Vision
XSEDE Vision
XSEDE aims to be a Connector of Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Resources, Software, and Services. Driven by user community requirements and use cases XSEDE prioritizes software integration activities and collaborations that enable researchers to leverage cyberinfrastructure.
CSR Vision
A collaborative community of software and services providers that engage with users to document their use cases, that prioritize use case capability gaps to maximize user benefit and return on investment, who integrate quality software and services into a coherent Cyberinfrastructure, and who share their software or leverage the software of others to enable users.
Strategy
To achieve our vision we intend to focus on these areas:
- Creating and evolving the Community Software Repository/Catalog (CSR) service as the focal point for sharing, discovering, and discussing driving the use cases, Cyberinfrastructure integration activities, and software available to users, developers, and operators. The CSR needs to enable software sharing and discovery in all its states, whether it is ready to use or needs installation/provisioning, and in all its formats, whether in conventional packages, VMs, containers, as SaaS, on a file-system on an HPC machine, or in other formats.
- Engage with software providers to encourage them to share software valuable to the community thru the CSR.
- Engage with software providers/integrators to identify software that is valuable to the community and facilitate preparing the software in the formats that are most useful to the community.
- Engage with software consumers (users, developers, operators) to ensure that the CSR provides them the discovery capabilities they need using via web browser and via web API interfaces.
CSR Information
High-level information types and associated descriptive information.
Information Types | Descriptive Information |
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Use Cases | Descriptions and target audience summaries, community sizes, status, area/sub-area, last proposed and last approved dates, document pointers, capability delivery plans, and UREP priorities |
Integration Activities | Capability integration activities and how they map to use cases, packaged software, and operational software |
Software Description | Textual description, global categories/tags, and vendor details |
Packaged Software | Information about a VM, a container, RPM, tar, or other bundle of software that can be installed/provisioned, including: repository pointers, installation/provisioning instructions, and who supports it |
Operational Software | Information about deployed and operational software available from the command line (on an SP resource) or thru the network (SaaS, portal, gateway, etc.), including: how to access and use the software, and who supports it |
Resources | Cyber-infrastructure resources where Operational Software is made available to users, including HPC/HTC/Viz/storage/Gateways/Portals/etc. |
Staff Services | The services that XCI provides to its various customers. |
Discussions | Open community discussions on the driving use cases, priorities, delivery plans, delivery activities, designs, testing, deployment, and use of software. |
CSR Phased Delivery and Priorities
Period | Features / Content |
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PY6 IPR1 |
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PY6 IPR2 |
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PY6 IPR3 (planned) |
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PY7 (ideas) |
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JP Navarro
Feedback from Dave via Rick Wagner: