1. CHAIN PMB Meeting - Taipei, 22.03.2011
Technical program: progress & issues Roberto Barbera University of Catania and INFN
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2. Outline CHAIN technical work plan Progress (on Africa)
Issues to be discussed
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3. Deliverables & Milestones

4. CHAIN in the web
documents.chain-project.eu
agenda.chain-project.eu
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5. CHAIN in the mail Editorial Board (the original one) PMB TB EB
PMB TB EB
Project Office
Regions
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6. 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

7. Network and Grid: Asia TEIN3 as International Network Backbone
At least one ROC: APROC (registered in the EGI GOCDB)
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8. Network and Grid: Latin America
RedClara as International Network Backbone
Two ROCs: IGALC and ROC-LA (both registered in the EGI GOCDB)
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9. 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 (
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10. 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.
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11. Africa ROC GOCDB (http://gocdb.africa-grid.org)
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12. User support Asia and Latin America use the EGI instance of GGUS:
Africa ROC User Support system (based on xGUS) available:
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13. 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
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14. 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.
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15. 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).
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16. 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 ?
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17. Thank you very much ! Any questions ?
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