1. Action U-E-5 Technical Coordination – User Technical Support
Ignacio Blanquer
Valencia University of Technology

2. Action U-E-5 Technical Support
Action U-E-5 from bidding mapped to part TNA3.4 (p.p. 58 of the EGI Proposal)
Coordination IBERGRID (Spain+Portugal NGIs) .
Participants (20)
UPT, UCY, CESNET, KIT, CSIC, CNRS, GRNET, KFKI, TCD, IUCC, IMCS UL, NCF, SIGMA, CYFRONET, LIP, IPB, ARNES, UI SAV, TUBITAK ULAKBIM, STFC.
Objectives
To set up or integrate the platforms for the registering of fundamental information and tools for user communities.
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3. Services And Approaches
Application Portal.
Training Database.
VO Services.
Approaches
Act as a bridge between services and User Communities.
Try to continue the services preserving the experience and the content.
If convenient, increase the functionality or develop new frameworks to enrich its functionality according to the proposal.
Provide useful services to the community and avoid replication.
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4. Training and Application Database
Goal of the task NA3.4
To ensure the continuity of the tools for the collection of data.
Goal of the task NA3.2-3
Operate and populate the information.
Promotion and dissemination of the training events.
Training implemented in the frame of EGEE (NESC)
Training Repository
Training Events
Application database provided in EGEE (GRNET)
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5. VO Services VO Services (VO Gateway) - Targets Users General Public
Beginners
Ensure the access to core services (e.g. VOMS) through SA1.
Links to main services (VOMS, file catalogue, workload managers, infrastructure status, tickets).
Links to configuration, documentation and training repositories.
Advanced Users
VO Grid Portals.
Disseminate expertise on the application field.
Application developers
Software repository.
Disseminate expertise on the technology.
General Public
VO description, success stories, groups and projects involved, Usage Procedures.
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6. Example of VO Portals
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7. Spanish Network for e-Science - wiki http://www.e-ciencia.es/wiki
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8. Spanish Network for e-Science Support Groups
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9. VO Services Core services provision under Operation tasks (SA1)
VOMS server. Provided by SA1.
VO Database. Supported by JRA1.2.3.
VO management tasks by the VO manager.
Potential Role of NA4.3
Set up VO portals for integrating the links and the information to all the services available for a specific community.
Consolidate information from different sources and provide a framework for VO community pages.
Provide more advanced tools, such as VO Grid Portals
If the community can agree on a single solution.
In coordination with SA2 / SA3, provide links to software components, application, dashboards, etc.
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10. VO Services Objectives and Benefit
Provide a single information point, especially for beginners.
Enhance the “community view” of users.
Provide a common link for broader dissemination.
Inventory of competences.
Use a moderated-wiki model for the content management
Foster dynamicity without compromising quality of content.
Only registered users can add content.
VO managers can approve content and update community general pages.
UCST can act as global moderator.
Reduce overhead on the management of data.
Improve individual users’ visibility.
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11. Grid Portals – Scientific Gateway
Potential additional services to be linked (extracted from Teragrid)
Workflows.
Visualization software and hardware.
Resource discovery.
Job execution services.
Access to data collections.
Domain-specific computational applications.
Data analysis and movement tools.
However resources are small, so it is fundamental to focus on concrete common tools
Be very precise on selecting the most useful tools. ?
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12. Actions to be performed by TNA3.4 in coordination
ExternalVO Comm.
Provide content to VO Services
Customises and provides tools for applications, training and software comps.
Provide tools
TNA3.3
SA1
TNA3.4
Integrates GOCDB
Integrates
VOMS info
JRA1.2.3
SA3
Links to
Dashboard, applications, components
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