IRIS Collaboration F2F Meeting - 3/4 April 2019

chaired by Nicholas Walton (University of Cambridge), Peter Clarke (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.), Andrew Sansum (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Scientific Computing Department), John Kewley (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Scientific Computing Department)
from to (UTC)
at Institute of Astronomy ( Sackler Lecture Theatre )
Hoyle Building Madingley Road Cambridge CB3 0HA
Description Please REGISTER by Tues 26 March 2019 at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/IRIS-Apr19-workshop-registration
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Material:
IRIS Meeting LOC iris-cam19-loc@ast.cam.ac.uk
Go to day
  • Wednesday, 3 April 2019
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Registration ( IoA Hoyle Building ( Hoyle Reception Area ) )
      Registration  and Coffee
    • 11:00 - 12:30 Session 1: IRIS in Context
      Convener: Dr. Nicholas Walton (University of Cambridge)
      • 11:00 Welcome and Logistics 10'
        Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Walton (University of Cambridge)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 11:10 IRIS Status After One Year 30'
        Speaker: Prof. Peter Clarke (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 11:40 Introduction to Cambridge HPC 20'
        Speaker: Paul Calleja
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
      • 12:00 Update from DIRAC 15'
        Speaker: Wilkinson Mark
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 12:15 Options for Exploiting Commercial cloud in 2019 (for subsequent discussion) 15'
        Speaker: Dr. Andrew Sansum (STFC, Scientific Computing Department)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
    • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch ( IoA ( Hoyle reception area ) )
      Buffet lunch provided
    • 13:30 - 15:30 Session 2: Science on IRIS
      Convener: Tom Griffin
      • 13:30 Simulating the most energetic events in the Universe: The role of data science 25'
        Speaker: Dr. Debora Sijacki (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 13:55 ISIS Data Analysis as a Service (IDAaaS) 20'
        Speaker: Russel Ewings
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
      • 14:15 Recent Euclid Activities and Plans 20'
        Speaker: Mark Holliman
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
      • 14:35 Recent SKA Activities 20'
        Speaker: Rohini Joshi
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
      • 14:55 XChem: X-ray structure-accelerated, synthesis-aligned fragment medicinal chemistry at Diamond 25'
        Speaker: Prof. Frank von Delft (Oxford University/Diamond)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee ( Hoyle Reception Area )
    • 16:00 - 18:00 Session 3: Strategy
      Convener: Prof. Peter Clarke (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.)
      • 16:00 Session Introduction 15'
        Speaker: Prof. Peter Clarke (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 16:15 Update from STFC Programs 15'
        Speaker: Dr. Charlotte Jamieson (STFC)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
      • 16:30 UKRI Infrastructure Roadmap 20'
        Speaker: Susan Morrell
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
      • 16:50 IRIS Technical Roadmap 30'
        Speaker: Dr. Andrew Sansum (Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Scientific Computing Department)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
      • 17:20 ALC Roadmap and Year 1 Activities 20'
        Speaker: Gordon Brown
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
    • 19:30 - 22:30 Workshop Dinner ( The University Centre ( Riverside Restaurant ) )
      Riverside Restaurant, The University Centre
      Granta Place,  Cambridge CB2 1RU
       - directions see http://www.unicen.cam.ac.uk/riverside-restaurant
  • Thursday, 4 April 2019
    • 08:30 - 09:00 Coffee ( Hoyle Reception Centre )
    • 09:00 - 10:30 Session 4: IRIS Capability
      Convener: Dr. Andrew Sansum (STFC, Scientific Computing Department)
      • 09:00 Session Introduction 10'
        Speaker: Dr. Andrew Sansum (STFC, Scientific Computing Department)
      • 09:10 Rucio Digital Asset 15'
        Speaker: Alastair Dewhurst
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 09:25 UK DIRAC for IRIS 10'
        Speaker: Dr. Daniela Bauer (Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Imperial College London)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 09:35 Identity Proxy Digital Asset (IAM) 10'
        Speaker: Jens Jensen
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
      • 09:45 The IRIS Accounting Portal (APEL) 15'
        Speaker: Adrian Coveney
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
      • 10:00 The Vcycle digital asset 10'
        Speaker: Andrew McNab
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 10:10 Job Accounting with XDMoD 15'
        Speaker: Stuart Rankin (Cambridge)
        Material: Slides pdf file
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee ( Hoyle Reception Area )
    • 11:00 - 12:00 Session 5: New Activities
      Convener: Mark Wilkinson
      • 11:00 Introduction to CASU 20'
        Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Walton (University of Cambridge)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 11:20 Introduction to WFAU 20'
        Speaker: Nigel Hambly
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 11:40 eMerlin 20'
        Speaker: Jeremy Yates
        Material: Slides pdf file
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Jupyter Notebooks Mini Session
      Convener: Mark Wilkinson
      • 12:00 LSST on OpenStack 10'
        Speaker: Gareth Francis
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
      • 12:10 A Jupyter Lab instance at Cardiff for LIGO 10'
        Speaker: Paul Hopkins
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 12:20 The eMERLIN notebook 10'
        Speaker: Rachael Ainsworth
        Material: Slides pdf file
    • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch ( Hoyle Reception Area )
      Buffet lunch provided
    • 13:30 - 15:00 Session 6: Cloud/Openstack/Operations
      Convener: Jeremy Coles
      • 13:30 Database Testbed at Edinburgh 20'
        Speakers: George Beckett, Mark Holliman
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 13:50 IRIS Operations - Possible Models (Led Discussion) 20'
        Speaker: Andrew McNab
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 14:10 Scientific OpenStack: StackHPC Progress and development Plans 15'
        Speaker: John Garbutt
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
      • 14:25 Scientific Openstack: Feedback and Discussion 20'
        **** (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)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Final Discussion and Meeting Actions
      Convener: Dr. Andrew Sansum (STFC, Scientific Computing Department)
      • 15:00 This meeting in Retrospect 15'
        Speaker: David Corney
        Material: Slides powerpoint file
      • 15:15 Wrap up and Thanks 15'
        Speaker: Prof. Peter Clarke (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.)
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee ( Hoyle Reception Area )
      Coffee available