Name: WP2 fortnightly meeting
Start: 2020-09-23T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-09-23T12:35:00+02:00
Location: No location set

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  News
  
  Orateurs: Rosie Bolton (Square Kilometre Array Organisation), Xavier Espinal (CERN)
  ESCAPE Periodic Progress Report
  
  Periodic technical report: draft sent to the GA.
  
  Mid-term review: ESCAPE mid-term review is expected to take place in November 2020. The mid-term review will be a virtual meeting and exact dates are yet to be finalized.
  
  Milestones and deliverables:
  
  M2.3 (M22): Second WP2/DIOS Workshop (virtual event)
  
  M2.4 (M24): Expanded prototype. Verify experiment data access from compute platforms (including commercial clouds)
  
  WP2/DIOS Q42020:
  
  Focus on preparations for the Dress Rehearsal exercises. Follow-up task work plan.
  
  WP2 workshop: best dates on the poll 26th-Nov and 9th-Dec.
  
  Dress rehearsals, tentative dates proposal:
  
  1st Dress Rehearsal: one week before the workshop (19th Nov)
  
  2nd Dress Rehearsal: two weeks after the workshop (9th Dec)
  
  Dedicate one WP2 meeting to have a sites and experiments reports sessions before the end of the year.
  
  Anything I am forgetting?
  
  Misc:
  
  PRACE-CERN-GÉANT-SKAO kick-off workshop on High Performance Computing 29 September [agenda]
  
  Confirmed ESCAPE talks:
  
  American Geophysical Union conference:
  
  https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting (date not fixed yet: ~1-17 December)
  
  PHIDIAS project (13 Oct, webinar):
  
  https://www.phidias-hpc.eu/
  
  https://www.phidias-hpc.eu/events/webinars/phidias-steps-forward-detection-and-identification-anomalous-atmospheric-events
  
  Research Data Alliance (RDA) virtual plenary meeting: Talk + BoF session (date TBD)
  
  https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-16th-plenary-meeting-costa-rica-virtual
  
  Possible contributions:
  
  ADDASS (poster call still open): https://adass2020.es (Nov 8-12)
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  Update on XCache activities in IN2P3
  
  Orateurs: Ghita Rahal (IN2P3/CNRS), Paul MUSSET ({CNRS}USR6402)
  
  ESCAPE-CC-tests-xcache III.pdf
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  Pilot data lake assessment: tasks progress update
  
  Short update on the work plan progress by Task Leads
  
  Orateurs: Andrea Ceccanti (INFN), Paul Millar (DESY), Riccardo Di Maria (CERN), Rosie Bolton (Square Kilometre Array Organisation), M. Yan Grange (ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)
  
  Dress Rehearsal
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  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