XAB Orientation January 2019

Ruth Marinshaw

Overview

• NSF documents & others that we try to keep up with as these inform our work
• XSEDE vision & mission
• Strategic Goals each broken down into subgoals; KPIs built around these goals:
  • Deepen and Extend Use (49% of budget)
  • Advance the ecosystem (39% of budget)
  • Sustain the ecosystem (11% of budget)
  • 5 year budget invested by strategic goals.
• Partnership of 19 institutions
• Collaborations with other NSF funded projects (as an unfunded project)
• Support the community through allocated resources, user portal, ECSS service, training & workforce development
• XSEDE has supported nearly $2 Billion to date in federal research (includes NSF, DOD, DOE, NIH, NASA, DOC, etc.)
• User Survey shows high responses for overall satisfaction, awareness of XSEDE services. Suggested improvements continually request more and faster. About 25% of XSEDE users are new every year so onboarding is always important.
• ECSS saves about 13 mos per project, equates to about a $7.8M value in RY2.
• Associated with several Gateways
• Enhancing user productivity is an ongoing focus of the project
• XSEDE allocated resources are provided through NSF grants to the SP institutions (not part of XSEDE budget). NSF requires them to work with XSEDE.
• Science impact: stories that make use of multiple sites, use ECSS, etc.
• Possible to report on amount of data/disk residency for projects in various categories (won't call out PIs).
• In addition to XAB, we have a User advisory committee who provides input.
• Service Provider Forum
  
  

 John

CEE

• Mission is to actively engage a broad/diverse cross-section of the open science community. Public, potential users, current users. Front line of people using resources or may potentially have a need
  • Workforce Development
    • provide learning resources, training, education, student preparation
  • User engagement
    • user guides, working with SPs, ticketing
  • Broadening Participation
    • engage underrepresented minority researchers
  • User Interfaces & Online Information (UII)
    • enables discovery & understanding of XSEDE's capabilities & services via website & user portal
  • Campus engagement
    • promotes & facilitates participation of diverse community of campuses
  • Gaps/needs not being met?
    • Don't see any. Whether XSEDE should play in innovation & development. Tool development/augmentation allows us to more flexibly respond to user needs.

Kelly

XCI

• Advance & sustain e-infrastructure, connector of resources, software, services
• Connecting SPs to XSEDE & eachother
• Making it simple as possible for CI ecosystem outside XSEDE to operate software in ways that leverage XSEDE
• Provide capabilities: security, login, data, information services. Formal process based on use case analysis, priority, adaptation & use of preexisting tools.
• Current efforts
  • SSO
  • research software portal
  • Kepler Workflow service
  • Globus toolkit replacement
  • Evaluations
  • Resource description repository improvements
  • Federated access across CI
  • Usage trackgin in support of ROI analysis
• XCRI (campus resource integration) software toolkits
  • XCBC - XSEDE compatible basic cluster kit–build an XSEDE-like basic cluster based on OpenHPC
  • XNIT - XSEDE National Integration Toolkit - open-source scientific software that you can install on a cluster already running
  • Globus Connect server config mgmt
  • Jetstream virtual clusters
  • Cluster monitoring toolkit
• How to be sure efforts aren't duplicated?
  • Leverage Open HPC. Not developing anything new in XCRI, but packaging & distributing. RACD focusing on integration of SPs with XSEDE. Leverage as much as possible. Almost never build from scratch. However, many specialized requirements exist.
• How is XCI hurting due to smaller budget?
  • Ability to adapt to new & emerging needs. Ability to deliver tools that help integration of resources, management software. One of our biggest growth areas.
• Have approx 4.5 FTE
• Which are most critical offerings?
  • Software for SPs. Software repo is scattered-widely liked. Globus is downloaded a lot. A lot of demand for XDMoD and cloud tools.

ECSS

• Goal to improve productivity through collaborations with researchers
• Extended support for research teams
• Extended support for communiity codes
• Extended support for science gateways
• Novel & innovative projects