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Dear all
We are please to announce a new webinar talk by EISCAT on 28th Jun. EISCAT is an advanced science community with rich experiences of using EGI services. Dr Maria Mihalikova from EISCAT science association will introduce the EISCAT tools developed by integrating EGI services. Please register and don't miss the opportunity to meet the experts and asking their experiences!
Title: Access to the EISCAT tools with help of EGI checkin
Date & Time: Wednesday, 28th June 2023 |14:00 -15:00 CEST
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B9DvncZGRd-3Dd7cQrsfsg#/registr…
Description
The present era of rapid technological advances creates a challenge for data providers and scientists to create and maintain FAIR data and services not just for future operations but also for historical data gathered and analysed with technologies that are slowly phasing out of their usage. GUISDAP is an open-source software package, written in MATLAB, C and Fortran and provided and maintained by EISCAT, for analysis and visualisation of its incoherent scatter radar data as well as for some other radars in the world. One way how to preserve GUISDAP operability and accessibility by the user community is to make it accessible through a Jupyter notebook docker deployment through EISCAT resources and in the frame of an EOSC project. This will help to ensure the FAIRness of EISCAT data by providing tools for reanalysis and visualisation that will be accessible by any potential EISCAT user with the help of EGI check-in technology.
Target audience: e-Infrastructure platform /technology providers
Program:
-- 20 min presentation
-- 20 min demo
-- 20min Q&A
Speaker: Dr Maria Mihalikova, Staff scientist, EISCAT Science association
Dr. Maria Mihalikova is a staff scientist joining the EISCAT team at Headquarters in Kiruna. Maria comes from Slovakia and grew up in Ivanka pri Dunaji near Bratislava. She has a master’s degree in physics with a focus on meteorology and climatology from Comenius University in Bratislava and a PhD in Space Technology from the Luleå Technical University.
After working for a number of years as an aviation meteorologist at the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, Maria started her doctoral studies in the Polar Atmospheric Research Program at IRF in Kiruna in 2009. In 2013 Maria got her Phd.
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Training Sessions during EGI2023
#EGI2023 takes place in Poznań, Poland, from June 19th until June 23rd 2023.
Especially on Monday and Friday, you have the possibility to attend several training sessions to improve or refresh your skills on the EGI solutions, or connect with high-qualified specialists in a variety of fields and sectors.
In particular, I would like to bring to your attention the Security Workshop on Friday (23/06) organized by CSIRT.
During this training session, several aspect of operational security will be explored, including the sharing of appropriate intelligence and the conceptual design of a Services Operations Centre (SOC) environment appropriate for cloud infrastructures.
Special rate are also offered for you to attend multiple training sessions.
How does it work?
- Take a look at the programme and define which trainings are of interest for you.
- Through the EGI2023 main registration page, select the suitable 'Single Training Day' ticket.
- In the question form, indicate what trainings you would like to attend. Two weeks before the conference starts you will be asked to confirm/change your selection in case you changed your mind, or anything interesting gets added to the programme.
I have my ticket, what now?
- Sit back and relax! Your trainer will reach out to you before the training about the programme and any useful additional information (prior knowledge, equipment to bring, ...).
- Make sure to indicate yourself as 'attending' in the Whova event app [4] - this is a quick way to receive updates from the organisers (for example if there is a room change).
We're looking forward to seeing you soon!
Yin
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Dr Yin Chen
Community Support Officer
EGI Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
W: www.egi.eu | E: yin.chen(a)egi.eu | M: +31 (0)6 3037 3096 | Skype: yin.chen.egi | Twitter: @yinchen16
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Dear all
We are honoured to invite Dr Lukasz Dutka, PLGrid Technical Director of Cyfronet AHG in the EGI Webinar program to give a talk on 14th Jun. It will update the new development in Onedata which is the core technology for one of EGI popular services, DataHub. Register Now! to secure a place that you can directly ask questions and discuss collaborations!
