AiiDAlab Meeting 2022-09-20
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###### tags: `Meeting`

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- **Location:** https://epfl.zoom.us/j/65206247396 *(Please request password on slack)*
- **Date:** September 20th, 2022 11h (CET)
- **Agenda**
1. Roadmap discussions `15 min`
1. Technical discussions `15 min`
1. Tasks and next steps`5 min`

- **Participants:**
- Simon [EPFL] (csa)
- Jason [EPFL] (jy)
- Sasha [Empa] (ay)
- Jonathan Chico
- Marnik [EPFL] (mb)
- Carlo [Empa] (cp)
- Xing Wang [EPFL] (xw)
- Dou [EPFL] (dd)

- **Host:** csa
- **Reference:** - [Last week meeting minute](/s/template-meeting-note)

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:ballot_box_with_check: Tasks
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:spiral_note_pad: Notes
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- Simon is exiting EPFL at the end of September.
- Xing and Jason will take over the coordination of the project.
- A test cluster for the AiiDA tutorial 2022
- JC explains his use case
- Sandvik uses AiiDA for DFT and MD calculations
- many calculations are running on Azure
- AiiDAlab is deployed via the Ansible playbook (deployed in Azure)
- no focus on widgets at the moment, but might be of interest in the future
- The system is automatically integrate with Azure CycleCloud.
- The head node stays online and can be permanently configured.
- The scheduler is then actually allocating the resources to run the calculations.
- Wants:
- use Azure AD to control data access
- use Azure external volumes (or block storage) to maintain and backup the data
- use the PostgreSQL database provided by Azure
- Simon proposed the new mission statement, general approval.