EMI 1 Release Candidate Large Scale Pre-deployment Testing

*****draft for discussion********

What

EMI 1 RC large scale pre-deployment testing is test deployment of RCx onto volunteer sites supervised by EMI.

Why

The aim is to get early feedback on RCx during March-April to improve components and fine-tune EMI procedures.

• Do we follow EGI rollout procedure ?
• Do we follow (or create) EMI rollout procedure?
  • Deployment documentation
  • Benchmarks, feedback form
    • Feedback on the release notes and documentation
    • Installation / deployment feedback form (check EGEE PPS twiki)
    • Check installation/ deployment of UNICORE and ARC services
• This is a new activity within EMI Large Scale Acceptance Testbed

How

Scenarios to consider:

• "Early adoption/rollout" - not to be confused with EGI Staged Rollout
• Absorbed by EMI Large Scale Acceptance Testbed which operates a Demand-Supply approach eg
  • Demand: A request of test describing the testing scenario (resources needed, services involved, number of instances, number of users involved etc.etc.).
  • Supply: A community of partners (NGI, EGI, PRACE, EMI internal partners) available to participate to specific tests campaigns with X effort, Y resources for Z time to test P1, P2, PN product.
• Create a pre-production infrastructure which will mimic complete full production infrastructure
• others?

Things to include in the rollout page:
-repository
-release notes
-installation test template (check how SA2 handles feedback/testing reports)

The "EMI rollout coordination team" to be created. (Maria, Francesco, Danilo, Cristina, UNICORE rollout expert, Balazs + ARC rollout expert) From Danilo, to check: Axel Berg (Axel@saraNOSPAMPLEASE.nl)

Sites

The following sites/institutes have volunteered - mixed set of production and test machines

Site/Institute	Details	Contact
AS, Taipei		stella.shen@twgridNOSPAMPLEASE.org
CSIC	For products they are familiar with STORM, WMS, LFC, combination of LB + CREAM	isabel@campos-itNOSPAMPLEASE.es
LIP	For LFC and other data man services	isabel@campos-itNOSPAMPLEASE.es
DESY	NDGF (Tier I) is willing to run EMI-1 dCache before Mid of March. DESY will follow with 2 of it's 5 dcache instances before mid of the year. We are talking about production systems. On early deploying of other EMI componets, I didn't get any feedback yet from our Tier II manager.	patrick.fuhrmann@desyNOSPAMPLEASE.de
GILDA	2 machines	emidio.giorgio@ctNOSPAMPLEASE.infn.it
UNICORE in collaboration with PL-GRID	For UNICORE + gLite components on 'dedicated small system' first	bala@matNOSPAMPLEASE.umk.pl
D4Science-II	Will install some services; can provide around 4-5 machine for the tests	andrea.manzi@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch
HealthGrid	Accepts in principle. How many services will we have to install? How many days will we have after the RC distribution? Will there be some benchmarks/ tests to pass on? As you may know VRCs are being built and HG is the representative of the LSGC, thus I took the liberty to forward your request to the other members of the VRC so, that we can be sure to test all what you need to be tested!	ylegre@maat-gNOSPAMPLEASE.com
maatG	Accepts in principle. Similar concerns as HG; process to follow.	dmanset@maatgNOSPAMPLEASE.com
GISELA	Waiting for details on how to proceed	ramond@gmailNOSPAMPLEASE.com

Pending:

• NorduGrid: [balazs.konya@hep.lu.se]
• IGI (Italian NGI): [francesco.giacomini@cnaf.infn.it]
• TCD/Grid-Ireland: [david.ocallaghan@cs.tcd.ie]

-- FloridaEstrella - 16-Feb-2011