XSEDE Management and Governance John Towns XSEDE Principal
- Slides: 14
XSEDE Management and Governance John Towns XSEDE Principal Investigator jtowns@ncsa. illinois. edu
Best Known Practices/Lessons Learned • Best known practice • central leadership with delegated authority proven to be very effective • complemented by a strong collaborative environment among partners • Lessons learned • crisp vision/mission/goals help drive best organizational performance • shared vision has encouraged growing mutual respect and aligned self-interest • we want to see each other succeed • use of metrics critical in driving organizational improvement • both drive improvement of service to the community • Much of this documented in the Tera. Grid Final Report and XSEDE 1 Final Report • Tera. Grid Final Report: http: //hdl. handle. net/2142/43874 • XSEDE 1 Final Report: http: //hdl. handle. net/2142/96220 2
Org Chart: XSEDE 2. 0 3
Organizational Alignment with Strategic Goals Deepen and Extend Use Advance the Ecosystem Sustain the Ecosystem 4 • • Deepen use (for existing communities) Extend use (to new communities) • • Prepare the current and next generation (workforce development) Raise awareness of the value of advanced digital services WBS 2. 1 CEE • • Create and open and evolving infrastructure Enhance the array of technical expertise and support services WBS 2. 3 XCI • • Provide reliable, efficient, and secure infrastructure Provide excellent user support services • • Effective and productive virtual organization Innovative virtual organization WBS 2. 2 ECSS WBS 2. 4 Operations WBS 2. 5 RAS WBS 2. 6 Program Office
Balanced governance model • Strong central management provides rapid response to issues and opportunities • Delegation and decentralization of decision-making authority • Openness to genuine stakeholder participation • stakeholder engagement, advisory committees • Professional project management practices • formal risk management and change control 5
Elements of Governance • Project PI and co-PIs • ultimately responsible to NSF for project progress and performance • Senior Management Team (SMT) • all WBS Level 2 Directors • external representation • chair of the User Advisory Committee • chair of the Service Providers Forum • ex-officio, non-voting members • Senior Project Manager • NSF Program Officer • Advisory bodies • XSEDE Advisory Board • User Advisory Committee • Service Providers Forum 6 External Advisors. SPF) (XAB, UAC, Directors (Hart, Lifka, . Payne, Peterson) Co-PIs (Blood, . Gaither, Sinkovits) PI. (Towns)
XSEDE Advisory Board (XAB) • Recommend strategic directions • Guidance to help XSEDE achieve maximum impact • Assist with requirements gathering and prioritization • Assist with annual planning process • review Program Plan • Lisa Arafune, Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) • Ken Bloom, University of Nebraska, Lincoln • Randy Bryant, Carnegie Mellon Univ • Thomas Cheatham, Univ of Utah • Toni Collis, Appentra • Rudolph Eigenmann, University of Delaware • Clifford Jacobs, independent • Albert Lazzarini, Deputy Director, LIGO Laboratory • Karin Remington, NIH/Computationality, LLC (Chair) • Ani Ural, Villanova University • Service Provider Forum Representatives: • • • Ruth Marinshaw, Stanford University (SF Forum Chair) David Hancock, Indiana University Jonathan Anderson, CU Boulder • User Advisory Committee Representative: • 7 Emre Brookes, University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (chair)
User Advisory Committee (UAC) • Represent the “user’s voice” to XSEDE management • Review quarterly and annual reports • Review ESCC proposals • make recommendations • Review annual User Survey Results • make recommendations • UAC Chair is a member of the XAB and a voting member of the Senior Management Team 8 • • • • Rommie Amaro, UCSD Richard Braatz, MIT Emre Brookes, UT San Antonio (chair) Manuela Campanelli, Rochester Institute of Technology Tom Cheatham, Utah Diego Donzis, Texas A&M Mark Jack, Florida A&M Balint Joo, Jefferson Labs Mark Miller, UCSD Benoit Roux, U. of Chicago Deirdre Shoemaker, Georgia Tech Xuguang Wang, Oklahoma University Kraig Winters, SIO/UCSD Frank Wuerthwein, UCSD
