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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:

  •  BoM: Martin Dix, Michael Naughton, Tim Pugh, Robin Bowen

  •  NCI (video): Ben Evans, Margaret Kahn   

  •  Monash (audio): Michael Rezny

Agenda

Review of Meeting !#1 (18-Aug) action items

  •  Governance framework 

  •  Communication with management

  •  Communication with UM Working Group

  •  Communication with NCI 

  •  accessdev machine request

BoM NCI transition project

  •  dp9 project

  •  arranging short-term increases from default disk space and time allocations 

  •  longer term data management plan

  •  BoM-NCI comms link

  •  training

UM TI Project

NECTAR

Other Business

Review of Meeting #1 (18-Aug) action items

  •  Governance framework 

    •    	TimP drafting terms of reference

    •    	Group reports through representatives to ACCESS Leader, CAWCR, BOM, CSIRO, COE, NCI managers

    •    	Group liaises with stakeholders and users, as appropriate

    •    	Group supervises activities of UM Working Group

  •  	Communication with management

    •    	ACCESS Leader briefed verbally on outcomes of first meeting (MikeN)

    •    	Communication with UM Working Group

    •    	UMWG briefed verbally on outcomes of first meeting (MikeN et al.)

    •    	Communication with NCI 

    •    	NCI staff invited to join group (MartinD,MikeR,TimP); MargaretK, BenE joining from this meeting

    •    	accessdev machine request

    •    	request has been raised with NCI (BenE,Kevin Pulo)

    •    	MikeR, BenE have had discussions

    •    	Proposal is for virtual machine with ACCESS staff responsible for system admin

    •    	Machine to be set up using NCI procedures

    •    	Training required for using "orchestration" software

    •   		Location: NCI

    •   		Dates: 22-23 October

    •   		Attendees: 
  *					BoM: Asri Sulaiman, Robin Bowen
  *					CSIRO: Ian Campbell, Tim Irwin, Martin Dix (?)
  *					COE: Scott Wales, Michael Rezny

    •   			Needs to be properly notified and confirmed

    •    		Concept of stable "production" machine, and one or more development machine instances.  

    •   		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)]

    •   			require ability to re-build production machine at any time

    •   			require ability to add/subtract/update packages flexibly

    •   		Need specification of requirements: initial, later, longer term

BoM NCI transition project

  •  dp9 project

    •   	project has been set up on vayu

    •   	information message sent out

    •   	project duration: now till new machine, initially 3-4Q 2012

    •   	use for BoM-ACCESS projects, esp. SREP, APS2, AGREPS 

    •   	all BoM-ACCESS users on vayu have been added to dp9

  •  	arranging short-term increases from default disk space and time allocations 

    •   	375K SU time allocation will apply from start of October

    •   	/home increases to 5 GB have been arranged, may need requests to be made by each user

    •   	/short has been increased to 4 TB

    •   	dmf tape allocation of 10TB has been set up to allow for some work practice prototyping

  •  	longer term data management plan

    •   	nothing has been done yet on this; needs someone nominated

  •  	BoM-NCI comms link

    •   	10 Gb link in place now between BoM and Canberra, but not available for general research use until mid-November

  •  	training

    •   	Date set for 2-3 days training in Melbourne from Mon 3-Dec

    •   	Margaret Kahn et al. to do training

    •   	Standard introductory training day on 3-Dec

    •   	Advanced topics on 4-Dec 

      •   		power user focus, not for inexperienced staff

      •   		project management, accessdev, BoM setup on Fujitsu machine, RT req system, ???

      •   		decide on topics by mid-Nov

  •  	BoM Projects

    •   	projects requests to be handled through NCI applications process

    •   	BoM to decide on groupings to use for projects

      •   		few large projects cf. many small projects, etc.

      •   		issue of sharing files across projects: manage via access control lists (David Singleton email)  

      •   		work needed on BoM-specific forms design (probably similar to CSIRO)

      •   		need to define applications and allocations process; announce, include in training

      •   		need timelines for this to be all done in time for new machine

      •   		current date is for new machine to be available mid-Jan

  •  			BoM NCI transfer wiki pages have been set up in the accesscollab access_wiki

    •   			https://access-svn.nci.org.au/trac/access/wiki/bom_nci_transfer

UM TI Project

  •  No update.  ACCESS info was sent to Met Ofice 21-Aug; awaiting Met Office action.

NECTAR

  •  NECTAR contracts have been finalised; still going through Bureau and partners for signing.

  •  Staff have been assigned and work has begun

  •  Work Package Plans to be presented to Steering Group in mid-October

Other Business

  •  Fujitsu R&D meeting next Friday at NCI

    •   	TimP, MikeN to attend on behalf of Bureau; BenE to check with Lindsay Botten on CSIRO participation

  •  	ReDS/RDSI data storage projects (BenE)

    •   	Current focus on prototype based on key national research datasets as demonstration

    •   	Bureau NWP analyses and forecasts will probably form part of this; maybe Bureau observations?

  •  	Issues with password handling (RobinB) -- authentication plan in NECTAR needs to include this (MikeR)

  •  	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

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