XAB 2017 Dec Call

Dan Stanzione

Shawn Strande

• Acceptance feedback for June & Aug. summaries due EOB today (12/13). Ron to setup Google poll for approval of June & Aug Summaries.
• Attendance should be added to summaries.
• XSEDE wiki page link should be added to summaries.
• Summaries will be added to quarterly reports to NSF.
• Summaries will be generic be design. Details of discussions will not be provided to the NSF.

Acknowledgement of 2018 XAB meeting schedule

• Wed, 7-Feb. @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CT – Conference call
• Tue, 17-Apr. (eve) & Wed, 18-Apr. (all day) – Face-to-face in Rosemont, IL
• Wed, 20-Jun. @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CT – Conference call
• Wed, 22-Aug. @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CT – Conference call
• Wed, 10-Oct. @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm CT – Webinar
• Wed, 12-Dec. @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CT – Conference call

• Calander appointments sent out for all 2018 meetings
• Most important is the April face-to-face meeting
• Members to attend as much as possible
• Ron to follow-up with XAB members to confirm the dates for the April face-to-face meeting (17/18 or 24/25). Follow-up: participant availability is better on the 17 & 18. Current Outlook appointments confirmed to show 17 & 18. Wiki updated to reflect the April meeting on the 17th & 18th.

Discussion on materials for the mid-year review

• Onboarding users - Deck 1 Deck 2
• KPIs
• Cybersecurity

• John
• Ron
• Greg

John's opening remarks

• Will include: engagement with IRIS, benefits of split-funded staff, new science highlights. This aproach has been reviewed with CPO.

Onboarding

• Need to set expectations of how new computing resources are loaded
• Should be more definitive with comments on the slides

KPI

• Include the purpose of metrics and how we have learned from our historical use of metrics.

Cybersecurity

• Should know total cost of incident.
• How should ROI by approached other than downtime: should characterize in a positive way (availability vs downtime)