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ETICS Technical Commitee

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TBD

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Alberto Di Meglio (CERN)
Description
Conference Name: ETICS Technical Committee meeting Recurrence: Every Thursday at 15:30 CET Dial-in numbers: +41227676000 (Main) Access code: 0126137 (Participant) Participant site: https://audioconf.cern.ch/call/0126137
    • 1
      Welcome and headcount
    • 2
      Status reports
      Highlights of the week, 5 minutes for each WP (NA2, SA1, SA2, JRA1, JRA2)
      • a) NA2
        Dissemination • Website: did some content re-organization during the AHM • Please send me the list of conferences, workshops each of you has attended with a short report for the QR4 … thanks. • Writing DNA2.6 (dissemination and use of knowledge) • Organising a demo of ETICS for ENG research units representatives for the middle of May A-QCM • Collaborated with SA1 in the developing of the moke-up of the web interface • Discussed with SA1 about the metrics aggregation strategy, and issues related to the algorithms • Organizing a workshop related to A-QCM for a governmental company from Brazil with high experience in Software evaluation. It could be an interesting opportunity to get important feedback on A-QCM. It will probably take place in the middle of April Training • Prepared a first prototype of the first online demo: ETICS overview. Final version will be ready next week • Writing DNA2.4 (First year analysis of training and tuning activities ) Long-term sustainability • Competitors analysis almost complete. It will be send tomorrow to SA1 team to have some feedback • Discussed sustainability strategies during the AHM … are the minutes available? • Writing DNA2.5. QR4 report almost ready. Please send contributions on events attended and events already programmed for the next quarter, if any.
      • b) SA1
        >>> Services - Started integrating plug-ins for A-QCM metrics. - AQCM report generator is being designed too. - Tested and released client 1.4.4; with fixes for dynamically changing dynamic dependencies and other report formatting issues. - Preparing Client 1.4.5-1 with new options for building source packages as agreed with EGEE SA3 and JRA1. - ETICS 2.4.0 is under preparation. Will have YUM packaging and other improvements. With re-submission of jobs, for instance. - Continue investigating how to instantiate a virtual machine on a grid WN. XEN and QENU will be the two platoform for virtualization. VMWARE seems to give problems of license and not installing it as root. Tested the conversion of vmdk disk-files from Qemu <=> Vmware <=> XEN. - Need to restart metrics plugins (at the AHM probably) - First metrics disseminator available for internal review but we should focues on A-QCM metrics and work with NA2. . >>> Infrastructure - Investigation of ETICS server/repository performance (AFS client reinstallations. We switched the etics3 and etics repositories. The problem seems solved. Was both afs cleint and wrog permissions. - Creating etics-deployment-server, etics-deployment-repository for etics_R_2_4_0_1 - Automated the isntallation of the server and reporsitory. - Preparing nightly builds of etics and deployment on etics-dev - The goal is to help INFN and VEGA to have their installations. - Debugging the cross-site migration setup. No progress since last TC. >>> Deliverables - Sent DSA1.3. Resources: No changes. Dissemination and Training: No events this week. Planning: No news, but is urgent...
      • c) SA2
        Support ------- - Andre'/Marco/Michele in shift. 12 GGUS tickets in, 4 solved, 3 pending, 5 escalated. 1 request for externals. Infrastructure Integration Job Submission ------------------------------------------ - Working on the gLite submitter. All operations implemented, still working on the repository upload. Working on the persistence layer. - UNICORE deployment should be ready tomorrow, unicore-submitter will be resumed next week. Deliverables ------------ - DSA2:4 will be ready for tomorrow
      • d) JRA1
        - Mainly working on cross-site submission, new machine needed as local submit node
      • e) JRA2
        The focus is on working on deliverables. Internal review version in 1-2 days. Also working on client side plugin management. Started planning of review demo presentation.
    • 3
      Review organization and deliverables
      Checks on the review organization schedule and deliverables status 3 April: Review 2 April: Dressed rehearsal 20 March: Second rehearsal (online) 18 March: All deliverables and project reports must be in the hands of the EC and reviewers 16 March: All deliverables and project reports must be sent out (CD-ROM) 13 March: Revised versions of the presentations to PMB/TC 10 March: All deliverables and reports must be ready for PMB approval 6 March: Deliverables reviewed, back to originators for modifications 2 March: activity quarterly report to project manager (Alberto); all (most) budget and effort data to project admin (Catherine) 27 February: deliverables ready for internal review sent to reviewers 19 February: First rehearsal 13 February: deliverables first draft
    • 4
      Deliverables, milestones and planning check
      Formal check of agreed milestones and planning
    • 5
      ETICS USIS (User Satisfaction Improvement Strategy)
      Improving user satisfaction about usage of the ETICS services is critical. ETICS is often perceived as slow and difficult to use. This is due to a number of factors: 1) Need for technical improvements in speed and usability 2) Disinformation or third-party rumours 3) General resistance to adopt 'procedures' We need to understand what to focus on and have a plan to address this issue as a combination of technical enhancements, training and dissemination. Where to start?
    • 6
      AOB
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