• FutureGrid Account received
  
• Created a FutureGrid EMI project proposal and submitted it More Details
• Asked Danilo to create an FutureGrid Portal account

• Applied for FutureGrid Account (pending approval)
  
• Next Step is to create a FutureGrid EMI project - others (like Danilo) should then join this particular project

• ToDo Item from Telcon
• Result:

Defined list of EMI products to be installed on FutureGrid:

(1) EMI-UI, WMS, A-Rex, CREAM, EMI-WN, UNICORE, topBDII, siteBDII

(2) DPM, dCache, LFC

(3) ARGUS, VOMS?

New question: certificate handling, initially VOMS and then bridge with FutureGrid accounting...?

Participants: Gregor, Danilo, Morris

The following questions need to be clarified:

• Who is the major contact on the technical side?
  • Gregor, possibly referred to other experts (sys admins, etc.), always on CC

• What are the resources FutureGrid offers?
  • no technical policies (i.e. only Globus) - all technologies allowed
  • Small resources (5000 cores together, distributed among 5 computers, ~ 1000 cores/computer)
  • List of resources is listed on Website: Link
  • new machine, but with a lot of large memory (biology applications)
  • 500 cores dedicated to HPC, ~200 to Eukalyptus
  • Other status page illustrating which technologies are used in percentage Link

• How is the deployment done?
  • 1) could be done via virtual machine, EMI in virtual machine for example (what is done with Globus - a virtualized Globus)
  • 2) deploy on bare metal - core services and running continously (GIN permanent endpoints, is not listed, but on another node - one of the servers)

• What is the support in the installation of the EMI software on FutureGrid resources?
  • same problem with XSEDE
  • policy - EMI folks could do it on their own - commands need to be limited
  • sudo is not allowed in the moment, but there is work going on to change the policies
  • first establish a level of trust
  • FutureGrid staff would do this in the moment - overworked to have not the capability to install the software
  • How exatly is the access to systems done, indirectly access could be given

• What type of platform you support
  • When SSH access
  • Some EMI services need special ports to be open, specific OSs

• EMI Tutorial on FutureGrid (see FutureGrid Tutorials
  • Create a tutorial for this - this is a requirement from FutureGrid
  • Template for tutorials existing (Gregor sends the PPT)
  • Link

• FutureGrid on EMI Website and EMI Website on FutureGrid Site (dedicated pages)
  • If you want to use EMI software, use it on FutureGrid
  • no official partnerships, no MoUs

• Permanent training infrastructure setup with permanent endpoints?
  • other end-users?
  • certificates?
  • for UNICORE, there is a CA to get the credentials
  • Portal account is needed - everybody needs to have a portal account
  • not incommon, but security working group should be installed, e.g. IGTF and X.509 for example?
  • Integration of accounts for EMI?! Automatically get a portal account
  • Nimbus creates automatically certificates, end-users pick them up from FutureGrid
  • Events - e.g. GridKA School or so
    • 1 - get an portal account, join button will be added, e.g. "EMI training project"
    • 2 - ... needs to be

• Large-scale testing?
  • What exactly this means, requirements, minimum amount of sites, end-users at the same time
  • Scalaility tests?
  • Testbed - 5 distributed environments for FutureGrid are good for tests
  • not really large-scale testing, many users concurrent usage of same resources
  • all resources would be not possible, and large-scale testing needs to be done in XSEDE
  • test plan for large-scale testing needs to be provided by PTs, then check case by case

Next Steps

• TBD (Morris): Send e-mail to FutureGrid contact*
  • Done; Follow-up!
  • Possibly a telcon on 2011-09-06 with Gregor, Danilo and Morris
  • TODO (Morris, Danilo): Formulate requirements (OS), services description needed
  • TODO (Morris): Identify EMI package and services out of this that should be on FutureGrid - perhaps use one very flexible service
  • TODO (Morris): Project submission to FutureGrid, file a project
  • TODO (Morris): EMI Slide set about Gregor
  • TODO (Morris, Gregor): Meet ISC Cloud