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NA2 Status Update

ETICS2 second AHM Isabel MatrangaEngineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA

Darmstadt, 18 - 20 February 2009

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DisseminationActivities performed from M8 to M12

Events and main outcomes

• QA&Test (45 minutes slot)• Collected feedback from experts in QA• New kind of audience

• EU Condor Week (45 minute session )• Discussion on virtualisation techniques• Interesting liaisons

• SC08 (poster at INFN stand)• We were there!

• NorduGrid 2008 (a workshop was dedicated to the Unified Middleware Distribution)

• Discussion on the use of ETICS as common build and test system and repository for all middleware implementations

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DisseminationActivities performed from M8 to M12

Events and main outcomes

• 6th eConcertation meeting• exchanged information and results with other e-

Infrastructure projects teams • ICT 2008

• Interesting liaisons

• EGEE JRA1/SA3 All-Hands meeting• presentation of the new features • feedback collection

• EGI meetings (?)• Discussion on the use of ETICS as common build and

test system and repository for all middleware implementations

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DisseminationActivities performed from M8 to M12

Events prepared

• OGF25/EGEE User Forum• The ETICS System Job Submission Facilities• Validation of standard compliance and interoperability of

grid software using the ETICS Test System (a shorter version will be merged into the SW Development Tools workshop)

• Using the ETICS Test System to analyse standard compliance and interoperability of grid software two 90-minute slots

• Workshop for CBT• Postponed to the 10th March

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Poster

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News

• Zero-in Magazine

Prepared a news for iSGWT waiting for commentsfrom PMB. It will be send to iSGWT on the 20th Feb

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ETICS Website

• Keeping it updated

• Software Quality page added

• Download and install page

• Testimonials page (needs testimonials!)

• New home page

• Re-organisation of the content

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ETICS on the web

• ETICS in EGI Knowledge base

• ETICS in EGEE collaborating project page

• ETICS public documents in Belief DL

• ETICS on Gasuc (Grid Application Support Centre) supported tools and technologies page (Coming soon)

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DisseminationMilestones and Deliverables from M8 to M12

• DNA2.6 (Dissemination and Use of Knowledge Plan – second update) (in progress)

• MNA2.3 (Dissemination events organized (according to dissemination plan) (OK)

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DisseminationIn the next six months …

• Keep the website updated

• Preparation of workshops

• More effort must be spent on converting interested others into users

• News and Articles

• Participation to Conferences

• DNA2.8 Dissemination and Use of Knowledge Plan – third update)

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Training Activities from M8 to M12

• DNA2.4 (First year analysis of training and tuning activities - M12) (in progress)

• On-line training courses and demos (Delayed from M06)

• 1 Day training to ARC people (February)

Issue: Training activities delayed because ofrecruitment issues in other WPs in which activitieshad higher priority.

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TrainingIn the next six months …

• Training session at OGF25/EGEE User Forum (2nd March)

Need to activate a contingecy plan to recoverdelays and perform future activities

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A-QCMActivities performed from M8 to M12

• From Grid-QCM to A-QCM • High level design of A-QCM web interface• QA&TEST conference• A-QCM contribution for ETICS 2 web site • DNA2.3 (ETICS Grid Quality Certification Activity Report)• Identification of alforithms for A-QCM metrics

implementation• Consultation with experts• Improvement of the A-QCM model (coding style

evaluation module)• A-QCM competitor analysis

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A-QCMIn the next six months

• Trial certification (MNA2.4 two projects are issued with a GridQCM certificate – M12) (Delayed)

• Dissemination• Logo Final version• Improvement according to feedback• DNA2.7 (ETICS Grid Quality Certification Activity Report)• Workshop with quality experts• Preparation for the presentation of A-QCM to ISO

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Long-term sustainabilityActivities performed from M8 to M12

• Definition of a strategy that will allow the ETICS 2 services to become self sustainable (work in progress)

• Market analysis of “competitors” (work in progress)

• DNA2.6 (Long-term sustainability strategy and activity report – M12) (work in progress)

• An investigation on how ETICS 2, regarded as a System and Service, can be mapped to the ISO/IEC-12207 Software Lifecycle Processes

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Long-term sustainabilityin the next six months

• Consolidation of strategy that will allow the ETICS 2 services to become self sustainable

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Thank you!

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