Service Provider Forum (SPF) • Forum for Service Providers that deliver services via XSEDE • Service Providers input into XSEDE’s management • Venue via which XSEDE management may communicate effectively with SPs • SP Forum Chair is a member of the XAB and a voting member of the SMT • Two additional members of the SPF are members of the XAB 9 • 5 Level 1 Service Providers • Stampede 2, Comet, Wrangler, Jetstream, Bridges • 9 Level 2 Service Providers • NCAR, OSG, Blue Waters, Super. MIC, Rosen Center (Purdue), Stanford Research Computing Center, Beacon, Science Gateways Community Institute • 26 Level 3 Service Providers https: //www. xsede. org/about/governance/spf
Effective Stakeholder Engagement • Collection of stakeholder needs: • surveys, ticket mining, usability studies, interviews, … • include various reports from NAS, NSF, etc… • Development of Use Cases • capturing community needs • Prioritization of identified needs and derived requirements • User Requirements Evaluation and Prioritization (UREP) Working Group • broad participation across integration, deployment, operations, users, and Service Providers • Assessing plans and deployments • through a variety of stakeholder-focused efforts • e. g. , stakeholder involvement in reviews, usability studies, … • Representation in the management of XSEDE • Service Providers Forum Chair +2, User Advisory Committee Chair 10
Consult with NSF Decision Making in XSEDE NO PI (Towns) Can make decision? Our philosophy PI & co-PIs – strong central management to (Towns, Blood, Gaither, Sinkovits) provide rapid response to issues and opportunities – delegation and decentralization Senior NO Management of decision-making authority Team Can make YES NO Can make decision? YES • Communicate to rest of project as necessary Very few decisions • Execute PCR happen here YES • Communicate to rest of project as necessary • Execute PCR • User Advisory Committee and SP Forum participation in decision-making process • Communicate to rest of project as necessary • Execute PCR • Within scope, schedule, budget of Level 2 WBS • Communicate to rest of project as necessary • Execute PCR decision? NO WBS Level 2 Director Can make decision? NO WBS Level 3 Manager Can make decision? Most decisions happen here 11 YES • Within scope, schedule, budget of Level 3 WBS • Communicate to rest of project as necessary • Execute PCR if appropriate PCR = Project Change Request
Benefits/Challenges of Large Partnership • Benefits • complements the capabilities of the major partners • leverages particular strengths of smaller institutions • diversity of institutions brings strength to the partnership • diversity of viewpoint critical to this! • Challenges • collaboration across distributed team is challenging but XSEDE has done well in developing mechanisms to support communications • reporting is complicated and requires significant project staff effort • NSF financial reporting requirements are onerous 12
We Have Reached a Good State • Trust has been built—it is the cornerstone to our successful organization • L 2 Directors and L 3 Managers are a cohesive group • L 2 Directors taking a stronger role in leadership of the project • a good sign of organizational maturity • Learned to compartmentalize roles • frequent community competitions pit team members against one another • Effectively managed significant challenges • transition of leadership: loss of co-PIs, L 2 Directors, L 3 Managers, senior technical staff • All indicators of a resilient, high performing organization 13
Panel Discussion • Are there improvements to the governance model? • Are there better mechanisms for engaging stakeholders? 14
- Hpact
- Standing conference of towns and municipalities
- Rhese view radiology
- Fire island map towns
- Disadvantages of shanty towns
- Hoover towns
- Towns near dedham ma
- On the same side of a straight river are two towns
- Usda rural areas in massachusetts
- Elmer towns
- Life in medieval towns answer key
- Iron tools and agriculture
- Mon forest towns
- Sodbusters apush
- Data governance and risk management