Title: Leveraging the Onedata Platform for Long-Term Data Archiving and Processing: Integration with OAIS Standard and FaaS Capabilities
Date & Time: Wednesday, 14th June 2023 |14:00 -15:00 CEST
Webinar page: https://www.egi.eu/event/23993-2/
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_g8t6IWw8Sj-EUfdWoXCHDg
Description:
In this presentation, we will discuss the latest advancements in the Onedata platform, focusing on its new features for long-term data archiving and processing. We will demonstrate how the platform has been optimized to meet the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) standards, ensuring the reliable preservation and accessibility of archived information over time. Furthermore, we will explore the integration of Function as a Service (FaaS) capabilities in the platform, allowing for seamless and scalable data processing on demand. By combining the robust archiving capabilities of the OAIS standard with the flexibility of FaaS, the Onedata platform emerges as a powerful solution for organizations seeking efficient and reliable management of their long-term data storage and processing needs.
Target audience
-- Domain scientists and research
-- e-Infrastructure platform / technology providers
-- Data Scientists
Program
-- Demo 45 min
-- Q&A 15 min
Speaker: Dr Lukasz Dutka, PLGrid Technical Director, Cyfronet AHG
Lukasz has extensive experience managing large development teams in commercial software companies. His scientific interests encompass large-scale computer systems, system architectures, component-based approaches, and leveraging cutting-edge computer technologies for modern solutions. Since 2008, he has been serving as the Technical Director of the PL-GRID project. Since 2012 his leading the development of Onedata distributed management platform.
He earned his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Jagiellonian University in Poland and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology in Cracow, Poland.
Training Sessions during EGI2023
#EGI2023 takes place in Poznań, Poland, from June 19th until June 23rd 2023. Read more here [2]
Especially on Monday and Friday, you have the possibility to attend several training sessions to improve
or refresh your skills on the EGI solutions, or connect with high-qualified specialists in a variety of fields and sectors.
In particular, I would like to bring to your attention the Security Workshop on Friday (23/06) organized by CSIRT.
During this training session, several aspect of operational security will be explored, including the sharing of appropriate intelligence and the conceptual design of a Services Operations Centre (SOC) environment appropriate for cloud infrastructures.
Special rate are also offered for you to attend multiple training sessions.
How does it work?
- Take a look at the programme and define which trainings are of interest for you.
- Through the EGI2023 main registration page [3], select the suitable 'Single Training Day' ticket.
- In the question form, indicate what trainings you would like to attend. Two weeks before the conference starts you will be asked to confirm/change your selection in case you changed your mind, or anything interesting gets added to the programme.
I have my ticket, what now?
- Sit back and relax! Your trainer will reach out to you before the training about the programme and any useful additional information (prior knowledge, equipment to bring, ...).
- Make sure to indicate yourself as 'attending' in the Whova event app [4] - this is a quick way to receive updates from the organisers (for example if there is a room change).
[1] https://whova.com/web/M8zkrnLo5DUwlnug54VINPkHTdssyl49PHa20jCW2Qg%3D/Agenda/
[2] https://www.egi.eu/event/egi2023/
[3] https://whova.com/portal/registration/egi_202305/
[4] https://whova.com/portal/webapp/egi_202305/
We're looking forward to seeing you soon!
Yin
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Dr Yin Chen
Community Support Officer
EGI Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
W: www.egi.eu | E: yin.chen(a)egi.eu | M: +31 (0)6 3037 3096 | Skype: yin.chen.egi | Twitter: @yinchen16
EGI: Advanced Computing for Research
The EGI Foundation is ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 certified
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Publication from : Maarten Litmaath <Maarten.Litmaath(a)cern.ch>
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Dear colleagues,
for many years, lcg-bdii.cern.ch has been serving as default top BDII.
Since half a year, there is a new default top BDII available:
lcg-bdii.egi.eu
We now plan to switch off lcg-bdii.cern.ch on 19 June.
Please adjust your configurations where needed, thanks!
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Publication from : Alessandro Paolini <operations(a)egi.eu>
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Dear VO Managers,
As already discussed, part of our infrastructure is going to change authentication and authorisation system, from X509 personal certificates to AAI tokens.
