Attending: Jens (chair+mins), Sam, John H, Raja, Matt V, Brian, Winnie, Matt D, Marcus, Steve, David, Raul, Tom, Elena, Pete

Apologies: Duncan

0. Operational blog posts!  None at all is precisely how many blog posts
we've had since the last blog post!

   Also, there were no operational issues reported.

1. Firewallological issues

   Is it worth having networking stuff covered at hepsysman?  No, it was covered sufficiently at GridPP36.
   Duncan's slides from GridPP are not yet uploaded?!

   One aim is to say that GridPP already has a science DMZ, as you've gathered (at least from a checklisty point of view),
   but we may be interested in the performance of different fw/network/site configurations, particularly if we can make
   some coherent recommendations - cf. Duncan's document.

2. DaaS. Matthew Viljoen whom you may remember from when he was leading
RAL's CASTOR team is now with EGI and offered to speak about an
EGI-Engage Data-as-a-Service thing.

EGI Engage activity to "improve storage", Matt is working on "federated" data, cloud infrastructure, and GPGPU.  This particular
work is a data "hub", with a prototype DaaS service expected by the end of 2016.

(Some) code written in Erlang?!  We don't have enough functional languages doing Real Stuff(tm)... :-P

Service can be used via a Fuse client, or NFS, or lots of (non-PP) protocols, like HTTP and CDMI, etc.  Infrastructure can
be set to replicate, adding DOIs (via DataCite directly), etc.  Decided not to do bit preservation as EUDAT B2SAFE could
be a non-duplicating way of doing this.  Currently no support for GridFTP, which would be needed to move data to B2SAFE
(probably) and with Globus.

Currently being looked at by EBI - use case for "bespoke" data publishing, hybrid infrastructures.  Apropos hybrid, how
would it connect to GridPP?  Users authenticate with social media identities; X.509 is supported but VOMS is not, so no
VOs via VOMS.  There are test instances we could, er, test.  Generally a token is granted which gives access to storage
providers [a Macaroon?!]

Tom remarks that OpenCosmics [not OpenComics] would need something like this - querying data, DOIs.

Would be useful to do some testing and then come back to Matt with questions (or opportunities).  See also the
presentation.

3. LSST doc for MSDC

Postponed to next week?

4. AOB



Samuel Cadellin Skipsey: (18/05/2016 09:59:03)
Hi Jens, I'll be back in a second, turned up to let you know I was around :)
Matt Doidge: (10:13 AM)
There will be a lot of site reports.
Jens Jensen: (10:21 AM)
... invented by Ericsson I believe
Samuel Cadellin Skipsey: (10:21 AM)
(You can tell it was developed for telecoms, as the "er" in erlang is "Ericsson")
yeah
Jens Jensen: (10:23 AM)
... I thought it was named after Erlang who developed probabilistic models for events at random times (like phones ringing at a switchboard, but also radioactive decay)
Samuel Cadellin Skipsey: (10:25 AM)
I suspect it's both,Jens (programmers liking puns and all)
Marcus Ebert: (10:32 AM)
there is no page showing anymore?
raul: (10:32 AM)
slides gone
Samuel Cadellin Skipsey: (10:33 AM)
Yeah, we just have a black screen (with the Powerpoint borders but no contents)
Peter Gronbech: (10:33 AM)
jen you are showing a powerpoint window with black content
Samuel Cadellin Skipsey: (10:34 AM)
Toggling shares results in just black, so I think the share's totally broken now
Jens Jensen: (10:36 AM)
Yes, I can see the slides in the window but they don't appear in Vidyo's window. Grr!
Tom Whyntie: (10:41 AM)
Slides back for me, thanks Jens :-)
And of course they disappeared as soon as I typed that ;-)
David Crooks: (10:51 AM)
Sorry, I need to leave for another meeting
Tom Whyntie: (10:54 AM)
Thanks, really interesting talk