Attendees:
RAMPS: Stephen Deems (v), Dave Hart
MATCH: Shelley Knuth (v)
CONECT: Tim Boerner (v), Leslie Froeschl
MMS: Tom Furlani (v), Joe White
OpenCI: John Towns (v), Shawn Strande, Ron Payne, Lavanya Podila, Lisa Kaczmarczyk
NSF: Tom Gulbransen
Guest Speaker: JP Navarro, Nathan Tolbert
(v) indicates a voting member
Agenda/Notes
Working Group Updates (10 mins)
Roadmaps John-Paul Navarro and Tolbert, Nathan L
New refactored and improved ACCESS Allocated Compute, Storage, Cloud Roadmaps
Actively developing ACCESS Integrated Science Gateways Roadmap
Starting to look at ACCESS Integrated Campus Compute Roadmap
Planning to start OSG / Path Roadmap development collaboration
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J1FTDU4x8XlPseTvT0EMd6URIHIxDR7vr5QZe_OmMJ4/edit#slide=id.p1
Approval of summaries from prior EC meetings John Towns (5 mins)
ACO Alternate Contacts John Towns (5 mins)
Please see the updated wiki page to find alternate contacts
Opening Communications/Leveraging other activities? John Towns (5 mins)
Below is a straw person suggestion for scheduling regular program-wide discussions and attempts to leverage some stravel planninf already for the EAB meetings.
This does NOT account for when Allocations may have AACR meeting since I could not find a schedule posted anywhere.
For CY23:
First week of March 2023:
EAB virtual meeting (Mar 2)
ACCESS Program Wide All Staff (virtual): suggest Mar 7-8, 10am-4pm CT
First full week of June:
Monday, June 5: EAB Virtual meeting
Tue-Wed (June 6-7): ACCESS Program Wide All Staff (in person with virtual option); location TBD
PEARC Conference:
Possible in person EAB (1-2 hours)
Thursday PM: Half-day ACCESS Program Wide All Staff (in person with virtual option)
First full week of September:
Monday, September 4: EAB virtual meeting
Tue-Wed (Sept 5-6): ACCESS Program Wide All Staff (virtual); 10am-4pm CT each day
SC Conference
We can attempt to hold some gathering here, but difficult to pin it to a regular time.
First full week of December:
Monday, December 4: EAB virtual meeting
Tue-Wed (Dec 5-6): ACCESS Program Wide All Staff (virtual); 10am-4pm CT each day
Then fall into an annual schedule of:
First week of March:
Monday, EAB In Person Meeting (approximately 8am-3pm to allow flight home)
ACCESS Program Wide All Staff (in person with virtual option): Monday afternoon/early evening; Tuesday until early afternoon to allow flights home
First full week of June:
Monday: EAB Virtual meeting
Tue-Wed: ACCESS Program Wide All Staff (virtual); 10am-4pm CT each day
PEARC Conference:
Possible in person EAB (1-2 hours)
Thursday PM: Half-day ACCESS Program Wide All Staff (in person with virtual option)
First full week of September:
Monday: EAB Virtual meeting
Tue-Wed: ACCESS Program Wide All Staff (virtual); 10am-4pm CT each day
SC Conference
We can attempt to hold some gathering here, but difficult to pin it to a regular time.
First full week of December:
Monday: EAB Virtual meeting
Tue-Wed: ACCESS Program Wide All Staff (virtual); 10am-4pm CT each day
Informational Items (10 mins)
RAMPS Stephen Deems
(Researcher Advisory Committee update) T1/T2/T4
Initial meeting this Thursday, 3 PM ET
15 external RSVPs from those not selected to serve on EAB. All of UAC was invited. Several ACCESS attendees have RSVPd.
Link to Draft Charter
Will select a representative for EAB meetings.
Will welcome feedback on the program. Summary of the meeting will be made available to the EC. Could potentially be used to consider prompts for EAB meeting.
Interactive allocations map has been put in production to visualize allocations, exchanges, and usage across institutions and Resource Providers.
You can navigate to the map at this link or by clicking on "Updates" -> "Allocations map" on allocations.access-ci.org
MATCH Shelley Knuth
PEARC How to ACCESS workshop has been submitted
Successful Support retreat last week.
CONECT Tim Boerner
New set of improved instructions for integrated RPs going out soon.
New front page for ACCESS Operations portal will soon be launched (with sub-pages coming soon after)
AI Chatbot pilot/exploration starting soon
MMS Tom Furlani
OpenCI John Towns
Revised EAB agenda (Shawn Strande )
Misc Topics
Reference: EC Backlog & Action Items
Next EC Meeting: 14 February 2023