EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
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Gergely Sipos
Activity Deputy Manager
MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
EGI.eu – User Community Support Team
EGEE-III Final Review, 23-24 June, 2010
NA3 - User Training and
Induction
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Activity overview
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Country Total PM
planned at M24 Total FTE
Austria 16 0.7
Belgium 12 0.5
Bulgaria 22 0.9
CERN
Croatia 12 0.5
Cyprus 12 0.5
Czech Republic 8 0.3
Finland
France 24 1.0
Germany
Greece 30 1.3
Hungary 80 3.3
Ireland
Israel 12 0.5
Italy 144 6.0
Netherlands
Norway
Poland 28 1.2
Portugal 9 0.4
Romania 20 0.8
Russia 42 1.8
Serbia 22 0.9
Slovakia 24 1.0
Slovenia
Spain 38 1.6
Sweden
Switzerland 12 0.5
Turkey 20 0.8
UK 108 4.5
Total PM 695
Total FTE 29.0
NA12%
NA24%
NA38%
NA419%
NA51%
SA149%
SA22%
SA39%
JRA16%
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NA3 objectives in EGEE-III
Activity objectives
– Expand and refine the training material and courses, to provide training resources for an ever-widening range of Grid applications.
– Train a wide variety of users, within EGEE consortium & outside users of other middleware.
– Develop mechanisms for passing on knowledge to end-users of EGEE related projects.
– Expand online learning services, meeting the needs of an expanded project and larger user-base.
– Support the provision of t-Infrastructure on the GILDA testbed by developing/maintaining training resources to cover diverse range of application scenarios.
Priorities in 2nd year
• Scalability and sustainability
– Autonomous national training groups established at every NGI
– Integration of t-Infrastructure into production infrastructure
– Continuation of training services in EGI is ensured
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NA3 tasks
TNA3.1
• Course Content, Scheduling, Organisation & Delivery
– Lead Partner – University of Edinburgh
– Partners – All
TNA3.2a
• Trainer Support Systems
– 1 Partner - University of Edinburgh
TNA3.2b
• Training Infrastructure Provision
– Lead partner – INFN, Catania
– Partners – 9
TNA3.3
• Activity Management & Partner Coordination
– Lead partner – University of Edinburgh (NA3 manager: Robin McConnell)Deputy – MTA SZTAKI
– Partners - 6
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Training events
134
Y1 - 104
Accredited trainers(Target 110)
185
Y1 - 101
Training Events(Target 120)
2312 Y1 - 1424 Participants (Target 1200)
7768 Y1 - 4431 Participant days (Target 3000)
29
Countries
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Geographical spread of events
http://bit.ly/EGEEtrainingmap
185 events in
EGEE-III
80 separate
locations
worldwide
2312
participants
Training designated as a NGI task
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Breakdown by event type
Advanced3%
Application developer
14%Applications
6%
Induction64%
System Administrator
8%
Train the Trainer3%
Workshop (retreat)2%
Average evaluation score of events is 5.1 (out of 6)
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EGEE collaboration events
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Model for learning - IWSGC
eLearning school
Resources
eLearning event with collaboration between gLite, Globus, UNICORE, Condor
• 4 technology weeks
• ~17 hours per week (student average)
• 35 Participants
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ISSGC’09
• International Summer School in Grid
Computing 2009
– Sophia Antipolis, France, 5-17 July
– Major collaboration event: 58 sessions
– 45 participants
– EGEE Involvement:
gLite: major technologies
GILDA: testbed for most of the practical
sessions
NA3 members on program committee and
trainers’ group
CNRS - local organiser
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Services for sustainable training
• Accreditation of trainers
– All the 29 NA3 partner NGIs are self-sufficient in terms of training
– Training contact for 72% of all the NGIs
• GILDA VO is now part of the production infrastructure
– No difference in the maintenance of a production and a training site
– NGIs can contribute to training VO with production sites
• Training support services continue in EGI
– Digital library
– Training event database
– Trainer registry
– GILDA VO central services
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Development of EGEE trainers
• Training the trainers events
– Provide partner autonomy
– Experts ensure quality of message
• Trainer accreditation
Peer approval
Details of training experience
– Currently 134 trainers
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Location of accredited trainers
(Current; increase in Y2)
15
7
2
717
1
3
86
16
5
3
1
2
15
2
5
2
1
4
7
1
Taiwan – 8
Australia – 1
Japan – 1
5
3
+3
+3 +2+5
+16
1
+1
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GILDA t-Infrastructure
• GILDA is now one VO of the EGEE production infrastructure
• Availability and reliability of sites over 90%
• GILDA CA inserted in EugridPMA bundle
13 site
~1100 cpu
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GILDA t-Infrastructure
• Available for grid training – 24/7
• Bookable for training events (also for commercial events)
– Year 1: 85 events
– Year 2: 84 events
• Available for application prototyping and porting
– Applications can be migrated to scientific VOs
• Documentation and facilities offered at different levels– Example:
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Digital library - updates
Improved Search & Filter
New eLearning modules
Rebranding
Contains now over 6900 learning resources! (>100 videos)
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Issues to resolve in EGI
• Not all the NGIs have accredited trainers
– Are these countries self-sufficient in term of training?
• Keeping trainer registry up to date
– Not all the accredited trainers are in the people registry
– How and when to modify/remove a trainer registration?
• Keeping the critical number of sites in the training VO
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Summary
• 185 training events delivered, and with wider geographical coverage
than anticipated, well above target metrics
• Support services continuously enhanced during EGEE-III, in
response to need for greater scalability and usability
• Expanding trainer base in NGIs to ensure sustainable training in EGI
• Training infrastructure services are operated by EGI as „NGI Global
tasks”