EGI CF14 NeIC project organisation and status reports session
This page contains information on the NeIC session on NeIC project organisation and status reports during the 2014 EGI Community Forum 19-23 May.
Time: 14:00-15:30 on Wednesday 21th
Place: Helsinki, Finland.
Audience: Open to all registered at the EGI CF.
Contact person: Michaela Barth.
Agenda
The session will consist of presentations from NeIC and presentations centered on the projects being supported by NeIC.
Session chair: Michaela Barth, NeIC Generic Area Coordinator
- 35+5 min NeIC - Collaboration and projects, Gudmund Høst (NeIC Director), slides:
- NeIC facilitates development and operation of e-Infrastructure solutions in areas of joint Nordic interest. Activities are initiated by our stakeholders, organised into activity areas and the practical work is carried out in projects. How do you engage with NeIC? Through a description of the NeIC collaboration model the aim of this presentation is to provide guidance on the various entry points for such engagement. An overview of current projects will also be given.
- 20+5 min The Nordic Scientific Cloud, Åke Edlund (Nordic Cloud coord., PDC-HPC, KTH), slides:
- The goal of the Nordic Cloud is to share knowledge and set best practices on managing cloud services and to create a Nordic federated cloud service, driven by the need of the Nordic researchers. The sharing of cloud resources among the Nordic countries will enable an easier form of collaboration form for researchers. Instead of moving large amount of data between countries, the analysis can be done where the data is. Sharing also evens out the peaks and valleys between resource demand and capacity in the individual sites/countries. The Nordic Cloud aims to create a secure and fair share marketplace of services for scientific collaboration within the Nordic countries.The Nordic Cloud will be designed to be a co-ordination and interface point towards European initiatives for Federated cloud infrastructure development and deployment.
- 20+5 min Nordic Tier-1 and the EGI infrastructure, Oxana Smirnova (LU), slides:
- The Nordic Tier1, also known as NDGF-T1, is so far the only distributed Tier1 that provides storage and computing services to the LHC experiments. In order to meet the strict Tier1 service level requirements, NDGF-T1 makes use of the EGI infrastructure services, most notably, those for information, monitoring and accounting. Since NDGF-T1 relies on ARC-CE for computing, NeIC contributed to integration of this service into the EGI systems, and this now allows other EGI sites to smoothly switch to ARC-CE.
Description
NeIC, the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration is facilitating the operation and development of advanced IT tools and services in areas of importance to Nordic researchers. During this session NeIC will present its Collaboration Model and Project Handling Principles. This will be followed by an update of some of the ongoing projects. Main focus will be put on the Nordic Cloud project and operation of the Nordic Tier-1.