EMI 2010 All Hands Meeting

22 Nov 2010, 09:00 → 24 Nov 2010, 18:30 Europe/Prague

Hotel Golf, Prague

Alberto Di Meglio (CERN), Ales Krenek (MASARYK UNIVERSITY, BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC), Zdenek Sustr (CESNET)

The EMI 2010 All Hands Meeting, hosted by CESNET, will be held in Prague on 22-24 November 2010. For venue, accommodation and other logistics, go to http://www.metacentrum.cz/en/events/emi-2010.html .

Registration fee: The registration fee is 30 EUR to be paid in cash on-site. This covers the conference facilities, coffee breaks and Tuesday 23/11 lunch.

Side meetings: Monday 22/11 morning and Wednesday 24/11 afternoon side-meetings may be accommodated. Contact emi-prague@cern.ch for details.

Monday 22 November

09:00 → 11:45 Side meeting: Cloud Computing Task Force meeting

Conveners: Mr Eric Yen (Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre), Mohammad Shahbaz Memon (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA))

09:00 Cloud developments at NIIFI

Speaker: Zsombor Nagy (NIIFI)

Slides NIIFI-cloud.pdf

09:15 WnoDeS and OCCI

Speaker: Davide Salomoni (INFN-CNAF)

Slides solagna-EMIAH-2010-v1_1.pdf solagna-EMIAH-2010-v1_1.pptx

09:30 Cloud Projects: StratusLab and Venus-C

Speaker: Mohammad Shahbaz Memon (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA))

Slides 2010_11_22_EMI_CCTF_AHM_Prague.pdf 2010_11_22_EMI_CCTF_AHM_Prague.pptx

09:45 Coffee Break

10:05 Security Challenges, eScience Applications

Speaker: Mr Eric Yen (Academia Sinica Grid Computing)

Slides Eric-EMI-Cloud-20101124.pdf Eric-EMI-Cloud-20101124.ppt

10:20 EMI Cloud Computing Task Force Discussion

This time slot covers, - General task highlights - Integrating Hydra with Cloud resources - ARGUS-EES cloud specific development ideas: VM Management and OCCI Support - Requirements based on the existing tools - Actions and Decisions on Milestones

Speakers: Mr Eric Yen (Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre), Mohammad Shahbaz Memon (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA))

Slides EMI-CloudTF-Summary-20101124.pdf EMI-CloudTF-Summary-20101124.ppt

09:00 → 10:30 Side meeting: EMI Messaging Workshop

Conveners: Mr Laurence Field (CERN), Lionel Cons (CERN)

09:00 Introduction

Speakers: Mr Laurence Field (CERN), Lionel Cons (CERN)

09:10 Crash course on messaging

Speaker: Lionel Cons (CERN)

Slides msg-crash-course.pdf

09:40 EMI & messaging

Speaker: Mr Laurence Field (CERN)

Slides EMI_AH_Messaging.pdf EMI_AH_Messaging.ppt

09:50 Use cases (part 1)

Presentation of the uses cases by the different EMI Product Teams.

Slides

• EMI_AH_Infosys.pdf
• EMI_AH_Infosys.ppt
• EMI_Task_Force_Service_Monitoring_and_Remote_Management.odp
• EMI_Task_Force_Service_Monitoring_and_Remote_Management.pdf
• lb-msg.pdf
• Syncat_EMINov2010_Msg.pdf
• Syncat_EMINov2010_Msg.ppt

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 12:00 Side meeting: EMI Messaging Workshop

Conveners: Laurence Field (CERN), Lionel Cons (CERN)

10:50 Use cases (part 2)

Presentation of the uses cases by the different EMI Product Teams.

11:30 Discussions

13:30 → 13:45 Welcome and logistics

Conveners: Dr Alberto Di Meglio (CERN), Mr Ales Krenek (MASARYK UNIVERSITY, BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC), Zdenek Sustr (Unknown-Unknown-Unknown)

13:45 → 14:30 Project status / NA1

Convener: Dr Alberto Di Meglio (CERN)

13:45 Project Status

Speaker: Dr Alberto Di Meglio (CERN)

Slides EMI_AH_NA1_20101122.pdf EMI_AH_NA1_20101122.ppt

14:05 DCI Collaboration Program

Speaker: Dr Alberto Di Meglio (CERN)

14:20 Goals of the meeting

Speaker: Dr Alberto Di Meglio (CERN)

14:30 → 16:00 NA2

Conveners: Dr Diana Cresti (INFN), Emidlo Giorgio (Unknown)

