Attendees
- Philip Kershaw, STFC (chair)
- Simon Thompson, University of Birmingham
- Adam Huffman, Francis Crick Institute
- Jeremy Yates, University College London/STFC DiRAC
- Dr Tim Cutts, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Dr David Salmon, Jisc
- Martin Hamilton, Jisc (notes)
Apologies for absence
- Dr David Fergusson, University of Edinburgh
- Steven Newhouse, EMBL-EBI
- Dr David Colling, Imperial College
Notes & action items
- The group has been developing a briefing note on legal and policy issues for use of public cloud in research, led by David Salmon – ONGOING
- A Cloud-WG “ResOps” workshop had been proposed on use of devops technologies for cloud based scientific computing, e.g Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Docker etc. It was agreed to proceed with this and a provisional date set of Monday 3rd July, at EMBL-EBI. ACTION Steven to progress ResOps workshop, EventBrite page for registration set up at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resops-delivering-science-across-clouds-tickets-33391964264
- Phil to write up summary of the November Cloud-WG workshop and notify the Cloud-SIG list – DONE, see https://cloud.ac.uk/workshops/nov2016/
- David Colling and David Salmon to arrange a call for those interested in a HTC Taskforce and scope out work – ONGOING, work will resume on David Salmon’s return from leave
- Adam to co-ordinate N8/Cloud-WG and Cloud-WG/HPC-SIG collaboration conversation with Alan Real – ONGOING
- Simon to share Spectrum Scale via Cloud-WG website – DONE, report available at https://cloud.ac.uk/reports/spectrumscale/
- Simon had discussed the group holding a workshop on Lustre cloud integration with Wojciech Turek at Cambridge. Public Health England and the Sanger Institute were keen to be involved and contribute to this – ACTION Simon to progress Lustre workshop
- Phil, Simon and Adam to co-ordinate on cloud inputs for 29th March Project Directors Group meeting at the Farr Institute – DONE
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