Roadmap Information for Resource Providers

RPs use the Integration Badges UI in the Operations Dashboard to follow an interactive resource integration process, where:

• They can view roadmap and badge information.
• Leadership can enroll a resource in a roadmaps and plan badges using the summary information below.
• Implementors can perform the tasks for planned badges by following task instructions links.

Users will view badge availability information in the ACCESS Resource Catalog, where:

• They can access badge functionality using a resource specific Button and Access URL, or
• The Default badge access button and URL shown below when a resource specific one hasn't been set.

Available Roadmaps

• ACCESS Affiliated Regional Network
• ACCESS Allocated Cloud
• ACCESS Allocated Compute
• ACCESS Allocated Storage
• ACCESS Hosted Data Collection
• ACCESS Online Service
• ACCESS Science Gateway

 

ACCESS Allocated Cloud

Infrastructure Type(s): Compute Roadmap RP Summary: The ACCESS program (https://access-ci.org) enables researchers and educators to gain access to advanced computing, visualization, and data resources to accomplish their research or classroom objectives using an allocations process described at https://allocations.access-ci.org/. This roadmap includes a set of badges required to integrate a specific cloud resource as ACCESS allocated in production. It also offers some optional badges. Integration Concierge: Jess Haney, Anthony Bellantuono Roadmap Status: Production

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Required Badges

	ACCESS Resource Description RP Activity Summary: The resource provider provides ACCESS information needed to describe their type of resource, including: public facing information like descriptive text, user guide URL, and resource status dates; and non-public information like the names and email addresses of RP staff contacts. ACCESS allocated resource providers will generally enter this information into the ACCESS CyberInfrastructure Description Repository (CiDeR) database themselves, with an estimated effort of 2-3/hours to gain CiDeR access and to enter the information, and ~30 minutes semi-annually to maintain the information. Most other resource providers will communicate needed information to ACCESS staff, with an estimated effort of <1 hour, and ACCESS will enter the information into CiDeR for them. ACCESS Verification: Automated: ACCESS will verify that CiDeR information is complete automatically on a daily basis, and communicate discrepancies to to the RP. Default badge access: Visit Resource Catalog Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required ACCESS Allocated Resource Integration Coordination Integration coordinator JP Navarro, Winona Snapp-Childs Required Infrastructure Description Integration coordinator, Documentation, System administrator JP Navarro, Rob Light, Nathan Tolbert
	ACCESS Allocations RP Activity Summary: The resource provider must first fulfill the requirements for the ACCESS Resource Description badge. Additionally, must align with ACCESS Allocation Policies and must integrate their local allocations system with ACCESS AMIE API infrastructure, which is a development effort that can take a significant amount of time (potentially multiple weeks of a developer’s time). ACCESS Verification: Manual: The RP receives and processes AMIE packets which results in local ACCESS allocated user accounts, allocation usage tracking, and usage reporting to ACCESS. Pre-requisite badges: ACCESS Resource Description, ACCESS CyberSecurity Coordination Default badge access: Allocations Information Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required ACCESS Allocation Policies Allocations process Ken Hackworth Required AMIE and Usage Reporting AMIE technical Nathan Tolber, Rob Light Optional ACCESS Allocated Resource Integration Coordination Integration coordinator JP Navarro, Winona Snapp-Childs
