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SEE-GRID eInfrastructure for regional eScience

SEE-GRID-SCI PSC-04 Meeting and Regional Environmental Science Workshop Minutes

Sofia, May 6-8, 2009

Author(s):	Ognjen Prnjat
Status –Version:	Final
Date:	May 20^th, 2009
Distribution – Type:	Internal
Code:	SEEGRIDSCI-NA1-GR-Minutes-PSC04-a-2008-05-18

Abstract: This document provides the minutes for the SEE-GRID-SCI PSC04 meeting hosted by IPP-BAS and held in Sofia on May 6^th- 8^th, 2009.

 Copyright by the SEE-GRID-SCI Consortium

The SEE-GRID-SCI Consortium consists of:

GRNET	Coordinating Contractor	Greece
CERN	Contractor	Switzerland
IPP-BAS	Contractor	Bulgaria
ICI	Contractor	Romania
TUBITAK	Contractor	Turkey
SZTAKI	Contractor	Hungary
UPT	Contractor	Albania
UoBL	Contractor	Bosnia-Herzegovina
UKIM	Contractor	FYROM
UOB	Contractor	Serbia
UOM	Contractor	Montenegro
RENAM	Contractor	Moldova
RBI	Contractor	Croatia
IIAP-NAS-RA	Contractor	Armenia
GRENA	Contractor	Georgia

Document Revision History

Date	Issue	Author/Editor/Contributor	Summary of main changes
May 15, 2009	a	Ognjen Prnjat	Draft
May 18, 2009	a	Ognjen Prnjat	Final

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 3

2. Objectives 5

3. Meeting Agenda 6

4. Main points discussed during the meeting 8

5. Action points created at the meeting 11

1.Introduction

Meeting called by	GRNET
Type of meeting	PSC-04 meeting
Date – Time	May 6^th-8^th, 2009
Facilitator	IPP-BAS
Location	Vitosha Park Hotel, Sofia, Bulgaria
Attendees	1	Ognjen Prnjat	GRNET, Greece
	2	Ioannis Liabotis	GRNET, Greece
	3	Vassiliki Kotroni	National Observatory of Athens, Greece
	4	Gabriel Neagu	National Institute for R&D in Informatics – ICI, Romania
	5	Alexandru Stanciu	ICI, Romania
	6	Bacu Victor	Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
	7	Cevat Sener	METU, Turkey
	8	Can Ozturan	Bogazici University, Turkey
	9	Burcu Ortakaya	ULAKBIM, Turkey
	10	Miklos Kozlovszky	MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
	11	Danica Stojiljkovic	CERN, Switzerland
	12	Mihajlo Savic	Elektrotehnicki fakultet Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
	13	Vladimir Slavnic	Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia
	14	Branko Marovic	Belgrade University Computing Center, Serbia
	15	Dusan Vudragovic	Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia
	16	Luka Filipovic	University of Montenegro, Montenegro
	17	Davor Davidovic	Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
	18	Ramaz Kvatadze	GRENA, Georgia
	19	Alexandr Golubev	RENAM Association, Moldova
	20	Petru Bogatencov	RENAM Association, Moldova
	21	Irina Borta	State Hidrometeorological Service, Moldova
	22	Hrachya Astsatryan	IIAP of NAS RA, Armenia
	23	Evis Trandafili	Politechnic University of Tirana, Albania
	24	Neki Frasheri	Politechnic University of Tirana, Albania
	25	Anastas Misev	UKIM, FYR of Macedonia
	26	Margita Kon-Popovska	UKIM, FYR of Macedonia
	27	Boro Jakimovski	UKIM, FYR of Macedonia
	28	Kiril Boyanov	IPP-BAS, Bulgaria
	29	Kosta Ganev	GPhI-BAS, Bulgaria
	30	Maria Prodanova	GPhI-BAS, Bulgaria
	31	Dimiter Syrakov	GPhI-BAS, Bulgaria
	32	Todor Gurov	IPP-BAS, Bulgaria
	33	Emanouil Atanassov	IPP-BAS, Bulgaria
	34	Aneta Karaivanova	IPP-BAS, Bulgaria
	35	Sofiya Ivanovska	IPP-BAS, Bulgaria
	36	Dimitar Dimitrov	IPP-BAS, Bulgaria
	37	Mariya Durchova	IPP-BAS, Bulgaria
Please read	All SEE-GRID-SCI Members

