CHAIN PMB Meeting - Taipei, 22.03.2011 Technical program: progress & issues Roberto Barbera (roberto.barbera@ct.infn.it) University of Catania and INFN CHAIN PMB Meeting - Taipei, 22.03.2011

Outline CHAIN technical work plan Progress (on Africa) Issues to be discussed CHAIN PMB Meeting – Taipei, 22.03.2011

Deliverables & Milestones

CHAIN in the web www.chain-project.eu documents.chain-project.eu agenda.chain-project.eu CHAIN PMB Meeting – Taipei, 22.03.2011

CHAIN in the mail Editorial Board (the original one) PMB TB EB chain-eb@ct.infn.it PMB pmb@chain-project.eu TB tech-board@chain-project.eu EB exec-board@chain-project.eu Project Office proj-office@chain-project.eu Regions regions@chain-project.eu CHAIN PMB Meeting – Taipei, 22.03.2011

Regional-level tasks Region M/W release Monitoring Accounting Catch-all CA Global VOMS 2nd Level user supp. Gen. Info. System Knowledge repo. High level Grid services Region

Network and Grid: Asia TEIN3 as International Network Backbone At least one ROC: APROC (registered in the EGI GOCDB) CHAIN PMB Meeting – Taipei, 22.03.2011

Network and Grid: Latin America RedClara as International Network Backbone Two ROCs: IGALC and ROC-LA (both registered in the EGI GOCDB) CHAIN PMB Meeting – Taipei, 22.03.2011

Network and Grid: Africa EUMEDCONNECT2 as International Network Backbone in the Mediterranean region Ubuntunet Alliance and WACREN in Sub-Sahara (but AfricaConnect is still to be funded) Africa ROC (http://roc.africa-grid.org) CHAIN PMB Meeting – Taipei, 22.03.2011

Africa ROC Unique entry point for the operation of the regional Grid; Pages available both for users and system administrators; Monitoring systems such as Gstat 2.0, RTM and SmokePing available; Several sites joined from South Africa and Senegal; more will be added soon (HP/UNESCO BGI tutorial going on in this very week); Integrated GOCDB available; Integrated User Support system available. CHAIN PMB Meeting – Taipei, 22.03.2011

Africa ROC GOCDB (http://gocdb.africa-grid.org) CHAIN PMB Meeting – Taipei, 22.03.2011

User support Asia and Latin America use the EGI instance of GGUS: Africa ROC User Support system (based on xGUS) available: CHAIN PMB Meeting – Taipei, 22.03.2011

Africa ROC Grid User Support (https://support.africa-grid.org) 1st Level Support Operator On Duty USER Country 1 Country 2 Country n 2nd Level Support Exp. Grp. 2 Exp. Grp. 1 Exp. Grp. m Responsibility by rotation shifts Assignment on expertise basis CHAIN PMB Meeting – Taipei, 22.03.2011

What’s next with Africa ROC ? Dedicated instances of both Nagios and the Dashboard will be installed by the end of this week; they will be integrated with the GOCDB and the Grid User Support system by the end of this month; GOCDB expected to be fully populated by the end of this month; First rotation shifts expected to start by next month; First version of an accounting system with «per user» and «per application» views foreseen to be made available by next month. CHAIN PMB Meeting – Taipei, 22.03.2011

Training A MoU has been signed between CHAIN and EPIKH: EPIKH has partners in all Regions addressed by CHAIN: One school held in Valparaiso (Chile), 29 Nov – 9 Dec 2010; Two schools held in Kolkata (India), 1-17 Feb 2011; Two more schools foreseen in China (9-26 May 2011), two in South Africa (16 May – 2 Jun 2011) and two in Morocco (30 May – 14 Jun 2011). CHAIN PMB Meeting – Taipei, 22.03.2011

Issues to be discussed Update the project website to: Have a unique view of the regional infrastructures addressed by the project and their services; Have a unique view of the VRCs supported and their applications; Homogeneize the existing documentation; Define a list of CHAIN events and stick with it (at least for 2011); especially the thematic workshops; Improve internal communications (periodic phoneconferences ?) Duplicate the Africa ROC service in other regions or single countries ? CHAIN PMB Meeting – Taipei, 22.03.2011

Thank you very much ! Any questions ? CHAIN PMB Meeting – Taipei, 22.03.2011