IRIS Collaboration F2F Meeting - 3/4 April 2019

3 Apr 2019, 10:30 → 4 Apr 2019, 16:00 UTC

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Institute of Astronomy)

Andrew Sansum (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Scientific Computing Department), John Kewley (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Scientific Computing Department), Nicholas Walton (University of Cambridge), Peter Clarke (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.)

Please REGISTER by Tues 26 March 2019 at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/IRIS-Apr19-workshop-registration

• See https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/contact/directions for directions
  • ​​Detailed map of site at https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/contact/map (go to Hoyle building/ meeting is in the Lecture Theatre)
• Buffet LUNCH for both days will be provided. 
• Please aim to arrange your own accommodation. Useful accommodation information can be found at https://www.visitcambridge.org/ and https://www.accommodation.cam.ac.uk/visitingcambridge/
• Wireless access is available at the meeting. 

The meeting organisers consider the meeting to be an occasion for free and frank interchange of scientific ideas, as well as for the nurturing and creation of professional and social contacts. Any abuse of power or inappropriate behaviour has no place at the meeting.

The  organisers have adopted the EAS Ethics Statement and Guidelines for Good Practice. These will apply during the meeting and all participants are urged to read the code of conduct document and follow its recommendations.

CodeOfConduct iris-apr19-code-of-conduct.pdf

Wednesday 3 April

10:30 Registration

Registration and Coffee

Session 1: IRIS in Context

Convener: Dr Nicholas Walton (University of Cambridge)

1 Welcome and Logistics

Speaker: Dr Nicholas Walton (University of Cambridge)

Slides casu-iris-intro-apr19.pdf

2 IRIS Status After One Year

Speaker: Prof. Peter Clarke (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.)

Slides 190403-IRIS-f2f-Intro.pdf

3 Introduction to Cambridge HPC

Speaker: Paul Calleja

Slides iris.ppt

4 Update from DIRAC

Speaker: Wilkinson Mark

Slides IRIS_F2F_Presentation_April_3rd_2019.pdf

5 Options for Exploiting Commercial cloud in 2019 (for subsequent discussion)

Speaker: Dr Andrew Sansum (STFC, Scientific Computing Department)

Slides Commercial_Cloud_Options.pptx

12:30 Lunch

Buffet lunch provided

Session 2: Science on IRIS

Convener: Tom Griffin

6 Simulating the most energetic events in the Universe: The role of data science

Speaker: Dr Debora Sijacki (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

Slides DeboraSijacki_IRIS_3April2019.pdf

7 ISIS Data Analysis as a Service (IDAaaS)

Speaker: Russel Ewings

Slides IRIS_presentation_Ewings_Final.pptx

8 Recent Euclid Activities and Plans

Speaker: Mark Holliman

Slides Euclid_on_IRIS_2019.pptx

9 Recent SKA Activities

Speaker: Rohini Joshi

Slides IRISF2FCambridgeJoshi.pptx

10 XChem: X-ray structure-accelerated, synthesis-aligned fragment medicinal chemistry at Diamond

Speaker: Prof. Frank von Delft (Oxford University/Diamond)

Slides 2019-04(apr)-03_-_IRIS_f2f_-_Cambridge.pptx

15:30 Coffee

Session 3: Strategy

Convener: Prof. Peter Clarke (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.)

11 Session Introduction

Speaker: Prof. Peter Clarke (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.)