2.Objectives

ID	Description	Covered
O4.01	Review all-round project progress (All activities)	
O4.02	Evaluate project baseline and adjust if needed the project workplan	
O4.03	Present all Activities’ yearly progress in preparation for first review	
O4.04	Assess NGI progress, reiterate EGI principles (NA2)	
O4.05	Assess status of country-level training events; and other NA3 actions (NA3)	
O4.06	VO progress: details (NA4)	
O4.07	Detailed presentations regarding environmental VO developments by all partners involved. (NA4)	
O4.08	Present initial version of the review demos of all 3 VOs (NA4)	
O4.09	Assess status of EGEE-SEEGRID operational integration (SA1)	
O4.10	JRA1 status and progress: operational tools and applications extensions (JRA1)	
O4.11	Plan activities for next 3 months	

3.Meeting Agenda

ID	Start time	Planned duration	Item description	Presenter	Desired outcome
Wednesday, May 6^th, 2009
	10:30		Arrival of attendees
4.01	11:00	10 min	PSC meeting start	Oprn, hosts	Acceptance of agenda, meeting objectives, main points to be addressed, announcement of participants. Logistics.
4.02	11:10	50 min	Technical execution plan overview and review goals	Iliab	Overview of main expectations of each Activity, and goals of meeting per Activity. Planning of review.
4.03	12:00	40 mins	NA1 review presentation and planning	Oprn	Measure NA1 progress, define future steps, establish actions
	12:40	60 mins	Lunch
4.04	13:40	90 mins	SA1 review presentation and planning	DVud	Measure SA1 progress, define future steps, establish actions
	15:10	30 min	Coffee
4.05	15:40	90 mins	JRA1 review presentation and planning	BMar	Measure JRA1 progress, define future steps, establish actions
4.06	17:10	50 mins	EGI philosophy, SSCs, and future of operations	OPrn	Understand vision of EGI and regional future
	18:00		End day 1
Thursday, May 7^th, 2008: Environmental Workshop
	08:45		Arrival of attendees
4.07	09:00	60 mins	NA4 review presentation and planning	CSen	Measure N41 progress, define future steps, establish actions
4.08	10:00	60 mins	Environmental VO overview and planning	EAta	Report the work in the VO, future plans
	11:00	30 min	Coffee
4.09	11:30	60 min	Environmental VO: review demonstration	EAta	Demonstration of environmental VO and the related JRA1 tool
	12:30	60 min	Lunch
4.10	13:30	40 min	Bulgaria: Environmental VO detailed presentations:
4.11	14:10	20 min	Albania: Environmental VO detailed presentation
4.12	14:30	20 min	Croatia: suggested replacement for geomagnetism
	14:50	30 min	Coffee
4.13	15:20	40 min	Romania: Environmental VO detailed presentation
4.14	16:00	20 min	Hungary: Environmental VO detailed presentation
4.15	16:20	20 min	Moldova: Environmental VO detailed presentation
	16:20		End day 2 and excursion and dinner
Friday, May 8^th, 2009
	09:15		Arrival of attendees
4.16	09:30	60 min	Seismo VO planning and review demo	Cozt	Report the work in the VO, future plans
4.17	10:30	60 min	Meteo VO planning and review demo	VKot	Report the work in the VO, future plans
	11:30	30 min	Coffee
4.18	12:00	60 mins	NA3 planning	MKol	Measure NA3 progress, define future steps, establish actions
	13:00	60 min	Lunch
4.19	14:00	90 min	NA2 review presentation and planning	Gnea	Measure NA2 progress, define future steps, establish actions
	15:30	30 min	Coffee
4.20	16:00	30 mins	Technical execution plan overview	Iliab	Wrap up and actions until next PSC
	16:30		Meeting end

4.Main points discussed during the meeting

The specific topics covered and issues addressed/resolved during the meeting are presented in the following paragraphs grouped per project Activity. The action points that were generated can be found in the next section.

