2020 IRIS Collaboration Meeting

17 Nov 2020, 14:00 → 18 Nov 2020, 17:00 UTC

92350130909 / 603513 (Zoom)

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

The 2020 IRIS Collaboration Meeting replaces the original face to face meeting planned for March. It will be a virtual meeting over Zoom and will comprise two afternoons: the first focusing on the various resources (hardware, software and services) that are available under IRIS; and the second on the various science activities that utilise these resources for their research.
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Recording
Please note that we intend recording the meeting

Tuesday 17 November

Welcome and Opening Remarks

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

Resources for IRIS: High level view

Convener: John Kewley (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Scientific Computing Department)

1 IRIS - eInfrastructure for Research and Innovation for STFC

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

Slides 201117-IRIS-CommunityMtg-PELC-Intro.pdf

2 Capacity Planning and Resource Usage

Speaker: Mr Philip Jackson (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

Slides IRIS_Collab_-_Resources_&_Usage.pptx

3 Services and Infrastructure

Speakers: Dr Andrew Sansum (STFC, Scientific Computing Department), Mr Ian Collier (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

Slides Services_and_Infrastructure.pptx

14:55 Short break

Resources for IRIS: Hardware Provider Capabilities

Convener: John Kewley (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Scientific Computing Department)

4 DiRAC

Speaker: Paul Calleja

5 SCD Resources

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

Slides IRIS_at_STFC_RAL-ras.pptx

6 GridPP

Speaker: Dave Britton

Slides 201117-IRIS-CM.pptx

15:55 Short break

Resources for IRIS: Software and Services

Convener: Mr Philip Jackson (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

7 Data Movement and Storage Developments

Speaker: Alastair Dewhurst

Slides IRISDataManagement20201117.pptx

8 JupyterHub

Speaker: Gareth Francis

Slides IRIS_JupyterHub_Nov_20.pptx

9 AAI and Security

Speaker: Dr David Crooks (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

Slides IRIS_Collaboration_AAAI_Security_v5.pdf

End of day 1 and Closing Remarks

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

Wednesday 18 November

Welcome to day 2 and Opening Remarks

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

Science Activities on IRIS: Astronomy

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

10 Astronomy and IRIS at Edinburgh

Speaker: Joe Zuntz

Slides JZ_Iris.pdf

11 Use of IRIS at JBCA

Speakers: Alasdair Thomson, Robert Beswick

Slides 20201118_JBCA_beswick_IRIS-compressed.pdf

12 Wide Area Survey Science Enabled via IRIS

Speaker: Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares

Slides casu-iris-walton-nov20.pdf

14:55 Short break

Science Activities on IRIS: STFC Facilities and ALC

Convener: Tom Griffin

13 IDAaaS To The Rescue – Facility Operations During Covid

Speaker: Russell Ewings

Slides IRIS_presentation_Ewings_2020_final.pptx

14 CLF OCTOPUS use of IRIS

Speaker: Ben Davis

Slides Ben_Davis_-_CLF_IRIS_Talk.pptx

15 Diamond and IRIS

Speaker: Andrew Richards

Slides IRIS-November2020-DiamondUpdate.pptx

15:55 Short break

Science Activities on IRIS: Physics

Convener: George Ryall

16 High Energy Physics

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

Slides HEP

17 Particle Astrophysics

Speaker: Steve Fairhurst

Slides IRIS_particle_astro_sf_v2.pdf

18 Hadron Physics - why bother?

Speaker: Dr Bryan McKinnon (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow)

Slides IRIS_CM_McKinnon.pdf

Closing Summary

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