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• [EGI Webinar 2025]EGI IRTF 2024 in Review: Incidents, Learnings, and Plans for 2025 |Wednesday, 22 January 2025. 14:00–15:00 CET

January 6, 2025 11:54 | Yin Chen
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[EGI Webinar 2025]EGI IRTF 2024 in Review: Incidents, Learnings, and Plans for 2025 |Wednesday, 22 January 2025. 14:00–15:00 CET

Dear all

Happy New Year! We wish you a successful and prosperous 2025. This year, the EGI Webinar Series will present an engaging lineup of topics, highlighting cutting-edge technologies, innovative developments, and best practices from the EGI community.

We are pleased to invite you to our first webinar of the year:
Date & Time: Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 14:00–15:00 CET
Topic: EGI IRTF 2024 in Review: Incidents, Learnings, and Plans for 2025
Speaker: The EGI Incident Response Task Force (IRTF)

About the webinar:
The EGI Incident Response Task Force (IRTF) plays a crucial role in ensuring the security and integrity of the EGI Federation’s distributed infrastructure. In this session, you will:

Learn about the IRTF’s role, mission, and collaboration efforts within the EGI Federation.
Review the key initiatives and outcomes from 2024, including communication challenges, security monitoring metrics, and incident analysis.
Gain insights into plans for 2025, focusing on enhancing security visibility, fostering collaboration, and improving site security engagement.

Target Audience:
This webinar is designed for site administrators, site managers, security professionals, EGI management, and others involved in or affected by security incident management.

Full Event Details: https://www.egi.eu/event/webinar-egi-irtf-2024-in-review-incidents-learnings-and-plans-for-2025/
Register here: https://eu01web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__OG2vooMSqKG4fsBFL-hpQ

We look forward to your participation in this insightful session. Please register early to secure your place.

Yin

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Dr Yin Chen
Senior Community Support Officer
EGI Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
W: www.egi.eu | E: yin.chen@egi.eu | 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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January 6, 2025 11:54
by Yin Chen

• Your Feedback Matters: EGI Service Survey

December 17, 2024 12:56 | Yin Chen
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Your Feedback Matters: EGI Service Survey

Dear EGI service users

Thank you for choosing EGI services. Your feedback is invaluable to us as we continually strive to enhance our services.

We kindly request your participation in a brief survey aimed at gathering your thoughts and suggestions. The survey consists of only 8 questions and should take less than 10 minutes to complete. Your input will greatly assist us in improving our offerings.

Please access the survey using the following link: https://survey.egi.eu/515323?lang=en

Should you encounter any issues or have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.

Thank you for your cooperation, and we eagerly anticipate your valuable insights!

Best regards,

Yin

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Dr Yin Chen
Senior Community Support Officer
EGI Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
W: www.egi.eu | E: yin.chen@egi.eu

EGI: Advanced Computing for Research
The EGI Foundation is ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 certified

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https://www.egi.eu/about/egi-foundation/team/yin-chen/

December 17, 2024 12:56
by Yin Chen

• EGI IGTF CA update, version 1.132-1

December 16, 2024 18:08 | Joao Pina
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EGI IGTF CA update, version 1.132-1

Dear all,

EUGridPMA has announced a new set of CA RPMs, which have been packaged for EGI based on this IGTF release.

This is a regular update. Please upgrade as soon as possible until 2024.12.23. When this time is over, SAM will throw critical errors on CA tests if old CAs are still detected.

The following release notes accompany this version:
Changes from 1.131 to 1.132
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(16 December 2024)

* Added new trust anchor for TRGRID transition (TR)

December 16, 2024 18:08
by Joao Pina

• Pilot Production of the new GGUS Helpdesk

October 1, 2024 17:37 | Pavel Weber
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Pilot Production of the new GGUS Helpdesk

Dear GGUS Users,

We are pleased to inform you that today we start the pilot production
phase of the new GGUS System. The new GGUS based on the new Zammad
technology, so we consider step-by-step migration process.

If you would like to join the new GGUS helpdesk, please follow the First
Steps Guide available at:
https://confluence.egi.eu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=278856856.

Thank you very much for your cooperation in advance!