• 
  NA1: Technical Execution plan – opening and closing presentations – were given by Ioannis, laying out the main aims of PSC, summing up work aims and progress per activity; and main future actions per Activity respectively. NA1 presentation was given by Ognjen, with objectives, activities, milestones and deliverables overview – as for review. It was agreed that next meeting will be in Dubrovnik during week 7-11 September, and Karolj and Davor will inform the consortium ASAP. PSC06 will be held together with User Forum and Regional User Training in Istanbul – a full week 30Nov – 4Dec. PSC07 might be held in Zabljak in early 2010 and Luka and Bozo will investigate. It was agreed that VOs will continue to use EVO. Status of MoUs was reiterated (5 signed so far), and it was underlined that Activity Leaders should pursue actions as within MoUs. It was concluded that EAB is not needed and will not be formed. The necessity for contract amendment due to change of geomagnetism application will be investigated. It was pointed out that the quarterly report is in its near-final version, and different aspects of resource consumption have been analyzed – overall the project is on track. It was underlined that budget distribution will be carried out sometime in Q7, and also that travel costs are lower than expected and partners are invited to publish scientific work stemming for the project activities at conferences. It was agreed that the following issues will be underlined in the final report: delays in Moldova, overall problems in Albania, various small technical problems. Regarding deviations from workplan, only geomagnetism application change will be underlined. It was again stressed that contributions for all deliverables keep being late, that partners are fully responsible, and that deadlines must be followed because this is basic fairness and respect towards colleagues that partners collaborate with. Budget cuts will be implemented due to delays in previous and following quarters if partners cannot follow this basic rule. Ognjen also elaborated on future plans for EGI project, to be submitted to a call in November 2009. The project will bring together all NGIs from Europe, and NGI funding will be proportional to the size of the NGI in terms of CPUs and users, while applications funding will be through the Specialized Support Centers. Thus, all countries should strive to stabilize completely their NGIs, as well as to lobby for membership in European-wide SSCs. Ioannis presented different functional model for regional operations for the NGI era. It was decided that some level of regional operations will be kept and that some services will be ran on behalf of some partners – there was no objections. The idea of SEEGRID SSC was mentioned. Acad Boyanov brought forward the idea of the MoU on the regional level and it was agreed that Ognjen will investigate this.
  
• 
  NA2 leader has given the presentation as for review, with objectives, tasks, deliverables and milestones status. Metrics set was presented, as well as the associated monitoring approach. DNA2.3a results were presented in detail. Specifically, EGI metrics were analyzed and suggestions to partners were provided. Following this, progress per country was given, with recommendations by the NA2 leader: all countries should consult the NA2 presentation recommendations. AL, BA and MK should still send a Letter of Support to EGI-DS. All NGI representatives should study the NGI requirements for EGI membership and take relevant actions and attend the EGI PB meetings and also monitor SSC developments.
  

• 
  NA3 leader gave the presentation as for first review, with objectives, deliverables & milestones, and activities with detailed achievements per activity. A number of suggestions were made regarding the review presentation, specifically the graphs, and Miklos will take these into account. The action point status was revisited. The ISGTW publication plan was presented and agreed at the PSC level – average of 1-2 submissions a month – but this could depend on ISGTW and its backlog – Miklos should inform ISGTW. Upcoming dissemination event opportunities were discussed and partners were suggested to submit their work. The SEEGRIDSCI User Forum was discussed in detail – Miklos and ULAKBIM will drive the organization. A set of actions was defined related to this, including investigation of possibility of publication of proceedings. It was reiterated that in the second year we would expect to see similar amount of disseminations and training as in first year, to which the PSC agreed. Related to this, 2^nd year training and dissemination plans should be put together by all partners. Online training materials have to be strengthened. Overall, it was concluded that a wider dissemination campaign is needed, and that this should be driven more strongly by NA3 leader.
  
