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Storage Futures Working Group Updates Ronald Lee Liming (15 mins)
WG decided no additional storage-related integration roadmaps are needed at this time. The current roadmap is fine (with a few tweaks) for all currently anticipated storage resources.
OSN worked with Allocations to fix its units, which were different from other storage resources.
Currently working on some updates/tweaks to the existing storage resource integration roadmap to give more explicit guidance, improve communication about important resource features.
Important things to include in storage resource descriptions: intended uses, backup policies, additional allocation requirements (if any).
Guidance regarding allocation units (informing about current norms)
Change Globus endpoint from required to optional
WG should be finished by mid-August, though wouldn’t be surprising if PEARC slows us down.
Q: Given the information above, does an update to the Researcher Advisory Committee seem called for?
Present, receive feedback, and seek approval Laura Herriott (10 mins)
In June of last year, Julie Ma, Tom Furlani, and Laura Herriot worked with Emre Brookes, Chair of the XSEDE User Advisory Committee to begin early stages of establishing a similar ACCESS group.
Emre sent an email on behalf of ACCESS to invite participation
While we waited for the establishment of the ACCESS External Advisory Board charter and membership, Emre and Laura drafted a charter
The initial invitees included researchers from the External Advisory Board (EAB) nominees who were not selected, the previous XSEDE UAC members, and two researcher volunteers who self-identified
The first ACCESS Researcher Advisory Committee meeting was held as an “administrative meeting” in February 2023
15 out of 58 researchers who were invited gathered to consider the draft charter and share feedback about the ACCESS program to date
During the meeting, two members volunteered to alternate as a representative of the Researcher Advisory Committee at the EAB
After the meeting, Emre, myself, and other ACCESS representatives followed up via email with the initial invite list to seek confirmation of participation
Through that process, we ended up with a committee that was 95% male, 80% R1, 100% white or Asian
In hopes of creating a committee that is more representative of the researcher demographics who use ACCESS resources, I worked with the Allocations DEI facilitator to inclusively and fairly invite researchers who self-reported demographic data within their ACCESS profile to enrich the composition of the committee
We added additional volunteers and gained representation from female or non-binary, non-R1, and more racially diverse researchers (the committee is now 89% male, 77% R1, 74% white or Asian)
We now have a final roster and final charter with feedback addressed from the community
Special thanks to the ACO who has offered to create an email distribution list and schedule the next meeting in the Fall and subsequent meetings each semester
Next steps:
ACCESS wiki page: ACCESS Researcher Advisory Committee
Once the committee is formally charged, and the next meeting is schedule, we would invite agenda topics from the EAB, EC, and the Researcher Advisory Committee
We would like to recommend that a champion or representative to present and take feedback or recommendations back for consideration
After each meeting, we will add Researcher Advisory Committee feedback to the EAB spreadsheet for tracking
Today, I am seeking final approval of the roster and charter, so that we could formally charge the committee and begin preparations for the Fall meeting. Any objections or feedback?
Decisions - Charter and roster approved; Shawn Strande to work with Laura for next steps such as to charge the committee, create email distribution list, and initiate planning of Fall 2023 meeting
Revised Working Group and Standing Committee document Shawn Strande (5 mins)
Approval of summaries from prior EC meetings John Towns (5 mins)
Program Milestone CheckJohn Towns (10 mins)
Action item for the awardees to update their program milestones
Reminder:Do not edit "Dashboard" tab, please edit "ACCESS program milestones" tab as needed
ACCESS Colocated Event at PEARC (10 mins)
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A Tale of Two Documents John Towns (5 mins)
XSEDE/ACCESS
Informational Items (10 mins)
RAMPS Stephen Deems
MATCH Shelley Knuth
We would like to get an up to date list of the software that each of the RPs are running. Can Operations assist with getting this list? Otherwise we would need to do a workaround.
Operations has provided response to this and will continue to engage with Support as this solution evolves: Operations just released to RPs the ACCESS version of a tool they can use to publish software module information to the ACCESS Operations Information Sharing Platform. Over the next few weeks Operations will introduce an API making the software information available to ACCESS projects and developers. Soon after that we will introduce an interface similar to https://software.xsede.org/ for discovering available software.
CONECT Tim Boerner
MMS Tom Furlani
OpenCI John Towns
As noted in email earlier today, Lizanne DeStfano will be stepping down from her role in the ACO effective August 1
As noted in email eralier today, Shannon Bradley will be filling Ron’s former role on an interim basis.
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