WP2 fortnightly meeting

mercredi 9 sept. 2020, 11:00 → 12:35 Europe/Paris

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Live Minutes

11:00 → 11:10 News

Orateurs: Rosie Bolton (Square Kilometre Array Organisation), Xavier Espinal (CERN)

• ESCAPE Periodic Progress Report
  • 11 September 2020 – Deadline for EGA and EEAB to provide feedback and comments
    • Draft to be circulated within a few days. EEB most likely next week
  • 21 September 2020 – Final versions ready to be submitted.
• Milestones and deliverables:
  • M2.3 (M22): Second WP2 workshop to analyse performance of the datalake pilot
    • ESCAPE DIOS 2nd Workshop at GSI Darmstadt, Germany => VIRTUAL :(
      • Date to be fixed between end of November, beginning of December
  • M2.4 (M24): Expanded prototype. Verify experiment data access from compute platforms (including commercial clouds)
• Next meetings (end of the summer stretch)
  • 15th July:
    • T2.2 Advancements on QoS experiments input and QoS further deployment plans  (Paul)
    • T2.5 Update (Andrea)
  • 29th July: T2.3 and T2.4 updates (Rosie kindly agreed to chair the meeting, thanks!)
  • 12th August: cancelled
  • 26th August: T2.1 Datalake status and plans for the performance analysis 
    • => RUCIO Jupyterlab integration (GSoC)
  • 2nd September: Task leads. Workplan for the pilot datalake assessment (next milestone)
  • 9th September: T2.1 Datalake status and plans for the performance analysis 
• Misc:
  • New hiring starting 1st of October: Alba will be replacing Aris in the CERN team.
    • BIG thank you to Aris for their commitment and key contributions to the project and a warm welcome to the ESCAPE family for Alba.
  • Riccardo Di Maria kindly agreed to take the lead of Task 2.1: datalake infrastructure and federation services
  • European projects status (not oficial info): 
    • INFRAEOSC-03-2020, one proposal was submitted (EOSC Future). ESCAPE involved via TSP and datalake services.
    • ICT-40-2020. ESCAPE was involved in MECHANICS proposal (usage of T-Systems commercial cloud resources)
    • Outcome of the evaluations is expected in October.
  • Compute Accelerator Forum under discussion [live doc]
    • Forum to discuss and learn about fundamental aspects of software engineering for computing hardware accelerators (GPU, TPU, FPGA). Cross domains, cross experiments and cross institutions
  • Do we move to zoom?

 

11:10 → 11:25 Datalake status and plans

Orateur: Riccardo Di Maria (CERN)

WP2 Fortnightly Meeting - DataLake Status and Plan.pdf

11:25 → 11:45 Pilot datalake assessment: towards a dress rehearsal exercise

Orateurs: Andrea Ceccanti (INFN), Paul Millar (DESY), Riccardo Di Maria (CERN), Rosie Bolton (Square Kilometre Array Organisation), Xavier Espinal (CERN), M. Yan Grange (ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)

ESCAPE datalake performance dress rehearsal.pdf

11:45 → 11:55 Update on XCache activities in IN2P3 (time allowing)

Orateurs: Ghita Rahal (IN2P3/CNRS), Paul MUSSET ({CNRS}USR6402)

11:55 → 12:00 AOB/Shadow round table

Please chime in in case you have something to report:
- Sites: CERN, INFN, DESY, GSI, INFN, Nikhef, RUG, SURFSara, CC-IN2P3, IFAE-PIC, LAPP, INAF, Aarnet
- Experiments: HL-LHC, FAIR, KM3Net, SKA, CTA