• 
  NA4 presentation was given almost as for review (mixed with some actions), and covered the objectives, tasks, deliverables and milestones. Application review process was reiterated, and needs to be enforced continuously. DNA4.2 overview was given, with detailed applications status per VO. It was identified that actual collaborations should be clearly explained. Most importantly, all applications should go into production immediately, and those with late deployment deadlines should be monitored closely by NA4 leader and VO leaders. The status of Al CHERS application is not good and effort has to be concentrated there, Romanian and Bulgarian colleagues will provide support. The new applications from BG and HR have been accepted in the meteo VO. Modis has to provide a report regarding its interaction with GreenView. Applications accounting was presented and discussed (per-application accounting will need to be implemented but will not be presented at review). Structure of ASG was reiterated. The need for VO EVO meetings was also underlined, as well as the necessity to circulate minutes after the meeting. The need for more active dissemination of applications was identified – application web pages must be made. Gridifcation guideline deliverable has been discussed in detail, and timeline for production was suggested and agreed. Brief status of collaborations with other projects was given and it was agreed that these will be followed specifically within VOs. Regarding the SEEGRIDSCI user forum, it was underlined that all applications must attend the forum, and collaborating projects will be invited. Metrics were presented, and they are on track, but number of users per application needs to be provided. Status of action points was presented and new actions were identified. NA4 leader underlined that progress of applications should be followed closely by the VO Leaders during the last year of the project, in which Application Review Process becomes more important. He also underlined that in case of a technical problem, ASG should be immediately contacted through HelpDesk + mailing lists announced. Also, other VO activities (workshops, trainings). The most important NA4 point is that the project objective is to engage strong regional communities in the selected research fields, and that thus NA4 developers should deploy their applications ASAP in production so as to attract collaborations. NA4 developers should also disseminate applications and results; reach out to wider communities; make sure rich material is on the webpages; and finally publish collaborative papers.
  

Meteorology VO overall presentation was given by V.Kotroni, as for review, presenting the scope and aims of the meteo VO. The detailed REFS and WRF deployment plans and progress were presented, where all targets are met. Action plans for year 2 were presented. Dissemination aspects of meteo VO were presented. WRF was confirmed as the review application (with output graph visualisations). Finally, meteo VO metrics were presented. The collaboration of meteo VO with JRA1 is not clear and their use of OT/AS needs to be clarified. Overall, the meteo VO review presentation should be shorter and review demo needs to be prepared.

Seismology VO review presentation was not prepared and only status progress was given. Dissemination activities were presented, as well as international cooperation activities – here cooperation with EIDA and ORFEUS has to be investigated and reported upon, including potential MoU. The status of data collection is not satisfactory - data collection is a crucial issue: at least countries collaborating as in DoW should provide (Albania, Armenia, Moldova); while we aim to work with as many countries as possible (GR, SR, RO, BG, BA, ME and HU). Status of applications was presented in detail: however, it was not clear what are the contributions of third parties to applications development, and VO leader must have an insight in this. Review demo was given and a number of things are still unclear – the demo has to be improved. Overall, seismology VO must be managed more tightly by Contractor-ULAKBIM, NA4 leader and VO leader.

Environmental VO workshop brought together representatives from Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Croatia, Albania and Hungary, who all presented their work. Environmental VO manager presented overall VO progress, with metrics reaching the targets, accounting details presented, as well as first scientific results. The support structure was presented. Following this, the detailed status of the applications was given. Again, work of 3^rd parties in applications needs to be understood better by the VO leader. Specifically regarding applications: ROMS needs to find international collaborations, MD needs to increase involvement with BG applications, GENESI-DR collaboration has to be further evaluated, and EGEE-GENESI-DR MoU analysed for the issue of certificates and data access; Moldovan application deployment timeline to be provided ASAP. Demo application is satisfactory.

