1. EGI InSPIRE SA3 – Workplan Jamie.Shiers@cern.ch Experiment Support Group, CERN IT June 2010, Amsterdam

2. Overview Focus by activity on the EGI InSPIRE workplan, structure, partners. What are the issues for the next 6 months? –Kick-start WP; broaden collaboration; meet goals; –User community coordination (find VRC operation model without ROSCOE) What do you require from EGI.eu and from other activities? –Remote participation possibilities (audio+video); –Clarity on procedures (we are learning…) –M&D: formal procedure(s) & timeline(s) –Liaison with NGIs and international coordination –Completion of formalities (contract) to permit hiring… www.eu-egi.org2

3. Progress Activity managers / [deputies] confirmed Contacts for specific tasks / sub-tasks First partner con-call held Tuesdaycon-call Plan for future calls & F2F meetings agreed Presentations of workplans & forthcoming Milestones & Deliverables All updated on wiki and / or mailing lists www.eu-egi.org3

4. Partner Contacts www.eu-egi.org4 PartnerContacts KIT-GHorst Schwichtenberg, [horst.schwichtenberg@scai.fraunhofer.de] CSIC Isabel Campos Plasencia [isabel@campos-it.es] CSC Pekka Lehtovuori [Pekka.Lehtovuori@csc.fi] CNRSJohan Montagnat [johan@i3s.unice.fr] TCDBrian Coghlan [coghlan@cs.tcd.ie], John Walsh [John.Walsh@cs.tcd.ie]) INFNLaura Perini [laura.perini@mi.infn.it] CYFRONETAlex Kusznir [a.kusznir@cyfronet.pl] ?? ARNES IJS Andrej Filipcic [andrej.filipcic@ijs.si] UI SAVLadislav Hluchy [ladislav.hluchy@savba.sk] CERNJamie.Shiers@cern.ch], Maria Girone [Maria.Girone@cern.ch] EMBLPeter Rice [pmr@ebi.ac.uk] AllInspire-sa3-partners@mailman.egi.eu

5. Task Contacts www.eu-egi.org5 TaskPurposeContact / Leader TSA3.1 (CERN)ManagementJamie Shiers (50%) TSA3.2Shared Services & Tools 1.Dashboards 2.Applications 3.Services 4.Workflows & Schedulers 5.MPI Jamie Shiers TSA3.3Services for HEPMaria Girone TSA3.4Services for LSJohan Montagnat TSA3.5Services for A&AClaudio Vuerli TSA3.6Services for ESHorst Schwichtenberg

6. Mailing Lists 1.Task leaders –Push for work-plan updates; 2.Partner contacts –Push for timesheets; 3.Everybody –Work; In a ~20FTE WP this is surely enough, although I would prefer to separate the roles as above… –i.e. not collapse further for the “reasons” above… www.eu-egi.org6

7. Wiki Updated based on DoW and comments / corrections from partners Intend to track on-going activities through the wiki, with cross-links into agendas Long experience with pre-reports (filled in by “partners” prior to meetings) which streamline the meetings themselves as well as reporting and dissemination Peer pressure will helpfully encourage all to actively participate… Wiki pages per (sub-)task created so that activity reports can be provided as input to ~monthly meetings www.eu-egi.org7

8. Indico Indico category created (thanks!) – will be used for all WP con-calls and propose that tasks also use it for internal discussions (transparency) Will follow standard model for use of document server, wiki, Indico etc for maintaining all work-related items www.eu-egi.org8

9. Timesheets etc. Each member of staff that works in the project, or supervises someone in the project through PPT MUST have an EGI SSO account username that can be obtained from https://www.egi.eu/sso/email. https://www.egi.eu/sso/email For each work package the following information is needed for each staff: –The EGI SSO username of the individual. –The partner ID for their employer (see table below). –Their supervisor and their deputy supervisor within their own organisation who will be validating their timesheet. Provide the EGI SSO username. –The task(s) that the person will be working on within EGI-InSPIRE –The amount of time (PM) that the person will be spending on each task –What the person will be doing with that task. This should be clear and informative and will go into MS102. Hopefully this will go quicker than getting contacts / e-mail addresses… www.eu-egi.org9

