2023-05-02 ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

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Last updated: May 03, 2023 by Alana.Romanella
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Attendees:

  • RAMPS: Stephen Deems (v), Dave Hart

  • MATCH: Shelley Knuth (v), Alana Romanella

  • CONECT: Tim Boerner (v), Leslie Froeschl, Winona Snapp-Childs

  • MMS: Tom Furlani (v), Joe White

  • OpenCI: John Towns (v), Shawn Strande, Lavanya Podila, Lisa Kaczmarczyk

  • NSF: Tom Gulbransen, Sharon Geva

  • Guest Speaker: Alan Chalker
    (v) indicates a voting member

Agenda/Notes

  1. OnDemand Working Group Updates @Alan Chalker (20 mins)

    1. Staffing updates:

      1. Gerald has left OSC (on good terms)

      2. Bob Settlage (OOD 2.0 community engagement lead) has left VT (on good terms)

      3. All 3 of OSC’s student developers helping on the project have also left

    2. Upcoming community events

      1. Internet 2 Community Exchange / MS-CC Annual Meeting (May 9-11, Atlanta Georgia)

        1. OOD / CloudyCluster panel

        2. ACCESS ‘Speed Networking’

      2. RMACC HPC Symposium (May 16-18, Scottsdale Arizona)

        1. Multiple OOD related presentations by OOD community members

      3. ISC23 (May 21-26, Hamburg Germany)

        1. OOD booth in exhibit hall

        2. OOD / ColdFront / XDMoD tutorial

        3. OOD User Group BoF

      4. PEARC23 (July 23-27, Portland Oregon)

        1. OOD exhibitor table

        2. OOD / ColdFront / XDMoD tutorial

        3. OOD User Group BoF (proposed)

        4. OOD lanyards for all attendees

      5. Gateways23 (Oct 30-Nov 1, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania)

        1. OOD exhibitor table (proposed)

        2. OOD demo (proposed)

      6. SC23 (Nov 12-17, Denver Colorado)

        1. OOD/OSC booth in exhibit hall

        2. OOD Users Group BoF (proposed)

    3. OOD Deployment Status (on 7 out of 12 possible RPs)

      1. In production at:

        1. Anvil (Purdue)

        2. Bridges 2 (PSC)

        3. Delta (NCSA)

        4. Expanse (SDSC)

        5. Hive (GaTech)

        6. FASTER (TAMU)

        7. Rockfish (Johns Hopkins)

      2. In discussions / testing at:

        1. JetStream 2 (Indiana)

        2. KyRIC (Kentucky)

      3. No engagement yet / status update at:

        1. IACS (Stony Brook)

        2. Stampede2 (TACC)

        3. DARWIN (Delaware)

    4. Recent Accomplishments

      1. OOD Integration Roadmap Task published to RPs in March

      2. OOD ACO blog posting published in March (picked up by HPCwire)

      3. OOD 3.0 released in early April (first major release in 2+ years) with many new features

      4. Released a versioning / support policy

      5. General plan developed for OOD / ACCESS XDMoD integration (Joe White leading effort)

      6. Generated initial OOD utilization metrics from Anvil and Bridges 2 logs

         

    5. Near Term Plans

      1. Further work on OOD / ACCESS XDMoD integration

      2. Update ACCESS Menu install options to allow for group based visibility

      3. Update Integration Roadmap Task to reflect OOD 3.0

      4. Continue discussions with RPs on deploying OOD

      5. Explore AI/ML integrations (per feedback from review panel)

        1. Supporting AI clients via apps like TensorBoard, PyTorch

        2. Integrating AI into OOD, discourse topic / docs analysis, etc

  2. Approval of summaries from prior EC meetings @John Towns (5 mins)

    1. 4 April 2023 EC Summary (approved)

  3. Acceptable Use Policy @John Towns (5 mins)

    1. Reminder for EC to take a look at the policy and provide any feedback

    2. John to send out an email reminder

  4. Program Milestone Check @John Towns (10 mins)

    1. Action item for the awardees to update their program milestones

    2. Reminder:
      Do not edit "Dashboard" tab

      Please edit "ACCESS program milestones" tab as needed

    3. Publication information UI added to the allocations portal today and the transition from the old database to a new database is complete

