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Date of the Meeting: 18th March 2010

Minute Authors: Bob Jones and Steven Newhouse

Attendees

EGEE: Bob Jones, Steven Newhouse

WestGrid: Jill Kowalchuk (Executive Director), Rob Simmonds (CTO)

EGI,eu: Steven Newhouse, Michaela Lechner

DIESA: Herman Lederer, John Kennedy

TeraGrid: JP Navarro

NAREGI: Kento Aida

Dave Kelsey, EGEE-JSPG

David Wallom (NGS & OGF-Europe)

Actions

Now:

Steven: Add Jill & Rob (WestGrid) to the mailing list.

For OGF29:

Jill/Rob: Add WestGrid's (Canada, covers grids & HPC) input to existing areas (AAA, Resource Allocation, ...) of the wiki - Jill has access to the wiki. Rob can be given access if he registers on GridForge. All: Update portal/gateway questionnaire when JP has updated it following the feedback from this meeting. JP to send previously collected information back to participants to be updated. JP: Place updated information on the wiki when it has been returned. JP has access to the wiki. All: Provide position statements on user support and training & education. For OGF30: All: Review material contributed to IPG to date.

Review of Portal & Gateway Activity (JP's slides):

If one organisation (e.g. an NGI) runs a portal/gateway but it uses infrastructure provided by another (e.g. EGI) who owns the portal/gateway - assumed its the organisation not the infrastructure. For example - DEISA used to run a user portal... stopped that and now has community run gateways accessing their resources.

Portals/gateways can also be used for management activities: EGEE - Uses web interfaces to tickets, accounting records and VO enrolment. DEISA - Has a web interfaces for the PI managing the allocations awarded from their review process. Accounts created at home location and then gets replicated. TG - Uses their credentials to access services.

Factors driving portal/gateway Characteristics:

Who operates/provides it - the infrastructure or the community using it?
Trust relationship - between the portal/gateway provider and infrastructure provider?
Who can use it? Single & multiple communities?
What infrastructures can the portal/gateway access - single & multiple infrastructures?

Capture this information on the wiki pages. Agreed to revisit answers by infrastructure for the portal/gateway questions now that we have a clearer definition.

Future subjects for IPG:

Access to data across infrastructures (read-only, read-write) - need an expert to cover this area (suggestion was Erwin Laure, who agreed to take on this role when asked after the meeting). Suggest that we get Erwin to distribute a proposal for clarify the scope and approach before OGF29 so it can be agreed at the meeting, infrastructures provide input afterwards and Erwin presents an analysis at OGF30.
User Support (each infrastructure to provide a position statement, ahead of OGF29)
Training & Education (each infrastructure to provide a position statement, ahead of OGF29)
After these we should review the IPG material once the above subjects have been addressed

We expect to be able to cover these subjects over the next 2 OGF meetings (Chicago, Brussels)

This is the last meeting where EGEE will participate and will be passing over its role to EGI.

OGF29 - June 20-22, Chicago - Review input from Data questionnaire and position statements on User Support (inc. application porting, infrastructure support, operational support, user support application porting) and Training & Education. OGF30 - October 25-29, Brussels - Review input from all the IPG meetings

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