INFSO-RI-508833 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE Training and Induction NA3, SA1, JRA1 & JRA3 NA2, NA3...

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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE

www.eu-egee.org

Training and Induction NA3, SA1, JRA1 & JRA3NA2, NA3 & NA4

Malcolm Atkinson & David Fergusson

22nd April 2005

Malcolm Atkinson: NA3, SA1, JRA1 & 3; NA2-4 reporting 2


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Contents

• Summary of NA3 achievements– Course delivery– Shared repository

• Plans for gLite training – Early courses– Training trainers

• Developing the daily business– E-Learning– Regular courses

• Outcome of NA3 External Review• Conclusions

– Positive statements about NA3



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We all power Virtuous Cycles

ResearchersDiagnosticians

Designers

UserInductionTraining

OutreachDissemination

SuccessfulUsers

User Registration

Positive

Referrals

ApplicationDevelopers

Dissemination

DeveloperInitial

Training

ApplicationDevelopers

At home on EGEE

PositiveReferralsDeveloper

AdvancedTraining

New EGEEApplications

PushingLimits

AdvancedEGEE

ApplicationsSuccessStories &Experts

That is just the start of building an active & happy user community rest of EGEE



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Distributed and Federated

NeSCEdinburgh

UK & Ireland

GUPLinz

Austria

InnsbruckAustria

CESNETPrague

Czech Rep.

BUTEBudapestHungary

ELUBBudapestHungary

MTA SZTAKIBudapestHungary

ICMWarsawPoland

PSNCPoznanPoland

II-SASBratislavaSlovakia

FZKKarlsruheGermany

INFNRomeItaly

KU-NATFAK Copenhagen

Denmark

IHEPMoscowRussia

IMPB RASMoscowRussia

ITEPMoscowRussia

JINRDubnaRussia

PNPIPetersburgh

Russia

RRCKIMoscowRussia

GRNETAthensGreece

TAUTel Aviv

Isreal

ICIBucharestRomania



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Global Dissemination & Training



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Current training topics

• Induction

• LCG2 installation

• LCG2 APIs

• Design

– UML

• Related project support

– DILIGENT

• VO specific training

– GATE

– Biomed

• gLite preparation– Web Services– WSDL– WSRF– GT4

NA3 produces courses based on commitments in the execution plan and training requests which have been received

from SA1, NA4 & NA2

Biomed Application Developers Course, Madrid

•SA1, NA3 & NA4 collaborating



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NA3 contributed • planning • organisation• coursesPresentations• Grid applications – a

portal-based approach• Introduction to Web

Services • Introduction to GENIUS

and GILDA • An Introduction to Data

Services & OGSA-DAI

GGF Summer School 2004

ISSGC’05

10-22 July 2005

Send your students

Tell your Friends

Suggest topics and experts

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German + Swiss federation



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Training: Quantity & Quality

Participants grade course from 1 to 6Trainers review grades and revise course material and training plans

Total attendance at courses

0

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

14

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4

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.04

6.5

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26

.5.0

4

29

.6.0

4

18

.7.0

4

8.9

.04

17

.9.0

4

21

.9.0

4

11

.10

.04

22

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1.0

4

15

.11

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.11

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4

16

.12

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17

.1.0

5

4.2

.05

28

.2.0

5

10

.3.0

5

23

.3.0

5

12

.4.0

5

Event

No of students

Workshops

Advanced

Developer

Induction

Training Overall Feedback

1.00

2.00

3.00

4.00

5.00

6.00

0/1/00 20/1/00 9/2/00 29/2/00 20/3/00 9/4/00

Date

Sc

ore

Given the impressive achievements of NA3, we have identified the following domains for improvement

Match course offering with participants’ profile and

expectations

Sustain access to t-

infrastructure and course

material beyond course

Facilitate regular

improvement/ review course

format and material

•Overall view: training needs much more resources in EU R&D to realise the Lisbon goals

Sustain access to t-infrastructure and course material beyond course

• Allow participants to learn how to use their application on the Grid framework

• Provide online discussion communities via Wiki and e-learning

• Establish global t-infrastructure

• Sustainable, homogenous infrastructure rather than one-off installations

• Dedicate and maintain nodes to t-infrastructure to facilitate post-course training environment

• Possibility to establish standards

• But: issue of authentication and authorisation

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Inter-Activity Collaboration

NA3

JRA1NA4

SA1JRA3NA2

Leading the UIG group

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NA3

JRA1NA4

SA1JRA3NA2Staff share roles, trainingvisits, training for NA2, sharedinformation, announcements and stories

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NA3

JRA1NA4

SA1JRA3NA2NA3 training material,

security for training

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NA3

JRA1NA4

SA1JRA3NA2

Sys admin courses,

Best practice storiesInfo-source foroutlying sites

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NA3

JRA1NA4

SA1JRA3NA2

Review by JRA1 of

gLite courses,

NA3 review & feedbackon documentation

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NA3

JRA1NA4

SA1JRA3NA2

Joint courses,

MoU includes trainingJoint development oft-InfrastructureVO input to training



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Plans for gLite

• Already done– gLite on GILDA– Evaluation in Russia

• Now– gLite documentation review– gLite course materila– gLite exercises

• May– 9-13 PPARC summer school – intro to Application Development– 30-31 gLite Applications Developer – in Edinburgh

• June– Early June JRA1 NA3+JRA1 f2f meeting to review courses– Biomed meeting organised Massimo Lyon– 13-16 June Training the Trainers Catania



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Plans for gLite

• July– 10 – 17 Budapest summer school SZTAKI– 10 – 22GGF ISSGC’05 Vico Equense– Late July SA1 GGUS training FZK

• August– 23 gLite Introduction Taiwan

• September– GRID KA Summer school– gLite Applications training Greece



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Business as Usual

• Development of Repository– > 200 talks– Extend content– Improve description & indexing– Include general (NA2) EGEE talks?

• Development of e-Learning– Schedule of feature releases– Demo at EGEE conf 4

• Regular Courses



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Summary of Joint Meetings

• gLite training required sooner than expected– Other training still required

• Need to develop integrated support– After training after care + close relationship with SA1 user

support

• Training needed for isolated workers– Can’t easily travel– Admin & operations especially

• Security training for operations & site security officers– Urgently needed– Include in all introduction as well

• VO Specific training– Work with domain experts – more effort – more effect



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Conclusions

• EGEE training is getting strong supporting statements– EU reviewers– Students feedback– External NA3 Review– NA4 survey of VOs – especially biomed.

• The demand is there• The importance of training will increase• It will take more resources in the future

– EGEE2 should resource in all activities– Work to get greater investment

National bodies Universities EU

• Low rate of releases of Infrastructure beneficial for training



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