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Active activities/projects

The following are known and planned activities/projects. We have committed resources to these projects are either 1) defining requirements/tasks in the backlog or 2) actively working on requirements/task in sprint. In other words, there should be tasks in JIRA for these projects now to meet the deadline.

Activity	Timeframe	Status	Deliverables
RDA Adoption proposal	11/30/2017	In progress
NSF CyberCorps SFS Proposal	11/1 - 12/5/2017	In progress	Proposal
PEARC 2018 Paper	Abstract 12/1/2017, paper 1/19/2018	In progress (abstract)	Paper
PEARC 2018 Panel	Abstract 12/1/2017	In progress (abstract)	Panel
ESIP NCAR Pilot	11/2017 - 4/2018	Planning	TBD
SGCI Webinar	12/13/2017	Scheduled	1 hr webinar
NDS8	2/7 - 2/9/2018	Tentative	One-click Globus Auth
RDAP Summit	3/21 - 3/23/2018	Planning	Presentation
Einstein Toolkit Tutorial Pilot	9/2017	Onoing	JIRA Tasks
CyberTraining

Anticipated activities/projects

The following are anticipated projects and priorities. No resources are actively committed to working on either requirements or tasks. In other words, there are no tasks in JIRA.

Activity	Timeframe	Status	Deliverables
PEARC 2018	7/22 - 7/28/2018
SI2	9/19		Undefined
DataDNS	?	Discussing	Undefined

Completed activities/projects

Activity	Timeframe	Status	Deliverables
SC17 Demo	11/12 - 11/17/2017	Done	Undefined
NCSA Industry Conference	10/11 - 10/12/2017	Done	Demo
BBD 2017	10/4/2017	Done	Demo
RDA 10th Plenary	9/19 - 9/21/2017	Done	None
National Bridge Inventory	8/31 - 10/4/2017	Done	Epic
Container workshop	8/14 - 8/16/2017	Done	Draft report published
BioCADDIE pilot	5/1 - 7/30/2017	Done	JIRA Tasks
iSchool pilot support	4/1 ~ 6/15/2017	Done (for now)	JIRA Tasks
PI4 Bootcamp	5/30-6/9/17	Done
Earth Cube All-Hands meeting	6/8/2017	Done	JIRA Tasks
Einstein Toolkit School	7/31 - 8/2/2017	Done
ThinkChicago	8/2 - 8/4/2017	Done	JIRA Tasks
Container workshop	8/14 - 8/16/2017	Draft report due 8/31
~~ESIP Meeting~~	~~7/25 - 7/28~~	~~Christine Kirkpatrick?~~	~~Undefined~~
~~NCSA Industry Partners~~	~~June 20-21~~	~~Discussing~~	~~Undefined~~

Emerging use cases:

We're seeing the following primary use cases for Workbench:

Training/workshop platform (IASSIST, Phenome2017, PI4, Einstein Toolkit School, ThinkChicago)
- Open issues: filesystem performance and reliability (ETK); how to handle actual data processing (ThinkChicago, PI4); simplifying installation and scaling
Interactive analysis/development environments for remote data (TERRA-REF, NIB)
- Open issues: integration with HPC environments (how to handle real data processing); hosting data (NIB mongo/raw); hosting "apps" developed around the data; integrating with core infrastructure (SSO, permissions, etc); sharing data
Platform for sharing/publishing/(preserving) tools (workbench beta)

Planned features

Based on this, we've prioritized the following features:

Workbench to HPC
- Package and launch jobs on HPC systems from within workbench
- Exploring integration with Agave
Workbench to Cloud
- Export application configuration to run on Docker-enabled cloud infrastructure (e.g., docker compose)
Stability/scalability
- Failover/backups
- Improved deployment process
- Commercial cloud support/storage generalization
- Improved scaling/minimal cluster configuration – migration path from single node to multinode?
Authentication
- Modular authentication for integration with different systems
- OIDC/Oauth support
- Possible integration with CILogon or Globus Auth
Project-specific catalogs and views
Security analysis for Docker containers