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EGEE is a project funded by the European Union

NA3 Overview and Execution plan

Christos Aposkitis

Training manager, GRNET

EGEE-SEE regional kick-off, April 7-8th, 2004

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Objectives of this session

• Understand NA3 organisation

• Overview of the execution plan

• Identify missing inputs and action points

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Outline

• NA3 Overview• High-level NA3 organisation and activities

• Execution plan• NA3 SEE task overview

• Deliverables and milestones

• Organisation Overall Country-specific

• Courses projection

• WBS

• TA effort estimate

• Communication procedures

• Action points

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EGEE Regions

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NA3 objectives

• Producing a portfolio of training material and courses from introductory to advanced user material

• Using this material to train a wide variety of users both internal to the EGEE consortium and from the external user groups from across Europe who will make use of the infrastructure

• Ensuring that EGEE Team Spirit is engendered early in the project’s lifetime

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TA requirement for courses (Internal EGEE)

Course Type Average Attendance

Course Requirements

Number per Year

Induction 50 2 DayWeb Access

≥ 10

Application Developer Training

25 4 DayWorkstations

≥ 8

Advanced Courses 25 5 Day Workstations

≥ 2

Internal Technical Activity Specific Retreats

30 2 Day ≥ 6

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Training of trainers (internal)

• … to a level deeper than that at which they train.

• Training places demands on other activities, before the training burden can be lifted from them!

• Trainers are early users.

Time

Effort

Trainers

Developers

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Initial planning (internal)

• The initial training material for external courses, including tutorials and practical classes will be developed and managed by NeSC (UEDIN) with input from other EGEE teams

• Initial team focus: EGEE internal induction course• First run 26-28 April at NeSC (for EGEE trainers and participants)

• Draft modules onto Web during May

• Second run 18-20 May at CERN (for EGEE trainers and participants)

• Produce course in June: available as modules, as configurable days, as well as two-day course envisaged by Technical Annex

AP: Identify participants (1 per country)

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Internal induction course: targets

• Induction course will include:

Grids and their application

EGEE Project – context, history, goals, structure

EGEE Grid – current middleware, future technology

EGEE Project procedures – management, admin, website, where to find standards

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Internal induction course: outline

• Resources available include:• 2 day EDG tutorial

• GENIUS portal

• Demonstrations

• Tutorial material tested & available by end May:• ~1 day on EGEE structure, procedures, goals, context, introduction to

Grids, applications & technologies Released to EGEE Intranet in May (drafts earlier)

• ~1 day on demonstrations, practicals with both GENIUS and command-line interfaces

Suited to new recruits especially; usable for external induction later.

• Modular, configurable resources will be on EGEE Intranet

• Trainers across EGEE will be mobilised to deliver these

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Training material (external)

• Introductory tutorials on necessary background (OGSI/GT3/etc.)

• Introductory tutorials on EGEE specifics

• Application development tutorials for end-users

• Hands-on tutorials regarding EGEE services use

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NA3 execution plan: overview

• Execution plan• Main part – overall organisation, responsibilities, procedures, task

breakdown etc. Core is provided

• Detailed planning – detailing per country task breakdown, staffing, planning, organisation etc. TBD per country.

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Deliverables

Month Deliverable Item Partner Lead SEE partner

M3 DNA3.1.1 Training Plan GRNET, TAU, ICI, UCY, CLPP-BAS

M6 DNA3.2 Initial Training Course Material

GRNET, TAU, ICI, UCY, CLPP-BAS

M9 DNA3.1.2 Training Plan update 1 GRNET, TAU, ICI, UCY, CLPP-BAS

M9 DNA3.3.1 Training Progress Report GRNET, TAU, ICI, UCY, CLPP-BAS

M15 DNA3.1.3 Training Plan update 2 GRNET, TAU, ICI, UCY, CLPP-BAS

M15 DNA3.3.2 Training Progress Report update 1

GRNET, TAU, ICI, UCY, CLPP-BAS

M24 DNA3.3.3 Training Progress Report update 2

GRNET, TAU, ICI, UCY, CLPP-BAS

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Milestones

Month Milestone Item Partner Lead SEE partner

M3 MNA3.1 Planning phase complete – DNA3.1.1 delivered + production of courses begin

GRNET, TAU, ICI, UCY, CLPP-BAS

M6 MNA3.2 First user training material and induction course available (including partial translation for SEE regional languages)

GRNET, TAU, ICI, UCY, CLPP-BAS

M12 MNA3.3 First external review of User Training and Induction with feedback

GRNET, TAU, ICI, UCY, CLPP-BAS

M24 MNA3.4 Second external review of User Training and Induction with feedback

GRNET, TAU, ICI, UCY, CLPP-BAS

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SEE partners

Participant Role FTE (EU funded + unf.)

GRNET Coordinator; Training: GR & CY

UCY GRNET Support in Cyprus

ICI Training: RO and BG

CLPP-BAS ICI Support in BG

TAU Training: IS

Total effort

AP: Confirm FTEs

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Training organization

SEE Regional Training Manager

Training Manager – Greece + Cyprus

Training Manager – Israel

Training Manager – Romania + Bulgaria

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Training organization

• GRNET will be coordinating the NA3 effort in the SA region, with the input from all partners. This includes coordinating partners’ input to deliverables + overall coordination of the course planning and delivery in the region; with the strong participation from TAU and ICI.

