Meeting notes 2025
2025 meeting notes and ongoing actions…
9/1/2025 – weekly meeting #1 2025
Claire, Damien, Thomas
- ACS
- still no service user for
jt48 - ACS update – not being defunded in favour of a portal so that’s good news. Further clarification on funding for next FY yet to be announced.
- still no service user for
- NCI advertising for interim director at the moment (https://jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/interim-director-canberra-act-act-australia)
- CSIRO and BoM plans ongoing but no decisions yet as far a we know.
- Object storage
- AMS meeting – big focus on putting all the earth systems data in the cloud. Long term is this a good strategy? (Damien)
- https://ams.confex.com/ams/105ANNUAL/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/458101
- Pretty likely in Big Tech interests there!
- Object storage is game changing
- Giving all data to for-profit companies seems risky in the longer term
- On-premises cloud to us looks like it has a much bigger potential particularly somewhere like Australia with centralised HPC facilities.
- Ryan Abernathy (EarthMover) to talk at AMS
- Acacia at Pawsey doesn’t seem to work the way we expected
- Mike Sumner may have found a solution?
- EarthMover etc don’t have “a solution” yet, it hasn’t coalesced into concrete advice of how to best do it.
- Is zarr likely to become the official back end for netCDF? HDF5 cloud format? What is happening in netCDF land?
- We need to go to Boulder and have beers with the few people who know these things 😉
- AMS meeting – big focus on putting all the earth systems data in the cloud. Long term is this a good strategy? (Damien)