
EGI Federated Cloud User Support Activities
Explore user support activities for the EGI Federated Cloud, including technical consultancy, allocation of experts, step-by-step guides, tutorials, and more. Get involved in the federated cloud user engagement and support for various communities. Find documentation and training infrastructure resources at EGI Conference 2016 in Amsterdam.
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User support activities for the EGI FedCloud Diego Scardaci - EGI.eu/INFN Technical Outreach Expert EGI Conference 2016, Amsterdam (NL), 06-08 April 2016 www.egi.eu
EGI FedCloud User Support EGI Conference 2016, Amsterdam (NL), 06-08 April 2016 4/12/2025 2
Federated Cloud user engagement and support for each community Dedicated (support@egi.eu) technical consultancy Initial requirements Allocation of technical experts Milestones Step by step guides Tutorials Examples F2F/Web Meetings Doc Technical integration support from EGI/NGI team Periodic meetings Continuous tracking and support Main OS available Secure endorsed Contextualisation Basic VM Images Resources for application prototyping Enabled in all sites Up to 6 months (renew) Resource providers commitment Support to create a production VO Migration into production Incubator VO EGI Conference 2016, Amsterdam (NL), 06-08 April 2016 4/12/2025 3
Documentation EGI Federated Cloud User Support doc. entry page: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Federated_Cloud_user_support EGI Conference 2016, Amsterdam (NL), 06-08 April 2016 4/12/2025 4
EGI Training Infrastructure EGI Conference 2016, Amsterdam (NL), 06-08 April 2016 4/12/2025 5
Training infrastructure: training.egi.eu Virtual Organisation Site Available capacity in the VO CESNET (CZ) 64 vCPUs 110 GB of RAM 1 TB of persistent storage CESNET (OpenNebula) BIFI (ES) 50 vCPUs 50 GB of RAM 50 storage volumes 50 public IP addresses UI BIFI UKIM UKIM (MK) 48 vCPUs 48 GB of RAM 48 public IP addresses (OpenStack) (OpenNebula) CETA- CIEMAT (ES) 20 vCPUs 40 GB of RAM 5.4 TB storage 10 public IP addresses CETA-CIEMAT (OpenStack) Trainers join VO with X509 personal certificates Generate own proxy for access Trainees get proxies from trainers. Proxies are valid for 24 hours EGI Conference 2016, Amsterdam (NL), 06-08 April 2016 4/12/2025 6
News from the use cases EGI Conference 2016, Amsterdam (NL), 06-08 April 2016 4/12/2025 8
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 SLA Agreed with MoBrain, BILS, DRIHM Finalising requests of Terradue (ESA TEPs), EXTRAS, etc. Provider A OLAs SLAs Customer Negotiator Provider B Propose & Sign OLAs Request submission Propose & Sign SLA Matchmaking Creating SLA EGI Conference 2016, Amsterdam (NL), 06-08 April 2016 4/12/2025 9
Support for BILS The Swedish ELIXIR node Adopting the EGI Federated Cloud for hosting services BILS services are offered to international communities 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 BILS Services in the cloud Pcons.net, PconsC2, TOPCONS,SCAMPI, etc. TOPCONS: 5K users and 40K jobs from 03/15 Requirements Access mode: for free and pay-for-use Requirements: CPU cores: 324 RAM: 648 GB Temporary Storage: 1425 GB Permanent Storage: 5400 GB EGI Conference 2016, Amsterdam (NL), 06-08 April 2016 4/12/2025 10
ESA Thematic Exploitation platforms (TEPs) Thematic exploitation platform (TEP) Focusing on a geophysical theme FedCloud use case: SLA and Mou with Terradue 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) EGI Conference 2016, Amsterdam (NL), 06-08 April 2016 4/12/2025 11
ESA Thematic Exploitation platforms (TEPs) Data Management: Mirroring Caching On-demand Main Features: manage large volume of data algorithm dev and integration environment processing services and software computing resources collaboration tools general ops capabilities 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 Architecture: User Access portal Resource Management Execution environment Service Integration EGI Conference 2016, Amsterdam (NL), 06-08 April 2016 4/12/2025 12
Other use cases EGI-Engage CCs: ELIXIR, BBMRI, EPOS, INSTRUCT, LifeWATCH, DARIAH,DM EMSODEV Data Management platform MoU with EGI-Engage HBP: hosting open HBP datasets (SLA in negotiation) large collaborative jupyter notebook installation ICOS: Use cases analysis in collaboration with EUDAT Phenomenal, other cases from ENVRI+ (Euro-Argo, IS- ENES, ), etc EGI Conference 2016, Amsterdam (NL), 06-08 April 2016 4/12/2025 13
Pilots with the Open Data Platform First ODP prototype available FedCloud providers identified as early adopter (INFN- Bari) Pilots (in collaboration with EGI-Engage WP4): BILS ESA Terradue EGI Conference 2016, Amsterdam (NL), 06-08 April 2016 4/12/2025 14
Thank you for your attention. Questions? www.egi.eu