    4. The demographic information still needs to be added from the XSEDE portal

  5. ACCESS Program Wide Meeting - Request for Topics @John Towns (10 mins)

    1. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdvRyXGdOquLoE4ZNQk0yLKU8MRjhGmXuOVFIrjYdcEH-wPjg/viewform

    2. Each awardee to present 15 minute high level Year 2 plans

    3. Working groups and standing committees to present Year 2 plans

    4. Send out a proposed agenda to the EC for approval

  6. Preparation for PEARC 23 @John Towns (10 mins)

    1. Lavanya to create a wiki page where all awardees can share information that will be presented during PEARC 23

  7. DEI Working group (15 mins)

    1. Discussion regarding creating a separate DEI standing committee versus expanding the scope of the community engagement working group

    2. Concerns regarding having separate groups - there may be significant overlap between DEI standing committee and the community engagement working group

    3. DEI can collect data that is more quantifiable as opposed to the work pursued by community engagement

    4. EC agrees that we need DEI efforts on a program wide level, across all areas and should have a high visibility

    5. As long as there is a need and the scope can be defined, no opposition to creating a separate DEI standing committee

    6. This is a discussion topic - next step is to wait for the feedback from the NSF review panels and decide next steps.

    7. This topic will also be added to the ACCESS Program Wide Meeting in June.

       

  8. Informational Items (10 mins)

    1. RAMPS @David Hart @Stephen Deems

      1. New publications collection UI added to allocations portal today. Will be able to add pubs separate from allocations request, tag resources/RPs. Restoring more complete functionality from XSEDE portal.

      2. Met with researchers from Harvard Business School. Sharing some data for analysis. Potential for collaboration on the allocations “marketplace.”

    2. MATCH @Shelley Knuth

      1. The Support Team is planning on submitted a BOF to PEARC23 and involving Allocations and the Community Engagement working group. The purpose of the BOF will be around getting feedback from users on our services.

      2. Actively attending and working with the AI Institutes NSF program. An Affinity group has been created and training for the use of the group will occur next week. We are working with Leslie and Tom on planning to send a request to RPs about system/resource/training specific questions.

      3. Question around the term “user” and the old XSEDE terminology program.

    3. CONECT @Tim Boerner

      1. The first segment of the Student Training & Engagement Program (STEP-1) will kick off on May 15 with 15 students. The program is set with instructors from FIU, IU, NCSA: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1polkpxm4ivDL2u7KlwUGSeANNssBO3dAnqKksAEeIuQ/edit#gid=1848038903 . Following the STEP-1 program, six of the students will travel to NCSA for a summer internship program with projects in operations, networking, or cybersecurity. Those students will also attend PEARC23. Watch for more details to be shared at https://operations.access-ci.org/step , in newsletters, and news stories! Kudos to Winona & her team for pulling this all together!

      2. The Roadmaps WG released new ACCESS Allocated Compute, Storage, and Cloud Roadmaps and a new ACCESS Integrated Science Gateways Roadmap on April 24. These have been communicated to existing RPs. Further communications efforts are underway.

    4. MMS @Tom Furlani

      1. A tutorial on the Analytic Framework for XDMoD

      2. A BOF was submitted for XDMoD User’s Group

      3. We will be holding our workshop on HPC Tools with OSC  (Coldfront, OnDemand, XDMoD)

    5. OpenCI @John Towns

      1. Preparations underway for ACCESS Program Wide Meeting

      2. Lavanya to create a wiki page to collect all topics and discussions for PEARC 23

      3. Working on Conference Proposal for the ACO

      4. In the process of finding a replacement for Ron

Misc Topics

  1. Tom G and Sharon will not be joining the EC meetings the second Tuesday of the month for PI’s and Co-PI’s to have a conversation without NSF.

Reference: EC Backlog & Action Items

Next EC Meeting: 9th May 2023