• 
  In SA1, the presentation was given as for review, with objectives and metrics; followed by tasks, milestones and deliverables. Infrastructure development was presented – with a convenient map which was decided will be used in all Activity presentations. This was followed by core services, CA deployment status, infrastructure expansion, infrastructure management and tools, details of operations, SLA principles and statistics, infrastructure usage, status of link to Moldova, and status of interoperations. Some suggestions have been made for the presentation and Dusan has noted them and will implement them. Regarding discrepancies in resources commitments, it was agreed that all countries will provide explanations to the SA1 leader. Status of action points was revised and there are still too many open action points pending for a long time. A set of new action points was defined, related to the review and beyond.
  
• 
  JRA1 presentation was not prepared as for review (only ToC was given), and only covered current work and plans; not very well structured. The status of deliverables and metrics was given, all are met. DJRA1.3 results were discussed, and the status of AS/OTs was given, as well as documentation guidelines. An ongoing issue with reporting was identified – it should be precise and on time. JRA1 wiki needs to be filled by all developers; and applications should use the applications services and operational tools. Next, JRA1 metrics were presented and it was suggested that they should start being used every 3 months. At review, JTS will be demoed with environmental VO, SDSAS with seismo VO, and it is still pending what will be demoed with meteo VO. A set of reccomendations and actions was identified by teh JRA1 leader and JRA1 developers should consult the JRA1 presentation and follow these. It was decided no detailed action points need to be kept per AS/OT, and that general actions are also not useful, this being development work. The upcoming plans were discussed, and then details of developments were given for just couple of AS/OTs, where others didn’t provide input, which is not acceptable.
  

