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Mission Statement

The Requirements Analysis and Capability Delivery (RACD) team prepares and supports software and services that: 1) enable user access to and use of XSEDE federated infrastructure, and 2) enable infrastructure and service providers to federate with XSEDE. Starting from XSEDE prioritized user requirements (use cases) RACD coordinates the engineering work necessary to integrate software and services into production at SPs and campuses, as XSEDE central services, as external vendor services, or on user personal systems.  RACD uses engineering best practices and tools, works with external vendors and software partners to minimize integration cost to XSEDE, and aims to maximize ROI to XSEDE and the NSF.

Goals, Metrics & KPIs

RACD L3 Metrics

KPIs

XCI L2 KPIs and Metrics

Team Members

• Position/Role Descriptions
• Non-public Member Information

TODO: describe each sub-team

Communication & Meetings

• Meeting Agendas and Minutes
• Meeting Coordinates

Email Lists

• xci (xci-mgmt + xci-racd + xci-cri)
• xci-mgmt (Dave, Craig, Rich, Shava, JP)
• xci-racd (xci-design + xci-integrate + xci-test)
• xci-design (Lee Liming, Jim Basney, JP Navarro)
• xci-integrate (JP Navarro, Venkat YekkiralaGalen Arnold, Eric Blau, Rob Light)
• xci-test (Shava Smallen, Galen Arnold, Choonhan Youn, Christopher Irving, Susan Litzinger, Derek Simmel, Peter Enstrom)
• xci-cri (everyone currently in "campusbridging-list")

New Staff Orientation

• Allocation access instructions

Communication & Meetings

Agendas and Minutes

Coordinates: 

• Schedule TBD: choices 10am, 1pm, 3pm except Monday morning and Friday afternoon
• Alternating between "requirements, planning, and integration" and "evaluation and testing"
• Join online: https://meet.illinois.edu/herrio/V57YV10Q
• Join by Phone 
  • +1 217 332 6338 
  • +1 312 994 8410 
  • +1 888 983 3631 
• Conference ID: 6759150

Activities and Projects

• RACD Activities Year 1 (July 2016 - June 2017)

Resources

Engineering Process

• TODO: points to a new engineering home page
• XSEDE Community Software Repository (XCSR)
• Packaging and distribution material (SDIACT-124)
• Software signatures?
Software packaging and distribution designRACD Allocation Access Instructions
• RACD Ticket Management Instructions

Risks

Activities and Projects

Significant new deliverables before the end of the program (completion date)

1. Kepler and Pegasus workflows
2. Globus Connect Server version 5.4 as a new way to implement Globus endpoints
3. CoManage (staff, allocation, uses) group management
4. XCI component metrics services
5. CVMFS for XSEDE and SP software sharing
6. Open OnDemand
7. Information Services, Cross-Organization Research Resource Discovery Catalog
8. Research Software Portal
9. Research data metadata management tools
10. Enhanced RDR
11. CILogon & idp.xsede.org replaces weblogin.xsede.org (as an identity provider)
    
12. OAuth-SSH as a new way to implement SSH services

Significant completed deliverables (completion date)

1. <IDENTIFY>

Significant retirements

1. Karnak
2. GT6 GridFTP, GSI OpenSSH, and client tools

Resource Discovery Roadmap

Resources

Engineering Process

• Engineering Overview
• Issue Tracking Practices
• Agile Engineering Practices
• Community Software Repository (CSR)
  
  • CSR High-Level Design and Roll Out Plans
• Packaging and distribution material
  • Software Packaging Developer Documentation
  • Software Publishing Repository Administration Documentation
  • Software Packaging and Distribution Design
• Requirements and Plans
• Evaluations

Online Resources

• RACD Google Home
• Archived SD&I wikiWiki
  
  

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Capability Delivery Plans

 

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Available Components

 

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Tickets

 

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Server and Service

Administration

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JIRA

 and Confluence

• Google folder Image Added

software.xsede.org

info.xsede.org

• info.xsede.org Server Installation and Administration
• RabbitMQ Installation and Administration
• Warehouse Installation and Administration