2025-03-04 ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

2025-03-04 ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

Attendees:

  • RAMPS: Stephen Deems (v), Dave Hart

  • MATCH: Shelley Knuth (v), Alana Romanella, Jim Griffioen

  • CONECT: Tim Boerner (v), Leslie Froeschl

  • MMS: Tom Furlani (v), Joe White

  • RP: Jeremy Fischer (v), Eric Adams

  • EAB: Chuck Pavloski

  • OpenCI: John Towns (v), Amit Majumdar , Lavanya Podila, Lisa Kaczmarczyk, Shannon Bradley

  • NSF: Sharon Geva, Puri Bangalore

  • Guest Speaker: Cindy Wong

(v) indicates a voting member


Decisions made during the meeting:

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  1. Decision: EC has decided to request the EAB review their charter and change the structure of their board to remove the RP representative from the EAB since the RP now has a voting representation in the EC

Agenda

Will we cancel EC Meeting on Mar 18th - yes - we should

 

  1. Consent Agenda @Stephen Deems (5 mins)

    1. Approval of summaries from prior EC meeting

      1. 2025-02-11 ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

    2. Informational Items

      1. RP Forum @Jeremy Fischer

      2. Allocations Stephen Deems

        1. Variable Marketplace launching this week with discounts on 3 different resources:

          1. Anvil CPU: 25% discount

          2. ACES: 10% discount

          3. Launch: 80% discount

      3. MATCH Shelley Knuth/Alana/Jim

      4. CONECT Tim Boerner/Leslie

      5. MMS Tom Furlani

      6. EAB @Chuck P

      7. OpenCI John Towns

        1. To Do: We need to resolve how EC interacts with EAB - RP representative is on both and there is a conflict

          1. Update to charter needed?

            1. Stephen moved off consent agenda to meeting agenda for discussion

      8. NSF Sharon and Puri

    3. Milestone Review

    4. Reminders

      1. Annual Reports

        1. due in ~7 weeks.

      2. PEARC’25 Deadlines

        1. March 22 - Panels; BoFs; In Conjunction Events

        2. March 29 - Short Papers

    5. Upcoming Meetings & Events (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_EXKUOXmY-TVkDWaHR1-SuiKt404uGEnGSr6uQCkwzw/edit?gid=0#gid=0 )

      1. NEW: NSF Cyber PI Meeting

        1. July 27-29, Denver CO

  2. WG/Standing Committee Update - (5 mins)
    Reports scheduled from WG/SCs to EC in March 2025:

    1. None on March 4.

      1. Upcoming

        1. Infrastructure Portfolio Expansion Standing Committee - March 11 - (Joe W. or JP)

        2. Cybersecurity Governance Council - March 18 - (Derek Simmel) - this EC meeting should be cancelled and speaker moved (this is EAB meeting day)

          1. reached out to Derek to do this at a meeting in April

        3. Web Presence Standing Committee - March 25 - (Dina Meek)

  3. EAB & Quarterly Meeting - (15 mins)

    1. Review schedules (EAB + Quarterly)

      1. EAB: 2025-03-18 ACCESS EAB Meeting Agenda & Summary

        1. Need to look at start time - may impact 1 member

        2. Chuck wondering if EC would like to meet together while people are all together? yes - Chuck will arrange it - Lisa should come to this session

        3. Ask the EAB if they have any questions left over from the EAB training - right at the beginning of the meeting - Chuck will facilitate

      2. Quarterly: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uqE2XHGqa0hdUtMFYpeI0aRe_XnQVLbvcDYZ5ZEL_xk/edit?gid=2137322065#gid=2137322065

        1. Dave gave a talk at NAIRR pilot meeting - this might be good to share in the NAIRR segment

        2. Need more breaks - look at timing

        3. Session on Thursday - WG SC updates - what is going there? Can cover a lot of ground there - 7 WGs x 10 min slot