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25 July, 2011
- An Introduction to KAREN 2
- Richard Stephen, REANNZ
Participants
- Ken Gledhill, GNS Science
- John Hine, Victoria University
- Kevin Buckley, Victoria University
- Bryce Nichols, University of Waikato
- Dougal Mair, University of Waikato
- Stuart Charters, Lincoln University
- Richard Bedford, AUT
- Aaron Hicks, Landcare Research, Tuakiri
- Bill Choquette, REANNZ
31 May, 2011
Agenda for the 31 May Meeting
- Benefits and Challenges of IPv6 Adoption
19 April, 2011
Agenda for the 19 April Meeting
- Tuakiri- IAM Management Sat Mandri
- Large File Transfer, Aaron Hicks
- NZ eResearch Symposium 2011
- Any other business
Participants
- Vladimir Mencil, University of Canterbury
- Greg Jones, Landcare Research
- Aaron Hicks, Landcare Research
- Jonny Flutey, Victoria University
- Sat Mandri, University of Auckland
- Dougal Mair, University of Waikato
- Bryce Nichols, University of Waikato
- Peter Sinclair, Otago Polytechnic
- Bill Choquette, REANNZ
- Desi Ramoo, REANNZ
Tuakiri will make sharing protected online resources easier Tuakiri will eliminate the need for researchers, students, and
academics to maintain multiple passwords and usernames.
- Reduced complexity for the service providers on maintenance of the user accounts. Identity providers manage the levels of their users' privacy and information exchange.
- Tuakiri Federation Service will deploy SAML-based authentication and authorization systems (Shibboleth®) to enable scalable, trusted collaborations among its community of participants.
Tuakiri integrates with BestGRIDs large file transfer application
Tuakiri Updates
Participants discussed the practical steps and costs required to connect to Tuakiri. Conversations continue offline.
22 February, 2011
Agenda for the 22 February Meeting
- KAREN Service Architecture Update
- KAREN RFC Update
- Large File Transfer Update
- Collaboration Tools on KAREN Discussion
- Future Topics
- Any Other Business
'Participants
- Dougal Mair, University of Waikato
- Donald Neal, University of Waikato
- John Clayton, Wintec
30 November, 2010
Agenda for the 30 November Meeting
- Alan McCulloch describes and updates the group on the BestGRID Large File Transfer service
- Aaron Hicks explains how the Landcare slave node can improve KAREN network performance
- Nick Jones provides highlights and insights from NZ eResearch Symposium 2010
- NZ Identity and Access Federation Update
Participants
- Matthew Laurenson, Plant & Food
- Dave Wicks, National Library
- Mark Laurence, National Library
- Nick Jones, University of Auckland
- Kate Nolan, Tong, Massey University
- John Clayton, Wintec
- Guido Aben, AARNET
- Greg Jones, Landcare Research
- Robert Gibb, Landcare Research
- Vladimir Mencil, University of Canterbury
- Tony Dale, University of Canterbury
- Sue Tait, Massey University
- Alan McCulloch and student, AgResearch
- REANNZ
Meeting Highlights
- Alan McCulloch- Working on a desktop application for large file transfer. The application still needs a transfer protocol and is still under development. It is key that they application enable collaboration across all members rather than being limited only to areas controlled by Identity and Access Managment passwords. At present the application is designed to provide access to the BestGRID Data fabric and will support Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
- Aaron Hicks will speak next month about the Landcare slave node
- Nick Jones- Pointed to the success and diversity of participants at the eResearch Symposium held in October. This will be hosted next year at the University of Otago. GeoSpatial and BioInformatics researchers are the most active participants at the conference. Both the upcoming Summer of eResearch and the eResearch Symposium will be annual events. For details please see www.eresearch.org.nz.
- Sue Tait requested an eLearning session be included in an upcoming KSWG meeting.
- Greg Jones gave an overview of the Identity and Access Management project and pointed listeners to www.tuakiri.ac.nz where they may find comprehensive updates. Also Dave Wicks from the National Library is considering IAM options and will get in touch with Greg Jones and other project leaders.