	ACCESS Ticketing Support RP Activity Summary: Initial tasks: - Confirm name of ticket queue (system name is current convention in ACCESS) - Identify essential team members and email addresses for ticket watcher group Ongoing tasks: - Review tickets upon entry - Assign tickets to relevant team member - Update tickets when appropriate (respond to researchers, close tickets) ACCESS Verification: Manual: ACCESS confirms that resource support queues have been established, the resource provider staff have obtained agent access to the ticketing system, and that ACCESS instructions about ticket routing include the resource. Pre-requisite badges: ACCESS Resource Description Default badge access: Open Help Ticket Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required Setup Ticket Handling Researcher support and ticket handling Dinuka DeSilva, Alana Romanella
	ACCESS CyberSecurity Coordination RP Activity Summary: The Resource Provider must provide complete contact information and establish secure communication means to enable rapid cybersecurity incident response with ACCESS and other RPs. RPs are also expected to participate regularly in ACCESS Incident Response Trust Group (AIRTG) meetings and communications. RPs need to acknowledge and adhere to ACCESS Cybersecurity Policies and Procedures. ACCESS Verification: Manual: The ACCESS CyberSecurity coordinator verifies that CyberSecurity communications channels have been established with the RP, that the RP is participating in AIRTG, and that the RP has acknowledged and adheres to ACCESS CyberSecurity polices and Procedures Pre-requisite badges: ACCESS Resource Description Default badge access: Cybersecurity Awareness Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required Cybersecurity Requirements for RPs Cybersecurity and incident response Derek Simmel, Shane Filus Required Incident Response and Coordination Cybersecurity and incident response Derek Simmel, Shane Filus Optional Integrate Local Services with ACCESS IAM Cybersecurity and incident response, System administrator Derek Simmel, Shane Filus
	ACCESS Documentation RP Activity Summary: RP publishes and maintains documentation in the ACCESS Confluence knowledge base about their resource, including instructions and information on the system usage and usage examples. ACCESS Verification: Manual: ACCESS confirms that the knowledge base has a page documenting the resource. Default badge access: Knowledge Base Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required Knowledge Base Documentation Documentation Alana Romanella
	ACCESS NetSage RP Activity Summary: NetSage is a managed service that displays network measurement data for large data transfers to understand patterns of behavior. This performance data is essential in understanding how to support science data movement and decrease time to science. In order to gather networking data relevant to an ACCESS-allocated resource, RPs run a VM on local hardware that supports an Ingest Pipeline container that gathers flow data, tags the flow records for transfers over 10M, and then de-identifies the information before forwarding it to an archive at TACC. This data is displayed in public dashboards available at https://access.netsage.io ACCESS Verification: Manual: Traffic shows up on an ACCESS NetSage Dashboard, such as: https://access.netsage.io/grafana/d/xk26IFhmk/what-are-the-top-sources-destinations-of-flows. Default badge access: ACCESS NetSage Portal Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required NetSage Integration Integration coordinator, Data and networking Jennifer Schopf

