Mike, Kenton, David, Craig
- Discussed Workbench beta release
- Craig spoke with Chris and the Nebula upgrade has been postponed. They are planning to update the controller hardware in ~2 weeks. The software updates will proceed after that and will take several weeks.
- We've decided to move ahead with the beta deployment in the short term and allow it to bake for a few weeks before announcing – end of February at the latest.
- We will still need to run tests, but the stability of current system is bad enough things can only improve.
- May work on NDS-528
- Can also redeploy at SDSC
- Discussed Workbench as conference/training platform
- Cluster has been deployed for Phenome 2017 workshop on 2/10. Everything looks OK so far.
- Unclear what the possibility is with UW?
- Discussed DataDNS
- Reviewed diagram in proposal and initial summary
- First steps toward DataDNS will be design tasks
- Discussed workbench for researchers
- Can we generalize the platform and rename (e.g., Project X) such that www.workbench.nationaldataservice.org is "Powered by Project X"?
- We know that Project X can already be used as a platform for workshops and training
- Can Project X be used to replace the TERRA toolserver? If so, it can serve as an analysis environment platform for DataDNS?
- Can Project X be extended to support the John Zuhone use case? 1) a way to develop a data portal near the data (uses current developer support) and 2) a way to deploy the data portal near the data.
- Can Project X be used to host the active data (e.g., Clowder/Girder) environments at HPC sites?
- If yes, then "Workbench" can evolve to be a central component of DataDNS
Mike, Kenton, David, Craig, Christine
Agenda:
- Direction on where we're going next
- Talk about rollout plan for workbench
- Priorities:
- Funding
- Communicate value to the community
- Looking at our goals, there are two things the next sprint should cover:
- Get workbench running on SDSC for the iSchool pilot
- Start working toward DataDNS
iSchool pilot
- Pilot application should be coming based on NDSC6 subgroup considering workbench as a learning platform
- Likely for March/April semester
- Get in touch with pilot applicant
- Try and scope things out expectations
- Contact Kevin as a good source about supporting classes (e.g., issues with add/drop)
- Likely run like tutorial but
- Needs to stay stable for 10-11 weeks
- Need help saving their stuff (instance crashes, instability)
- Action:
- Contact UW group
- Contact Kevin about course support
- Takeaway: Workbench as learning platform
AUI
- Workbench as platform for workforce education
- Action:
- Still in early contact phase
DIBBs/DataDNS
- What can we do to start working on DataDNS?
- Kandace tasked with breaking DIBBs proposal into sprints/tasks.
- Discussed ideas from earlier meeting:
- Workbench as toolserver for DataDNS
- Workbench for researchers
- Hard questions:
- Does this help us get more funding?
- Defer to group
- Discussion of funding opportunities
- SI2 mid tier
- NIH solicitations
- DOE
- NASA
- Priorities:
- Workbench as a learning platform
- What does this mean?
- ACTION: Look at Elasticbox (David) – should we give up?
- Workbench as a learning platform
- DataDNS
- #1 Crawling/indexing/learning service (search engine?)
- Probably the easier one to monetize
- Filling some kind of niche no one else is
- It does something novel and new
- It strikes at the heart of DataDNS
- Mess of data floating around
- #2 Moving analysis to data
- Within the astronomical community is pretty exciting
Beta/Rollout
- Communication plan
- Will write a blog post to go up on the website and gets emailed (on the trello cards)
- Success stories
- iSchool story
- Phenome workshop (picture + what we did)
- Quote from Odum for past work?
- Rollout plan
- More concerned about iSchool pilot than beta release
- "Public" instance is important to share with external stakeholders
- Mike to write two paragraphs about beta release by end of next week
- Discussion of software beta versus service betae
- In the end, we need both. Service as a demonstration of the software.
- ACTION:
- We need to announce something in the next week or two
- Beta plan
- Phenome
- etc.
- Set some goals about what we'd show at NDSC workshop