[NLPL Task Force (A)] Waldur

[Bjørn Lindi]

Hi Martin,
in my view a lot of what we discuss in the infrastructure task force is Dellingr territory:
- Allocation of compute resource could be smoother and more cross-border.  
- Large storage resources are not really useful ( I am think of the NIRD allocation), 
- Stephan has written scripts for taking backup of our installation.

Dellingr could have solved this for us, gradually of course, but will not any time soon, since they very fast run into discussion on how things are done (company policies, system policies etc etc). We also experience this, and address the constraints we think we can do something with and live with others.  Dellingr, with the primary motive of providing cross-boundary resources, get entangled in discussions around policies at many levels. At the same time NLPL looks very cross-border operational, but I think the glue is much more the domain (NLP/Computational linguistics) than the NeIC setting. 

We can touch upon this later this week, but I am not sure how we help Dellingr.

//Bjørn

> On 11 Sep 2018, at 15:30, Martin Matthiesen <martin.matthiesen at csc.fi> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had a coffee with Tomazs after our VC and he mentioned Waldur[1] again, apparently a tool to control resources? Björn, Stephan, do you have more information on the concrete use case? Tomasz also told me that Sigma2 is not keen on adopting it to track resource usage, but CSC would be. I think the issue is "Infrastructure" and I propose we have a look at it.
> Tomasz also filled me in on some of the issues with Dellingr and I told him that there was a bit of Chinese Whispers[2] going on. I appreciated him wanting to shield us from politics, but political problems usually need political solutions. I don't know how Infrastructure can help, but we can try.
> 
> Martin
> 
> [1] Apparently this one, "Valdur" did not work: https://waldur.com/solutions/hpc/
> [2] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viskleken
> 
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