Sept 2024 ACCESS Quarterly Meeting

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Dates

25th Sept 2024, Wednesday (7:30 AM ET - 5:00 PM ET)

26th Sept 2024, Thursday (7:30 AM ET - 12:30 PM ET)

Location:  Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Address: 300 S. Craig Street, Pittsburgh PA 15213

Meeting Materials

Preparation

  • Please contact @Lavanya Podila or your area project manager to setup a applications setup and testing, prior to the quarterly meeting.

  • You may only connect with an external microphone (puck, headset, microphone and speaker combo, earbuds etc.). Internal laptop microphones are discouraged, as they cause echo during calls and at times disable the call entirely. You may be asked to leave the web version if you join via an internal microphone; you may instead join via a telephone or cell phone. Please make arrangements to ensure you have an external microphone.

Logistics

Hotel Information

Residence Inn Pittsburgh Oakland/University Place

Address: 3341 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

You can make reservations by calling 412-621-5600 and referencing the Access Quarterly Meeting or online via the booking link below:

Group rate for Access Quarterly Meeting

Please see the Pittsburgh Travel Guide for more info!!

 

Parking Options

Onsite Parking: $22 daily

 

Airport Shuttles

Would recommend using Lyft or Uber from the airport.

Distance from Property: 21.2 Miles

zTrip; fee: 50.00 USD (one way) ;reservation required

 

Remote Attendees: Zoom invites will be emailed via Outlook and can also be found in the agenda below. In case of any issues, please reach out to Lavanya Podila (lpodila2@illinois.edu)

 

Participants

  • Attendees: The ACCESS quarterly meeting will be attended by EC and leaders of each of the service teams

Agenda

Day 1: Wednesday, Sept 25
Zoom Coordinates: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89296504559?pwd=aaXafn8JaX4ZJFeBxS8bOaduzSBpau.1&from=addon
Times (ET)
Duration
Session
Session Goals
Session Type
Plenary/Parallel
Session Lead(s)
Note Taker
7:30 am - 8:00 am
30 mins
Breakfast

 

Social Networking

 

 

 

8:00 am - 8:15 am
15 mins
Welcome and Review Agenda
Introduction of Lisa and her purpose (2 mins)
NSF Update (5 mins)

 

Share Information
Plenary
John Towns
None
Meeting Notes
8:15 am - 8:45 am
30 mins
Icebreaker Trivia
Start the meeting off on a fun, lighthearted note
Social Networking
Plenary
PSC Staff Trivia Expert
None
Meeting Notes

 

8:45 am - 9:00 am
15 mins
Break

 

Social Networking

 

 

 

9:00 am - 10:00 am
60 mins
What's Everyone Developing Pt. III
10 mins: Metrics for Cloudbank, Path, and Academic HPC (Ryan Rathsam)
An update from each ACCESS team on the developments (software, web, etc.) that are being worked on within the next 3-6 months to identify further areas for collaboration.
Share Information
Plenary
JP Navarro
Holly Klinesmith
Meeting Notes
10:00 am - 10:45 am
45 mins
Student practical experiences in ACCESS
Share practical experiences (i.e. student projects) of students working for or within ACCESS program areas
Share Information
Parallel A
Winona Snapp-Childs
Metrics (Gregory Dean)
Joe White
Meeting Notes
10:45 am - 11:30 am
45 mins
Evaluation SC: Program-Wide Metrics Update
Discuss proposed updates to ACCESS-wide metrics
Collect Input
Parallel A
Dave Hart and TBD
Cindy Wong
Meeting Notes
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
30 mins
Report on the changes of ACCESS user diversity
Share reporting on various diversity measures of the people using ACCESS resources for research and how they have changed over time since XSEDE. This includes scientific study areas, geographic location, and institution classification.
Share Information
Parallel A
Aaron Weeden
TBD - someone on Metrics
Meeting Notes
10:00 am - 12:00 PM
120 mins
Building Modern User Interfaces with JavaScript Components
Registation Form
Component-based JavaScript frameworks like React and Preact, followed hands-on exercises on render loop, JSX, and hooks. Basic familiarity with JavaScript syntax is helpful, but any level of programming experience welcome.
Workshop/Training
Parallel B
Zoom Invite: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83019470183?pwd=NcBzQNw0a7fNbntgCCebzyFV28VLOu.1&from=addon
Matt Yoder & Rebecca Eveland
None
Meeting Notes
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
60 mins
Lunch

