na3 - user training and induction

EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE

www.eu-egee.org

EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks

Gergely SiposActivity Deputy Manager

MTA SZTAKI, HungaryEGI.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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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)

185Y1 - 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

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

152

5

2

1

4

7

1

Taiwan – 8

Australia – 1

Japan – 1

53

+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”

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