinforce the ``Training the Trainer'' events in the remainder of the project to ensure a sufficient number of high quality trainers remains available in the future to cover the diversifying and even more demanding training topics. (7) Expand the training activities for Grid infrastructure administrators and application developers. (8) Mandate the Industry Forum to gather and consolidate input from industrial users to prepare course material specifically tailored to industrial user needs.

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September Lessons from EGEE phase 1 Two valuable training assets were recognised in EGEE phase 1: The GILDA training Grid which offers limited certification for trainees; The use of isolated clusters for admin/installation courses in the UK and at FZK in Germany.

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview of EGEE training 24th September Summary 30 partners, 31 FTES and 135 individuals in NA3 Most partners have allocated effort as committed e-Learning library now operational Further e-Learning modules planned t-infrastructure expanding as planned Issues with effect of new middleware on courses