LAPP ESCAPE regular meeting
Salle des Sommets
LAPP
INTERNAL COMMUNICATION, PROGRESS-TRACKING
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Mattermost channel: https://mattermost.web.cern.ch/escape/channels/off-topic
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Created Sdrive for ESCAPE to fill in with documents, presentations and archives.
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Inscription to Mailing lists, fill spreadsheet, and participate in OSCARS work packages meetings.
WEBSITE
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Restored and updated ESCAPE Tools Gitlab webpage, that was set up for EOSC Future along with Test Science Projects (TSPs) webpages, before migrating to GitHub.
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ACTION ITEM (ongoing, Alberto): update TSP webpages (later add OSCARS?)
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Update ESCAPE webpage by Trust-IT.
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Discussion around ESCAPE Competence center: https://projectescape.eu/escape-open-science-competence-centre
SERVICES
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Check which ESCAPE partners can be included to strengthen the OSCARS science clusters consolidation.
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Feedback from OSCARS project: varying degrees of knowledge of ESCAPE service.
——> meeting before OSCARS 1st Annual General meeting in March (3-4) in Rome, to present the services?
DATALAKE
The ESCAPE Data Lake is up and running.
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Is it planned to have a more granular approach to give access to a file to only some selected users? ——> see OSCARS project “streamlining open data policies with RUCIO, presentation here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1498384/
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Datalake via rucio accessible from the VRE jupyterhub , linked to the ESCAPE VRE Tools page, currently issues in upload and download of datasets.
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Status of integration of RUCIO datalake in LAPP VRE. RUCIO integrated, but commonly issues at CERN.
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Update from Marion and Frederic regarding testing for CTA: During the CERN workshop with CTA stakeholders on January 13 and 14, it was decided to integrate performance testing into the official CTA CI process in agreement with CTA.
VRE
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FROM PREVIOUS MEETING: VRE: highly composible analysis platform linked to all services of ESCAPE, with the authentication at the top —> AAI currently service related, not at top.
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Proposed the ESCAPE VRE to the ESCAPE projects funded by OSCARS, mixed feedback.
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Work with CERN about the login and different access depending of the credentials.
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Investigate the expectation of each ESCAPE partner of having its own VRE.
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Ask update from Caterina Doglioni RE: VRE: ATLAS hired person to work on the VRE.
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FROM PREVIOUS MEETING: Talk with Matthias and see if CTA would need its own VRE and how to deploy it. TO BE DONE
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Status of LAPP VRE: 2 (MUST https://jupyter.must-dc.cloud/ and EOSC https://eosc-vre.must-dc.cloud/) , currently VRE like CERN, with RUCIO. Possibility of putting own environment, but have to ask Leo for integration. Only CPUs, no GPUs.
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ACTION ITEM (future, Alberto): Elena Cuoco has enquired about setting a VRE at Bologna ET Integrated Facility
ESAP
Find again the access to the ESAP resources. People not maintaining it.
OSSR
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The OSSR is operational.
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Contact OSCARS project to advertise service.
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Discussion with CSAN (A Comprehensive Software Archive Network) that want to provide a security solution for docker containers and is looking for a long-term storage. First meeting(s) to understand each other and see what can be done with OSSR. Still preliminary, to be continued.
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First work with SOMEF to test records metadata in the OSSR - work done by Tom François for CODEMETASOFT project from OSCARS grant agreement
OSCARS
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Work on Clusters’ Services and Data Sources Portfolio deliverable D2.1 document (due 31th January), internally reviewed by ESCAPE Executive Board.
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Mentoring framework from OSPs D3.1 deliverable ——> ESCAPE involvement missing.
EVERSE
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No specific update was discussed, work ongoing.
OTHER
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Leo showed how to access the LAPP VRE and run a jupyter notebook example.
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Hana’s presentation on Stereograph, discuss possibility to integrate in LAPP VRE.