14:30 NA2 Activities status

Speaker: Dr Diana Cresti (INFN)

Slides EMI_NA2_Report_22112010_v1.1.pdf EMI_NA2_Report_22112010_v1.1.ppt

14:45 Exploitation

Speaker: Dr Diana Cresti (INFN)

15:00 Training issues

Speaker: Kathryn Cassidy

Slides EMI_all-hands-training.pdf EMI_all-hands-training.ppt

15:15 Web site issues

Speaker: Andrea Caltroni (Unknown)

15:30 Open Discussion

Speakers: Dr Diana Cresti (INFN), Emidlo Giorgio (Unknown)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:00 SA2

Convener: Alberto Aimar (CERN)

16:30 Status and Brief Overview

Speaker: A. Aimar

Slides EMI_AHM_SA2_Overview_aimar_v3.pdf EMI_AHM_SA2_Overview_aimar_v3.pptx

16:45 Guidelines and QA Process

Speaker: M. Alandes Pradillo

Slides EMI_AHM_SA22_report_Guidelines_v2.pdf EMI_AHM_SA22_report_Guidelines_v2.pptx

17:05 QA Metrics

Speaker: E. Kenny

Slides SA2.3_Metrics_for_AHM_in_Prague-v3.pdf SA2.3_Metrics_for_AHM_in_Prague-v3.pptx

17:25 Tools and QA Reports

Speaker: L. Dini

Slides EMI-TOOLS-HHM-2010-Prague_v4.pdf EMI-TOOLS-HHM-2010-Prague_v4.ppt

17:45 Certification and Integration Testbeds

Speaker: J.Cernak

Slides EMI_AHM_22-24-Nov-2010_EMI_Integration_Testbed_v3.pptx

18:00 → 19:30 JRA1 Cross Area Discussions

Conveners: Dr Balázs Kónya (LUND UNIVERSITY, NORDUGRID PROJECT), Morris Riedel (Unknown-Unknown-Unknown)

18:00 Status and plans concerning the legacy GSI replacement (mostly discussion)

Slides GSI-EMI-AH.pdf This talk was not presented during the session due to shortage of time

18:30 Delegation method(s) within EMI

Slides

• EMI_All_Hands_2010_10_22_Delegation_methods.odp
• EMI_All_Hands_2010_10_22_Delegation_methods.pdf
• SRMSEC-security.pdf

19:00 ARGUS: The EMI authorization solution: integration plans, deployment and usage scenarios

Slides 20101122-EMI_AllHands-JRA1_Argus.pdf 20101122-EMI_AllHands-JRA1_Argus.ppt

Tuesday 23 November

08:30 → 10:15 SA1

Convener: Francesco Giacomini (INFN)

08:30 SA1 Report

Speaker: Francesco Giacomini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))

Slides sa1.pdf

08:45 User Support

Speaker: Mathilde Romberg (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA))

Slides AHM2010-SA1.5.pdf

09:00 Quality Control

Speaker: Giuseppe Giacomo Fiameni (Consortium of Universities)

Slides

• SA1_QC_All_Hands_2010_II.pdf
• SA1_QC_All_Hands_2010_II.pptx
• SA1_QC_All_Hands_2010.pdf
• SA1_QC_All_Hands_2010.pptx

09:15 Status of EMI-0

Speaker: Doina Cristina Aiftimiei (Unknown-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides AHM_EMI_0.pdf AHM_EMI_0.ppt

09:30 Towards EMI-1

Speaker: Doina Cristina Aiftimiei (Unknown-Unknown-Unknown)

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 12:45 JRA1

Convener: Morris Riedel (Unknown-Unknown-Unknown)

10:45 Status of JRA1 (20 min)

Deliverable & Milestone Status; Updates of tasks; Updates of the numerous task forces; Accounting task force; Virtualization Task Force; Cloud Task Force; Remote Service Management Task Force

Speaker: Morris Riedel

Slides 2010-11-23_JRA1_StatusAndPlans_v1.pdf

11:10 Overview of the EMI development objectives (15 min)

EMI Technical Objectives (from DNA1.3.1) and components in context

Speaker: Balazs Konya

Slides tech-objectives-emiallhands.pdf tech-objectives-emiallhands.pptx

11:30 Development and Test Plan for our EMI-I Release (15 min)

Presentation of the current status of the development and test plan for EMI-1 (Morris); General remarks for the EMI-1 release (Cristina)

Speakers: Cristina Aiftimiei, Morris Riedel

Slides 2010-11-23_JRA1_DevAndTestPlan_v1.pdf

11:50 Messaging in EMI (10 min)

Highlights of the outcome of the messaging meeting on Monday and pointers to the messaging guidelines for developers.