- Bill Choquette- The REANNZ Board is considering whether to allow ISP traffic to transit across KAREN. NIWA's HPC is available to outside researchers. Please contact Murray Poulter for details at m.poulter@niwa.ac.nz.
- No other business.
19 October 2010
Organisers
Location
- Video Conference & REANNZ Office, Wellington
Programme Description
KAREN Services Working Group : Main
Agenda for the 19 October meeting
- A discussion of the KSWG Terms of Reference
- An introduction to the KAREN Request For Comment Process
- Large File Transfer and other KAREN Services
- NZ eResearch Symposium October 26-27
- Any other business
Meeting Notes
- The Terms of Reference of the KSWG were accepted without comment
- Desi introduced the basics and purpose of the KARENRFC process. Several people made suggestions which will be added to the wiki over the next few days. Is the process intimidating for non-technical people? Comments should be sent via the process as described on the wiki.
- There was a lengthy discussion around the challenges and options relating to Large File Transfer between KAREN Members and other government agencies. The small edge networks remain a problem. Landcare is testing a slave node solution which will be ready in November. BestGRID will have a Large File Transfer Feature ready by Christmas 2010. There are questions about the accessibility of the user interface for this service. We may need to use couriers for connecting government agencies with earthquake data for emergencies. NIWA has set up and is testing users for a CRI Code Repository Service to be shared across CRIs. Data storage was another service which was briefly discussed.
- Nick Jones described the keynote speakers and other highlights of the upcoming NZ eResearch Symposium.
- Topcis for the next
31 August 2010
Organisers
Location
- Video Conference & REANNZ Office, Wellington
Programme Description
KAREN Services Working Group : Main
Agenda for the 31 August meeting
- Nick Jones introduces the NZ eResearch Symposium, 26-27 October 2010
- Jonathan Flutey describes how Victoria University is rolling out the new KAREN Video Conferencing Service
- Aaron Hicks from Landcare Research presents service ideas
- Format of future KSWG meetings/brainstorming KAREN promotion
Outline of Aaron's presentation
A document repository or web application portal similar to Google Docs (i.e. KAREN Docs). Many members of BeSTGRID/KAREN have their own internal repositories, but each institution has its own solution and are often closed to external access (esp. for those of use forced to use SharePoint due to Microsoft licensing restrictions which require extra license fees for external users, and prohibit implementing a 'competing' solution).
A code repository similar to GitHub, Gitorious or Google Code. We have some projects where scientific models have external contributors (and consumers) who are wary of using public repositories.
The assumption would be that these services would use the BeSTGRID authentication systems, or the services put up by the MoRST IAM project.
Participants
- Jonny Flutey, Victoria University of Wellington
- Greg Jones, Landcare Research
- Aaron Hicks, Landcare Research
- Matthew Laurenson, Plant & Food (ITS)
- Bryce Nicholls, University of Waikato (ITS)
- Sue Tait, Massey University (ITS)
- Richard Waldin, Scion
- Arian de Wit, NIWA
- Nick Jones, University of Auckland
- Mark Gahegan, University of Auckland
- Tony Dale, University of Canterbury
- Desi Ramoo, REANNZ
- Plant and Food, Mt. Albert
- University of Waikato, ITS
- Mark Lawrence, National Library
Notes
- Nick Jones, University of Auckland
Outlined the highlights of the NZ eResearch Event October 26-27, 2010. He called for papers. The deadline is September 15, 2010.
NZ eResearch Symposium 2010
- Jonny Flutey, Victoria University
VUW is making video conferencing available in every classroom and conference room across the university. In addition, they have built a mobile video conferencing unit to make video conferencing available anywhere and at any time that it is required.
VUW Video/Audio Conferencing
- Sue Tait, Massey University
Massey is also rolling out video conferencing across the campus.
Massey Video Conferencing
- Aaron Hicks, Landcare Research
Aaron is proposing the creation of a sustainable shared KAREN Docs and KAREN Code Repository similar to Google Docs.
Landcare Research
- Nick Jones, University of Auckland
Nick explained that the MoRST IAM access program is almost live. Canterbury, Landcare, Lincoln, AUT and the University of Auckland are all committed to the new federation and new members are most welcome.
