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title: AiiDAlab Meeting 2022-09-20
tags: [Meeting]

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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.