Speaker: Laurence Field

Slides EMI_AH_Messaging.pdf EMI_AH_Messaging.ppt

12:05 The EMI Security Architecture (15 min)

Overview presentation of the current and expected security architecture within EMI.

Speaker: John White

Slides SecArch_v0.2.pdf

12:25 JRA1 Questions & Answers - Discussions (20 min)

Discussions & Follow-up plans for pending issues and questions; Topics include but are not limited to EMI-1 release, call for Service Monitoring Task Force members, relationships with other tasks (SA1/SA2); TD & JRA1

Speaker: Morris Riedel

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:30 Compute Area

Convener: Marco Cecchi (Unknown)

13:45 Welcome and introduction

Speaker: Marco Cecchi (Unknown)

13:55 Consolidation of MPI support of EMI compute elements: a uniform MPI user experience

Speaker: Enol Fernandez

Slides mpi-status.pdf

14:20 Early ideas about compute CLI consolidation

Speaker: Bjorn Hagemeier

Slides 2010-11-23_AHM.pdf

14:40 Discussion: interoperability and harmonization plans in view of EMI-I

13:45 → 15:40 Data Area

Convener: Dr Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)

13:45 Introduction and organizational issues

Speaker: Mr Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)

Slides

• 20101123-emi-data-ahm-summary.pdf
• 20101123-emi-data-ahm-summary.pptx
• 20101123-emi-data-ahm-welcome-v2.pdf

14:00 Early ideas about LFC and SE synchronization

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

Slides Syncat_EMINov2010_Tech-v2.pdf Syncat_EMINov2010_Tech-v2.ppt

14:15 Storage Accounting

Speaker: Dr Ralph Mueller-pfefferkorn (UNI-Dresden)

Slides StorageAccounting_AllHandsNov2010_RMP.ppt

14:35 Transition from SRM (httpg) to SRM (https) and delegation Issues

Speaker: Dr Millar Paul (DESY)

Slides 20101123-SRMSEC-paul-v1.odp 20101123-SRMSEC-paul-v1.pdf

14:55 GLUE 2.0 Working group report

Speaker: Dr Oliver Keeble (CERN)

Slides GLUE20_EMIAH_OliverKeeble-v1.pdf

13:45 → 15:30 Infrastructure Area

Convener: Mr Laurence Field (CERN)

13:45 EMI Infrastructure Area

Speaker: Laurence Field (CERN)

Slides EMI_AH_IA.pdf EMI_AH_IA.ppt

14:00 Information Services in EMI

Slides InfoServices_in_EMI.pdf InfoServices_in_EMI.ppt

14:15 EMI Registry: requirements, and early design

Speakers: Mr Laurence Field (CERN), Shiraz Memon

Slides

• Registry_Requirements.pdf
• Registry_Requirements.ppt
• slides

14:30 Dicussion: Consolidation Plans

13:45 → 15:50 Security Area

Convener: John White (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)

13:55 Common authentication library, emi_authlib

Speaker: Krzysztof Benedyczak (Uniwersytet Warszawski)

Slides

• slides.odp
• slides.pdf
• slides.pdf

15:00 GSI Removal

Slides GSI-EMI-AH.pdf GSI-EMI-AH.ppt

15:30 → 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 → 17:30 Compute Area

Convener: Marco Cecchi (Unknown)

15:50 Overview of the ARC submission chain

Speaker: Martin Skou (Infoserv)

Slides libarcclient-Matchmaking-Job-Submission-and-Infosys-Modeling-in-ARC.pdf

16:10 CREAM computing element meets EMI

Speaker: Dr Luigi Zangrando (INFN)

Slides CREAM_report_AH.odp CREAM_report_AH.pdf

16:30 EMI Execution Service Interface

Speaker: Dr Luigi Zangrando (INFN)

Slides EMI_ES_AH.odp EMI_ES_AH.pdf

16:50 Discussion: EMI Execution Service, definition and implementation plans

15:50 → 17:30 Data Area

Convener: Dr Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)

16:20 Early ideas about data access library consolidation (emi_datalib)

Speaker: Mr Zsombor Nagy (NIIF)

Slides Data-client-consolidation-zsombor-v2.pdf

15:50 → 17:30 Infrastructure Area

Convener: Mr Laurence Field (CERN)

15:50 Service Monitoring and Managment in EMI

Speaker: Mr Laurence Field (CERN)

