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Thanks to the VO that replied so far. We extend the deadline till Thu 3rd March to let other VOs provide their feedback.
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Dear VO managers,
this year an important change is going to happen to the middleware that you use daily to run your analysis, simulations, and to manage your data:
the authentication and authorisation mechanism will move from X509 personal certificates to federated identities based on tokens.
This means that in order to access all of the EGI services you will need to use your academic/social account, and this account needs to be registered in EGI Check-in (see for example https://docs.egi.eu/users/check-in/signup/ ).
The EGI Cloud Compute service (https://docs.egi.eu/users/cloud-compute/) already moved time ago to the usage of federated identities as authentication system, so the services we refer to are the ones historically called "grid services" such as Computing Elements and Storage Elements (using protocols like SRM, webdav/http, GridFTP, etc.).
We would like to implement this change in a smooth way, and we expect to have a transition period where both X509 and federated identities tokens can be used.
During this transition phase there might be delays in updating the GRID elements to the latest version compliant with tokens, not all of the middleware products will be compliant with tokens at the same time, and the same VO will have to interact with element supporting different authentication methods.
In order to better plan this huge change in the usage of our Infrastructure, we would really appreciate to have your feedback about your experience with the aforementioned services: we ask you to reply to some questions with the aim to understand how this change will affect your normal workflow and to implement it in a way as much transparent to you as possible.
The survey will take only a few minutes to be filled in and it is oriented to the VO managers: we would like to have one reply per VO.
Of course, before replying to the survey, you can collect the relevant information from the most-active users, or in case you can also ask one of them to reply on behalf of your VO.
Llnk to the survey: https://survey.egi.eu/812154?lang=en
Thanks for your collaboration,
EGI Operations
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Dear All
I'm pleased to announce a new webinar in March. ENES is an ESFRI Research Infrastructure for Climate research. It joins the EGI-ACE project as one of the Data Spaces. They will share their advanced service solutions using EGI Cloud. Register now to reserve your place!
Title: ENES Data Space Service
Date and Time: Wednesday, 9th March 2022 |14:00 -15:00 PM CET
Description: The ENES Data Space delivers an open, scalable and cloud-enabled data science environment for climate data analysis on top of the EOSC Compute Platform. It provides access to a set of specific CMIP variable-centric collections to support meteorological and industrial researchers in realistic climate model analysis experiments. Data is downloaded and kept in sync with the ESGF federated data archive. This webinar will provide a general overview of the ENES Data Space service and its main features. In addition, the Synda command line tool used to explore, download and place files within the adequat directories from the ESGF archive will be introduced. Moreover, the webinar will include a tutorial on how to join the ENES Data Space service and a short demo for the participants to get started with the data analysis and visualization features.
Agenda: https://indico.egi.eu/event/5743/
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ijOg_RPlQJyj1OetvBqHyA
Speakers: Fabrizio Antonio & Atef Ben Nasser
Fabrizio Antonio was awarded a Master’s Degree with first-class honors in Computer Engineering from the University of Salento, Faculty of Engineering, in April 2016, with a thesis on High Performance Computing and Big Data. In May 2016, he joined the Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) Division of CMCC. Since 2019, he has been contributing to the Dashboard Working Team in the context of the Earth System Grid Federation. He is also currently involved in some European Open Science Cloud projects, like EOSC-Pillar and EGI-ACE, as well as in the IS-ENES3 project. His research activities focus on parallel, distributed and cloud computing and, in particular, on distributed data management and high-performance big data analytics and mining for eScience in the context of climate change.
Atef Ben Nasser is a research engineer working on climate data management within the ESPRI team at CNRS-IPSL since 2015. With a background in software engineering, he contributes to the development and enhancement of data publication and replication tools and the automatization of the climate simulation data publication chain, as well as the support of various actors within the community to better use the existing tools. He is a key developer of the ESGF community and a member of the ES-DOC technical committee.
Please follow our EGI webinar program at: https://www.egi.eu/webinars/
Kind Regards and Looking forward to seeing you all soon!
Yin
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EGI Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
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