1. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGI-InSPIRE Project Summary August 2011 – October 2011 PQ6 August 2011- October 2011

2. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGITF 2011 Dissemination: Running a booth, media partnerships, social media channels and blogging. Policy: Workshops and handouts on sustainability & Business Models Users: Workshops on Data management & Portal technologiesData management Portal technologies Ops Tools: All PTs present. Sessions on accounting ACE workshop, NGI Tools marketplace & integration of new middlewares August 2011- October 2011

3. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Project Effort PQ6 Work Packa ge Worked PM Funded Committed PM Achieved PM PQ6 % Achieved PM PQ5% Achieved PM (YEAR1) % WP1 20.220.698% 77% WP2 42.2117.536% 93%80% WP3 60.4160.038% 105%86% WP4 306.1296.3103% 107%98% WP5 28.831.492% 101%81% WP6 63.361.0104% 98%102% WP7 20.923.888% 81%76% Total 542.1710.676% 103%93% August 2011- October 2011

4. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 NA1 Global Effort: 88% –Holidays Management Effort: 111% –Closing out PY1 –EGITF PCO activity EGI Community Forum –Finalising arrangements with the local host August 2011- October 2011

5. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 NA2 NA2 Global: 43% –Staff holidays at EGI.eu and STFC NA2 NGI: 30% –Consistently low reporting –Summer holidays August 2011- October 2011

6. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 NA2.2 Dissemination Graphic designer / writer developing EGI branding for a new home page for the website. By the end of October 2011, 69 blog posts contributed to the EGI blog. EGI Inspired and three Directors letters prepared or published. Articles about EGI published in Supercomputing Online, HPC in the Cloud, International Innovation, Public Service Review: European Union and three EGI- related articles in iSGTW. Joint press release “Tabor Communications announces co-marketing partnership for the European Grid Forum and GlobusEUROPE conference” issued on 13 September, and also released via the EGI news and Twitter feed. Team members attended the TERENA-CPR workshop in Belgrade, EGITF2011 in Lyon and the UK All-Hands meeting in York, and ran a joint booth with e- ScienceTalk at eChallenges in Florence. Building content for the EGI Community Forum in Munich, 26-30 March at http://cf2012.egi.eu/.http://cf2012.egi.eu/ August 2011- October 2011

7. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 NA2.3 Policy Signed MoUs: –Infrastructure Providers: MERAKA (South-Africa) –VRC: HMRC –Projects: MAPPER, ScalaLife, SIENA –Other MoUs under negotiation: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/PDT:Agreementshttps://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/PDT:Agreements Secretary to EGI Policy Groups Messages: 4 blog posts, 2 Inspired articles,1 e-IRG newsletter article Analysis of Digital Agenda and Innovation Union actions Market Segment Analysis EC Survey on Cloud Computing SPG: –Revision of Service Operations Security Policy –Endorsement and Operation of Virtual Machine Images August 2011- October 2011

8. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 NA3 NA3 Global: 39% NA3 NGI: 37% Three UCB meetings with reports in the EGI blog (two telcons, once at VRC session of TF) Preparation for new NA2 work package Restructuring UCST New management for Technical Services (AppDB, Training Marketplace, VO Services) New scope for VO Services (Technical support for engagement with new communities Progress with requirement engineering and processing (overview page):overview page 19 requirements solved 7 requirements accepted by technology providers through the EGI Helpdesk as bug, minor improvement, documents 5 requirements are followed up TCB, NGIs or communities August 2011- October 2011

9. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 NA3 Planning for next series of Topical workshops: Joint workshop on workflows, Budapest, 9-10 February 2012.Joint workshop on workflows International Workshop on Science Gateways for Life Sciences, Amsterdam, 23-25 May 2012International Workshop on Science Gateways for Life Sciences New releases from Technical Services Setup a webpage about EGI Web gadgets: www.egi.eu/user-support/gadgetswww.egi.eu/user-support/gadgets Gadgets available for AppDB; Training Marketplace; Requirements Tracker Meetings with ScalaLife, SHIWA, EBI-EBML, Terena Discuss collaborations on application and user support August 2011- October 2011

10. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 SA1 SA1 Global: 105% –CSC: 5% –GARR: 13% –FOM: 442% –SARA: 201% SA1 NGI: 103% August 2011- October 2011

11. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 SA1 Infrastructure –Decommissioning of ITROC and DECH ROC, planning for a migration of Austrian sites from NGI_NDGF to NGI_IT, Integration of SAGrid in progress –Strengthened collaboration with OSG about operational matters Availability. EGI Quarterly Availability/Reliability: 95.4% / 96.1% –First Resource infrastructure Provider v 1.0 approved, min 99% availability for NGI critical services –First NGI Availability/Reliability monthly report in October 2011 (top-BDII)! Assessment of top-BDII deployment problems across all NGIs (in progress) and on-going campaign for enhancement of top-BDII performance –PROC10 “Re-computation of monitoring results and availability statistics” approved Security: 3 security incidents handled, 6 vulnerability reports, 1 SVG advisory –Updated procedures: EGI CSIRT security incident handling, and SVG vulnerability issue handling –Testing of Security Dashboard prototype –Analysis of PY1 review report and discussion of EGI risk assessment plan August 2011- October 2011

12. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 SA1 Tools –First version of Metrics Portal in production –2 new version of the operations portal (EGI.eu and NGIs) in production, to 2 new SAM updates (EGI.eu and NGIs) deployed (Update 13 and Update 14), ActiveMQ 5.5 tested for an upgrade of the message broker network –Refactoring of GOCDB configuration of EGI.eu operational tools –New manual for management of incidents affecting the central tools –Integration of Desktop Grid services into GOCDB and SAM (collaboration with EDGI) – in progress Accounting –test accounting repository running Secure Stomp Manager (SSM) –accounting portal release “Canopus” (v. 4.0) was rolled to production Support –COD: new escalation procedure for operational issues into force from October 2011 –New ROD performance metrics being prototyped –Replacement of manual underperformance oversight with a Nagios-based automated process (in progress), on-going analysis of high UNKNOWN monitoring results affecting Availability/Reliability reports –Assessment of NGI grid oversight activities –IPv6 survey for the definition of a EGI IPv6 compliance strategy in collaboration with EMI and IGE August 2011- October 2011

13. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 SA1 Technology deployment and integration –Staged rollout of 30 products (UMD 1.1.0, 1.2.0 and 1.3.0), 3 rejected, 49 tests in total –Involvement of NGI in SR tests varies greatly. Participation to tests depends on the release schedule of products whose SR is subscribed by NGIs, but generally speaking more contribution is needed: –QR6 test distribution across NGIs: Very large NGIs: Germany/13, Italy/8, United Kingdom/6, France/0, Spain/0 Large NGIs: Poland/5, Netherland/0, Russia/0 Medium-large NGIs: Romania/0, Turkey/0, Finland/0, Sweden/0, Greece/2 Medium-small NGIs: Switzerland/6, Portugal/6, Norway/0, Bulgaria/0, Hungary/0, Ireland/0, Czech Republic/0 Small NGIs: Slovenia/3, all the remaining ones 0 –Improvement of software provisioning process (MS409), new procedure for risk assessment in case of conflicting SR reports –GLOBUS staged rollout for release in UMD 1.2.0 GGUS and Technology Helpdesk –Improved usability, definition of report generator development roadmap August 2011- October 2011

14. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 SA2 Global Effort: 92% –FCTSG: 245% - UMD Release GGUS reporting is limited –Inhibits DMSU from Extracting necessary figures for SLM Figures and metrics for operational efficiency Improve reporting with respect to Service Level Management –Review DMSU metrics for SLM reporting –Technology Provider Service Level Management –Need to resolve bugs in reporting and re-run reports Extend the Software Provisioning process for VM endorsements August 2011- October 2011

15. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 SA2 UMD provisioning UMD 1.1.01 August 2011 –Contains 2 new EMI Products, and updates to 3 existing EMI Products –http://repository.egi.eu/2011/08/01/release-umd-1-1-0-4/http://repository.egi.eu/2011/08/01/release-umd-1-1-0-4/ UMD 1.2.012 September 2011 –Contains 4 new IGE Products, and 2 new EMI Products and 3 EMI Product updates. –http://repository.egi.eu/2011/09/12/release-umd-1-2-0-4/http://repository.egi.eu/2011/09/12/release-umd-1-2-0-4/ UMD 1.3.031 October 2011 –Contains 1 new product (EMI), and updates to 12 Products (EMI, IGE) –http://repository.egi.eu/2011/10/31/release-umd-1-3-0/http://repository.egi.eu/2011/10/31/release-umd-1-3-0/ August 2011- October 2011

16. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 SA3 SA3: 104% –CNRS: 254% (Taking on HealthGrid work) –INFN: 0% –ICBP: 515% –EMBL: 0% August 2011- October 2011

17. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 SA3 August 2011- October 2011

18. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 SA3 August 2011- October 2011

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20. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 SA3 August 2011- October 2011

21. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 JRA1 JRA1 Global: 116% –CERN 224% JRA1 General: 68% –LUH 175% –SRCE 0% –CERN 0% Involved in the FCTF Monitoring Cloud resources A/R Inter projects F2F meeting organized at KIT on “Requirements for the GGUS Report Generator” August 2011- October 2011

22. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 JRA1 SAM –SAM Update-13 and 14 released to production, Update-15 in SR –Failover Nagios instance has been introduced in a configurable hot-standby mode –Clean-up of dependencies in the metapackages –Integrated Probes: UNICORE and CA. Probe maintenance handed over to EMI. –Support for multiple regions in NGI installations was added –Support for EGI operational tools in the Aggregated Topology Provider –The first testing version of Profile management system (POEM) is distributed in U15. –Various improvements to myEGI Accounting Repository –Publishing data through the Secure Stomp Messenger (SSM) –Deployed as a test system at RAL Accounting Portal –New Graph engine & many bug fixed –FQAN data on VO Admin and Site Admin views Metrics Portal –Features: Automatic Metrics, BDII Metrics, New report views. –New User action log, historic and in-place editing of old versions. August 2011- October 2011

23. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Milestones and deliverables Id.TitleDocDB URL D6.4Capabilities offered by the HUCs to other communities https://documents.egi.eu/document/472 MS220Review of the website contenthttps://documents.egi.eu/document/601 MS413Deployment plan for the distribution of operational tools to the NGIs/EIRO https://documents.egi.eu/document/704 MS414Integrating resources into the EGI Production Infrastructure https://documents.egi.eu/document/650 MS509Service Level Agreement with a Software Provider https://documents.egi.eu/document/615 August 2011- October 2011

24. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Milestones and deliverables Id.TitleDocDB URL MS612HUC Software Roadmaphttps://documents.egi.eu/document/684 D2.12Standards Roadmaphttps://documents.egi.eu/document/721 D4.3EGI Operations Architecturehttps://documents.egi.eu/document/763 MS221EGI Technical Forum- MS222EGI Newsletterhttps://documents.egi.eu/document/878 August 2011- October 2011