Slides Service_Monitoring_and_Management.pdf Service_Monitoring_and_Management.ppt

16:00 Service monitoring: EGI requirements, short and middle term plans

Speaker: Emir Imamagic (SRCE)

Slides EMI-AHM-EGI-monitoring-requirements.pdf EMI-AHM-EGI-monitoring-requirements.pptx

16:10 Service Management Task Force Report

Speaker: Milad Daivandy (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA))

Slides

• EMI_Task_Force_Service_Monitoring_and_Remote_Management.odp
• EMI_Task_Force_Service_Monitoring_and_Remote_Management.pdf
• EMI_Task_Force_Service_Monitoring_and_Remote_Management.pdf

16:20 Dicussion: Service Monitoring and Managment

15:50 → 17:40 Security Area

Convener: John White (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)

15:50 EMI SAML profile(s), SAML "strategy" and envisioned usage

Speaker: Andrea Ceccanti (Unknown)

Slides common-saml-profile.pdf saml-work.pdf

16:40 First Principles Vulnerability Assessment

Speaker: Elisa Heymann (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

Slides Heymann-EMI-Nov-2010.pdf Heymann-EMI-Nov-2010.pptx

17:00 Simplified management of security credentials in EMI : The "AAI" plan

Speaker: John White White (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)

Slides AAI_Talk_v0.1.pdf

19:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Conference dinner: Vikarka Restaurant (http://vikarka.cz/en/); 40 EUR to be paid at registration.

Wednesday 24 November

09:00 → 10:40 Compute Area

Convener: Marco Cecchi (Unknown)

09:00 Evaluation and assessment of the role of messaging

Speaker: Michal Vocu

Slides VocuPresentation.pdf

09:20 Status of the build for the EMI compute components

09:00 → 10:40 Data Area

Convener: Dr Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)

09:00 The "file://" protocol support of EMI Storage Elements, the "NFS 4.1 approach"

Speaker: Mr Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)

Slides 20101123-emi-ahm-patrick-nfs41.pdf

09:20 UNICORE access to the gLite catalogue and SRM enabled storage

Speaker: Dr Christian Loeschen (TU-Dresden)

Slides AHM_UNICORE_presentation.pdf

09:30 Plans and actions to achieve a "consistent SRM implementation"

Speaker: Mr Patrick Fuhrmann (DESY)

Slides 20101123-emi-ahm-patrick-srmspec.pdf

09:00 → 10:40 Infrastructure Area

Convener: Mr Laurence Field (CERN)

09:00 EMI Accounting Task Force Report

Speaker: Dr John Gordon (STFC-RAL)

Slides EMI-Gordon-accounting.pdf EMI-Gordon-accounting.pptx

09:10 Messaging Report

Summary of Messaging Workshop

Speaker: Lionel Cons (CERN)

Slides EMI_AH_MessagingReport.pdf

09:30 Cloud Report

Speaker: Mohammad Shahbaz Memon (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA))

09:00 → 10:40 Security Area

Convener: John White (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)

09:00 VOMS status, plans, integration with EMI components: VOMS as the common EMI Attribute Authority Service solution

Speaker: Dr Vincenzo Ciaschini (INFN CNAF)

Slides VOMS-EMI-AH.pdf VOMS-EMI-AH.ppt

09:50 Common security attributes

Speaker: Valery Tschopp (SWITCH)

Paper Common XACML Profile Draft

Slides 20101124-EMI_AllHands-Common_XACML.pdf 20101124-EMI_AllHands-Common_XACML.ppt

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Technical Area Summaries and Conclusions

Conveners: Dr Alberto Di Meglio (CERN), Dr Balázs Kónya (LUND UNIVERSITY, NORDUGRID PROJECT)

11:00 Compute area summary

11:10 Data area summary

Slides 20101123-emi-data-ahm-summary.pdf 20101123-emi-data-ahm-summary.pptx

11:20 Security area summary

11:30 Infrastructure area summary

Slides EMI_AH_IA.pdf EMI_AH_IA.ppt

11:40 Cross-area topics summary

Slides jra1-cross-area.odp jra1-cross-area.pdf

13:30 → 14:50 JRA1

Convener: Morris Riedel (JUELICH)

13:30 Standardization - Update (15 min)

Short update of the JRA1 standardization task; review of the schedule of planned standard adoptions in EMI components; EGI Standard Expectations/Requirements

Speaker: Aleksandr Konstantinov

13:50 Integration/Interoperability - Update (15 min)

