AiiDAlab Meeting 2022-05-24
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###### tags: `Meeting`

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- **Location:** https://epfl.zoom.us/j/65206247396 *(Please request password on slack)*
- **Date:** May 24, 2022 11h (CET)
- **Agenda**
1. General Updates `10 min`
1. Roadmap discussions `15 min`
1. Tasks and next steps`5 min`

- **Participants:**
- Simon [EPFL] (csa)
- Jason [EPFL] (jy)
- Mouyi [EPFL] (mw)
- Dou [EPFL] (dd)
- Sasha [Empa] (ay)

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

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:ballot_box_with_check: Tasks
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- [x] (mw) Try to write the AiiDAlab app for the solvent model(Environ, https://aiidateam.github.io/aiida-registry/plugins/aiida-environ.html)
- [ ] (mw) Finalize the AiiDAlab app for the solvent model(Environ, https://aiidateam.github.io/aiida-registry/plugins/aiida-environ.html)
- [ ] (csa) Experiment with KubeSpawner to launch services on Kubernetes.
- [ ] (mb/ay) Get access / learn how to use Azure deployment.
- [ ] (ay) Revise docker (aiidalab-launch) approach to launch additional services in separate container.
- [x] (ay) Fix issue [#235](https://github.com/aiidalab/aiidalab-qe/pull/235).
- [ ] (jy) Complete PR [#310](https://github.com/aiidalab/aiidalab-widgets-base/pull/310).
- [ ] (dd) Finalize the widget-bandsplot.

:spiral_note_pad: Notes
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- Simon:
- Created AiiDAlab deployment for AiiDA tutorial @ University of Antwerpen (https://uatutorial.aiidalab.io)
- Deployment was reportedly fast, smooth, and robust.
- Deployed in eu-west with Standard_D2as_v5 for the core node pool and Standard_D32as_v5 for the user node pool.
- Encountered some issues with configuring the DNS zone for aiidalab.io; the domain was protected which required intervention from Giovanni.
- There were only 12 participants so there were unfortunately no learnings from autoscaling as the chosen node size (32 CPU, 128 GB) was oversized.
- Costs: ~ 50 USD / day
- Plan on keeping deployment online until next Monday – however the user node size was reduced to Standard_D8as_v5 (8CPUs / 32GB).
- All resources relating to AiiDAlab deployments on AWS are destroyed.

- Jason:
- Will try to finish StructureEditor issue https://github.com/aiidalab/aiidalab-widgets-base/pull/310 ASAP.
- There are some issue related to optimade voila client, will focus on them next week during OPTIMADE conference.
- Docker inside aiidalab?

- Dou:
- To dissuss whether to have a limited number of atoms to render the images and have a download button for the rendering script
- Start to check the "widget-bandsplot"
- To have a meeting with Taylor about the widget

- Sasha:
- Finalised [#235](https://github.com/aiidalab/aiidalab-qe/pull/235).
- News from aiidalab-demo: the datacenter at CESNET had an outage on Sunday (22/05/2022). It is back in production now.
- Working on aiidalab-docker-compose, largerly based on Chris' repository: https://github.com/chrisjsewell/aiida-docker-compose
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- Mouyi:
- wrote the first version of webpages part for qu-environ app on aiidalab
- still have problems on a qe-environ code auto-installing process.
- specificly, in ComputationalResourcesWidget() function, input_plugin="environ.pw " goes wrong. But this works in aiida