Making our Case: Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering
Workshop hosted by the American Association of the Advancement of Science for scientists and graduate students focused on advocacy in science and policy-making processes, emphasizing the importance of understanding science policy and the federal budget cycle.
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Services and Infrastructure Andrew Sansum
TWG Operations IRIS Operations meeting happens every 2 weeks and is now routine Regular attendance exceeds 30 people Operations meeting covers: Activity status updates Usage Infrastructure status Operational security My impression is that most activities now having relatively problem free experience or are acclimatised) CPU usage has grown dramatically A measure of sucecss
TWG - Sharing Sharing knowledge and expertise is a key part of an e-infrastructure Interleaving between TWG Operations on alternative weeks are volunteer talks on diverse subjects Technical from infrastructure providers How service is used by activities Also specialist topic based BOF out of band sessions on a various topics (eg security) Common areas of interest such as JUPYTER are notable aand sharing is productive
eInfrastructure Services Modest Investment in IRIS digital assets has allowed us to leverage existing products and services to begin to help us look like an eInfrastructure Resource accounting (APEL) Authentication and Authorisation (APEL) Data movement services (RUCIO) Workflow management (DiRAC) The web site! But how easy is all this to use yet One size doesn t fit all Storage is still hard to use
Security Policy and Operations Putting in place a top level policy is a huge step forward A digital asset activity seeding this Exploiting existing GridPP security team and broadening to include DIRAC HPC Services. Clear from attending security workshop this summer that IRIS sites already working well together
Next steps Support is still ad hoc based on bilateral relationships between activities and sites. All OK while scale of operation is primarily single site but will breakdown when multi- site workflows grow and broaden Virtual research Environments are clearly an area where huge benefits can be gained. Communities keep rediscovering the challenges of building VREs How do we improve our sharing and re-use components High volume workflows are still hard for new starts Storage is VERY hard to use if you are now a grid user There remains demand for simple classic batch services we are just not resourced to provide
Conclusions We have achieved an enormous amount There is a huge amount of mutual respect with the community A lot of good will exists Ouur big user communities now understand the challenges and have good lines of communication We have achieved a huge amount with very little We see the first signs of the big payoff from AAI We have more yet to do but we are a very successful community and should feel proud of our achievements
