Trip report: PSC02 Belgrade, 04-05 September 2008
Planning and progress of project Activities and community VOs were presented. Action points are established. Minutes of the meeting can be found at http://www.see-grid-sci.eu/engine/index.php?op=modload&modname=Downloads&action=downloadsviewfile&ctn=305&language=en
CERN contribution and tasks:
- Presentation:
- Slides about CERN activities within JRA1 were provided for the JRA1 presentation
- Action points involvements:
- Involvement in VO ASG
- Trainer volunteer activity
- no AP was directly assigned to CERN
Presentation reviews:
NA1:
- Technical execution plan - opening and closing
Presented by Ioannis Liabotis.
- Objectives and progress of Activities are summarized
- Pending Action Points were highlighted
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- NA1 general
Presented by Ognjem Prnjat
- Review of activities, milestones and deliverables
- Organizations of meetings - PSC03 meeting was scheduled, timeframe and location proposal was given for other PSC meeting
- Notebook document will be used for project management information system
- Review of signed and planned contracts and agreements - signing agreement with EGEE3, EELA2, Belief accepted at meeting, agreement with GENSI-DR pending
- Review of timelines to be followed while writing deliverables is given. Quality Control is done on each deliverable. Highlited issue: timeline for deliverables were not followed so far
- Reporting overview: Quarterly Reports shoud be provided as
integrated report from each contractor covering all the 3rd parties.
- Review of the first banking transfers is given. Banking information must be completed
- Sites in Albania and Moldova are problematic (issues with personel and skills)
- Communication should be done trough see-grid-admin@see-grid.eu mailing list and Documents repository
NA2:
- Progress, future steps and actions
Presented by Gabriel Neagu.
- Objectives:
- Structuring NGIs in non-EGEE countries
- Providing active support for NGIs
- Overview of tasks, deliverables and milestones given
- Report on completed action points after the kick-off meeting is given
- First deliverable DNA2.1 was submitted (deadline M03)
- Per partner representatives for NGI monitoring were listed
- Details on NGI metrics structure were presented. It was decided that metrics should be collected quarterly.
- Impklementation solutions for mechanism for on-line metrics collection are being investigated
- Overview of plans and progress on establishing NGIs in Armenia and Georgia was given. Significant progress was made. Next step is the kick-off events
- Use cases for collaboration with EGI-DS were identified and approach strategy was outlined
- New action points and timelines were established
NA3:
- Progress, future steps and actions
Presented by Miklos Kozlovszky.
- Overview of deliverables and milestones given (status and plans)
- Metrics were presented and partners reminded of commitments
- Overview of past and future dissemination and training events per country was given
- Plans, status and action points for preparing for future regional events (EGEE08 and ICT2008) were presented
- Required "After event actions" were presented
- NA3 responsible persons per partner were listed
- Instructions for using SEE-GRID SCI TRaining Center were given (regarding web service, offered infrastructure, training materials)
- Highlighted issues: number of events so far is insufficient, training material must be updated
NA4:
- NA4 Progress
Presented by Cevat Sener.
- Overview of objetives, tasks, deliverables and milestones given (status and plans)
- Status of current action points was given
- Details on conducting and analysis of NA4 Application Questionnaire was presented with accent on statistics and conclusions
- Deliverable DNA4.1 “Target applications analysis” has been submitted.
- Organization and plans for how to Adapt Grid applications is given
- Application Review Committee will review and control the progress of application
- Application Support Group will provide support for gridification and certification of applications and contribute to creation of Gridification Guideline
- Communication mechanism will be trough VOs mailing lists, wiki pages, community forum and helpdesk
- Plans for Suuporting the deployed applications was outlined
- EGEE NA4 Application Porting Support Group in supporting application development
- Planned dissemination of applications were listed
- Current action points were listed
- Activities, progress and plans was presented within each VO, applications,core services and resource requirements are reviewed
SA1:
- SA1 Report
Presented by Antun Balaz
- Overview of objetives, tasks according to DoW are given
- Overview of deliverable and milestones with status and plans (DSA1.1a submitted, DSA1.2 in progress, MSA1.1 done, MSA1.2 in progress)
- Activities, plans and action points within Grid Operations are listed; several actions are planned for converging towards EGEE-SEE; need for operations manual is emphasized;
- SLA enforcment plan
- Operational and monitoring tools deployment and improvement plan is overviewed
- Overview of resource commitment and VO requirements; some countries do not meet commitments from DoW; storage requirements are not realistic, need to be revised
- New ops tools developed by JRA1 were presented
- Status of current action points presented; new action points created
JRA1:
- JRA1 Progress
Presented by Branko Marovic
- JRA1 operational tools (OT) and application service (AS) proposals/presentations are overviewed
- Current action points status is overviewed
- First analyses of user JRA1 survey presented, survey to be extended with new services, NA4 application requirements were reviewed
- AS/OT goals and effort must be revised, some OT/AS issues were discussed
- Next steps and new action points defined
- DJRA1.1 to be prepared by the end of October, DJRA1.2 by 20th December