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IRIS TWG F2F Meeting - 23rd Jan 2019

UTC
Executive Suite 104 (Universe)

Executive Suite 104

Universe

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/engineering-front-building Engineering Front Building, Malet Place London WC1E 7JE
Description
Primary Objectives:
  1. Gap Analysis of Digital Assets. Identify missing items for consideration in FY19 and beyond. Process for drawing architecture or service catalogue
  2. Review of current science workflow activities and identify blocking items and work to be done.
  3. Draft Technical Roadmap to finalise for April “Town Meeting”
    • 10:00 10:30
      Arrive and Coffee
    • 10:30 11:00
      Overview
      • High level Status (Andrew Sansum)
      • Hardware procurement Status (Andrew Sansum)
      • Update from Resource Scrutiny and Allocation Panel Group (Jeremy Yates)
    • 11:00 12:00
      Report from Digital Asset Construction activities

      From each project (5+5 mins):
      * Purpose
      * Key deliverables
      * Timeline
      * Current Status

      Convener: Andrew Sansum
      • 11:00
        Rucio 10m
        Speakers: Alastair Dewhurst, Ian Johnson
        Slides
      • 11:10
        DIRAC 10m
        Speaker: Dr Daniela Bauer (Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Imperial College London)
        Slides
      • 11:20
        IAM 10m
        Speaker: Ian Collier
        Slides
      • 11:30
        APEL and performance accounting 10m
        Speaker: Adrian Coveney
        Slides
      • 11:40
        Scientific Openstack 10m
        Speaker: John Taylor
        Slides
    • 12:00 13:00
      Science Activity Reports

      5 mins per talk (10 for Mark covering 3 activities)
      * What has been achieved?
      * What is going well?
      * What is going less well?
      * What is expected in 2019
      * What activities do we already have underway that might help?
      * What more do we need to do?

    • 13:00 13:30
      Lunch
    • 13:30 15:00
      Workgroup activities

      Individual workgroup reports (5 minutes each)
      What progress have the workgroups made towards identifying key objectives
      For each workgroup brief brainstorming to identify further objectives:
      • Architecture (AS)
      • DiRAC (MW)
      • ALC (AR?)
      • Metrics (?)
      • Scientific OpenStack (PCa)
      • AAI (IC)
      • Interfaces (PH?)
      • UKRI (JY?)
      • Policy (?)
      • Hybrid Cloud (AR)

      slides
    • 15:00 16:00
      Integration Activity

      Try and pull together actions/objectives architecture/service catalogue and work out next steps