• 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?