- 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?