Dissemination, Training and Certification ETICS 2 Periodic Review Isabel Matranga Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA Brussels, 3 April 2009

Contents Goals Major Achievements Metrics and Statistics Challenges and Issues Future Plans Conclusions NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Goals NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009 3

Goals From the project Technical Annex “Disseminate the knowledge produced by the project” “Train engineers, scientists and service providers in the use of ETICS through the organization of focused events” “Maintain, improve and promote the ETICS Grid Quality Certification Model (GridQCM – now A-QCM)” “Evaluate long-term sustainability strategies and possible business models for the commercialization of ETICS services” NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Major Achievements NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009 5

Dissemination of ETICS Rebranding New Logos New Website Design NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Dissemination of ETICS Promotional material Brochure Posters Website Contributions to EC FP7 Folder and EGEE booklet NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Dissemination of ETICS Getting in touch with communities Condor week 2008 IDPT 2008 OGF23 Physics Service (PSM) EGEE 2008 Grid Seminar in Krakow European Condor week 2008 OGF25/EGEE User Forum UMD Workshop NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Dissemination of ETICS ETICS in the news and on the web CERN computer news letter Zero-In e-Magazine Contributions send to iSGTW and Primeur magazines Promotion on the web EGEE Collaborating Projects page EGI-DS knowledge base page Gasuc (Grid Application Support Centre) page Belief II digital library NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Dissemination of ETICS Promotion towards … … other projects …. commercial activities and services EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites - http://www.eumetsat.int) ESOC (European Space Operration Centre http://www.esa.int) CBT (Cosmic Blue Team SpA http://www.cbt.it/) QualiPSo Pharos BEinGRID UNICORE KnowARC EGI_DS BalticGrid See-Grid NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Dissemination of ETICS Scientific Contributions ETICS Meta-data Software Editing - From Check Out To Commit Operations (Journal of Physics Conferences Series) ETICS: the International Software Engineering Service for the Grid (Journal of Physics Conferences Series) A Multi-node Mechanism to interoperability Issue in health care (Accepted for publication on Transactions of the SDPS: Integrated Design & Process Science Transdisciplinary International Journal) The Impact of Grid on Health Care Digital Repositories (Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on System Sciences) NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Training on ETICS System Tools and instruments Training Plan : Type of training Potential training targets Forms of training Channels Material Training Material revised and updated Training demos NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Training on ETICS System Events 2 Induction Training courses for new users at FZJ, SZTAKI, VEGA, INFN 3 Standard Training courses for UNICORE and ARC developers and OGF25/EGEE User Forum attendees 1 Advanced Training course for gLite developers Tutorial of ETICS at BalticGrid Summer School (July 2009) NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

A-QCM Feedback and improvements Grid-QCM becomes A-QCM (Automated Quality Certification Model) Collected feedback from internationally recognised experts Conferences Experts Alain Abran – Software Metrics expert - Professor - Department of Software Engineering & I.T. Günter Glöe – Certification Expert - TÜV NORD Kazuhiro Esaki – Industrial Expert - EBARA Corporation Validation and refinement Improvements to the Coding Style module according to feedback received OGF23 NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

A-QCM Other activities New collaborations STAR-LAB project run by the University of Genoa in Italy CTI (Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer) an organisation working in the domain of product quality evaluation Design for the A-QCM report generator interface Mapping of ETICS guidelines and processes to established standards (ISO/IEC-12207 Software Lifecycle Processes) Analysis of other products/services on the market related to quality verification NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Long-term sustainability strategies Long-term sustainability strategies Exploitable knowledge and its market Revision and update of exploitable knowledge ETICS System for building and testing software Quality Certification Service Identifcation of the potential target market and motivations EU and national research projects. Large software companies Large research centres SME associations Competitors analysis Cruise Control Anthill Bamboo Continuum Pulse … NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Long-term sustainability strategies ETICS Offer Identification of a set of potential services Installation and setting up of the ETICS system Hosting of the ETICS System Hosting of ETICS core infrastructure Quality Certification Service Testing Services Support Services Training Identification of a possible revenue mechanism NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Long-term sustainability strategies Scenarios and the business model Discussion on possible sustainability scenarios ETICS after ETICS 2 “commercial entity” Merge with other consortia or activities More focused public funded projects Chosen a Business Model template NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Metrics and Statistics NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009 19

Metrics and Statistics Deliverables DNA2.1 (Training Plan) RELEASED DNA2.2 (Dissemination and Use of Knowledge Plan – first update) DNA2.3 (ETICS Grid Quality Certification Model Activity Report) DNA2.4 (First year Analysis of Training and Tuning Activities) DNA2.5 (Dissemination and use of knowledge plan – second update) DNA2.6 (Long-term Sustainability Strategy and activity report – first release) NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Metrics and Statistics Milestones MSA2.1 - Public relation and promotional material available OK MNA2.2 - Training courses and demos available on-line MNA2.3 - Dissemination events organized (according to dissemination plan) MNA2.4 - Two projects are issued with a A-QCM certificate (gLite, UNICORE) Postponed to M18 NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Metrics and Statistics Year one quality metrics 1/2 Number of new projects registered in the ETICS System 6 (4) Friends of ETICS2 80 (50) Website Nr. of accesses per month Nr. of downloads Nr. of reverse links 667 (100) Around 200/month 12 (10) News echos Press release News echoes 3 (2) 2 (8) Number dissemination events Other Events Papers 5 (2) 4 (2) NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Metrics and Statistics Year one quality metrics 2/2 Number of brochures/flyers/fact sheets 3 (2) Number posters exhibited in external events 2 (2) Number of training events and trained people Training Events Trained people: 6 (2) 68 (40) NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Metrics and Statistics Highlights 6 new projects registered in the ETICS System Approached by several software professional interested in ETICS BalticGrid for the organisation of a tutorial Cosmic Blue Team for organisation of a demo ARC for more information on A-QCM Around 700 accesses/month to the project web site 6 well attended training events organised 5 events organised by ETICS team to interested others (2 had been planned) NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009 24 24

Challenges NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009 25

Challenges and issues Dissemination – no particular challenges need to be reported Training - development of the training material took longer than expected due to difficulties in recruiting suitable personnel Trial certifications: the late implementation of the needed A-QCM components implied postponing the start of the trial certifications Commercial applications requirements: the analysis of the specific requirements highlighted differences in priorities of research and commercial users. NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Future Plans NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009 27

Future Plans Dissemination towards markets not necessarily Grid related Hannover Messe on 20-24 April (http://www.hannovermesse.de/homepage_e) Service Wave 2009 ICCSEA 2009 A-QCM Improvement and validation through feedback from experts and users Start activities for presentation to ISO for standardisation Organisation of targeted workshops for identified potential users Consolidation of the sustainability strategy NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

Conclusions NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009 29

Conclusions Dissemination A-QCM Training Sustainability strategies Participation to various events New liaisons created A-QCM Implementation well under way M18 trial certification Feedback and improvements Training New training material available Trained 68 new developers Sustainability strategies Analysis of ETICS and its market Discussing Business Model options NA2 - Dissemination, Training and Certification Brussels, 3 April 2009

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