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Recommended Badges

	ACCESS Enhanced Networking RP Activity Summary: The RP establishes a collaboration with the NDTS team, which includes setting up CONECTnet peering, sharing resource flow data with the ACCESS NetSage instance, and participating in ACCESS perfSONAR testing. RP provides network infrastructure information from resource to WAN and staff contacts. Initial 2 hours to gather site connectivity infrastructure information, review with NDTS, and plan next steps. Provisioning peering 2 hours hands-on (possibly more depending on site network complexity). Set up to provide NetSage flow data 1 week. perfSONAR data share 2 hours to 1+ week depending on existence of RP perfSONAR infrastructure. ACCESS Verification: Manual: ACCESS CONECTnet coordinator confirms that peering has been established Default badge access: About CONECTnet Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required Data and Network Integration Data and networking David Wheeler, Kathy Benninger Required CONECTnet Integration Data and networking David Wheeler, Kathy Benninger Optional ACCESS DNS Records Data and networking Matthew Kollross
	ACCESS Software Publishing RP Activity Summary: Deploy and operate the IPF component, or request the ACCESS Operations run it for you, to publish software module information from the resource. ACCESS Verification: Manual: Resource software module information is available in the ACCESS Software Documentation Service (SDS) at https://sds.access-ci.org. Pre-requisite badges: ACCESS Resource Description Default badge access: Software Documentation Service Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required Publish Dynamic Resource Information System administrator Eric Blau, Andy Loftus
	ACCESS Open OnDemand RP Activity Summary: Installs, maintains and supports a local instance of the Open OnDemand platform for users wishing to interact and utilize existing computational resources and applications via an easy-to-use intuitive interface. Potential application enablement include Juptyer, RStudio, Virtual Desktops, VSCode and many others. ACCESS Verification: Manual: ACCESS confirms that an Open OnDemand portal exists for this resource and has been listed in the ACCESS OOD documentation page. Default badge access: ACCESS OnDemand Information Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required ACCESS OnDemand Portal Integration System administrator Jeff Ohrstrom
	ACCESS Pegasus RP Activity Summary: Installs, maintains and supports the Pegasus Workflow platform for researchers. Prerequisites - dependencies installed: HTCondor version 12.0 or higher, able to run `condor_q` and `condor_status`. ACCESS Verification: Manual: ACCESS confirms that Pegasus is able to run on the resource, and that the resource is listed in ACCESS Pegasus documentation. Default badge access: Try Pegasus Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required Pegasus Deployment Guide System Administrators Mats Rynge Optional Pegasus Website and Documentation System Administrator Mats Rynge Optional ACCESS Pegasus Workflows Documentation System Administrator Mats Rynge Optional PegasusHub Open Source Workflows System Administrators Mats Rynge
	ACCESS Resource Status RP Activity Summary: The resource provider publishes resource announcement, full and partial outages, degraded status, reconfigurations, and retirements using the ACCESS Operations System Status News service. Initial effort of 1/hour to obtain access, and ~10/minutes to post each resource status news items ACCESS Verification: Manual: ACCESS confirms that RP staff have requested and been granted access to the ACCESS System Status news publishing service. Pre-requisite badges: ACCESS Resource Description Default badge access: System Status News Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required Operational Status Communications Public documentation, System administrator, Research support and ticket handling JP Navarro
	ACCESS Advertised Training RP Activity Summary: Resource provider creates and/or hosts (live and/or online) training (workshops, tutorials and technical lectures) related to the use of your resources and promotes them through events on the ACCESS website. ACCESS Verification: Manual: Has resource provider prepared training been posted to the ACCESS website Default badge access: Learning Resources Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required ACCESS Training Publishing Instructions Training, Documentation Tony Elam
	ACCESS Affinity Group RP Activity Summary: Provide a hub for information, news, links and discussion related to your resource (system(s)) or focus topic, for example information regarding documentation and training. Build, maintain and support your user community. ACCESS Verification: Manual: ACCESS confirms that an Affinity Group exists for this resource. Pre-requisite badges: ACCESS Resource Description Default badge access: View Affinity Groups Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required Affinity Group Request Form Documentation Tony Elam Required Affinity Group Coordinator Notes Documentation Tony Elam
	ACCESS Usage Metrics RP Activity Summary: Usage information that Resource Providers report via the AMIE and Usage APIs is automatically ingested into ACCESS XDMoD without requiring additional effort from Resource Providers. ACCESS Verification: Manual: ACCESS staff confirm that usage metrics reported through AMIE are viewable in XDMoD. Pre-requisite badges: ACCESS Allocations Default badge access: Visit XDMod Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required Resource Metrics Data Availability Assessment Metrics and performance data Joseph White Optional Utilization Reporting for non-ACCESS allocated resources System administrator Joseph White Optional ACCESS OnDemand Portal Integration System administrator Jeff Ohrstrom
	ACCESS Performance Metrics RP Activity Summary: Resource Providers work with the ACCESS Metrics team to set up daily transfers of resource manager (e.g., Slurm) logs. If the Resource Provider runs performance monitoring software (e.g., Performance Co-Pilot, Prometheus, HPCPerfStats, etc.), they work with the ACCESS Metrics team to set up daily transfers of these data as well. ACCESS Verification: Manual: ACCESS confirms that performance metrics for the resource are available in XDMoD Pre-requisite badges: ACCESS Allocations, ACCESS Usage Metrics Default badge access: Visit XDMod Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required Resource Metrics Data Availability Assessment Metrics and performance data Joseph White Required Performance Data Reporting Metrics and performance data Joseph White
	Globus Data Transfer RP Activity Summary: The RP has deployed a Globus endpoint that enables ACCESS-allocated researchers to transfer data to and from this resource using their ACCESS-CI ID. ACCESS Verification: Manual: ACCESS staff can discover the Globus endpoint for the resource in Globus. Default badge access: Go to Globus Tasks: Information & Instructions Link Implementors SMEs Required Deploy Globus Endpoint Data and networking, System administrator Lee Liming, Eric Blau