Kind regards,

Pavel Weber

on behalf of KIT GGUS Team

October 1, 2024 17:37
by Pavel Weber

• example HTCondor CE v23 cluster on EL9

August 1, 2024 23:25 | Maarten Litmaath
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example HTCondor CE v23 cluster on EL9

Dear colleagues,
if you have an HTCondor batch system with HTCondor CE(s) and
did not yet manage to upgrade those to the currently supported
release v23, you may take inspiration from these instructions
for setting up a simple HTCondor CE cluster using v23 on EL9:

https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/MiniHTCv23EL9

In particular, attention is paid to:

* running jobs under slot accounts vs. user accounts;
* how to avoid file system pollution by jobs;
* how to configure SSL mappings for ARGO test jobs.

You might try out the recipes manually and possibly include
the resulting settings in your favorite configuration system,
to make your setup easily reproducible.

Please let me know if you have comments or questions about
that documentation, so that it may be improved as needed.

August 1, 2024 23:25
by Maarten Litmaath

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• NOTE - decommissioning lcg-bdii.cern.ch

May 23, 2023 23:51 | Maarten Litmaath
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NOTE - decommissioning lcg-bdii.cern.ch

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!

May 23, 2023 23:51
by Maarten Litmaath

• [EGI Webinar 2023]Distributed Deep Learning with Horovod |Wednesday, 29th March, 14:00-15:00 CEST

March 9, 2023 11:39 | Yin Chen
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[EGI Webinar 2023]Distributed Deep Learning with Horovod |Wednesday, 29th March, 14:00-15:00 CEST

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@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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March 9, 2023 11:39
by Yin Chen

• Service degradation on Tuesday, September 20th

September 13, 2022 15:59 | Gino MARCHETTI
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Service degradation on Tuesday, September 20th

Dear all,

Due to a network maintenance by the hosting institute, the service may be degraded on Tuesday, September 20th, from 9:00 to 14:00.

Best regards,
Dirac support.

September 13, 2022 15:59
by Gino MARCHETTI

• myproxy-6.2.9-8 restores backward compatibility

May 4, 2022 20:49 | Maarten Litmaath
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myproxy-6.2.9-8 restores backward compatibility

Dear colleagues,
thanks to a great response from the Grid Community Forum experts,
backward-compatible version 6.2.9-8 has already appeared in EPEL 7
and should appear in EPEL 8 within a day.

FYI, version 6.2.9-9 is expected to bring a further desired change,
viz. support for OpenSSL v3 on EL9, in a backward-compatible way
and has already been tested on EL7 and 8.

May 4, 2022 20:49
by Maarten Litmaath

• NOTE - myproxy-6.2.9-7 backward incompatibility

May 3, 2022 17:15 | Maarten Litmaath
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NOTE - myproxy-6.2.9-7 backward incompatibility

Dear colleagues,
please beware of the backward incompatibility of myproxy-6.2.9-7
that recently got published in EPEL, e.g. for EPEL 7:

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/m/

It only works if both the client and the server are on that release!

As an upgrade of myproxy.cern.ch caused serious problems for ALICE,
that service has been downgraded to its previous version 6.2.9-1,
which also happens to be the latest in the EGI UMD-4 repository:

http://repository.egi.eu/sw/production/umd/4/centos7/x86_64/updates/

Grid Community Forum experts are looking into the best strategy for
introducing the desired improvements, hopefully in a way that would
keep backward compatibility with existing deployments.

May 3, 2022 17:15
by Maarten Litmaath

• [EGI Webinar 2022]Supercomputing in Brazil and the LNCC, Wednesday, 27th Apr 2022 |14:00 -15:00 PM CEST-- Registration is Open!

April 13, 2022 13:39 | Yin Chen
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[EGI Webinar 2022]Supercomputing in Brazil and the LNCC, Wednesday, 27th Apr 2022 |14:00 -15:00 PM CEST-- Registration is Open!

Dear all

You are warmly invited to our next EGI webinar on 27th April, to learn about the supercomputer development in Brazil. LNCC is one of the leading national science institutions in Brazil with 40 years of experience in supporting scientific research and collaborators, and has achieved recognition for their scientific, technological and innovative performance. We are honoured to invite Prof. Fábio Borges, the director of LNCC, to give the talk.
Register now to secure a place!

