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Summary of the pre-OMB meeting on October 10 th

Explore the highlights and key topics discussed during the pre-OMB meeting, including enabling services for researchers, operating European capabilities for HTC and data analysis, and plans for collaboration with various e-infrastructures. Learn about data-oriented services, AAI, new user communities, and the development of human capital.

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Summary of the pre-OMB meeting on October 10 th

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  1. Summary of the pre-OMB meeting on October 10th Peter Solagna EGI.eu

  2. EGI Strategy activities • Providing enabling services to researchers • Operate European capability for HTC and data analysis • Provide a flexible virtual research environment • Identify and develop the human capital

  3. Main highlight topics • Integration with other European infrastructures • Data oriented services • AAI • New user communities • Tools to access resources • Centres of excellence

  4. Integration with other e-infrastructures • NGI_FI • CSC PRACE and EUDAT member • No particular collaboration plans • NGI_HR • Monitoring tools for EUDAT • NGI_UK • Collaborations with PRACE and EUDAT for core services • NGI_CH • CSCS part of PRACE • No particular collaboration plans • GRNET • Part of PRACE: dissemination, policy, training and application porting

  5. Data oriented services • NGI_FI • National archive online, providing iRODS services • Not yet used by grid users • NGI_PL • iRODS service • ESFRI projects • Ibergrid • iRODS, possibleintegration with SRM • Hadoop/MapReduce • Plans for data preservation • NGI_UK • iRODS • Jasmin and Pansas • Big data • NGI_CH • Data preservation and data management is part of the national funding program

  6. AAI • NGI_FI • Moonshot testing for cloud resources • NGI_PL • OpenID infrastructure • Services to generate grid proxies • NGI_UK • CertWizard, Moonshot, SARoNGS • Policy development • NGI_HR • National federation part of EduGain • Plans to integrate with cloud and grid • NGI_CH • Plans to create a national federation

  7. Collaboration with user communities • NGI_PL • CTA: using computing and storage resources • EPOS: iRODS and science gateways • Provisioning of science gateways to small user communities • GRNET • ESFRI: Geonetwork, Geoserver, Geowebcache • NGI_UK • Life science and EBI, discussion for common core services • Neutron and photon: iRODS • Life and earth s.: Jasmin – Panasas • Ibergrid • Lifewatch coordination • Dirac to provide transparent access to the resources • NGI_HR • Portal provisioning with gUSE and WS-PGRADE

  8. Cloud • NGI_FI • 200 nodes pilot infrastructure for Cloud deployment • Plans for a new supercluster for grid and cloud use • Harmonization of cloud and grid storage • Ibergrid • Plans to expand ibercloud • Activities on contextualization and interoperability • NGI_PL • IaaS national service • GRNET • Cloud service: ~3k VMs, ~10k VCPUs • Plans to extend • Moving grid resources over cloud • NGI_UK • Commercial cloud site in production under NGI_UK • NGI_CH • Plans for a national cloud research infrastructure based on national funds. More than 200 use cases

  9. Other new type of resources • Pay per use, interested NGIs: • NGI_PL, NGI_UK, NGI_CH • NGIs with GPGPU resources • NGI_PL • 4 sites, ~300 GPU cards • NGI_UK • Biggest GPGPU cluster in UK (for researches) • NGI_HR • Exploring to expand the current offer

  10. Centres of excellence • NGI_PL • Porting applications to grid and science gateways • Federated operations consultancy • NGI_UK • HartreeCoE for software porting and development • Consultancy for new user communities • CoE for security • Ibergrid • Application porting, green computing • NGI_HR • Technology consultancy, monitoring solutions, system management solutions • NGI_CH • National eScience team: training, best practice, dissemination and enabling scientific use cases

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