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1 st EGI CTA VT meeting

1 st EGI CTA VT meeting. 18 January 2013. C. Vuerli (INAF, Italy), N. Neyroud (CNRS/IN2P3/LAPP, France). Purpose of this meeting. Revision of the VT roadmap Identification of volunteers to lead the VT tasks Planning activities for tasks 1 and 2 Definition of: Schedule

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1 st EGI CTA VT meeting

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  1. 1st EGI CTA VT meeting 18 January 2013 C. Vuerli (INAF, Italy), N. Neyroud (CNRS/IN2P3/LAPP, France)

  2. Purpose of this meeting • Revision of the VT roadmap • Identification of volunteers to lead the VT tasks • Planning activities for tasks 1 and 2 • Definition of: • Schedule • F2F meetings and WebEx conferences • Administrative aspects (Richard McLennan) Fisrt EGI CTA Virtual Team meeting

  3. Virtual Teams in EGI • Goal • A flexible and dynamic means to rapidly bring together community members • They have a well-defined series of tasks to meet a specific goal to be achieved in a relatively short period of time • Focus • Increase the number of EGI users • Activity domains • Marketing & Communication • Strategic Planning and Policy Support • Community outreach and events for new users • Technical outreach and support to new communities Fisrt EGI CTA Virtual Team meeting

  4. Why a VT for CTA in EGI • EGI is interested to collaborate with one of the biggest astronomical ESFRI projects • An important Astronomical Community hooked through CTA • CTA can leverage on the EGI ecosystem to find a solution to its challenges • Some of the CTA challenges • Procurement of computing resources • Procurement of data storage resources • Easy user-friendly ways to get access and use them Fisrt EGI CTA Virtual Team meeting

  5. Possible solutions • Procurement of computing resources and data storage resources • Distributed computing resources based on different technologies (HPC, HTC, Clouds) could represent a possible solution • This is matter of the CTA computational model under preparation • Easy user-friendly ways to get access and use such resources • A SSO authentication and authorization system • Science Gateways • The CTA community is wide and trans-national and this implies non trivial issues to solve for the SSO system Fisrt EGI CTA Virtual Team meeting

  6. Status of the CTA VT • VT submitted for approval at the end of November 2012 • Approved by EGI in early December 2012 • Call for interest (for NGIs) closed at the end of December • Start on January 7th 2013 • End on July 7th 2013 • CTA VT mailing list: • vt-cta-study@mailman.egi.eu • Wiki page: • https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/VT_Technology_study_for_CTA Fisrt EGI CTA Virtual Team meeting

  7. VT startup phase • Preliminary restricted teleconference held on Jan 10th (Nadine, Gergely, Richard, Claudio) • Topics raised from the discussion • The creation of an identity federation is part of the VT activities (task 1) • Precondition requested by the SSO authentication system • This activity will leverage on the support from NGIs • During the first three months tasks 1 and 2 will run in parallel • Task 1 will span over the whole VT lifetime • Essential to involve all potential CTA end users • The users requirements gathering process will start from already existing user requirements documents… • …then, missing requirements related to SGs and SSO have to be identified through interactions with the CTA end users community • All people interested to join the VT are requested to register their name on the VT wiki page Fisrt EGI CTA Virtual Team meeting

  8. Goals of the Virtual Team Fisrt EGI CTA Virtual Team meeting

  9. Tasks of the Virtual Team Fisrt EGI CTA Virtual Team meeting

  10. Tasks of the Virtual Team Fisrt EGI CTA Virtual Team meeting

  11. Schedule and meetings D1.1 D1.2 D1.3 D2.1 D3.1 D4.1 Fisrt EGI CTA Virtual Team meeting

  12. Closing • Emerging issues and AOB • Next meeting • Date : Friday 8 February • Purpose: • Task 1 – Progress status of the creation of the VT social network and of the Identity federation for CTA • Task 2 – Progress status of the end users gathering process • Actions for the next meeting • A1 • Description: • In charge to: • A2 • Description: • In charge to: • A3 • Description: • In charge to: Fisrt EGI CTA Virtual Team meeting

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