Status report of the LToS platform Tools, services and practices to support the Long-Tail of Science Giuseppe La Rocca giuseppe.larocca@egi.eu Technical Outreach Expert

Agenda EGI Conference 2016

What we try to solve ? ? ? ? ? ? ? European Grid Infrastructure Over 35 countries Grid HTC services Cloud services Storage services Infrastructure 350 resource centres 400,000 cpu cores 190 PB storage Discipline VOs (e.g. BIOMED, CMS, …) SLA AUP Catch-all VOs SLA AUP ? ? To support the long tail of science researchers EGI is developing a dedicated platform to address users’ requirements ? ? ? ? ? EGI Conference 2016

The Long Tail of Science platform: the big picture User URP AUP User Registration Portal (URP) access.egi.eu www Support team Local robot (OR hosted by INFN eToken server) UserID (String) Science Gateway Science Gateway PUSP X.509 Credential Management System Able to track back usage to the person Science Gateway AUP PUSP = Per-User Sub-Proxy catch-all VO vo.access.egi.eu RobotID UserID EGI Accounting DB VO Security Policy EGI Conference 2016

Status of the Long Tail of Science platform What we had in November 2015: Pilot platform URP: http://access.egi.eu Documentation, Guide for users & providers: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Long-tail_of_science Demo/Presentation @ EGI CF 2015 Successful showcased in Bari during the EGI CF 2015 EGI Conference 2016

Status of the Long Tail of Science platform Progress since November Registration of the service components URP portal https://goc.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=Site&id=1525 CSG https://goc.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=Site&id=1565 WS-PGRADE https://goc.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=Site&id=1585 Monitor of service components OPS-MONITOR http://argo.egi.eu/lavoisier/status_report-site?report=OPS-MONITOR-Critical&accept=html EGI Long Tail of Science Platform Security Policy Final version delivered https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=2734 AUP and Conditions of Use of the EGI Platform for the Long-Tail of Science Final version delivered https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=2635 EGI-Engage Deliverable and Milestone https://documents.egi.eu/document/2671 , https://documents.egi.eu/document/2697 Integrate WS-PGRADE gUSE science gateway  Presentation by P. KACSUK (SZTAKI) in this session EGI Conference 2016

Status of the Long Tail of Science platform HTC and cloud resources OLA agreements with Cloud resource providers Cloud Provider Resources OLA Status INFN-CATANIA-STACK 20 vCPU cores, 50GB RAM, 1TB storage Signed RECAS-BARI 15 vCPU cores, 30GB RAM, 1TB storage OLA agreements with HTC resource providers HTC Provider Resources OLA Status GILDA-INFN-CATANIA 1M HEPSPEC, 1GB RAM per core, 100GB storage Signed INFN-BARI 0.5M HEPSPEC, 2GB RAM per core, 100GB storage CYFRONET-LCG2 5M HEPSPEC, 3GB RAM per core, 500GB storage BEgrid-ULB-VUB Under discussion EGI Conference 2016

Status of the Long Tail of Science platform Science gateway services OLA agreements with gateway service providers Science Gateway URL Available computing infrastructure OLA Status Monitor GGUS Support Unit URP (user entry point) access.egi.eu Under discussion Active Under setup CSG (Catania Science Gateway) csgf.egi.eu HTC, Grid and Cloud Signed WS-PGRADE guse.egi.eu/web/wizard Cloud In progress QCG-Portal Expressed interest EGI Conference 2016

Status of the Long Tail of Science platform Scientific applications Computer Science and Mathematics The Statistical R: a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. Available in the Catania Science Gateway Cultural Heritage The Parallel Semantic Search Engine (SSE): a service to demonstrate the potential of information coupled with semantic web technologies to address the issues of data discovery and correlation Available in the Catania Science Gateway Life Sciences ClustalW2: a multiple sequence alignment tool for the alignment of DNA or protein sequences. Chipster account generator service integrated in the LToS Extend the support for this community  Presentation by Kimmo Mattila (CSC) in this session EGI Conference 2016

Contributions for the EGI Conference 2016

Roadmap for the next months EGI Conference 2016

Plans Necessary for production Improve the user experience in the LToS portal according to the customer review Customer feedback documented in M5.1: https://documents.egi.eu/document/2697 Activity already started Define downtime notification workflow All downtimes must be registered in the GOC-DB for all components Access portal will present scheduled downtimes and in future send notification to users Accounting system integration Define (extend?) existing policies to get accounting data from the portal New REST API are under developing by the Accounting team (end of this year) Manage user-level quota in the LToS SGs Respond to potential quota overuse and prevent users of the LToS from accessing e-Infrastructure Finalize the business model for the LToS Complete operational level agreements Long-term sustainability of key platform components EGI Conference 2016

Plans Necessary for production Set up a straightforward support channel for LTOS users no forcing them to submit to GGUS Secure channel between SG and the eTokenServer Relevant only if science gateway cannot obtain a local robot certificate Activity started by INFN EGI Conference 2016

Plans ‘Nice to have’ features Involve NGI teams in user approval Define identity vetting manual for user request approvers Proposal: The user is affiliated to a research institution, or is collaborating with someone affiliated to a research institution The user has no other active accounts yet in the LToS platform The topic of the research that will use the EGI resources is relevant Expand/advertise the list of services and abstractions available for users For example VM management interfaces in AppDB  Presentation by Marios today Advertise national (unconnected) LToS infrastructures (We need quality check!) Investigate the integration of iRODS in the LToS Solution already offered by NGI France to LToS users EGI Conference 2016 EGI Conference 2016