SMT Meeting - May 21, 2020

2. XSEDE2 Reporting (Leslie Froeschl) 

Previously:

• Previous discussion archived: SMT Meeting - April 9, 2020
• (4/23) RY4 annual reporting will begin on May 1. 

  • Tuesday 5/5/2020: L3 text due to PMs; PMs give L3 text to L2s

  • Thursday 5/7/2020: All L2 text (including L3 text) due to PMs

  • Supplement doc
    • Holly working on prelim budget (should have it tomorrow)
      • Can repurpose unspent funds for year 6 (e.g., participant support funds)
      • Need to project funds we can't spend due to COVID-19 crisis
    • Should have draft to John early next week for his review.
    • All subaward partners so far have indicated interest in participating an additional year. 
• (5/7) All text due to your PM TODAY for the annual report. Please get your inputs in today to keep us on schedule!

Discussion:

• Supplement request was submitted on Tuesday. Annual report was submitted late yesterday (on time). Thank you to all for your efforts! We won't need to worry about reporting again until August.

Decisions:

3. New NSF Service Provider Resources  (Victor Hazlewood) 

Previously:

• Previous discussion archived: SMT Meeting - April 9, 2020
• (4/23) Deleware shipping/receiving shut down so they can't receive any equipment, which is creating some delays. 
  • Good progress with Ookami. 
  • Haven't heard from Johns Hopkins
• (5/7) 
  • Victor got email from PSC about Bridges2. He will be talking with them soon. He needs a contact from SDSC to do the same for Expanse. Bob suggests that he starts with Shawn Strande. 
  • Others continue to slowly work through the process. 
  • Anita Schwartz sent letter to Ron. He received it and is reviewing it (moving from L3 to L2). Ron will send to SMT after he reviews.
  • OSN has been approved as L2. Want to do public data sets & have way to discover those. JP's team will need to be engaged for software listings. Found issue on xsede.org for software. 2 links under same name. Need to figure this out. 
  • Ookami has initial test platform arriving this week. Call scheduled for week of May 25 to get their process going. Need letters/dates from them.
  • DISCO: Victor meeting with them today. Need letters/dates from them.  
  • Tom Furlani now at Roswell. Partnership on web page still has him listed so that likely needs to be updated. 

• Status of new SP resources:

  SP Resource	Org	Link	PI	NSF Award	Target Date
  Bridges-2	PSC	Bridges-2 press release	Nick Nystrom	1928147	October 1, 2020 (on track!)
  Expanse	SDSC	Expanse press release	Mike Norman	1928224	October 1, 2020 (on track!)
  DARWIN	U Delaware		Rudi Eigenmann	1919839	TBD
  Open Storage Network	Collaboration (5)	openstoragenetwork.org	Collaboration (5)	1747507	Winter 2020 or Spring 2021
  Ookami	SUNY at Stony Brook	Ookami press release	Robert Harrison	1927880	Startups 10/1/2021 Full allocations 10/1/2022
  DISCO	Johns Hopkins Univ	DISCO news item	Dennice Gayme Contact: Jaime Combariza	1920103	TBD

Discussion:

(5/21)

• U Del will be allocated via XSEDE at 20%. R. Have majority of yes votes. Ron to send approval letter to them. Moving from L3 to L2.
• Victor reaching out to PSC and SDSC re. integration of their machines.  
• Victor to re-confirm target dates with all of the below. Guess many will change to January. 

Decisions:

4. XDCDB and production server access policy (David Hart ) 

Previously:

• Previous discussion archived: SMT Meeting - April 9, 2020
• (4/23) Have identified places like new science gateway are hitting database & addressing that. 
  • Need update from Victor Hazlewoodre. where things stand with the policy.
    • Recommended updates for XSEDE security baseline document. Need info from David Hartre. whether more is needed.
• (5/7) Dave needs to connect with Victor to see what next steps are. 

Discussion:

• Tasked security group to update XES standard. Will add section on roles & accounts, approval processes, oversight, etc. Gary & Victor doing assessment for AWS. 
• Remove topic from agenda for now. When Victor Hazlewood has the updates to the standards will share with Dave & Maytal and then update this group. 

Decisions:

Around the call up