- Greg Jones, Landcare Research
Identity and Access Management NZ
NIWA, Massey and other interested members will contact Aaron soon about his collaborative tools proposal to discuss next steps.
Next Meeting
19 October, 2010 (2-3pm)
Agenda
1.Desi Ramoo, REANNZ
- The KAREN Request For Comment Process, Overview and Discussion
4 August, 2010
Organisers
- Jonny Flutey, VUW
- Bill Choquette, REANNZ
Location
- Video Conference & REANNZ Office, Wellington
Programme Description
KAREN Services Working Group : Main
Agenda
- International Network Services Comparison Discussion
- Terms of Reference Review for the SWG
- Marketing/Promoting KAREN Brainstorm Session
Participants
- Matthew Laurenson - Plant & Food (ITS)
- Kate Nolan-Tong- Massey University
- Jonny Flutey -Victoria University of Wellington
- Guido Aben -AARNET
- Vladimir Mencl- University of Canterbury
- Greg Jones -Landcare Research
Notes
- International Services Comparison Discussion
Guido Aben from AARNET described some of the services for researchers that AARNET is providing such as desktop video conferencing and CloudStor, a file transfer website for AARNET members. He shared stories about the difficulties that universities have when they try to collaborate.
- Terms of Reference Review
After little feedback was received from participants, the working group document was dropped. The KSWG is in fact a "Birds of Feather" meeting for idea sharing. Interested parties can form working groups on their own initiative.
- Marketing/Promoting KAREN Brainstorm Session
Little time was spent on this topic.
Action Points
Next Meeting
14 September, 2010 2-3:30
15 June, 2010
Organisers
Location
- Video Conference & REANNZ Office, Wellington
Programme Description
KAREN Services Working Group : Main
Agenda
Participants
- Jonny Flutey - VUW (ITS)
- Michael Uddstrom - NIWA (Researcher)
- Anthony Cole - NIWA (ITS)
- Matthew Laurenson - Plant & Food (ITS)
- Bryce Nicholls - University of Waikato (ITS)
- Dougal Mair - University of Waikato (ITS)
- Stuart Charters - Lincoln University (Researcher)
- Greg Jones - Landcare Research (ITS)
- Keith Linforth, Sue Tait, Howard Nicholson - Massey University (ITS)
- Kate Nolan-Tong - Massey University (Research Management Services)
- Calum MacLeod- AUT (ITS)
- Mark Lawrence -National Library (ITS)
- Dave Wicks-National Library (ITS)
- Alan Roberts - National Library (ITS)
- John Clayton - Wintec (Researcher)
- Bill Choquette - REANNZ
- Chris Litten - REANNZ
Apologies
- Robert Gibb - Landcare Research
- Arian de Wit - NIWA
- Slave Kitaev - AUT (Researcher)
- Mark Marshall - CPIT
- Tim Chaffe - University of Auckland
- Russell Butson - University of Otago
- Shane Gaskin - TEC (ITS)
- Vladimir Mencl, Mary Allan - University of Canterbury
- Jace Carson, Kathryn MacKinven - University of Canterbury
- Richard Waldin - SCION
- Chris Jordan - IRL
- Stephen Tanner - NMIT
- Nelson - CPIT
- Murray Poulter - NIWA
- Blair Willems - AVCC
Notes
Michael Uddstrom -An Introduction to NIWA's HPC at Greta Point
Infrastructure Services Discussed
- Large File Transfer Server
- Real time backup for desktop & laptop computers
- Eduroam real time backup for laptop computers
- Remote use of NIWA's new HPC at Greta Point
- Identity and Access Management between KAREN members
- Institution wide survey browser
- Differences between programming requirements for HPCs
- Large scale research data storage
- Sharing Moodle across institutions
Next Meeting: August 4, 2010 Chair: Jonny Flutey, VUW
Agenda
- International Network Services Comparison
- Terms of Reference Review for the SWG
- Marketing/Promoting KAREN Brainstorm Session.
KAREN Services Working Group: Meeting Minutes A
KAREN Services Working Group : Main
KAREN Services Working Group : Service Catalogue
KAREN Services Working Group : Service Categories & Example Services
KAREN Services Working Group: Content & Service Partners
