EGEE-III INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Gergely Sipos Activity Deputy Manager MTA SZTAKI, Hungary EGI.eu – User Community Support Team EGEE-III Final Review, June, 2010 NA3 - User Training and Induction

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June Activity overview 2

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June NA3 objectives in EGEE-III Activity objectives –Expand and refine the training material and courses, to provide training resources for an ever-widening range of Grid applications. –Train a wide variety of users, within EGEE consortium & outside users of other middleware. –Develop mechanisms for passing on knowledge to end-users of EGEE related projects. –Expand online learning services, meeting the needs of an expanded project and larger user-base. –Support the provision of t-Infrastructure on the GILDA testbed by developing/maintaining training resources to cover diverse range of application scenarios. Priorities in 2 nd year Scalability and sustainability –Autonomous national training groups established at every NGI –Integration of t-Infrastructure into production infrastructure –Continuation of training services in EGI is ensured

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June NA3 tasks TNA3.1 Course Content, Scheduling, Organisation & Delivery –Lead Partner – University of Edinburgh –Partners – All TNA3.2a Trainer Support Systems –1 Partner - University of Edinburgh TNA3.2b Training Infrastructure Provision –Lead partner – INFN, Catania –Partners – 9 TNA3.3 Activity Management & Partner Coordination –Lead partner – University of Edinburgh (NA3 manager: Robin McConnell) Deputy – MTA SZTAKI –Partners - 6

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June Training events 134 Y Accredited trainers (Target 110) 185 Y Training Events (Target 120) 2312 Y Participants (Target 1200) 7768 Y Participant days (Target 3000) 29 Countries

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June Geographical spread of events events in EGEE-III 80 separate locations worldwide 2312 participants Training designated as a NGI task

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June Breakdown by event type Average evaluation score of events is 5.1 (out of 6)

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June EGEE collaboration events

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June Model for learning - IWSGC eLearning school Resources eLearning event with collaboration between gLite, Globus, UNICORE, Condor 4 technology weeks ~17 hours per week (student average) 35 Participants

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June 2010 ISSGC’09 International Summer School in Grid Computing 2009 –Sophia Antipolis, France, 5-17 July –Major collaboration event: 58 sessions –45 participants – –EGEE Involvement:  gLite: major technologies  GILDA: testbed for practical sessions Multiple middleware with uniform access  NA3 members on program committee and trainers’ group  CNRS - local organiser 10

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June 2010 Services for sustainable training Accreditation of trainers –All the 21 NA3 partner NGIs are self-sufficient in terms of training –Training contact for 72% of all the NGIs GILDA VO is now part of the production infrastructure –No difference in the maintenance of a production and a training site –NGIs can contribute to training VO with production sites Training support services continue in EGI –Trainer registry: –Digital library: –Training event database: –Training VO central services: 11

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June Development of EGEE trainers Training the trainers events –Provide partner autonomy –Experts ensure quality of message Trainer accreditation  Peer approval  Details of training experience –Currently 134 trainers

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June 2010 Location of accredited trainers (Current; increase in Y2) Taiwan – 8 Australia – 1 Japan –

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June GILDA t-Infrastructure GILDA is now one VO of the EGEE production infrastructure Availability and reliability of sites over 90% GILDA CA inserted in EugridPMA bundle 13 site ~1100 cpu

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June GILDA t-Infrastructure Available for grid training – 24/7 Bookable for training events (also for commercial events) –Year 1: 85 events –Year 2: 84 events Available for application prototyping and porting –Applications can be migrated to scientific VOs Documentation and facilities offered at different levels –Example:

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June Digital library - updates Improved Search & Filter New eLearning modules Rebranding Contains now over 6900 learning resources! (>100 videos) All these are available for NGIs! (Licence: Creative Commons)

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June 2010 Issues to resolve in EGI Not all the NGIs have accredited trainers –Are these countries self-sufficient in terms of training? Keeping trainer registry up to date –Not all the accredited trainers are in the people registry –How and when to modify/remove a trainer registration? Maintenance of content in Digital library Keeping the critical number of sites in the training VO –How to accept short-lived training certificates issued by different NGIs? Virtual Research Community proposals not funded but scientific communities need specialised training –Improve cooperation between NGI training groups and scientific groups 17

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review June Summary 185 training events delivered, and with wider geographical coverage than anticipated, well above target metrics Support services continuously enhanced during EGEE-III, in response to need for greater scalability and usability Expanding trainer base in NGIs to ensure sustainable training in EGI Training infrastructure services are operated by EGI as „NGI Global tasks”