 

Social Networking

 

 

 

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
45 mins
Democratization Plan Review
The DEI (Democratization) WG will present an overview of their plan, address questions, and receive feedback.
Share Information
Plenary
Agbeli Ameko
DEI WG Member
Meeting Notes
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm
30 mins
Infrastructure Integration Badges
Introduce ACCESS projects to the badging work in the Infrastructure Porfolio Expansion SC and Operational Support teams
Share Information
Plenary
JP Navarro and Joe White
TBD
Meeting Notes
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
15 mins
Break

 

Social Networking

 

 

 

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
45 mins
How can we better collaborate?
We've run across a few instances where multiple teams are doing similar things. How can we better collaborate to be better for ACCESS as a whole?
Collect Input
Plenary
Shelley Knuth
TBD
Meeting Notes
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
45 mins
Researcher-facing cybersecurity best practice documentation collaboration
Let's avoid duplicated effort and inconsistencies in researcher-facing documentation for cybersecurity best practices. I'd like to establish a cross-award team to coordinate, publish and update such documentation on a regular basis, with roles, responsibilities, and procedures clearly defined.
Make a Decision
Plenary
Derek Simmel
TBD - Holly?
Meeting Notes
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
45 mins
Recap from the Resource Provider Workshop held earlier in September
Report out, and what did we learn? What will we do moving forward to improve relations with RPs
Share Information
Plenary
Shelley or Alana
TBD
Meeting Notes
4:45 pm - 5:00 pm
15 mins
Closing remarks + Adjourn

 

 

 

John Towns
Meeting Notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Day 2: Thursday, Sept. 26
Zoom Coordinates:
Times (ET)
Duration
Session
Session Goals
Session Type
Plenary/Parallel
Session Lead
Note Taker
7:30 am - 8:00 am
30 mins
Breakfast

 

Social Networking

 

 

 

8:00 am - 8:30 am
30 mins
Welcome, day 1 recap, and Review Agenda

 

Share Information

 

John Towns
Meeting Notes
8:30 am - 9:15 am
45 mins
Introducing Persona-based Web Landing Pages
ASSUMING these will be ready to unveil, walk through the new pages so all are familiar and can help point people to as needed
Share Information
Plenary
Dina Meek
TBD - member of the Web Presence Standing Committee
Meeting Notes
9:15 am - 10:15 am
60 mins
Resource Catalog Update
Updates on the progress that's been made since the initial session in June. A preview of v.1.
Collect Input
Plenary
Matt Yoder
Deems
Meeting Notes

 

10:15 am - 10:30 am
15 mins
Break

 

Social Networking

 

 

 

10:30 am - 11:00 am
30 mins
Innovative Pilots

 

Collect Input
Plenary
Stephen Deems
TBD
Meeting Notes
11:00 am - 11:30 am
30 mins
NAIRR Working Groups - Connection Point
Is there anything the existing working groups want to discuss with regard to pain points, things that are going well, etc. It could be good for the working groups to come prepared with things to discuss from our teams/working groups
Brainstorming
Plenary
NAIRR WG Leads - who would this be
TBD
Meeting Notes
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
30 mins
OPEN (brainstorm, small group discussions and/or any topics from the past 1.5 days that require deeper discussion?)

 

Brainstorming
Plenary
needs a lead
TBD
Meeting Notes
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
30 mins
(Closing remarks and Meeting Adjourns) Boxed Lunches

 

 

 

 

Meeting Notes


Actions

ACCESS Quarterly Meeting Action Items and Decision Recording: All action items and decisions made during the quarterly meeting will be captured here: Meeting Notes

References

  1. Pittsburgh Travel Guide:

  2. Shared Drive to store presentations/relevant documentation:

  3. List of agenda topics submitted:

  4. Attendee List:

 

 

Contact Lavanya Podila lpodila2@illinois.edu with any questions.