This month the HTCondorCE version that is deployed on several sites is reaching its end of life and we should start soon a migration campaign to a new HTCondorCE version that dropped the usage of X509 personal certificates in favour of AAI tokens.
This implies that in order to submit jobs to the sites providing a HTCondorCE you will not be able to use VOMS proxies any longer, but you need a token released by AAI Identity Proxies like EGI Check-in (https://docs.egi.eu/users/aai/check-in/obtaining-tokens/).
Besides the migration campaign of the sites, we are also going to clone the several VOs from their VOMS servers to EGI Check-in so the users can get the tokens with the VO entitlements they need.
The other CE technology deployed by other sites, the ARC-CE, will still support the VOMS-based authentication and authorisation for the time being (it can actually be configured to support both the methods).
While we aim to implement this change in a way that should be as smooth as possible, we appreciate that some VOs might not be ready yet to it so that we are also discussing with the HTCondorCE team a possible extension, for a few months, of the support of the old version in order to give more time to the VOs to prepare for the authentication switch; but this is not yet agreed.
We would like to ask you what is your status concerning this switch, either if you use central tools (like the EGI Workload Manager based on Dirac) to consume the CE resources or if you submit jobs through command line.
Please write to "operations egi.eu" and "ucst egi.eu" if you are ready to the change, how you interact with the CEs, if you need further time to be prepared for the new way to access the CEs, and what are the main issues you are facing to get ready for the switch.
Your feedback could be a valuable input for the discussion with the HTCondorCE team about a possible extension of the support of the VOMS-based authentication in the HTCondorCE product.
Best regards,
EGi Operations
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Publication from : Giuseppe La Rocca <giuseppe.larocca(a)egi.eu>
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Dear All,
This is to inform you that the scientific programme of the #EGI2023 conference is now available on Whova [1]!
#EGI2023 takes place in Poznań, Poland, from June 19th until June 23rd 2023. Read more here [2]
Especially on Monday and Friday, you have the possibility to attend several training sessions to improve
or refresh your skills on the EGI solutions, or connect with high-qualified specialists in a variety of fields and sectors.
In particular, I would like to bring to your attention the Security Workshop on Friday (23/06) organized by CSIRT.
During this training session, several aspect of operational security will be explored, including the sharing of appropriate intelligence and the conceptual design of a Services Operations Centre (SOC) environment appropriate for cloud infrastructures.
Special rate are also offered for you to attend multiple training sessions.
How does it work?
- Take a look at the programme and define which trainings are of interest for you.
- Through the EGI2023 main registration page [3], select the suitable 'Single Training Day' ticket.
- In the question form, indicate what trainings you would like to attend. Two weeks before the conference starts you will be asked to confirm/change your selection in case you changed your mind, or anything interesting gets added to the programme.
I have my ticket, what now?
- Sit back and relax! Your trainer will reach out to you before the training about the programme and any useful additional information (prior knowledge, equipment to bring, ...).
- Make sure to indicate yourself as 'attending' in the Whova event app [4] - this is a quick way to receive updates from the organisers (for example if there is a room change).
We're looking forward to seeing you in Poznań!
Regards, Giuseppe
[1] https://whova.com/web/M8zkrnLo5DUwlnug54VINPkHTdssyl49PHa20jCW2Qg%3D/Agenda/
[2] https://www.egi.eu/event/egi2023/
[3] https://whova.com/portal/registration/egi_202305/
[4] https://whova.com/portal/webapp/egi_202305/
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Publication from : Gino MARCHETTI <gino.marchetti(a)cc.in2p3.fr>
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Dear all,
On March 31st, the EGI Workload Manager service will upgrade to version 8.0. Please remember that Dirac 8.0 will drop support for Python 2 based clients and servers.
A downtime at risk has been set on the GOCDB from 9:00-10:00
Best regards,
DIRAC Support.
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Publication from : Yin Chen <yin.chen(a)egi.eu>
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Dear all
I am pleased to announce a new EGI webinar in March.
