Africa-Arabia Regional Operations Centre

2017 : Off to a … start. Once more round the sun we go. Oh yay. Whatever, the holidays are over, we’d best just get used to the idea. Whee ! A new beginning Doh ! Same old problems. All the same, it’s time to get the year off to a solid start in the Africa-Arabia Regional Operations Centre. The main activity that we undertake here is to ensure operations coordination, which is the responsibility of the so-called Regional Operator on Duty, or ROD. The term was coined long ago during the EGEE projects, and survived into...…

CODE-RADE Foundation Release 3 Long story short, Foundation Release 3 was mean to “widen” CODE-RADE, by eliminating central points in the design. Foundation Release 2 was based on a Jenkins server with build slaves was limited in several aspects, mainly due to the kind of infrastructure we were using, but also due to the architecture. FR21 Build coverage: Only CentOS-6 and Ubuntu-14.04 operating systems were covered. These were provided as static, standalone virtual machines on a local cluster at UFS. In order to provide wider coverage in terms of target operating systems, we needed to add further VMs - however...…

Future Gateway - always an appropriate name. FutureGateway is a project to develop an API and related services which will allow web applications to interact with back-end distributed infrastructure of almost any kind. Its design principles are to provide a platform-agnostic bridge between front-end (web) interfaces and back-end interfaces. It adopts the philosophy of using open standards when it comes to implementation choices as far as possible, and thus relies on the SAGA standard - specifically the jSAGA implementation for interacting with grid, cloud and HPC sites. For different cloud stacks, the gateway uses OCCI The reliance on standards means...…