EMI INFSO-RI /04/2011What's new in EMI 1: Kebnekaise What’s new in EMI 1 Kathryn Cassidy (TCD)‏ EMI NA2

EMI INFSO-RI /04/2011What's new in EMI 1: Kebnekaise EMI 1 “Kebnekaise” Downloading Documentation Training this week Q&A 2 Outline

EMI INFSO-RI /04/2011What's new in EMI 1: Kebnekaise EMI Mission Statement 3 The European Middleware Initiative (EMI) project represents a close collaboration of the major European middleware providers - ARC, gLite, UNICORE and dCache - to establish a sustainable model to support, harmonise and evolve the grid middleware for deployment in EGI, PRACE and other distributed e-Infrastructures

EMI INFSO-RI /04/2011What's new in EMI 1: Kebnekaise EMI Project Objectives Consolidate the existing middleware distribution simplifying services and components to make them more sustainable (including use of off-the-shelf and commercial components whenever possible)‏ Evolve the middleware services/functionality following the requirements of infrastructures and users, mainly focusing on operational, standardization and interoperability aspects Reactively and proactively maintain the middleware distribution to keep it in line with the growing infrastructure usage 4 Consolidate Evolve Support

EMI INFSO-RI /04/2011What's new in EMI 1: Kebnekaise Common product packaging Common install locations Common build system, tests, quality metrics 5 Kebnekaise - Consolidation

EMI INFSO-RI /04/2011What's new in EMI 1: Kebnekaise Kebnekaise - Evolution GSI to SSL migration Partial GLUE 2.0 support (in parallel with GLUE 1.3)‏ NFS4.1 support WebDAV support Ongoing functionality enhancements of individual products

EMI INFSO-RI /04/2011What's new in EMI 1: Kebnekaise Kebnekaise – Support (1 of 2)‏ Support area of webpage – Documentation – Training – FAQs – Fora & mailing lists GGUS – tickets logged with infrastructures – escalated to EMI by 2 nd level support

EMI INFSO-RI /04/2011What's new in EMI 1: Kebnekaise Kebnekaise – Support (2 of 2)‏ Fora & Mailing lists – EMI Services: forumshttp:// forums – ARC Services: d-discuss d-discuss – dCache Services: – gLite services: – UNICORE Services:

EMI INFSO-RI /04/2011What's new in EMI 1: Kebnekaise Downloading EMI Repository Endorsed Downstream Repositories – EGI UMD Repository Upstream Repositories – EPEL Repository More information on the Support area of EMI website

EMI INFSO-RI /04/2011What's new in EMI 1: Kebnekaise Documentation Common documentation requirements – General Documentation – User Documentation – System Administrator Documentation Documentation area on website –

EMI INFSO-RI /04/2011What's new in EMI 1: Kebnekaise Training this week Tuesday 11:00What changes with EMI 1? 11:30Installation and configuration of CREAM 14:00Installation and Configuration of UNICORE 16:00EMI 'meet the experts' Wednesday 11:00Installation and configuration of dCache 11:45Installation and configuration of StoRM 14:00Installation and Configuration of A-REX 16:00User Training » ARC, gLite, UNICORE & dCache user client tools

EMI INFSO-RI /04/2011What's new in EMI 1: Kebnekaise 12 Questions? Kebnekaise (image courtesy of Wikipedia under Creative Commons licence)‏

EMI INFSO-RI /04/2011What's new in EMI 1: Kebnekaise Thank you 13 EMI is partially funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement INFSO-RI