• The training manager role on the regional level: GRNET.

• Country regional training managers in Romania (ICI), Israel (TAU) and Greece (GRNET).

• Support training managers in Cyprus and Bulgaria help the training activities.

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NA3 key individuals

NA3

C. Aposkitis [email protected]

O. Prnjat [email protected]

David Horn [email protected]

Amihai Loven [email protected]

D. Banciu [email protected]

V. Florian [email protected]

UCY

CLPP-BAS

AP: Confirm Key Personnel

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Identification of personnel & roles

AP: Identify ALL personnel and roles for ALL countries

Collaborator name Contact/email Institute Role

Christos Aposkitis [email protected]

SEE Regional training manager; Training manager Greece/Cyprus

Ognjen Prnjat [email protected] GRNET Alternate training manager Greece

Kostas Koumataros [email protected] GRNET Alternate training manager Greece

UCY Support training manager Cyprus

David Horn [email protected] TAU Training manager Israel

Amihai Loven [email protected] TAU Alternate training manager Israel

Itzhak Ben Akiva [email protected] TAU TAU/WI middleware expert

Lorne Levinson [email protected] WI Head of HEP PC farm

Assaf Schuster [email protected] IIT Head of CS Distributed System Lab

ICI Training manager RO/BG

CLPP-BAS Support training manager RO/BG

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Courses for external users per country

GREECE and CYPRUS Course Type

Introductory Grid Tutorials

EGEE introduction + hands-on tutorials

Application Development tutorials

Number per Year

Year 1: 3 (Athens, Salonica, Cyprus)Year 2: 5 (Athens, Thessaloniki, Heraklion, Patras, Cyprus)

Year 1: 2 (Athens, Cyprus)Year 2: 5 (Athens, Thessaloniki, Heraklion, Patras, Cyprus)

Year 2: 2 (Athens, Cyprus)

Average Attendance 50 25 25

Course Length (days) 1-2 2-3 5

Course Equipment Web Access Workstations Workstations

EGEE Staff / course

non-EGEE experts/course

Course materials + other costs

AP: Identify courses planned per country (including costs)

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PBS

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WBS

• The initial work breakdown structure:

• Deliverable tasks

• Infrastructure setup and course delivery throughout the lifetime of the project• The actual training is a bursty activity

• Setup of User Interface (UI) at training locations – support from local partners

• Translations (continuous)

• Training testbed – open issue (currently taken up by UEDIN)

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Activity plan (example)

Task Task Title Partner Start End Total effort

Person responsible

Details

NA3.1 Contribute to DNA3.1.1 (Training Plan)

M1 M3

NA3.1.1 Identification of topics M1 M3

NA3.1.2 Identification of target audience M1 M3

NA3.1.3 Identification of existing and potential facilities

M1 M3

NA3.1.4 Identification of provisional training locations and dates

M1 M3

AP: Finalize activity plan

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Activity plan (example)

NA3.10 Course delivery GR+CY GRNET, UCY M4 M24

NA3.10.1 Infrastructure setup M4 M24

NA3.10.2 Grid Introduction course delivery M4 M24

NA3.10.3 EGEE introduction/ hands-on course delivery

M6 M24

NA3.10.4 Application development course delivery M12 M24

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Effort

• Effort needs to be identified

• Real PMs/partner needed

• Real people needed

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TA effort estimate: PMs

Partner Budget (KEuro)

Total effort (FTE), 2 yrs

Total effort (PM), 2 yrs

1st yr effort (PM)

2nd yr effort (PM)

Role

GRNET 120+120 15+15

TAU 70 8.75+8.75

ICI 70+70 35

Total

AP: Finalize FTEs and PMs

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Detailed names

Collaborator name Institute Role Provisional date in M1 to 12

FTE (0..1) F/UF

David Horn TAU Manager M1-12 0.15

Amihai Loven TAU, IAG Assistant Manager M1-12 0.25

Itzhak Ben Akiva TAU Middleware expert M1-12

Assaf Schuster IIT M1-12

Lorne Levinson WI M1-12

Total effort

Effort from the TA

Deviation

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Communications procedures

[email protected] TBC

[email protected] TBC

• CERN Document Server (CDS): http://agenda.cern.ch/displayLevel.php?fid=41

• EDMS server (In OTHERS/EGEE/) https://edms.cern.ch

• Main site http://egee-intranet.web.cern.ch/egee-intranet/gateway.html

• Restricted members area http://egee-members.web.cern.ch/egee-members/index.html

• CERN NICE/EDMS accounts: [email protected]

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Action points

• AP: Confirm partners’ FTEs• Confirm Key Personnel

• For ALL countries:• Identify ALL personnel (names!) and roles• Identify courses planned per country (including costs)• Finalize activity plan

• But keep activities coarse-grained• Effort:

• Real PMs/partner needed• Real people needed

• Deadline execution plan draft: 15th April• In order to have a good estimate for Cork conference