RP Forum Meeting - 2024-12-05

Attendees: Jeremy Fischer, Nicole Wolter

Agenda:

• RP Forum Chair and Vice-Chair for 2025

  • Accepting nominations (self or other) - https://forms.gle/esrMf5aPbbK2GHgu9

• Proposed ACCESS System Status Policy, Tools, and Best Practices document for discussion: https://operations.access-ci.org/system_news_policy (JP Navarro/Operations)

• Updating resource contacts in CiDeR! (Jeremy/JP/Tom)

• Updating simplified resource dates in CiDeR (JP)

• Brief allocations update (Standing agenda item - if needed)

• Brief operations update (Standing agenda item - if needed)

• Brief support update (Standing agenda item - if needed)

• Brief metrics updated (Standing agenda item - if needed)

• Open floor RP Q&A or issue discussion

Meeting Notes:

• Need for researchers and ACCESS staff to know when resources are not available.

• All ACCESS tracks have agreed to adopt the best practices.

• Rajesh - Publishing by API lacks instructions

  • JP - we do not have the publish API yet but it can be enabled as soon as we have the first customer. Can work with Purdue to enable that/Pilot.

  • Jeremy - Jetstream2 would be interested in this as well

  • Georgia - OSN too

• This will be attached to the System News Badge

• Jeremy - will there be a status page for this sort of thing eventually

  • JP - there is a Viewing News section now

  • Jeremy - maybe status.access-ci.org? for consistency

• CiDeR - 5 dates(used to be 12) - Announcement, Pre-Production, Production, Post-Production, Retired date fields

• Contact lists live now in CiDeR(used to be a spreadsheet)

  • Still coming - a view for ACCESS teams to easily digest this information

• Feature improvement coming to clone this information across different resources(or perhaps pointing to a primary resource)

• Updates from all ACCESS teams

• Allocations

• Back in September the ACCESS began to invite RP representatives to the ACCESS Quarterly meetings. The winter (Q4) ACCESS quarterly has been cancelled sans for an extended Executive Council session as well as updates on developments that are currently in-flight.

  Next Tuesday, December 10 @ 11am ET, there will be a 2-hour Zoom meeting for the next instance of the “What’s Everyone Developing?” series where ACCESS teams present updates on software and web development efforts, as well as seek input on how to make the tools and information more beneficial.

  Be on the lookout for a calendar invite from the RP Forum mailing list and please forward the message to those that may be interested in attending at your site. If you’d like to bookmark your calendar now, please feel free to do so with the following Zoom link: Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

• Some bogus grant submissions have been identified by the Allocations team and given to the security team. We have removed accounts for those who do not appear to be coming from a real person.

• Ops

• Ticket System Standing Committee has been approved

• Please encourage someone to engage with the Ticket System team on an upcoming interview in January

• Email will follow with details

• Support

• No Topics

• Metrics

• Working on developing useful reports for RPs and developing bug fixes for the new version of the software

• Will be addressing feedback from September meeting soon

• ACO

• In process of identifying refresh to external advisory board(66 submissions, will select 9 going forward)

• Expecting to close before holiday break with start of Jan 1

• RP Forum Chair attending Quarterly meetings - ACCESS is requesting travel support for RP Forum Chair going forward