5.Action points created at the meeting

ID	Activity	Description	Owner	Initiated	Due
169	NA1	Check contract amendment	Valia	08/05/09	30/06/09
170	NA1	Finalize Dubrovnik PSC05 organization	K. Skala	08/05/09	30/06/09
171	NA2	Finalise Istanbul PSC04 and UF organisation	ULAKBIM, Miklos	08/05/09	30/09/09
172	NA2	Investigate regional MoU	O. Prnjat	08/05/09	31/07/09
173	NA2	Consult the NA2 presentation recommendations and carry out related NGi improvements	All NGI reps	08/05/09	31/07/09
174	NA2	Upload NGI Q4 reports on the project site	All NGI reps	08/05/09	25/06/09
175	NA2	Reconsider the relevance of some NGI metrics (e.g. eIRG membership, local policy documents)	G. Neagu	08/05/09	31/07/09
176	NA2	Provide information about new EGI developments (events, documents and decisions), provide support to NGI representatives to cope with EGI developments	O. Prnjat, G. Neagu	08/05/09	30/10/09
177	NA2	Analyze status of LoI submission to EGI.org, including activation of funding support	G. Neagu	08/05/09	15/06/09
178	NA2	Stimulate the inclusion of eInfrastructure strategy within national IT strategy plans	All NGI reps	08/05/09	30/11/09
179	NA3	Install and configure a conference web portal	Burcu, Miklos	08/05/09	31/07/09
180	NA3	Advertise/Announce the User Forum	Miklos, Dimitra	08/05/09	15/09/09
181	NA3	Create & invite a scientific/evaluation board	Miklos	08/05/09	31/07/09
182	NA3	Review papers	Scientific board	08/05/09	31/10/09
183	NA3	Collect publication possibilities (with ISBN)	Miklos, Burcu, Aneta K.	08/05/09	30/06/09
184	NA3	Plan the training event in Turkey	Burcu, Can	08/05/09	30/09/09
185	NA3	Online training materials have to be strengthened	Miklos	08/05/09	31/07/09
186	NA3	Lightweight first line support training material	Emanouil	08/05/09	31/07/09
187	NA3	Website improvements to be carried out	Ioannis	08/05/09	30/06/09
188	NA3	Inform ISGTW about planned publication schedule	Miklos	08/05/09	31/05/09
189	NA3	2^nd year training and dissemination plans should be put together by all partners	All partners	08/05/09	30/06/09
190	NA3	Everyone should publish papers	All partners	08/05/09	30/04/10
191	NA4	Romanian team support for CHERS	D. Gorgan, Florin Pop, Emanouil Neki	08/05/09	31/07/09
192	NA4	Report about MODIS integration with GreenView to be provided (is it a module or extension)	P. Bogatencov	08/05/09	25/05/09
193	NA4	Gridifcation Guideline ToC	D. Davidovic	08/05/09	30/06/09
194	NA4	VO leaders to analyze the status of international collaborations and keep track of details.	VO Leaders	08/05/09	25/05/09
195	NA4	Number of users per application and per VO needs to be provided, including graphs	C. Sener	08/05/09	22/05/09
196	NA4	Demos (together with JRA1 tool used) to be finalized	VO leaders, demonstartors	08/05/09	22/05/09
197	NA4	Progress of applications should be followed closely by the VO Leaders	VO leaders	08/05/09	Ongoing
198	NA4	VOMS group per application	C. Sener	08/05/09	31/07/09
199	NA4	Presentations are expected from CCIAQ and ROMS (prepared using the template) together with the input for SA1, JRA1, NA4 surveys)	E. Atanasov, D. Davidovic	08/05/09	15/07/09
200	NA4	Cooperation with EIDA and ORFEUS has to be investigated and reported upon.	C. Ortuzan	08/05/09	22/05/09
201	NA4	Seismo VO and NA4 leader clarify contributions of third parties to applications development,	C. Ortuzan	08/05/09	22/05/09
202	NA4	Seismo VO demo improvement	C. Ortuzan	08/05/09	22/05/09
203	NA4	Implement additional SDSAS methods as further needed by applications	C. Ortuzan	08/05/09	31/07/09
204	NA4	Study performance of file access	C. Ortuzan	08/05/09	31/07/09
205	NA4	Environmental VO and NA4 leader clarify contributions of third parties to applications development	Emanouil	08/05/09	22/05/09
206	NA4	Find collaborations for ROMS application	Davor	08/05/09	15/06/09
207	NA4	GENESI-DR collaboration has to be further evaluated, and EGEE-GENESI-DR MoU analyzed for the issue of certificates and data access	D. Gorgan	08/05/09	15/06/09
208	NA4	Moldovan application deployment timeline to be provided	P. Bogatencov	08/05/09	25/05/09
209	SA1	All countries that do not meet site number or CPU commitments to send reports to SA1 leader and PM explaining the situation and future plans	GIMs	08/05/09	25/05/09
210	SA1	All sites that do not appear to publish accounting to check the problem	GIMs	08/05/09	22/05/09
211	SA1	New accounting graphs will be produced for the review (Y1 graphs)	Emanouil	08/05/09	25/05/09
212	SA1	Helpdesk statistics to be produced and used as backup slides for review	Alex S.	08/05/09	22/05/09
213	SA1	Include results from monitoring of vo.ops.see-grid.eu to the CIC portal	Antun	08/05/09	15/06/09
214	SA1	Define logical DNS names for SA1 services	Antun	08/05/09	15/06/09
215	JRA1	Final decision on presentation of OT at review	Branko	08/05/09	22/05/09
216	JRA1	Provide up to date data for JRA1 metrics	JRA1 contractors	08/05/09	15/07/09
217	JRA1	Resolve licensing compatibility issues regarding licenses of components	Boro, Anastas, Davor	08/05/09	15/07/09
218	JRA1	Calculate and analyse JRA1 metrics	Branko	08/05/09	15/08/09
219	JRA1	MJRA1.3 report	IPP - Emanouil	08/05/09	01/09/09
220	JRA1	All AS beyond development stage at Y1 to implement, describe and provide installation packaging	JRA1 contractors	08/05/09	15/09/09
221	SA1	Deployment of additional core services for discipline VOs per country	Antun	18/05/09	15/09/09