10. Milestone 1 The key upcoming milestone (CSC) is to establish the HUC contact points (essentially done) and the support model (discussed at Tuesday’s con-call). Milestone due now – essential also to kick- start project work (as opposed to continuations of previous workplans). Therefore top priority to agree on and complete this milestone asap… www.eu-egi.org10

11. EGI TF & Deliverables Propose that each task & sub-task present status at EGI TF This will completely fill the currently allocated slots – suggest additional sessions to allow other projects to also present –EnviroGRIDS, ULICE, Partner, …. We are discussing with them on this basis… www.eu-egi.org11

12. 12 Participant Number Participant Short name / Lead Beneficiary WP 6 (SA3): Services for Heavy User Communities Person Months per Task Person Months per Effort Type Total Person Months TSA3.1TSA3.2 +F+CCMST TSA3.3 HEP TSA3.4 LS TSA3.5 A&A TSA3.6 ES General 10KIT-G27 Fraunhofer27 12CSIC45 CSIC27 CIEMT18 13CSC18 14CNRS305383 19TCD21 INFN366030126 INFN60 UNIPG999 SPACI27 28CYFRONET666 31ARNES333 32UI SAV18 35CERN18120203341 37EMBL182644 TOTALS18315263793027732

13. Task 1: Activity Management CERN – 18PM. With relatively few exceptions, everything that I do is strongly couple to Services for HUCs –Sections in IT-ES match closely to activities in WP6: the teams benefit from being larger than those purely involved in this WP. 136/732 PM dedicated to non-HEP services (LS, A&A, ES) Expect these to be relatively autonomous – main effort will be in stressing project goals and trying to find synergies and commonalities across disciplines This will come “naturally” in TSA3.2, in which all disciplines are involved www.eu-egi.org13

14. Task 2: Shared Services & Tools Effort in this task spread over many partners and activities – risk is to splinter into uncoordinated work Particularly important that this does not happen – requires transparency in reporting and the setting of priorities Regular reporting will help this: important that everyone understands from the start that this is required www.eu-egi.org14

15. Task 3: Services for HEP Regular discussions with Computing Management of the LHC experiments; specific responsibilities wrt WLCG service & operations Discussions with INFN on regular basis, agreeing priorities and profiles for hires Long-term sustainability plan discussed since prior to project submission – includes: –Support from the collaborations themselves; –“Core support” from host laboratory; –Support from partners (e.g. Tier1/2 sites and regional projects). www.eu-egi.org15

16. WP6: “HEP” Manpower TSA1.1Management18PMJamie Shiers (staff) TSA3.2.1Dashboards60PMJulia Andreeva (staff) Edward Karavakis (FELL) 1 July 2010 TSA3.2.2Ganga / Diane60PMMassimo Lamanna (staff) LD / FELL TSA3.3HEP: CERN203PMMaria Girone (staff) Fernando Barreiro Megino (FELL) 1 June 2010 Alexander Loth (DOCT) 1 June 2010 Raffaello Trentadue (FELL) 1 July 2010 LD / FELL slots TSA3.3HEP: INFN60PM2 slots ?2011?  Constraints:  341 PM (currently at 342)  EUR1,868,618  Project (task?) end date 16

17. Task 4: Services for LS VRC coordination – VO management, File Catalog, Data encryption, VO monitoring and support provision. Molecular biology core resources – Up-to-date EBI databases provision and interface WISDOM Production Environment – Sustainable bioinformatics platform Across HUGs collaborations – CERN involved in a variety of “physics for health projects” – as with ES later, intend to link these activities in seek synergies www.eu-egi.org17

18. Task 4: Services for A&A Link from HEP to A&A through science – natural area for increased collaboration www.eu-egi.org18

19. Task 5: Services for ES In addition to what is funded through this project, CERN is involved in EnviroGRIDS (Black Sea water basin) – intend to link these and other communities with whom we have contacts (WMO etc.) www.eu-egi.org19

20. Overview Focus by activity on the EGI InSPIRE workplan, structure, partners. What are the issues for the next 6 months? What do you require from EGI.eu and from other activities? www.eu-egi.org20

21. Summary Some delay in establishing contact names but now up and running Recruitment well-advanced at CERN: several candidates selected and 2 already in place – more in July and remainder after summer Activities for next quarter+ will feed into EGI TF Need for a check-point at year-end? www.eu-egi.org21