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TG QM Arlington: GIG User Support Coordination Plan. Sergiu Sanielevici, GIG Area Director for User Support Coordination sergiu@psc.edu. GIG User Support Coordination Tasks.
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TG QM Arlington: GIG User Support Coordination Plan Sergiu Sanielevici, GIG Area Director for User Support Coordination sergiu@psc.edu
GIG User Support Coordination Tasks During Q2 2007, we have built upon our highly successful user support strategy to define and begin executing the following tasks for Project Years 3 to 5: • User Champion Coordination • Assign and coordinate contact teams for each xRAC user group • Ensure and coordinate cross-site user support • Develop and support cross-site workflows • Coordinate integration of Track 2 systems into TeraGrid Extreme Scalability RAT Recommends New Working Group
GIG User Support Coordination Tasks (2) • ASTA Program Coordination • Coordinate outreach to applicants and preparations for xRAC review of ASP requests • Coordinate development of work plans for recommended projects • Coordinate execution and reporting • Coordinate User Requirements Gathering • Conduct annual user surveys • Extract user needs from contact team interactions • Provide primary analysis of usage and feedback patterns
User Facing Projects Updates and Planning
Accomplishments • Documentation • CTSS V4 Documentation Rollout • CTSS/MDS Registry Application • http://www.teragrid.org/userinfo/software/ctss.php • Website • Visualization content integrated under User Support • Secured commercial hosting provider to provide additional redundancy to website and mail lists • Starting to publish more operational metrics • http://www.teragrid.org/about/opinfo.html • TeraGrid Knowledge Base • Over 33,000 hits into the KB just in the 2nd Quarter • Started integration in user portal
Accomplishments (cont.) • User Portal • New Allocations & Training Area • POPS integration started • Interactive Remote Visualization & Vis Gateway Integration (https://viz.teragrid.org:8443/gridsphere)
Future Plans • TeraGrid-Wide (TGUP) Automated Password Resets • Goal: Quick and easy password resets of the TeraGrid-Wide password automatically via User Portal. • Current situation: • User must contact help desk and have initial TeraGrid paperwork for default password • If user does not have initial paperwork, user must wait to receive paperwork with default password • Convenient password resets without human intervention • Reduce burden on operation staff by eliminating portal password reset requests • Users can rely on TeraGrid-Wide password to authenticate to all RP systems
Future Plans • Internet Framework Evaluation • Goal: Increase TeraGrid’s web presence via the User Portal, Web Site and Gateways to enable a more uniform look and feel, while facilitating user personalization & customization. • Evaluating framework APIs similar to MyYahoo, iGoogle, Netvibes • Capabilities to customize and personalize user views using various widgets, RSS feeds, calendar, news, etc. based on user preference. • Web site, TeraGrid User Portal, Science Gateways can all benefit by using the same web framework and developing to a single uniform API • Leverage network of developers. RPs, Gateways, and Users can contribute ‘widgets’ to a public repository that users can plug into their custom view of the TeraGrid web site/user portal/gateways.
Future Plans • POPS Integration • Goal: Seamless integrate of POPS into the User Portal • Once user authenticates to TeraGrid User Portal they can connect transparently to POPS within the user portal • No additional authentication required • Auto-population of form fields to make it easier to fill out allocation requests • File Manager • Goal: Interactive file management capabilities in the User Portal • User will have the ability to upload, download, and transfer files between TeraGrid systems