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FY 2026 Project Planning

Triaging and prioritizing RCS projects for FY26

MUST >> WANT >> NICE

  • TOP priority
    • CHEAHA: Update Cheaha OS cheaha#55
    • STORAGE: GPFS5/Ceph Core shared quotas #632
    • STORAGE: Cutover apps/modules from GPFS4 to GPFS5 gpfs5-migration#208
    • GLOBUS: Migrate Shared Collections from GPFS4 to GPFS5 Mapped Collection #695
    • REDCAP: Redcap deploy from SOM to OpenStack
  • MUST haves (requirements)

    • GITLAB: Migrate data to GPFS5 gitlab#15

    • GITLAB: Update GitLab OS gitlab#12

    • GITLAB: Update GitLab version #689

    • RCS: Software license renewal and upgrade (patch) planning and reminders/automation #686, Blocked by #689

      • Researcher-Facing software (MATLAB, SAS, STATA, ...)
      • Internal software (OS, Slurm, ...)

    • STORAGE: Update Ceph version to fix LTS-Globus bug, or work with Globus to read object metadata header for hash #608

    • STORAGE: Ceph Block/LTS/FS (not GPFS) shared quotas and accounting

    • CHEAHA: Slurm accounting model and priority queueing to support hardware buy-in

    • CHEAHA: Update Lmod (EasyBuild 5 will require Lmod >=8)

    • CHEAHA: Update Slurm

    • REDCAP: Install Redcap OpenStack extension

    • CHEAHA: -ntasks-per-socket on OOD apps for correct multi-GPU usage

    • CHEAHA: Node hardware info in slurm.conf (features) rc-data-science/metrics/rc-hardware#2 #230

    • CHEAHA: Update OOD

    • CHEAHA: Deprecate Anaconda3 module in favor of conda-forge (license compliance)

    • COMMUNICATION: Email sending automation (no more Outlook) #674

    • STORAGE: Scratch policy implement GPFS5 cheaha#34

    • SECURITY: SSO web service alignment everywhere for MFA and security compliance

    • SECURITY: Get information from XIAS for security

      • (for person X, what is sponsor BlazerID? is X expired? what is X site(s)? is site expired? is URI in site?)

    • SECURITY: Security (POAM) milestones (docs, procedures, etc)

    • SECURITY: HIPAA attestation

    • SECURITY: NIST 800-171 attestation other than NIH (compliant for NIH grants, DUAs go thru OSP, limited to RCS only)

    • SECURITY: Automated account state management (this is very broad) #669

    • XNAT: Update XNAT

    • RCS: Resource entitlement and eligibility tracking #637

    • BRANDING: Branding all relevant sites #624 #556

    • ADMIN: Onboarding procedure(s)

  • WANT to haves (higher priority)
    • LTS: Unify individual allocation labels to match blazerid@uab.edu format.
    • CHEAHA: Windfall "ondemand" partition #673 #471
    • CHEAHA: SAS Enterprise Guide OOD app cluster-software#139
    • CHEAHA: Install most recent SAS
    • CHEAHA: Install most recent STATA
    • CHEAHA: Cheaha software builds via CICD #679
    • CHEAHA: Prevent/auto-revert Cheaha TLD permission changes
    • CHEAHA: Refine experience for TMP and LOCAL dirs on Cheaha nodes #678
    • CHEAHA: Cheaha Slurm QoS, priority calculation, etc, review rc-slurm#61 cheaha#44
    • CHEAHA: Refine old modules - ties into rebuild CICD #554 (closed) #566 #480 #460 #432 (closed)
    • DOCS: Migrate docs to GitLab
    • NETWORK: Network upgrade beyond 10G link to campus, beyond 40G to scidmz
    • METRICS: Cheaha job-specific/process-specific observability #661
    • METRICS: Data/Storage observability #661
    • RCS: Services status page #627
    • STORAGE: Globus Azure Blob Connector #685
    • STORAGE: Separate LTS from Core Ceph
    • STORAGE: Shared, read-only research data allocation (e.g. alphafold) #680 #654
    • STORAGE: Standardize /data/project/ #625 #633 #162 (closed)
    • SECURITY: Cheaha observability for security #661
    • SECURITY: RCS Account Statemachine and RabbitMQ refactoring rabbitmq_agents#163
    • SECURITY: RCS Account Database (user reg db) enhancements #393 #400 #82 #410 #141 #642
    • SECURITY: Restrict access to info about users, groups, slurm jobs, etc. cheaha#57
    • TRAINING: Researcher training initiatives
    • UX: RCS main page
    • UX: Expose user reg app content (writing/theme) to facilitation via GitLab account-app#17 #556
    • UX: Expose OOD content (writing/theme) to facilitation via GitLab rc-ood-message#1 #556
    • UX: Expose OpenStack Horizon content (writing/theme) to facilitation via GitLab #624 #556
  • NICE to haves (lower priority)
    • CHEAHA: Update Singularity #546 cluster-software#115
    • CHEAHA: Resolve poor researcher UX around pip and conda behaving unexpectedly #485
    • CHEAHA: Internal routing SSH key dedicated storage location
    • DOCS: Docs AI chatbot courtesy of UAB Copilot
    • DOCS: Docs observability and analytics
    • METRICS: Cheaha observability for buy-in model #626 #471
    • METRICS: Cloud.rc observability " #661
    • METRICS: Network observability " #661
    • METRICS: Buffered node exporter data locally for robustness
    • FUNDING: Cheaha compute buy-in model and implementation #626 #637
    • FUNDING: Cloud.rc buy-in model and implementation #672 #637
    • FUNDING: Storage buy-in model and implementation (TiB vs TB is 10%, this matters for dollar costs!) #637
    • STORAGE: Offsite data center backup solution and buy-in model (MUST if funded)
    • STORAGE: Globus Azure Blob connector for backup and archive solution and buy-in model (MUST if funded)
    • STORAGE: Project-parallel scratch directories #653
    • STORAGE: Improve LTS Globus UX to handle multiple keys (individual, lab shared, core shared, ...) #684
    • SECURITY: CMMC compliant enclave
    • PRODUCTIVITY: pastebinit command and self-hosted pastebin equivalent
  • INFOrmational
    • SECURITY: IDM Federation (what is our portion?)

Completed

  • STORAGE: Globus configured for GPFS5 (no issue) #694 (closed)
  • STORAGE: New accounts created on GPFS5
  • GLOBUS: Understand and implement shared administration group and duties in Globus.
Edited by William E Warriner