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NA3 Activity – Training and Induction EGEE-II Review, Geneva 15 th -16 th May 2007

NA3 Activity – Training and Induction EGEE-II Review, Geneva 15 th -16 th May 2007. Brendan Hamill, NA3 Activity Manager, NeSC, University of Edinburgh. Overview. NA3 – Training and Induction Objectives Organisation Achieving Objectives Training Course delivery e-Learning development

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NA3 Activity – Training and Induction EGEE-II Review, Geneva 15 th -16 th May 2007

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  1. NA3 Activity – Training and InductionEGEE-II Review, Geneva 15th-16th May 2007 Brendan Hamill, NA3 Activity Manager, NeSC, University of Edinburgh

  2. Overview • NA3 – Training and Induction • Objectives • Organisation • Achieving Objectives • Training Course delivery • e-Learning development • T-Infrastructure • Editorial Task Force ( + UIG ) • Milestones/deliverables • Summary NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  3. NA3 Objectives in EGEE-II • Expand portfolio of training materials & courses • Train a wide variety of EGEE users (internal/external) • Develop effective mechanisms for training end users of the EGEE infrastructure • Enhance e-Learning structure and provision of t-Infrastructure • Validate cohorts of trainers & compile directory • Collaborate in cross-activity initiatives NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  4. NA3 Organisation • Activity Manager – Brendan Hamill (UEDIN) • Deputy Activity Manager – Gergely Sipos (MTA-SZTAKI) • NA3 Godfather – Marcel Kunze (FZK) • T-Infrastructure – Roberto Barbera/Emidio Giorgio (INFN) • e-Learning/Digital Library – Boon Low (UEDIN) • Training Team (UEDIN) • Editorial Task Force (UEDIN / INFN / MTA-SZTAKI / CERN) • Federation/Partner level NA3 leaders NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  5. NA3 Partners in EGEE-II NA3 statistics: 32 Partners in 26 countries ~31 FTEs 194 individuals 4.8% of project budget NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  6. NA3 effort in EGEE-II ~ 1 FTE per partner in NA3 ~ 0.25 FTE per partner within EGEE NORTHERN 2.5 2 6 RUSSIA CE DECH 4.75 2 1 SEE New Federation 7.5 SWE Federation 1.5 4 New partner Single partner NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  7. Partner & Activity Metrics • Events Database has feedback from >65% of training events held since start of EGEE-II • Overall target (for both years of the project) of 1500 participant-days has already been exceeded ( >3300) • All NA3 partners have run at least one training event in EGEE-II • 110 training events, with >1600 participants have been held in 62 different locations • Most active partners (participant-days/joint events): • FZK, MTA-SZTAKI, INFN, GRNET, PNPI/IHEP, UEDIN NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  8. http://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  9. Table 4: Table of training event locations Training Event Locations 62 NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  10. EGEE-II Training Events NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  11. 1st EGEE Training, Bulgaria, Nov 2006 NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  12. 1st EGEE Training, Bulgaria, Nov 2006 NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  13. Events in Asia NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  14. Training Trainers Course, Taipei, March 2007 NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  15. gLite Tutorial, Beijing, March 2007 NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  16. Events in South America Venezuela Brazil Argentina NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  17. Training Event Data in EGEE-II < Event Duration Average course length 2.2 days Feedback Ratings over time > Average evaluation score 4.82 (out of 6) NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  18. Breakdown by Event Type NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  19. Digital Library http://egee.lib.ed.ac.uk/ NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  20. EGEE Digital Library statistics 73 articles 13 courses 316 events 53 modules 3926 presentations 70 tutorials 97 videos 27 ETF Exemplars The Digital Library now contains over 4000 learning resources derived from EGEE events NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  21. Digital Library – Recent upgrades • Improved searching and sorting functionality • Help system (“how to” articles) • Web-content authoring service ( > HTML files) • Federated content support • User authentication now recognises all 62 CAs accredited by EUGridPMA • More multi-lingual content (Russian, French, Greek, Bulgarian, Spanish) NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  22. GILDA NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  23. T-Infrastructure • GILDA is an effective t-Infrastructure for EGEE and other European projects, providing resources and knowledge for training events • Besides training events, GILDA is available around the clock for grid novices, with dedicated facilities • The GILDA t-Infrastructure is currently supported by 12 sites, mostly managed on a best-effort basis • Major efforts since EGEE’06 have been on improving the quality level of services offered, by installing monitoring tools • Efforts have been made also on documentation and facilities offered to grid beginners NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  24. Additional features • GILDA is also available for applications porting using dedicated facilities • Virtual/Plug’n’Play User Interfaces: preconfigured UIs installable on the majority of machines, freeing users from the requirement of an account on a “real” UI • Support System : http://gilda-support.ct.infn.it/ • GILDA News: https://gilda.ct.infn.it/news.html • Improved integration between GILDA and the P-GRADE grid portal from SZTAKI NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  25. GILDA site monitoring • To improve reliability of the t-Infrastructure, SAM (Service Availability Monitoring) has been installed • https://sam.ct.infn.it/sam/sam.py • Test results are summarized on a Google MAP page • https://gilda.ct.infn.it/google_maps/mysam.html • GILDA is also monitored by GStat • http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gstat/gilda/ • GStat summarizes information published by the Information System, providing a compact view of data published in it, and spotting when sites have network or efficiency problems NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  26. ETF and UIG • Editorial Task Force (ETF): intra-NA3 group, peer- reviewing and repurposing existing training materials (mainly presentations and tutorials) for online delivery • User Information Group (UIG): cross-activity group, performing an editorial and commissioning function in order to ensure provision of essential user information, certified as up to date. Providing a “one stop shop” for documentation on commonly-used processes in EGEE. NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  27. Editorial Task Force • Phase 1 (completed September 2006) • Set up ETF wiki and web-pages, commenting initially on induction-level courses • Phase 2 (completed January 2007) • Established exemplars for Induction, Sys Admin, Installation, Training Trainers (27 exemplars now complete) • Started on Application Developer courses • Phase 3 (future) • All trainers to submit updated modules to improve exemplars and increase App. Dev. material NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  28. UIG pages NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  29. UIG pages NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  30. Completed NA3 Milestones/Deliverables • MNA3.1.1 Training plan • MNA3.2.1 e-Learning plan • MNA3.3.1 T-infrastructure plan • MNA3.4.1 VO and external project support plan • MNA3.4.2 Compilation of trainers directory • MNA3.4.3 Training requirements survey • MNA3.2.2 Enhanced e-Learning facilities & report • MNA3.3.2 Enhanced t-Infrastructure facilities • DNA3.1 Training policy and group report • MNA3.4.4 Training follow-on survey • DNA3.3.1 Training report and revised plan NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  31. Future NA3 Milestones/Deliverables • DNA3.4 Report on training support for VOs and external projects M14 • DNA3.2 Commercial grid training survey M15* • MNA3.4.5 Training requirements survey M18 • DNA3.3.2 Training report M22 * postponed from M8 due to difficulty in identifying suitable contractors – survey now in progress NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  32. Summary • NA3 partners have delivered >100 training events in the first year of EGEE-II, surpassing targets for the whole project and with wide geographical coverage • e-Learning and t-infrastructure provision have been continuously enhanced during EGEE-II • Deliverables and milestones all on schedule • Participating in inter-partner and cross-activity collaborations (ETF, UIG) • Expanding numbers of trainers by running “Training trainers” events, especially in new or distant NA3 partners NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

  33. Where do we go next? NA3 - B. Hamill 15 May 2007

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