LAPP ESCAPE regular meeting
Salle des Sommets
LAPP
INTERNAL COMMUNICATION, PROGRESS-TRACKING
- Previous ESCAPE LAPP meetings on Indico category.
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Mattermost channel: https://mattermost.web.cern.ch/escape/channels/off-topic
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Created Sdrive for ESCAPE to fill in with documents, presentations and archives. Currently sDrive under maintenance.
- Minutes also available at Box In2p3
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Inscription to Mailing lists, fill spreadsheet, and participate in OSCARS work packages meetings.
GENERAL
- EOSC Federation Handbook: The first edition of the EOSC Federation Handbook has been released on Zenodo. It provides an overview of the organisational and operational structure, and technical characteristics, of the EOSC Federation. It aims to serve as a practical guide for organisations that are interested in making their resources available within and across the EOSC Federation of nodes.
- Contacted by University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) central research office, expressed interest in joining the Science Clusters.
WEBSITE
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ESCAPE Tools Gitlab webpage, that was set up for EOSC Future along with Test Science Projects (TSPs), before migrating to Github
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Some minor updates on sections of ESCAPE webpage , check with Maud for Drupal Framework update from Trust-IT.
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Discussion around ESCAPE Competence center: https://projectescape.eu/escape-open-science-competence-centre
SERVICES
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Check which ESCAPE partners can be included to strengthen the OSCARS science clusters consolidation.
DATALAKE
The ESCAPE Data Lake is up and running.
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Is it planned to have a more granular approach to give access to a file to only some selected users? ——> see OSCARS project “streamlining open data policies with RUCIO, presentation here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1498384/
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Issues reported (since last meeting): see
- Meeting DIOS + VRE : 24 april 2025 at 1600PM , https://indico.cern.ch/event/1528427/
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Rucio in CTAO :
IKC : we officially participate in the management of metadata in Rucio, in the Datalake.
→ Matisse : intership for three months
VRE
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FROM PREVIOUS MEETING: VRE: highly composible analysis platform linked to all services of ESCAPE, with the authentication at the top —> AAI currently service related, not at top.
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Investigate the expectation of each ESCAPE partner of having its own VRE: good feedback from ET, close collaboration between VRE WG and ETAP, MADDEN (funded OSCARS project), good feedback at ET data analysis workshop in February, follow-up at ET Symposium in late May.
- How to run a Pygwb pipeline on VRE-REANA cluster on ET mock data challenge.
- Caterina Doglioni Dark Matter project, to be added to VRE landing page.
- Contact with Federation of Solar Data OSCARS project, follow-up meeting with VRE team on April 23rd.
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FROM PREVIOUS MEETING: Talk with Matthias and see if CTA would need its own VRE and how to deploy it.
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Status of LAPP VRE: 2 (MUST https://jupyter.must-dc.cloud/ and EOSC https://eosc-vre.must-dc.cloud/) , Possibility of putting own environment (done with WDF EOSC-VRE), but have to ask Leo for integration. Only CPUs, no GPUs.
- Issues reported:
- VRE instance at CERN has long container spawn times very long (5 mins), not happening with LAPP VRE instances.
- Alberto: Couldn't make some ET_OSB_MDC1v2 files available through Rucio extension (put a patch).
Virtual Observatory
- Request for a demo of the VRE at the next ESCAPE Executive Board meeting.
- Frederice on SKA use of metadata:
- IVOA (Northern Spring) 2025 Interoperability Meeting Monday June 2 to Friday June 6, 2025
ESAP
Find again the access to the ESAP resources. People not maintaining it.
CITIZEN SCIENCE
Contributed Projects at Zooniverse. Contacted WG leader Stephen Serjeant (also PI of OSCARS funded Astro-DM TSP project) for updates.
OSSR
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The OSSR is operational.
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Contact OSCARS project to advertise service.
- Presentation on ESCAPE OSSR metadata analysis.
OSCARS
- Start of 2nd Open Call at March 14th, at 10:00 am CET. Funding available: 2,980,665.00 €
- Done: Clusters’ Services and Data Sources Portfolio deliverable D2.1 document.
- Work done on Composability Action Plan v.1
- Composability Workshop in September at CERN (17–19 sept. 2025)
- OSFAIR Cern Science Gateway 15-17 September. Proposed Panel contribution with Cluster representatives and some OSCARS projects representatives.
EVERSE
OTHER
- Gray Scott HPC School 2025 at LAPP 23 June to 4 July.
- Meetings, conferences, workshops? Past or future participations?
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