WP2 fortnightly meeting

Europe/Paris
    • 11:00 11:10
      News 10m
      Orateurs: Rosie Bolton (Square Kilometre Array Organisation), Xavier Espinal (CERN)

      Milestones and deliverables review

      • D2.2 ready: Assessment and analysis of the performance of the first  pilot data lake (R)

       

      • M2.4 (M24): Expanded prototype, more data centres including 3rd party centres, demonstrate integrated data management tools, verify RI data accessibility from compute platforms including commercial clouds
        • Means of verification: Review of D2.2: Monitoring web site

       

      • M2.5 (M30): Extension of the data lake to efficiently serve data to external compute resources providers
        • Means of verification: Progress report; Monitoring web site

       

      • M2.6 (M32): ISO 16363 certification process underway in core data centres 
        • Means of verification: Progress report; core data centres finished self-certification audit and ready to submit to external audit.

      Workshops/collaborations

      • Preparations for the WP2/WP5 joint workshop:
        • Goal: work plan to prepare a common FDR/Data Challenge in a ~year from now.
      • Preparations for RUCIO/ESFRIs "workshop"
      • HPC collaboration CERN/GEANT/SKA/PRACE
      • ARCHIVER

       

      Next meetings

      I would like to have updates from participating institutes: status, plans (prototype phase), particular fields of interests, experiment links, etc.  We could dedicate the next two meetings to this activity and to align it with the different task plans. I propose:

      • (today) Wednesday 27 Jan 2021: RUG, IFAE, Nikhef, Astron, INFN
      • Wednesday 10 Feb 2021: Surf-Sara, GSI, DESY, LAPP, IN2P3
      • Wednesday 24 Feb 2021: CERN, SKAO

       

       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
    • 11:10 12:00
      Updates from participating institutes

      I would like to have updates from participating institutes: status, plans (prototype phase), particular fields of interests, experiment links, etc. We could dedicate the next two meetings to this activity and to align it with the different task plans. I propose:

      Président de session: Xavier Espinal (CERN)
      • 11:10
        (postponed for the next meeting) Surf/SARA 7m
      • 11:17
        IFAE 7m
        Orateur: Agustin Bruzzese (PIC)
      • 11:24
        NIKHEF 7m
      • 11:31
        ASTRON 7m
        Orateurs: Vishambhar Nath Pandey (ASTRON), Yan Grange (ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)
      • 11:38
        RUG 7m
        Orateur: Maisam M. Dadkan (University of Groningen)

        So far, we have followed a roadmap that we defined in collaboration with GSI-FAIR to facilitate the RUG-GSI data lake testbed. 

        The following progress has been made:

        In connection with WP2:

        • An internal RUG CIT plan for ESCAPE-RUG was created. This was required to include CIT work on Escape inside the current CIT project organization scheme which in term releases some internal CIT funds for the project. 
        • Provision of virtual machines (VMs) on the RUG CIT Openstack facility (Known as Merlin) was organized.
        • The necessary infrastructure required for a FAIR Data Lake node at RUG was defined with GSI.
        • The VMs to support the FAIR Data Lake have been created, but not yet handed over to GSI.

        In overlap with WP5:

        • One of the NUSTAR experiments (R3B) was chosen for our contribution to ESCAPE. It has a simulation engine and a Deep Neural Network algorithm for generating data and testing HPC and HTC infrastructure. 
        • The software package was containerized and a single user JupyterHub has been configured and successfully tested on a local machine. A Github Authentication was integrated, Also, integrating with ESCAPE-IAM is in progress.
        • We got computational resources from our CIT cloud system at the end of 2020, therefore, we have started recently to configure and deploy a multi-user Jupyterhub service on our cloud server using the Kubernetes cluster (it is in progress).
        • Integration with data management interface is in progress to connect RUG data center to GSI.

        Our plan for this year:

        • Accomplish the in-progress tasks that are mentioned above.
        • Doing a data accessing test between RUG and GSI.
        • Creating a multi-user Jupyterhub with data interfaces to both data lakes (the FAIR implementation and the CERN implementation) for both user groups R3B and CBM.
        • Integrating our data analysis service into the ESAP.
      • 11:45
        INFN 7m
        Orateur: Lucia Morganti (INFN-CNAF)
    • 12:00 12:05
      AOB 5m