The document summarizes training experiences within the EGI Federation, the largest distributed e-infrastructure worldwide. It details how training is conducted through projects and national initiatives, with the main purposes being to promote the use of services and spread best practices/standards. Statistics show over 800 participants in 42 tutorials from 2015-2017 covering 17 topics. A "Hooray" story highlights how customized workshops helped communities engage with the infrastructure, while a "Horror" story describes identity issues that arose from a tutorial asking students to use personal credentials.

1. www.egi.eu
Gergely Sipos
Customer and Technical Outreach Manager
EGI Foundation
gergely.sipos@egi.eu
Training experiences in EGI
EUDAT Conference 2018
Training Experiences across Research Infrastructures

2. EGI Federation
The largest distributed e-Infrastructure worldwide
23 council
members
(22 NGIs + CERN)
300+
providers
15 types of
services
(compute, storage,
brokers, training,
etc.)
~150 user
communities;
>48 000 users
2.6 Billion
CPU
hours/year
EGI
Foundation
(Amsterdam)

3. Training in EGI
• By projects and by national initiatives
• Main purposes
1. Uptake of service catalogue  Service-oriented technical training
2. Spread best practices & standards  FitSM training; Security training
• Audiences
– User communities (mainly programmers)
– Service operators
– Project and programme managers
• Support from EGI Foundation
– Cloud-based training infrastructure
– Event page (Indico)
– Material storage (documents.egi.eu)
– Promotion and marketing – National liaisons, RIs, User community board, etc.
• Statistics (2015-2017)
– 42 tutorials at 33 events ( 20 EGI events, 13 external events)
– 19 f2f, 12 webinar-type
– 17 topics
– Contributed to 2 summer schools in 2017: CODATA-RDA, EUDAT
– Approx. 800 participants in total

4. ‘Hooray’ story
• Design your e-infra workshop
– Blend introductory-level training with personalised
consultancy
• Events so far
– 2016 Apr: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/2895/
– 2016 Sept: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3025/
• Success:
– Kickstart of ICOS, Euro-Argo, OpenDreamKit, … engagement
– Format adopted by SURFsara for national event in NL
– Strenghten e-infrastructure collaborations (EGI, EUDAT, GEANT,
OpenAIRE)
Repeatable format, templates are openly available

5. ‘Horror’ story
• ‘Bring your own identity’ to
Cloud tutorial at
CODATA-RDA summer school
• Idea:
• Allow students to use their home
IDs to access the training infrastructure
• Simplify account setup for trainers
• Reality:
• Surprisingly diverse account configurations
• Debugging identity-related issues in real-time
• Home identity != easy access

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The Netherlands
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