New Task: Cyberinfrastructure maintenance and improvements through February 28, 2025

[MathewBiddle]

Who is requesting this?

Marine Life

What is being requested?

• Maintenance of data center (storage, servers) for performance and scalability
• Maintenance of ATN DAC Registration to Portal pipeline

What is the requested deadline and why?

2025-02-28

What is the current status quo (i.e., what happens if this does not get done)?

• cyberinfrastructure system breaks.
• Data cannot be ingested, visualized, sent to NCEI, sent to DataOne.

What indicates this is done (i.e., how do we know this is complete)?

Unclear, need more detail as to what this effort entails.

Provide a description or any other important information.

Is this something along the lines of ensuring security patches are deployed within one-week of identified vulnerabilities? or something a little more specific. "Update database to [insert version number]".

I would like to be more clear about what needs to be done in this time period vs what we can hold off on for later.

[MathewBiddle]

Moved to In progress as we should be working on this now.

[iwensu0313]

Unclear, need more detail as to what this effort entails.

This is never done. This is to capture ongoing maintenance requirements to keep the lights on, a leveraged resource. This includes management of our data center and data storage, also data servers for running pipelines. Security patches sometimes are part of it yes. Updating versions of pkgs we rely on sometimes too. Portal infrastructure updates are less frequent but do happen over time. Improvements include things like new backend binning service to improve handling of large datasets.

For this particular Dec - Feb period, we have not really been leveraging this project for new improvements given the relatively small budget.

When we have the new multi-year Marine life contract, we can discuss how it can support new improvements or not e.g. further development of the binning service for example or other related next generation portal work.

Hope that helps

[MathewBiddle]

Thanks @iwensu0313 closing. No progress made during this period.