Glenna/test
Glenna steering group meeting
Time: Monday 2015-08-24 at 9:30-13:00 CEST
Place: Kastrup Airport
Approved:
Invitations:
- Martin Bech, representing DeIC, DK
- Andreas Hellander, representing SNIC, SE
- Hans A. Eide, representing UNINETT Sigma, NO
- Sæþór L. Jónsson, representing CSUI, IS
- Pekka Lehtovuori, representing CSC, FI
- Dan Still Project Manager CSC, FI
- Dejan Vitlacil, NeIC Generic Area Coordinator, representing NeIC, Chair
Links
- Project internal wiki: https://wiki.neic.no/int/Nordic_Cloud
- Project public homepage: https://wiki.neic.no/wiki/Glenna
Agenda
- Glenna SG 15-14. Approval of agenda and minutes from last meeting
- Glenna SG 15-15. Project status report
- Glenna SG 15-16. Glenna PM allocations
- Glenna SG 15-17. Project strategy discussion
- Glenna SG 15-18. AOB
- Glenna SG 15-19. Next meeting
Minutes
Glenna SG 15-14. Approval of agenda and minutes from last meeting
(5 mins)
Decision:
Approved
Glenna SG 15-15. Project status report
(20 mins) pdf
Background: Status review (.ppt) by PM. The project has been on hiatus during the summer, but items worth mentioning are: the use cases have been approved, access to deic.data.dk, progress in WP3, WP4 and WP5
Discussion:
Will be very difficult to provide research group based SaaS services to the whole of the Nordics with contractual commitments. Big Data stack the best option in SNIC Cloud
WP1: Cloud storage not yet started WP2: No work on SAML integration into OpenStack Horizon/Keystone so far. WP3: no work on the security part so far. Note that project is not building configuration management tools per se but rather compiling a set of useful tools from already existing tools within the national initiatives WP4: A lot of activities from Gurvinder in WP4. Plan to activate the Sahara project in Glenna WP5: good input from the Nordic HPC project in Iceland WP6: not yet started
Status and progress towards the project goals in attached pdf. Green=good progress Red=not good progress
Decision:
PM to add the color coded status report from SG 15-17 to this agenda item. Would have been desirable to have the status PPT:s well in advance.
PM to put SNIC representative in contact with CSC members in WP4
Glenna SG 15-16. Glenna PM allocations
(50 mins) pdf
Background: there was not time to discuss PM allocations in the last meeting and since the new Cloud Storage (WP1) has been introduced and accepted into the project we need a discussion on the resourcing and how to allocate PM:s.
One challenge will be that PM:s in most countries have already been allocated which may result in a smaller effort on part of the cloud WP than the project would hope for.
The Steering group is invited to discuss the PM allocations and decide on a new distribution.
Discussion:
Norway: potentially to participate in WP1 if partner is willing to re allocate PM:s Finland: 2PMs promised for WP1 Denmark: some of the technical individuals participate in development of WP1 OwnCloud. Crisp description of what they will do is needed
Decision:
Sweden to provide names and PM:s Danish WP1 lead will provide the distribution of work and associated PM allocations for WP1
Glenna SG 15-17. Project strategy discussion
(70 mins) pdf
Background: after initally having problems finding personnel the project looks set to pick up speed and with some confidence it looks like we have the "bricks in place". WP2,WP3,WP4 and WP5 are all active and there is initial enthusiasm towards the cloud storage part also in Norway Sweden and Finland. The lack of infrastructure has been a problem but now the Norwegian UH IaaS pilot has been presented and there is a large OpenStack cloud in use at Uppsala university.
In terms of federated access, the Tryggve and Glenna projects are collaborating on potential SAML based authentication and a number of accounts have been distributed to the OpenStack cloud at CSC (cPouta).
The Meteo and SaaaS use cases have been funded and are being started and will directly benefit the Glenna project
With the Glenna SG assembled at Kastrup the intention of this agenda item is to discuss where we're headed, if the initial vision still holds and where the individual countries stand in terms of national cloud infrastructures.
Discussion:
In September 2016 will see how far the project is concerning the goal of a fully functional infrastructure. It is important to carry on with the use cases and try to get the first glimpses of how the balancing would work. Pricing of the cloud storage resources and IaaS resources is important so that you can evaluate whether they are reasonable and comparable. Message to project lead: concentrate on doing something interesting. Glenna could provide resources for some NEGI use cases. Project lead to take this into consideration.
Decision:
N/A
Glenna SG 15-18. AOB
Pekka will leave the steering group. Jura Tarus will represent CSC
Glenna SG 15-19. Next meeting
27.11.2015 10AM CET