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NA2 – Outreach and Collaborations

Emidio Giorgio (INFN Catania)NA2 Leader

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• NA2 Overview• Objectives• Strategies

• Dissemination• Events• Dissemination material• EMI Web site

• Training • In reach & Out reach training events

• Collaboration• EMI collaboration programs

• Exploitation & Sustainability• Plans • 1st year results

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Project Management

NA2 in EMI

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NA1, JRA1

JRA1

JRA1SA1

SA1

SA2

Software & Services

Requirements

Defines

ImplementsCertifies

Release Candidate

Process definition

Process monitoring

NA2NA2

NA1, NA2

Training

Dissemination & Out-Reach

In-Reach

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NA2 Objectives

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“Make the EMI achievements known through managed outreach

and dissemination activities”

“Make the EMI achievements known through managed outreach

and dissemination activities”

“Enlarge the base of expert developers and engineers knowledgeable in the EMI technologies through comprehensive

training programs and materials”

“Enlarge the base of expert developers and engineers knowledgeable in the EMI technologies through comprehensive

training programs and materials”

“Establish managed collaboration programs with other projects, initiatives and

commercial enterprises to make the EMI technologies part of their ongoing

development efforts”

“Establish managed collaboration programs with other projects, initiatives and

commercial enterprises to make the EMI technologies part of their ongoing

development efforts”

“Ensure the active exploitation of project results the creation of a sustainable model

through the definition of exploitation results, targets and partners”

“Ensure the active exploitation of project results the creation of a sustainable model

through the definition of exploitation results, targets and partners”

Dissemination Events - Material

Public Web SIte

Training Courses

Collaboration Activities

Exploitation & Sustainability

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… and Strategies

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Individuation of Dissemination

channels

Analysis of EMI position in the

“market”

BrandingBranding

Identification of exploitable

items

Identification of exploitable

items

Involvement of potential new users

TrainingTraining

Measuring responsesMeasuring responses

SysadminSysadmin

Surveys Surveys

Web siteWeb site

Articles in specialized web sites

Articles in specialized web sites

Analysis Analysis

Users Users Conferences

Conferences

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Dissemination events highlights

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Main Events attended

Cloudscape III / SIENA

ICT 2010

Supercomputing 2010

ISGC 2011/OGF31

OGF 29/30

EMI Technical Conference/EGI UF 2011

EGI Technical Forum 2010

EEF Meeting

1st DCI Collaboration Meeting

CHEP 2010

HEPiX 2010

NorduGrid 2010

Unicore Summit 2010

Type of events

Leading standardization

Leading standardization

Policy/Decision makers oriented

dissemination

Policy/Decision makers oriented

dissemination

User oriented Conferences

User oriented Conferences

DCI Collaborations

DCI Collaborations

Out of Europe disseminationOut of Europe dissemination

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Dissemination material

Posters

• Technical areas • EMI project• Kebnekaise

EMI-branded gadgets

• Sticker • Cotton bag

Video Interviews

• EMI TC high profile Participants

Articles / Press releases

ISGTW

• Kebnekaise article • Keb release announcement• EMI Survey

Gridcast

• MoU signing at EGI WS• EMI data roadmap• Presentation of EMI

LSWN • EMI 1 press release• EMI TC announcement

EGI Inspired • Kebnekaise

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EMI web site

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Middleware

User Support

User Support

ForumForum

CollaborationsCollaborations

TrainingTraining

EventsEvents

NewsNews

PressPress

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Overview of website access

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Training

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EMI in reach @ EGI Technical ConferenceEMI in reach @ EGI Technical Conference

Second EMI in reachSecond EMI in reach

EMI tutorial for resources admin

EMI tutorial for users

Topic Part. Rate *

CREAM install 15 4.23

UNICORE install 10 5

dCache install 20 4.5

A-Rex install 15 5

EMI User Tut 25 4.67

Topic Part. Rate *

Guidelines for usage of EMI tools

38 4.81

Using EMI testbed 34 4.03

Certification, change and release mgt

30 5.03

* Scale 1-6 (top)

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Collaborations

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SLA + MoU

MoU

Common initiatives

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Works with EMI

• A special technical collaboration program dedicated to application developers or middleware contributors– Gives partners access to early technical previews and to the

EMI software management tools and procedures– Provides EMI with early feedback– Provides both EMI and the partner with verified and

synchronized releases of new functionality

• Based on MoUs with concrete milestones• Current partners: D4Science II, DECIDE, EDGI, IGE,

SHIWA, TheSyrrus Ltd, WeNMR

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Exploitation strategy

• Main targets – DCI (eg. EGI, WLCG, PRACE)– Different categories of customers (end users,

resource admin, etc..)

• Identify/develop a set of solutions fulfilling the needs of the identified targets– Define a consistent product portfolio, based on

expressed requirements– Establish an efficient support and maintenance

service

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Sustainability strategy

• Expand users base– Lower barriers preventing wider usage

• Increase supported OS• Simplify installation and configuration procedures• Simplify/Harmonize security models• Support commonly used standards

• Decrease maintenance and development costs – Identify and remove redundant components – Use standard/off-the-shelf tools

• Identify and focus on the solutions with the largest or most committed user base

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Exploitation and Sustainability : results

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Sustainability

EMI DC Survey 2010

EMI 1 : adoption of Fedora and EPEL packaging guidelines, documentation, source RPMSStandardization (WebDAV, NFS 4.1 / pNFS …)

Single user support channel

Initial consolidation of productsInitial cost assessment methodology based on industrial models

Exploitation

EMI 1 released on May 12th 2011EMI 1 services undergoing validation by EGI for UMD 1.0EMI 1 being validated by Works-with-EMI partnersEstablished SLA with EGI on Apr 14th 2011Contribution to the common DCI roadmapQA metrics and policies documents and tools

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Key Performance Indicators

KPI Target Achieved

Number of international events organised

2 2

Number and type of published material 4 15 [1]

Number of training events 4 4

Number of EMI products included in standard repositories

Major services and 80% of client components

Not applicable since EMI products are

released after reporting period

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Towards Second Year

• EMI Kebnekaise release drives NA2 activities– Dissemination turns from preparation to promotion

of EMI 1 • 2nd EMI TC, OGF3x, SC’11, ISC’11, CHEP 2012

– Training focused on exploitation of whole EMI software stack

• DCISS, webinars (in/out reach)

– EMI 1 availability will foster new collaborations • Increased activity for Works with EMI

– Users’ feedback will drive exploitation and sustainability tasks

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Thank you

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EMI is partially funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement INFSO-RI-261611

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