Primary Items for discussion at the PEARC Conference. Please feel free to clarify these items and add more!
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Although several XSEDE services will be retired and no longer available after August 31, 2022, the primary XSEDE username/password mechanism will remain the same. In ACCESS, we are referring to this simply as one’s ACCESS ID and password, which customers will continue to employ to authenticate to common ACCESS services. Login to user interfaces requiring a higher level of assurance (e.g., access to project allocations and member information) will require additional authentication with DUO.
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Customers who currently authenticate using their XSEDE username and password via CILogon will instead select ACCESS from the list of CILogon authentication providers to authenticate in the same manner.
Single Sign On Hub - alternative approaches
Primarily focused on Resource Providers and Partner Institutions. Guidance on how to log into resource provider directly.
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Strategies for ACCESS RPs to authenticate customer ssh logins with ACCESS IDs are being developed. The main obstacle is mapping or translation of ACCESS IDs to site-local IDs. We are coordinating with XSEDE to publish guidance for ACCESS RPs as soon as possible. [Need contact info for who/where RPs should send questions to on this topic - fallback: send to Derek Simmel <dsimmel@psc.edu>]
ACCESS Portal
The AMP portal will be online in a primitive form on September 1. On that date, users can expect that they will be able to:
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Users should expect that the AMP will evolve over time and that features will be added. What is available on September 1 will be a first draft of what will eventually be available moving forward.
Globus
The Globus subscription provided by XSEDE to allocated Service Providers will be continued through the first year of ACCESS operations (August 2023) by the CONECT team. Throughout the first year, CONECT will be working with key stakeholders to either identify a funding mechanism to sustain the subscription for the duration of the ACCESS award, or to retire the Globus subscription at the end of August 2023 alongside recommending alternatives solutions for the Resource Provider community (which could include using free/unpaid Globus endpoints).
RAMPS Marketplace
All active XSEDE allocations (with an expiration date beyond September 1, 2022) will be “mapped” to the new ACCESS allocations tiers. More information on the new tiers will be broadcast on the Advance to ACCESS page.
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Questions, comments, or interest in joining the review panel for ACCESS allocations requests, please use this form to contact Allocations.
Ticketing System
Initial service will be a transition of the XSEDE RT system. This will help provide a seamless transition for the community. As additional requirements and innovative approaches are refined, new ticketing services will become available. The tentative team plan is for this to happen by the end of the 2022 calendar year.
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Open tickets sent to XSEDE prior to September 1, 2022 will need to be resubmitted. These will not automatically be picked up by ACCESS.
Integrating Allocated Compute/Storage/Cloud into ACCESS
The ACCESS program is preparing an “ACCESS Allocated Production Compute/Storage/Cloud” roadmap which lists the tasks that service providers should complete for each resource to be ACCESS allocated and in production on September 1, 2022. Many of these tasks will be familiar to existing XSEDE resource providers as they are adaptations of XSEDE’s resource integration checklist(s) to the ACCESS program. Service providers will receive this integration roadmap before the end of July so that they can complete their ACCESS operational integration by September 1st.
MATCH Tier Support for Researchers
Tier 1:
Trying to reach as many researchers as possible with existing ease of use tools
Intention is to help researchers focus on their research, be confident in the results they are getting, and to reduce their time to solution
Our focus is on utilizing Open OnDemampand, the Pegasus workflow tool, and the Cnct.CI portal, all of which will be modified, integrated, and updated to promote ACCESS wide work
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