Research and development of Artificial Intelligent approaches are increasingly popular in EGI community. The talk will introduce the advanced distributed deep learning research in SZTAKI, EGI Hungarian partner.
Register now to reserve your place!
Title: Distributed Deep Learning with Horovod
Date and Time: Wednesday, 29th March 2023 |14:00 -15:00 CEST
Webinar page: https://www.egi.eu/event/webinar-distributed-deep-learning-with-horovod/
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kxp2LP4rSWKoPNq5OqDVeg
Description:
The talk will introduce the Horovod distributed deep learning framework and the reference architecture and service(s) built for supporting it. The aim of the presented works is to enable the efficient utilization of cloud resources in the heavily resource-intensive task of distributed deep learning. The concept of reference architectures is also briefly presented, along with the experiences gained from their continuous development.
The target audience for this webinar includes e-Infrastructure platform and technology providers and those researching or applying (distributed) deep learning at any level. Demos will be presented.
Speaker: Krisztián Póra, Software Engineer, SZTAKI, Hungary
Krisztián Póra received his BSc degree in Computer Engineering in 2021. His Bachelor's thesis was concerned with the automatic testing of a reference architecture supporting deep learning. His work at SZTAKI (the Institute for Computer Science and Control) is mainly focused on research and application of the distributed deep learning methodology and the development of various reference architectures supporting the swift deployment of digital research infrastructures.
Please forward this to anyone who may be interested!
Looking forward to seeing you in the webinar!
Yin
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Dr Yin Chen
Community Support Officer
EGI Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
W: www.egi.eu | E: yin.chen(a)egi.eu | M: +31 (0)6 3037 3096 | Skype: yin.chen.egi | Twitter: @yinchen16
EGI: Advanced Computing for Research
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Publication from : Giuseppe La Rocca <giuseppe.larocca(a)egi.eu>
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Dear provider of a service and users in EOSC,
This is to inform you that the EOSC Future project will deliver a training session about the EOSC Helpdesk service tomorrow, 8th. March at 14:00 CET.
During the training session you will:
- Receive an overview of the support management and helpdesk in federated EOSC environment, it covers major functions and workflows of the EOSC Helpdesk, delivery of the EOSC Helpdesk as-a-service, integration with other helpdesk systems, and examples of integrations.
- Learn the benefits of EOSC Helpdesk technology, integration scenarios depending on your situation, best practices, instructions and tips for getting started.
The Q&A breaks during the session will allow you to ask questions, share your own experiences, and discuss common challenges.
Further details, and connection link, can be found on the agenda page at: https://eoscfuture.eu/eventsfuture/eosc-helpdesk-training/
I encourage you to attend the event, and to spread the word about it to your colleagues for whom this can be relevant.
Regards, Giuseppe La Rocca
Community Support Lead. at EGI Foundation
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Publication from : Alastair Dewhurst <alastair.dewhurst(a)cern.ch>
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Dear all,
As of 16:00 UTC, the network failure that caused the loss of the databases services at RAL has been resolved, although we are currently running in a non-resilient manner. We will be running at risk over night.
The GOCDB is back in full production (i.e. both writes and reads).
The RAL Tier-1 Disk storage (Echo) and Tape storage (Antares) are back in production. The batch farm will be brought back online tomorrow morning. Further downtimes will be noted in the GOCDB (rather than more announcements).
Thank you for your patience
Alastair
RAL Tier-1 Manager
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Dear all,
The site downtime at RAL caused by the core network failure is still ongoing. We are working on recovering the databases currently.
As mentioned in the previous update, the GOCDB is working (at risk) in read-only mode: https://goc.egi.eu/
Echo (Disk storage) is functioning but in a degraded state.
Antares (Tape storage) is currently down however we can bring the service back quickly once the network has stabilized.
We are expecting the batch farm to remain down until tomorrow morning.
We will provide an update by 14:00 UTC and hope to be in a position to announce the return of some production services before the end of the day.
Thanks,
Alastair
RAL Tier-1 Manager
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