1. Agenda Welcome Project Status (inc. Activity Reports)
Project Extension
AOB
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2. Progress report PQ10-11 Collaboration Board Catherine Gater
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3. Project Status
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4. Project Effort PQ10&11 MGT WP1 2.668,0 18.5 21,1 88% 93% COORD WP2
Type
Work Package
Worked Hours Funded
Worked PM Funded
Committed PM
Achieved PQ11 PM %
Achieved PQ10 PM %
MGT
WP1
2.668,0
18.5
21,1
88%
93%
COORD
WP2
10.906,7
79,6
112,5
71%
77%
SUPPORT
WP4
43.753,5
321,9
311,1
103%
102%
WP5
4.290,0
31,8
31,6
101%
85%
WP6
7.453,4
53,7
62,6
86%
87%
RTD
WP7
2.899,3
21,7
21,5
100%
Total
71.970,8
527,2
560,4
94%
Low effort in NA2 due to NILs related NGI activity
Low effort in SA2 due to cloud task under reporting
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5. PY3 Cost Statements
Timetable will be posted at
Deadline for justification of resources is 31 May
Submission before the review, with preliminary statement presented at the review
Proposed PQ9 and PQ10 payments submitted to EC for review
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6. Amendment #3 Submitted… but we broke NEF again!
Rationalization of TSA1.7 (TPM) and TSA2.5 (DMSU) into a single middleware and operational tools support task in TSA1.7 (Global tasks)
Creation of a new task TSA2.6 for integrating institutional private clouds into EGI (National Task)
Additional effort for coordination of staged rollout activities
Moving coordination of documentation to EGI.eu (TSA1.8 Global Task)
Moving coordination of integration activities to EGI.eu (TSA1.3 Global Task)
CERN takes on SA3 work in TSA previously identified as INFN
Mini-projects: Reallocation of unspent funds into a new WP8 with 11 short-term tasks (max 12 months in duration)
accelerating strategic objectives of community & coordination, operational infrastructure and the establishment of virtual research environments.
Submitted… but we broke NEF again!
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7. Highlights Planning for EGICF 2013 and EGITF 2013
EGI-InSPIRE 3rd Review of PY3
June 25th and 26th in Amsterdam
Input provided to H2020 consultations
EGI/XSEDE: Collaborative Use Case Call
Three use cases have started new collaboration (WeNMR, computational chemistry, RADICAL)
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8. Highlights EGI Champions Established NGI International Liaisons
Process for selection & travel debugged
Need to develop support material & processes
NGI International Liaisons
Still an issue with some partners on resourcing
But when it works it works very well
Good vehicle for building consensus
Mini-projects DoW amendment submitted
Need to see how this dynamic model works
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9. VTs: Bring Experts Together
Scientific Gateway Primer
Scientific Publications Repository
GPGPU Requirements within EGI
Inter NGI Usage reporting
Scientific Discipline Classification
ELIXIR and EGI
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10. VTs: Funded Peer Reviewed
Virtual Research Environments
Massive Open Online Course Development
Evaluation of LifeRay Modules
Building and Using Operational Cloud Infrastructure
Providing OCCI support for arbitrary Cloud Management Frameworks
CDMI Support in Cloud Management Frameworks
Dynamic Deployment for OCCI Compliant Clouds
Automatic Deployment and Execution of Applications Using Clouds
Transforming Scientific Research Platforms to Exploit Cloud Capabilities
Operational Tools
VO Administration Portal
A new approach to computing Availability and Reliability Reports
GOCDB Scoping Extensions and Management Interface
Tools for automating applying for and allocating federated resources
Small projects lasting 6-12 months
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11. Policy Council policy MoU Demonstrating Excellence in Science
Pay per use for EGI Resources
OpenAIRE Collaboration for Scientific Publications
MoU
DANTE: Signed
AP Region: Ready to be signed
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12. Highlights Accreditation of EGI CSIRT as a TRUSTED Introducer
EUDAT Data Management Collaboration
Data sharing and medium term access
Uniform data access
ScalaLife - PRACE
Monitoring and Resource discovery
Federated cloud task force
Running 4 science demos
Integrated into the production environment
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13. Priority Issues Developing our human networks
NILs, EGI Champions, NGI Operations
Build and develop the platform model
Core: EUDAT & RIs (e.g. ELIXIR)
Cloud: Improve user experience & robustness
Collaboration: Requirements for new projects
End of EMI and IGE projects
How to handle software coordination & integration
Future PT activity & need not clear
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14. Biggest Issue There will be no new EC money until Nov 2014
Project due to finish April 2014
Certainly an issue for EGI.eu and EGI Global Tasks
Funding gap between end of EGI-InSPIRE and start of H2020 projects (Nov 2014)
Project extension of 6 months being discussed with the PMB
EGI Council discussing 2015 funding levels
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15. Questions?
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