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EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE

www.eu-egee.org

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Gergely Sipos

Activity Deputy Manager

MTA SZTAKI, Hungary

EGI.eu – User Community Support Team

EGEE-III Final Review, 23-24 June, 2010

NA3 - User Training and

Induction


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Activity overview

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Country Total PM

planned at M24 Total FTE

Austria 16 0.7

Belgium 12 0.5

Bulgaria 22 0.9

CERN

Croatia 12 0.5

Cyprus 12 0.5

Czech Republic 8 0.3

Finland

France 24 1.0

Germany

Greece 30 1.3

Hungary 80 3.3

Ireland

Israel 12 0.5

Italy 144 6.0

Netherlands

Norway

Poland 28 1.2

Portugal 9 0.4

Romania 20 0.8

Russia 42 1.8

Serbia 22 0.9

Slovakia 24 1.0

Slovenia

Spain 38 1.6

Sweden

Switzerland 12 0.5

Turkey 20 0.8

UK 108 4.5

Total PM 695

Total FTE 29.0

NA12%

NA24%

NA38%

NA419%

NA51%

SA149%

SA22%

SA39%

JRA16%



NA3 objectives in EGEE-III

Activity objectives

– Expand and refine the training material and courses, to provide training resources for an ever-widening range of Grid applications.

– Train a wide variety of users, within EGEE consortium & outside users of other middleware.

– Develop mechanisms for passing on knowledge to end-users of EGEE related projects.

– Expand online learning services, meeting the needs of an expanded project and larger user-base.

– Support the provision of t-Infrastructure on the GILDA testbed by developing/maintaining training resources to cover diverse range of application scenarios.

Priorities in 2nd year

• Scalability and sustainability

– Autonomous national training groups established at every NGI

– Integration of t-Infrastructure into production infrastructure

– Continuation of training services in EGI is ensured



NA3 tasks

TNA3.1

• Course Content, Scheduling, Organisation & Delivery

– Lead Partner – University of Edinburgh

– Partners – All

TNA3.2a

• Trainer Support Systems

– 1 Partner - University of Edinburgh

TNA3.2b

• Training Infrastructure Provision

– Lead partner – INFN, Catania

– Partners – 9

TNA3.3

• Activity Management & Partner Coordination

– Lead partner – University of Edinburgh (NA3 manager: Robin McConnell)Deputy – MTA SZTAKI

– Partners - 6



Training events

134

Y1 - 104

Accredited trainers(Target 110)

185

Y1 - 101

Training Events(Target 120)

2312 Y1 - 1424 Participants (Target 1200)

7768 Y1 - 4431 Participant days (Target 3000)

29

Countries



Geographical spread of events

http://bit.ly/EGEEtrainingmap

185 events in

EGEE-III

80 separate

locations

worldwide

2312

participants

Training designated as a NGI task



Breakdown by event type

Advanced3%

Application developer

14%Applications

6%

Induction64%

System Administrator

8%

Train the Trainer3%

Workshop (retreat)2%

Average evaluation score of events is 5.1 (out of 6)



EGEE collaboration events



Model for learning - IWSGC

eLearning school

Resources

eLearning event with collaboration between gLite, Globus, UNICORE, Condor

• 4 technology weeks

• ~17 hours per week (student average)

• 35 Participants


EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 NA3 – Gergely Sipos - EGEE-III Final Review 23-24 June 2010

ISSGC’09

• International Summer School in Grid

Computing 2009

– Sophia Antipolis, France, 5-17 July

– Major collaboration event: 58 sessions

– 45 participants

– EGEE Involvement:

gLite: major technologies

GILDA: testbed for most of the practical

sessions

NA3 members on program committee and

trainers’ group

CNRS - local organiser

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Services for sustainable training

• Accreditation of trainers

– All the 29 NA3 partner NGIs are self-sufficient in terms of training

– Training contact for 72% of all the NGIs

• GILDA VO is now part of the production infrastructure

– No difference in the maintenance of a production and a training site

– NGIs can contribute to training VO with production sites

• Training support services continue in EGI

– Digital library

– Training event database

– Trainer registry

– GILDA VO central services

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Development of EGEE trainers

• Training the trainers events

– Provide partner autonomy

– Experts ensure quality of message

• Trainer accreditation

Peer approval

Details of training experience

– Currently 134 trainers



Location of accredited trainers

(Current; increase in Y2)

15

7

2

717

1

3

86

16

5

3

1

2

15

2

5

2

1

4

7

1

Taiwan – 8

Australia – 1

Japan – 1

5

3

+3

+3 +2+5

+16

1

+1



GILDA t-Infrastructure

• GILDA is now one VO of the EGEE production infrastructure

• Availability and reliability of sites over 90%

• GILDA CA inserted in EugridPMA bundle

13 site

~1100 cpu



GILDA t-Infrastructure

• Available for grid training – 24/7

• Bookable for training events (also for commercial events)

– Year 1: 85 events

– Year 2: 84 events

• Available for application prototyping and porting

– Applications can be migrated to scientific VOs

• Documentation and facilities offered at different levels– Example:



Digital library - updates

Improved Search & Filter

New eLearning modules

Rebranding

Contains now over 6900 learning resources! (>100 videos)



Issues to resolve in EGI

• Not all the NGIs have accredited trainers

– Are these countries self-sufficient in term of training?

• Keeping trainer registry up to date

– Not all the accredited trainers are in the people registry

– How and when to modify/remove a trainer registration?

• Keeping the critical number of sites in the training VO



Summary

• 185 training events delivered, and with wider geographical coverage

than anticipated, well above target metrics

• Support services continuously enhanced during EGEE-III, in

response to need for greater scalability and usability

• Expanding trainer base in NGIs to ensure sustainable training in EGI

• Training infrastructure services are operated by EGI as „NGI Global

tasks”