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<h1 style="text-align: center; color: blue">ACCESS Technical Coordination Group -- Notes from Meeting !#2 (20/9/2012)</h1>
From: Michael Naughton
Sent: Wednesday, 26 September 2012 4:05 PM
To: Michael Naughton; Robin Bowen; Martin Dix; Tim Pugh; Mike Rezny; 'Ben Evans'; Margaret Kahn; Kamal Puri
Cc: [email protected]; CAWCR esm_bom; CAWCR esm_csiro; Robert Bell
Subject: ACCESS Technical Coordination Group -- Notes from Meeting !#2 (20/9/2012) [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Colleagues,
Here are notes from last Thursday's ACCESS Technical Coordination Group Meeting !#2. Please forward on to any others not on this list as required.
Mike
ACCESS Technical Coordination Group
Meeting !#2
20 September 2012
10E, BoM
Attendees:
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BoM: Martin Dix, Michael Naughton, Tim Pugh, Robin Bowen
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NCI (video): Ben Evans, Margaret Kahn
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Monash (audio): Michael Rezny
Agenda
Review of Meeting !#1 (18-Aug) action items
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Governance framework
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Communication with management
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Communication with UM Working Group
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Communication with NCI
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accessdev machine request
BoM NCI transition project
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dp9 project
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arranging short-term increases from default disk space and time allocations
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longer term data management plan
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BoM-NCI comms link
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training
UM TI Project
NECTAR
Other Business
Review of Meeting #1 (18-Aug) action items
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Governance framework
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TimP drafting terms of reference
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Group reports through representatives to ACCESS Leader, CAWCR, BOM, CSIRO, COE, NCI managers
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Group liaises with stakeholders and users, as appropriate
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Group supervises activities of UM Working Group
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Communication with management
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ACCESS Leader briefed verbally on outcomes of first meeting (MikeN)
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Communication with UM Working Group
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UMWG briefed verbally on outcomes of first meeting (MikeN et al.)
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Communication with NCI
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NCI staff invited to join group (MartinD,MikeR,TimP); MargaretK, BenE joining from this meeting
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accessdev machine request
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request has been raised with NCI (BenE,Kevin Pulo)
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MikeR, BenE have had discussions
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Proposal is for virtual machine with ACCESS staff responsible for system admin
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Machine to be set up using NCI procedures
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Training required for using "orchestration" software
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Location: NCI
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Dates: 22-23 October
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Attendees: * BoM: Asri Sulaiman, Robin Bowen * CSIRO: Ian Campbell, Tim Irwin, Martin Dix (?) * COE: Scott Wales, Michael Rezny
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Needs to be properly notified and confirmed
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Concept of stable "production" machine, and one or more development machine instances.
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Need to decide on naming convention: possibilities * accessprod & accessdev1/2/3/.. * accessdev0 & accessdev1/2/3/.. (or 1 & 2/3/..) * [later suggestion: shorter names? (Asri Sulaiman)]
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require ability to re-build production machine at any time
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require ability to add/subtract/update packages flexibly
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Need specification of requirements: initial, later, longer term
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BoM NCI transition project
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dp9 project
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project has been set up on vayu
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information message sent out
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project duration: now till new machine, initially 3-4Q 2012
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use for BoM-ACCESS projects, esp. SREP, APS2, AGREPS
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all BoM-ACCESS users on vayu have been added to dp9
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arranging short-term increases from default disk space and time allocations
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375K SU time allocation will apply from start of October
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/home increases to 5 GB have been arranged, may need requests to be made by each user
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/short has been increased to 4 TB
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dmf tape allocation of 10TB has been set up to allow for some work practice prototyping
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longer term data management plan
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nothing has been done yet on this; needs someone nominated
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BoM-NCI comms link
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10 Gb link in place now between BoM and Canberra, but not available for general research use until mid-November
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training
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Date set for 2-3 days training in Melbourne from Mon 3-Dec
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Margaret Kahn et al. to do training
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Standard introductory training day on 3-Dec
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Advanced topics on 4-Dec
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power user focus, not for inexperienced staff
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project management, accessdev, BoM setup on Fujitsu machine, RT req system, ???
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decide on topics by mid-Nov
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BoM Projects
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projects requests to be handled through NCI applications process
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BoM to decide on groupings to use for projects
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few large projects cf. many small projects, etc.
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issue of sharing files across projects: manage via access control lists (David Singleton email)
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work needed on BoM-specific forms design (probably similar to CSIRO)
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need to define applications and allocations process; announce, include in training
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need timelines for this to be all done in time for new machine
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current date is for new machine to be available mid-Jan
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BoM NCI transfer wiki pages have been set up in the accesscollab access_wiki
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https://access-svn.nci.org.au/trac/access/wiki/bom_nci_transfer
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UM TI Project
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No update. ACCESS info was sent to Met Ofice 21-Aug; awaiting Met Office action.
NECTAR
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NECTAR contracts have been finalised; still going through Bureau and partners for signing.
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Staff have been assigned and work has begun
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Work Package Plans to be presented to Steering Group in mid-October
Other Business
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Fujitsu R&D meeting next Friday at NCI
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TimP, MikeN to attend on behalf of Bureau; BenE to check with Lindsay Botten on CSIRO participation
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ReDS/RDSI data storage projects (BenE)
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Current focus on prototype based on key national research datasets as demonstration
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Bureau NWP analyses and forecasts will probably form part of this; maybe Bureau observations?
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Issues with password handling (RobinB) -- authentication plan in NECTAR needs to include this (MikeR)
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Jobs environment for UMUI: ksh v csh support (RobinB): BoM requirement for ksh support as well as csh identified; plan will be for all ACCESS environments not to be shell-dependent.
Next meeting: Wednesday, 17th October