HEPiX Preparation Meeting - Autumn 2023 #3

Thursday 7 Sept 2023, 16:00 → 17:15 Europe/Zurich

Tomoaki Nakamura, Peter van der Reest

16:00 → 16:05 Welcome, Notetaking, Approval of previous meetings' notes

• new board membership for FNAL: Margaret Votava (division director for Scientific Computing Systems and Services) - thanks to Bo Jayatilaka for his participation

Speakers: Peter van der Reest, Tomoaki Nakamura

16:05 → 16:20 Discussion of CERN decision on HEPiX interaction

• Ref. Jarek's Email of 7th July wrt CERN IT Management decision

16:20 → 16:30 Preparations for the Autumn 2023 meeting

• Update on preparations
• Preview of Indico page

• Any open points

• sponsor talk - make sure this is technical talk, no marketing. Extra scrutiny may be advisable.

Speaker: Randall Sobie (University of Victoria (CA))

HEPIX-Sep7.pdf

16:30 → 16:40 Workshop Program

• Tracks
  --- Site Reports
  --- Networking & Security
  --- Storage & Filesystems
  --- Grid, Cloud & Virtualisation & Operating Systems
  --- Computing & Batch Services
  --- IT Facilities & Business Continuity & Green IT (new)
  --- Basic IT Services & End User Services
  --- Show Us Your Toolbox (demonstration)

• AOB
  --- abstract reviewing (to be done in Indico)
  --- track summary

16:40 → 16:50 Future meetings

• Offer
  --- Paris, Pierre-François Honoré (Spring 2024)
  --- Lugano, Dino (spring 2025)

• we need a location for Autumn 2024 (Univ of Oklahoma? - Peter will contact Horst Severini )

16:50 → 16:55 Search committee

• co-chair (North America)

16:55 → 17:05 Working groups

• Status and plans
  --- CPU Benchmarking
  --- IPv6
  --- Technology Watch

• Informal discussion group
  --- IAM, SSO, 2FA, KeyCloak

17:05 → 17:10 Infrastructure

• Status and updates

17:10 → 17:15 AOB

• Plans for future common Linux distro (discussion in future preparation meeting, HEPiX BoF?)

• Date for next preparation meeting