Attendees:
RAMPS:
Stephen Deems(v), Dave HartMATCH:
Shelley Knuth(v), Alana RomanellaCONECT:
Tim Boerner (v), Leslie Froeschl, Winona Snapp-ChildsMMS: 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
OnDemand Working Group Updates Alan Chalker (20 mins)
Staffing updates:
Gerald has left OSC (on good terms)
Bob Settlage (OOD 2.0 community engagement lead) has left VT (on good terms)
All 3 of OSC’s student developers helping on the project have also left
Upcoming community events
Internet 2 Community Exchange / MS-CC Annual Meeting (May 9-11, Atlanta Georgia)
OOD / CloudyCluster panel
ACCESS ‘Speed Networking’
RMACC HPC Symposium (May 16-18, Scottsdale Arizona)
Multiple OOD related presentations by OOD community members
ISC23 (May 21-26, Hamburg Germany)
OOD booth in exhibit hall
OOD / ColdFront / XDMoD tutorial
OOD User Group BoF
PEARC23 (July 23-27, Portland Oregon)
OOD exhibitor table
OOD / ColdFront / XDMoD tutorial
OOD User Group BoF (proposed)
OOD lanyards for all attendees
Gateways23 (Oct 30-Nov 1, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania)
OOD exhibitor table (proposed)
OOD demo (proposed)
SC23 (Nov 12-17, Denver Colorado)
OOD/OSC booth in exhibit hall
OOD Users Group BoF (proposed)
OOD Deployment Status (on 7 out of 12 possible RPs)
In production at:
Anvil (Purdue)
Bridges 2 (PSC)
Delta (NCSA)
Expanse (SDSC)
Hive (GaTech)
FASTER (TAMU)
Rockfish (Johns Hopkins)
In discussions / testing at:
JetStream 2 (Indiana)
KyRIC (Kentucky)
No engagement yet / status update at:
IACS (Stony Brook)
Stampede2 (TACC)
DARWIN (Delaware)
Recent Accomplishments
OOD Integration Roadmap Task published to RPs in March
OOD ACO blog posting published in March (picked up by HPCwire)
OOD 3.0 released in early April (first major release in 2+ years) with many new features
Released a versioning / support policy
General plan developed for OOD / ACCESS XDMoD integration (Joe White leading effort)
Generated initial OOD utilization metrics from Anvil and Bridges 2 logs
Near Term Plans
Further work on OOD / ACCESS XDMoD integration
Update ACCESS Menu install options to allow for group based visibility
Update Integration Roadmap Task to reflect OOD 3.0
Continue discussions with RPs on deploying OOD
Explore AI/ML integrations (per feedback from review panel)
Supporting AI clients via apps like TensorBoard, PyTorch
Integrating AI into OOD, discourse topic / docs analysis, etc
Approval of summaries from prior EC meetings John Towns (5 mins)
4 April 2023 EC Summary (approved)
Acceptable Use Policy John Towns (5 mins)
Reminder for EC to take a look at the policy and provide any feedback
John to send out an email reminder
Program Milestone Check John Towns (10 mins)
Action item for the awardees to update their program milestones
Reminder:
Do not edit "Dashboard" tabPlease edit "ACCESS program milestones" tab as needed
Publication information UI added to the allocations portal today and the transition from the old database to a new database is complete
The demographic information still needs to be added from the XSEDE portal
ACCESS Program Wide Meeting - Request for Topics John Towns (10 mins)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdvRyXGdOquLoE4ZNQk0yLKU8MRjhGmXuOVFIrjYdcEH-wPjg/viewform
Each awardee to present 15 minute high level Year 2 plans
Working groups and standing committees to present Year 2 plans
Send out a proposed agenda to the EC for approval
Preparation for PEARC 23 John Towns (10 mins)
Lavanya to create a wiki page where all awardees can share information that will be presented during PEARC 23
DEI Working group (15 mins)
Discussion regarding creating a separate DEI standing committee versus expanding the scope of the community engagement working group
Concerns regarding having separate groups - there may be significant overlap between DEI standing committee and the community engagement working group
DEI can collect data that is more quantifiable as opposed to the work pursued by community engagement
EC agrees that we need DEI efforts on a program wide level
As long as there is a need and the scope can be defined, no opposition to creating a separate DEI standing committee
This is a discussion topic - next step is to wait for the feedback from the NSF review panels and decide next steps.
This topic will also be added to the ACCESS Program Wide Meeting in June.
Informational Items (10 mins)
RAMPS David Hart
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.
Met with researchers from Harvard Business School. Sharing some data for analysis. Potential for collaboration on the allocations “marketplace.”
MATCH Shelley Knuth
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.
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. Leslie and Tom are planning to send a request to RPs about system and resource specific question.
Question around the term “user” and the old XSEDE terminology program.
CONECT Tim Boerner
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!
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.
MMS Tom Furlani
A tutorial on the Analytic Framework for XDMoD
A BOF was submitted for XDMoD User’s Group
We will be holding our workshop on HPC Tools with OSC (Coldfront, OnDemand, XDMoD)
OpenCI John Towns
Preparations underway for ACCESS Program Wide Meeting
Lavanya to create a wiki page to collect all topics and discussions for PEARC 23
Working on Conference Proposal for the ACO
In the process of finding a replacement for Ron
Misc Topics
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