The EGI Federated Cloud User Support Diego Scardaci

The EGI Federated Cloud User Support Diego Scardaci Technical Outreach Expert EGI. eu - INFN www. egi. eu

EGI Fed. Cloud User Support 12/25/2021 . . 2

Federated Cloud user engagement and support Dedicated technical consultancy for each community (support@egi. eu) F 2 F/Web Meetings • Initial requirements • Allocation of technical experts • Milestones Doc • Step by step guides • Tutorials • Examples Continuous tracking and support • Technical integration support from EGI/NGI team • Periodic meetings Basic VM Images • Main OS available • Secure endorsed • Contextualisation Migration into production • Resource providers commitment • Support to create a production VO Incubator VO 12/25/2021 • Resources for application prototyping • Enabled in all sites • Up to 6 months (renew) EGI Conference 2015, Lisbon (PT), 18 -22 May 2015 3

Documentation EGI Federated Cloud User Support doc. entry page: • https: //wiki. egi. eu/wiki/Federated_Cloud_user_support 12/25/2021 EGI Conference 2015, Lisbon (PT), 18 -22 May 2015 4

Technology/infrastructure announcements 12/25/2021 . . 5

EGI Training Infrastructure http: //go. egi. eu/traininginfra • Dedicated VO on the EGI Federated Cloud – • Access with ‘per-user robot subproxies’ – – • • CESNET (Open. Nebula) Cloud application development courses Courses about cloud federations Software tutorials (tutors deploy SW in VMs) BIFI (Open. Stack) Hosted 4 events so far, and will host 5 tutorials this week – • Can connect personal identities to user IDs Tutors can control duration of access For face-to-face events, online training courses (Webinar, MOOC) and self-paced learning modules Use cases – – – • 6 clouds with 230 v. CPUs and 22 TB storage Also a Demo on Wednesday between 9 -13 How to get involved: – Book for a course – Deploy a custom environment – Join as resource provider 12/25/2021 UKIM (Open. Nebula) CETA-CIEMAT (Open. Stack) INFN-Catania (Open. Stack) (Open. Nebula). . 6

EGI Platform for the long-tail of science http: //access. egi. eu Demo on Thursday between 9: 00 -13: 00 • Access with Google, Facebook, EGI SSO account Catania Science Gateway (INFN) • Requests are reviewed by http: //access. egi. eu dedicated support team (CYFRONET) Science • Identity federation between gateway GUIs and EGI sites – ‘Per-user sub-proxy’ solution User Registration Portal • Extendible platform with – Cloud, HTC, storage sites – Science gateways – Support personnel Science gateway vo. access. egi. eu: cloud, HTC, storage sites Science gateway … Science gateway Email long-tail-support@mailman. egi. eu to support the platform 12/25/2021 . . 7

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News from the use cases 12/25/2021 . . 9

From pilots to production services: SLA negotiation • EGI. eu is acting as negotiator – Finds and arranges resources that ‘fit for purpose’ • Process is facilitated by – E-GRANT, Council surveys, broadcasting tool for sites • Matchmaking is currently ongoing for – Mo. Brain, BILS, Pan. Cancer, DRIHM • Finalising requests of LSGC and i. Marine Provider A OLAs SLAs Customer Request submission 12/25/2021 Negotiator Matchmaking Propose & Sign OLAs Provider B Creating SLA Propose & Sign SLA 10

Support for BILS – The Swedish ELIXIR node • Adopting the EGI Federated Cloud for hosting services • BILS services are offered to international communities BILS Services in the cloud • Pcons. net, Pcons. C 2, TOPCONS, SCAMPI, etc. Requirements • • Access mode: for free and pay-for-use Requirements: • CPU cores: 324 • RAM: 648 GB • Temporary Storage: 1425 GB • Permanent Storage: 5400 GB 12/25/2021 • 11/14: Start of collaboration • 01 -05/15: Tests in the EGI incubator cloud VO • 06/15: Decision to move to production. Start SLA negotation with RPs • 10/15: Six RP offers received (in total exceeding capacity need by 200%) • 11/15: Final negotation with BILS and RPs • 11/15: SLA to be signed by the end of month 11

Chipster & EGI User-friendly analysis software for high-throughput data: • NGS, Microarray, Proteomics, sequence data CSC/EGI Training events: • NGS event in Thessaloniki (Oct 2015) • 2 tutorials on Wednesday: • CHIPSTER deployment (11: 00) • Usage for NGS analysis (15: 30) Planning a tutorial in March 2016: Chipster in the EGI Fed. Cloud: • Production VO: chipster. csc. fi • VM with contextualisation, data management with CVMFS • SLA negotiation ongoing – to offer Chipster as a service 12/25/2021 • Helsinki – Finland • Hosted by the “Using clouds and VMs in bioinformatics training” collaboration with ELIXIR's EXCELERATE project 12

ESA Thematic Exploitation platforms (TEPs) Thematic exploitation platform (TEP) Focusing on a geophysical theme • • • Geohazards Hydrology Urban Coastal environment Polar Forestry Under development (2015 -2017) with ESA EOEP funds Not intended to be operated by ESA • Open Architecture harmonised among the EPs • Open interface standards and profiles (HMA, OGC) • Resources interoperability, between EPs and other projects • Common Core Components (Open Source) 12/25/2021 . . 13

ESA Thematic Exploitation platforms (TEPs) Data Management: Main Features: • manage large volume of data • algorithm dev and integration environment • processing services and software • computing resources • collaboration tools • general ops capabilities Architecture: • • User Access portal Resource Management Execution environment Service Integration 12/25/2021 • Mirroring • Caching • On-demand • Collaboration with ESA where EGI is acting as “Execution Env” • Opportunities for EGI: • host one or more TEPs in production • consultancy for service integration • Copernicus Data Management: • WP organised by ESA • EGI invited to join. . 14

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