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Meeting Notes: ACCESS Technical Infrastructure Working Group
MON 01-Dec-2014 9NORTH
Attendees: Michael Naughton, Martin Dix, Yi Xiao, Peter Steinle, Chris Tingwell, Asri Sulaiman, Scott Wales, Fabrizio Baordo, Imtiaz Dharssi, Guo Liu, Ng Say Teong, Wenming Lu
Video: None
Apologies: Robin Bowen
1. Rose and Cylc
Rose/Cylc upgrades
- Cylc6 installed on
accessdev
(Martin). - Rose 10-2014 installed on
accessdev
(Martin). - Cylc6 installed on
twister
(Xiao). - Rose 10-2014 yet to be installed on
accesdev
by Arnold (Action: Xiao). - Scott to check puppet side on
accessdev
(Action: Scott). - Xiao & Wenming test the new Rose/Cylc installation on
accessdev
(Action: Xiao & Wenming).
BoM Rosebush web server
- No update. To follow up with Arnold (Action: Xiao & Robin).
Suite design & Executables Working Groups
- These are separate groups to handle those issues; only report to this meeting with no deep discussion.
- Xiao is in charge of the APS Suite Design Working Group.
- Asri & Xiao are in charge of the APS Exectuables Working Group.
- Currently focussing on passing APS2 suites to BNOC.
- Subject to further discussion, longer term scope may include climate suites, research suites, common working practice etc.
- Non-NWP aspects currently covered by TIWG (i.e. this group)
2. UM
UM shared repository
- UK Met Office's UM shared repository is online and open for registration (Mike and others).
- Mirror of UM shared repository available on
accessdev
(Scott).
3. NCI
accesscollab
Switch off - Only two users left on
accesscollab
. Contact the two users and proceed to shutdown (Action: Scott & Ben).
/apps
tools on accessdev
/apps
available onaccessdev
; to align with/apps
onraijin
(Scott?).- Standard module commands work, eg., module av, module load (Robin).
- Switch to align
accessdev
modules practices withraijin
and BoM.
IT security
- No updates.
Tester account
- Mostly done, more testing to expose limitations is needed by access.admin members (Robin).
accessdev
Trac wiki to - One porting test has been done to prove it is feasible (Scott).
- Attachments also need to be copied (Martin).
- Simple mechanism for addition of outside users required (Mike).
- Changeover timing and steps to be actioned (Action: Scott & Wenming).
RDSI
- NCI /g/data1 RDSI filesystems.
- Ben Hu has assembled collections metadata.
- Operational ACCESS NWP current data being copied daily (Tan Le).
- Ben Hu has moved some historical ACCESS NWP data; no one available at this time to complete task.
- Metadata collecting still underway.
- Management processes including licensing, ownership, permissions: work in progress by ISS/EIM.
4. Training and Documentation
Hilary Oliver BoM visit
- Hilary has produced report on his BoM visit (Mike).
Next Rose/Cylc Training Workshop
- Next Rose/Cylc Training Workshop is planned to be in Mar 2015, aligned with next ACCESS Model Evaluation Workshop (Mike).
- Aiming to set up standard ACCESS Training Course for this.
Access Bulletin
- This is needed! (Robin).
- Shared repository, CWSLab, etc. would be good to notify users about (Martin).
5. Other Issues
BoM HPC Tender
- Tender has closed; evaluation is in progress (Robin).
NeCTAR CWSLab
- NeCTAR CWSLab project is wrapping up by end of 2014. Likely extension to "NeCTAR 2" project for 1H2015 (Martin, Mike).
6. Next Meeting
- Tuesday 3 Feb 2015, 9E Conference Room.