Title: Supercomputing in Brazil and the LNCC
Date & Time: Wednesday, 27th Apr 2022 |14:00 -15:00 PM CEST
Agenda: https://indico.egi.eu/event/5879/
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dFptRdqGS0amBf8zVPRYdg

Description:
Brazil has the fastest private and public supercomputers in Latin America. The supercomputer Santos Dumont is situated at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC) that coordinates the National High Performance Processing System (SINAPAD), which aggregates nine public supercomputing centres. In addition to services, LNCC develops interdisciplinary research and has a doctoral program in computational modelling with several strategic international collaborations.

Speaker: Prof. Fábio Borges, Director, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fábio Borges de Oliveira is director of the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC) and professor at LNCC where he gives lectures to PhD students in Computational Modelling. He works in the areas of Security & Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Grids, High Performance Computing, and Algorithms. He is author of the book On Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Smart Metering Systems: Security and Privacy in Smart Grids. In addition, he is coauthor, with C.R. Rao and B.B. Pereira, of the book Statistical Learning Using Neural Networks: A Guide for Statisticians and Data Scientists with Python. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) from the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, a master's degree in Computational Modelling at LNCC, and a bachelor's degree in Mathematics at Londrina State University (UEL). He is an IEEE Senior Member and received the Latin America Distinguished Service Award by IEEE Communications Society.

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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Dr Yin Chen
Community Support Officer
EGI Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
W: www.egi.eu | E: yin.chen@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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https://www.egi.eu/about/egi-foundation/team/yin-chen/

April 13, 2022 13:39
by Yin Chen

• REMINDER - configure new VOMS servers for LHC experiments

September 29, 2021 22:40 | Maarten Litmaath
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REMINDER - configure new VOMS servers for LHC experiments

==> TLDR: ATLAS and CMS intend to start using their new
VOMS servers already for SAM tests in the course of October
--> please ensure your services have the _additional_ LSC files
installed soon, thanks!
The VO cards on the Operations Portal will be updated in advance.

Dear colleagues,

in the course of 2021-2022, the LHC experiments are foreseen to
start using new VOMS servers, initially alongside the servers
that have been in use since many years.

This implies that VOMS-aware services need to have their VOMS
configurations updated accordingly.

VOMS-aware services include at least the following:

* Argus
* CE types
* FTS
* SE types
* UI
* VObox
* WN

Such services have VO directories under /etc/grid-security/vomsdir.

First the _LSC_ files of the new VOMS servers need to be added
alongside the ones of the traditional servers.

==> The easiest may be to install them through dedicated rpms,
one per supported experiment:

wlcg-iam-lsc-alice
wlcg-iam-lsc-atlas
wlcg-iam-lsc-cms
wlcg-iam-lsc-lhcb

Details are provided here:

https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/VOMSLSCfileConfiguration

Please ensure your VOMS-aware services (including Worker Nodes)
have the relevant LSC files by early October, thanks!

September 29, 2021 22:40
by Maarten Litmaath

• new Compute Element endpoints on htcondor-CE tech

March 19, 2020 11:07 | Emmanouil Vamvakopoulos
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new Compute Element endpoints on htcondor-CE tech

Dear VO Manager

According to our databases, the IN2P3-CC site supports your Virtual Organization (VO).
You are invited to use HTCondor-CEs as a replacement of site’s CREAMS on following endpoints:
- cccondorce01.in2p3.fr ( TCP port 9619, queue=share)
- cccondorce02.in2p3.fr ( TCP port 9619, queue=share)

Please could you start to consider as soon as possible the transition:

Site Creams will be decommissioned and removed from the GOCDB by the end of April 2020

Please, in case of any issue open a GGUS ticket on the site.

With best regards
E.V.

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Vamvakopoulos Emmanouil
(Group Calcul)
Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS
Domaine scientifique de La Doua
43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918
69622 Villeurbanne Cedex

March 19, 2020 11:07
by Emmanouil Vamvakopoulos

• test broadcast

December 17, 2019 16:34 | Emmanouil VAMVAKOPOULOS
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test broadcast

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December 17, 2019 16:34
by Emmanouil VAMVAKOPOULOS

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