WP5 Monthly meeting 19 July 2021
Meeting with all partners involved in WP5/ESAP
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1. Roll call
- Pierre Chanial (EGO)
- James Collinson (SKAO)
- Maisam M. Dadkan (RUG)
- Hugh Dickinson (Open University)
- Matthias Fuessling (CTAO)
- Raffaele Grosso (FAIR)
- Marie Paturel (CNRS-LAPP)
- Stefano Russo (INAF)
- Susana Sánchez (CSIC)
- Killian Schwarz (FAIR)
- Mathieu Servillat (CTAO)
- John Swinbank (ASTRON)
- Nico Vermaas (ASTRON)
- Stelios Voutsinas (U. Edinburgh)
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2. Last meeting minutes
Minutes of last meeting can be found at the previous meeting.
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3. Announcements, news and general updates
Provide your information by adding minutes to the sub-contribution. You will need to have an indico account to do this.
Note: Please also mention in your updates if you are going to or were at an event to talk about ESAP.-
a) ASTRON
- Preparation for the upcoming Second WP5 workshop (see following agenda item).
- Multiple improvements to ESAP, including:
- Use of the “shopping basket” to enable users to select query results for further processing (#6, #7, #8)
- Enable access to the ASTRON ESAP instance over standard ports to work around firewalls limiting access from some institutions (#13)
- Several user experience improvements and minor bugfixes to ESAP (#12)
- fixed the ESAP-GUI usability issues and bugs with the shopping basket that were identified
- improved (and understood) the token expiration issue (not fully solved, because it was not on the board for this iteration)
- added very basic connectors for apertif, astron_vo and SAMP to the python client (for use in the Jupyter notebook)
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b) CERN
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d) CSIC
We have met with members of the WP4, in order to discuss about the IVOA model for provenance data. The minutes of this meeting can be found in https://wiki.escape2020.de/index.php/WP4_-_CEVO (search for "SKAO CEVO provenance meeting")
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e) CTAO
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g) FAIR
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h) FAU
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i) IFAE
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k) JIVE
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l) KIS
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m) Nikhef
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n) RUG
- Deploying the JupyterHub service for R3B and CBM use-cases on the RUG cloud server
- Developing data analysis and data handling scripts of R3B for DAC21
- To do:
- Configure the JupyterHub to being able to handle tokens from ESCAPE-IAM and propagate them to be used by RUCIO
- Integration of the JupyterHub with the ESAP
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o) SKAO
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p) UCM
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q) UEDIN
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5. Upcoming Workshop
The Second WP5 Workshop will take place on Thursday 5 August from 09:00 until 12:00 CEST.
Details are starting to appear on Indico at https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/24716/
As a reminder, this workshop is required to satisfy the project milestone MS31, “Second WP5 workshop to analyse prototype performance”.
I interpret this as being a charge to invite various ESCAPE stakeholders to the workshop, to present the work which as been done to date, to give them a chance to experiment with it, and to ask them for their feedback. (I regard “performance” as describing the holistic design and concept of the ESAP — “how well does it do its job?” — rather than some limited definition which regards purely computation/query performance.)
The draft agenda at the Indico page linked above includes:
- An overview of the ESAP “vision”, together with some discussion of how it relates to the expressed use cases.
- Discussion of current and upcoming work in interactive data analysis, batch processing, and managed databases.
- Interactions with other work packages.
- Time for discussion.
Your feedback on what else should be added to the agenda, and — in particular — on what you could contribute would be much appreciated.
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8. Emergent issues
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9. Upcoming meetings
- No WP5 monthly meeting in August. Regular schedule of third Monday in the month resumes in September: next meeting on Monday 20 September: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/24800/
- WP5 workshop on Thursday 5 August discussed above: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/24716/
- Major project meeting 28 & 29 September. All virtual (plans for a physical location have been abandoned).
- Technical material on 28 Sept, details will be forthcoming
- General assembly on 29 Sept
- IDA discussion continues on Monday afternoons: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/24708/
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