Re: Some thoughts on NDS Labs

[Matthew Turk <matthewturk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ray,

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Ray Plante <rplante@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2014, Arthur Smith wrote:
>> If NDS is to be the Interop (or NSFNet) to RDA's IETF, then it seems to me
>> like the focus of NDS labs should be implementing and highlighting
>> interoperability of implementations of data standards. For example we heard
>> about the data type registry:
>
> I would definately like to see NDS Labs be a platform for RDA ideas.
> I hope it can also be a lab for cultivating additional RDS WG
> activity, both building on the currently deliveries and inspiring new
> ones.
>
>> But I think we should keep the focus on the data side, not just on putting
>> together another cloud computing environment.
>
> It's been proposed that NDS Labs respond to requests for projects, so
> I would hope that there would be people from the RDA community
> inspired to come forward.
>
> That said, the NDS Labs proposal is essentially one of storage
> and compute resources and support to operate it.  Your suggestion
> (puting a registry in a docker container) helps us understand whether
> the proposed environment can serve that role.

I think we should go way beyond just storage and compute -- it needs
to be tied into strong community interaction, otherwise we are simply
Amazon EC2 (which, I note, has lots of public datasets already) or the
Open Science Data Cloud.  I think having strong community buy-in,
emphasizing interoperability between applications, and so on needs to
be a component.

Can you say more about the "NDS labs proposal"?

>
> cheers,
> Ray
>