Short update of the JRA1 integration/interoperability task; review of the schedule of planned interop/integration activities in EMI components;interop and integration verification;

Speaker: André Giesler

14:10 Quality Control - Update (15 min)

Short update of the JRA1 quality control task; review of the schedule of planned testing strategies & test availability; understanding SA2/JRA1.8 quality criteria/metrics in-line with the EMI SQAP

Speaker: Andrea Ceccanti

14:30 JRA1 Development and Test Plan - Update (20 min)

Summary and debrief of the updates of the JRA1 Development and Test plan resulting from the AHM; component schedule updates that reflect reality and new insights from the AHM; usage of testbeds and transfer to SA1 for release management; clarification/follow-up plans of open issues towards developments and tests for EMI-1;

Speaker: Morris Riedel

13:30 → 14:50 Side meeting: NA2 Internal

Conveners: Dr Diana Cresti (INFN), Emidlo Giorgio (Unknown)

13:30 EGI User Forum : preliminary organisation of EMI sessions

Speaker: Emidlo Giorgio (Unknown)

14:00 Internal discussion about opened issues

Speaker: Dr Diana Cresti (INFN)

14:50 → 15:10 Coffee Break

15:10 → 18:30 Side meeting: ARC Consortia Coordination

Convener: Balazs Konya (LU)

15:10 Partner report: Oslo

Slides UIO-Reports-Prague-allhands.sxi

15:20 Partner report: Lund

15:30 Partner report: Copenhagen

Slides Partner-Reports-UCPH.odp Partner-Reports-UCPH.pdf

15:40 Partner report: Uppsala

15:50 Partner report: Kosice

16:00 Partner report: NIIF

Slides NIIFI_Partner-Reports-Prague-allhands.odp NIIFI_Partner-Reports-Prague-allhands.pdf

16:10 NA1: roles, responsibilities, rules, procedures from the ARC consortia point of view

Speaker: Dr Balázs Kónya (LUND UNIVERSITY, NORDUGRID PROJECT)

16:20 SA1: Maintenance, Releases, EMT, QC (testing), 3rd level support

Speakers: Anders Waananen (Niels Bohr Institute), Jon Kerr Nilsen (University of Oslo-Unknown-Unknown), Marek Kocan (Kosice), Dr Oxana Smirnova (LUND UNIVERSITY)

16:40 break

16:50 JRA1: Compute area (task forces, ARC CE, Compute CLI)

Speakers: Martin Skou (Infoserv), Dr Oxana Smirnova (LUND UNIVERSITY)

Slides JRA1-ARC-Comp.odp JRA1-ARC-Comp.pdf

17:05 JRA1: data area (data task forces, data libs, classic SE)

Speaker: Zsombor Nagy (Nemzeti Informacios Infrastruktura Fejlesztesi Intezet)

Slides arc-jra1-data.pdf

17:20 JRA1: security area (task forces, sec utils, HED sec.)

Speakers: Aleksandr Konstantinov (University of Helsinki), Anders Waananen (Niels Bohr Institute)

17:35 JRA1: infra area (messaging, accounting, clouds, monitoring, registry, LDAP infosys)

Speakers: Ivan Marton (NIIF), Mattias Ellert (Uppsala University)

17:50 JRA1: standardization

Speaker: Aleksandr Konstantinov (University of Helsinki)

Slides EMI_All_Hands_2010_10_24_Standardization__update.odp EMI_All_Hands_2010_10_24_Standardization__update.pdf

18:00 JRA1: QC (testing) and integration

Speaker: Dr Oxana Smirnova (LUND UNIVERSITY)

Slides JRA1-ARC-Int.pdf JRA1-ARC-Int.pptx

18:10 SA2: process definition, metrics reporting, reviews, testbeds

Speaker: Jozef Cernak (Pavol Jozef Safarik University)

18:20 NA2: dissemination, training, exploitation

Speakers: Farid Ould-Saada (Oslo University, Norway), Peter Stefan (Unknown)

Slides ARC_NA2.odp ARC_NA2.pdf

15:10 → 16:30 Side meeting: Argus PT Coordination

Convener: Valery Tschopp (SWITCH)

15:10 Status

Status of the current EMI release, XACML profiles, EES, ...

15:20 EES Integration

Discuss the integration of the EES within Argus

15:30 ARC and UNICORE Integration

Discuss the requirements for the ARC and UNICORE integration

15:50 Future Work

Discuss the future development for EMI 1 - XACML profiles for ARC and UNICORE - Changes required - ...

16:10 AOB