Slides 190403-UKRI-Requests.pdf

12 Update from STFC Programs

Speaker: Dr Charlotte Jamieson (STFC)

Slides Update_from_STFC_Programmes_(002).pptx

13 UKRI Infrastructure Roadmap

Speaker: Susan Morrell

Slides IRIS_April_19_SM.pptx

14 IRIS Technical Roadmap

Speaker: Dr Andrew Sansum (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Scientific Computing Department)

Slides April_F2F_Roadmap_V1.0pptx.pptx

15 ALC Roadmap and Year 1 Activities

Speaker: Gordon Brown

Slides IRIS_F2F_ALC_Status_20190403_2.pptx

19:30 Workshop Dinner

Riverside Restaurant, The University Centre
Granta Place, Cambridge CB2 1RU
- directions see http://www.unicen.cam.ac.uk/riverside-restaurant

Thursday 4 April

08:30 Coffee

Session 4: IRIS Capability

Convener: Dr Andrew Sansum (STFC, Scientific Computing Department)

16 Session Introduction

Speaker: Dr Andrew Sansum (STFC, Scientific Computing Department)

17 Rucio Digital Asset

Speaker: Alastair Dewhurst

Slides IRISRucio20190404.pdf

18 UK DIRAC for IRIS

Speaker: Dr Daniela Bauer (Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Imperial College London)

Slides IRIS_&_The_UK_DIRAC_instance.pdf

19 Identity Proxy Digital Asset (IAM)

Speaker: Jens Jensen

Slides IRIS-AIM_status.pptx

20 The IRIS Accounting Portal (APEL)

Speaker: Adrian Coveney

Slides 2019-04-04_IRIS_Accounting_Portal.pptx

21 The Vcycle digital asset

Speaker: Andrew McNab

Slides 20190404-mcnab-vcycle-da.pdf

22 Job Accounting with XDMoD

Speaker: Stuart Rankin (Cambridge)

Slides xdmod-presentation.pdf

10:30 Coffee

Session 5: New Activities

Convener: Mark Wilkinson

23 Introduction to CASU

Speaker: Dr Nicholas Walton (University of Cambridge)

Slides casu-iris-walton-apr19.pdf

24 Introduction to WFAU

Speaker: Nigel Hambly

Slides WFAUintro4IRIS.pdf

25 eMerlin

Speaker: Jeremy Yates

Slides IRIS_Highlight_for_Jeremy_20190327-1.pdf

Jupyter Notebooks Mini Session

Convener: Mark Wilkinson

26 LSST on OpenStack

Speaker: Gareth Francis

Slides LSST_JupyterHub.pptx

27 A Jupyter Lab instance at Cardiff for LIGO

Speaker: Paul Hopkins

Slides LIGO_JupyterLab_at_Cardiff_University.pdf

28 The eMERLIN notebook

Speaker: Rachael Ainsworth

Slides IRIS_F2F_-_eMERLIN_Notebook.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Buffet lunch provided

Session 6: Cloud/Openstack/Operations

Convener: Jeremy Coles

29 Database Testbed at Edinburgh

Speakers: George Beckett, Mark Holliman

Slides iris_database_service.pdf

30 IRIS Operations - Possible Models (Led Discussion)

Speaker: Andrew McNab

Slides 20190404-mcnab-iris-ops.pdf

31 Scientific OpenStack: StackHPC Progress and development Plans

Speaker: John Garbutt

Slides IRIS_Scientific_OpenStack_@_April_2019.pptx

32 Scientific Openstack: Feedback and Discussion

**** (5 mins) Users (Euclid/LSST/CCFE/etc) - Does this direction look OK? - Anything missing? - Anything we shouldn't bother with? **** Platform operators - Does this support Juypter Hub people enough? - Does this support running Grid workloads enough? ***** (10 mins) Infrastructure Providers - How far along are you with Scientific OpenStack? - Does the long term vision work for you? - Do the proposed priorities for what comes next work for you? - Is there anything blocking your progress? **** (5 mins) Agree next steps

Speaker: Alex Dibbo (STFC)

Slides 2019-04-04_-_Scientific_OpenStack_Feedback.pptx

Final Discussion and Meeting Actions

Convener: Dr Andrew Sansum (STFC, Scientific Computing Department)

33 This meeting in Retrospect

Speaker: David Corney

Slides IRIS_F2F_David_Retrospect_20190404.pptx

34 Wrap up and Thanks

Speaker: Prof. Peter Clarke (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.)

15:30 Coffee

Coffee available