Terrell Russell, Ph.D.
@terrellrussell
Executive Director, iRODS Consortium
Consortium Update
Consortium Update
July 5-8, 2022
iRODS User Group Meeting 2022
Leuven, Belgium
The iRODS Consortium
Our Mission
- Continuous Improvement
- Grow the Community
- Standardization
- Show value to our Membership
The iRODS Consortium
Our History
- Founded in 2013 by RENCI, DICE, and DDN
- Accepted the code base in 2014
- Forty one releases of iRODS to date
Our Membership
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Since iRODS UGM 2021
- 25 Membership Renewals
- 5 New Members
- 6 New Service Contracts
- Multiple Proofs of Concept
- 19 Conferences and Events
- 1 New Executive Director
- 1 New Chief Technologist
Since iRODS UGM 2021 - New Membership
- Anonymous
- Emagine IT (EIT)
- Omnibond
- CSIR (South Africa)
- InfiniteTactics
2021-2022 Working Groups
Technology Working Group
- Goal: To keep everyone up to date, provide a forum for roadmap discussion and collaboration opportunities
- All iRODS Consortium Membership
Metadata Templates Working Group
- Goal: To define a standardized process for the application and management of metadata templates by the iRODS Server
- NIEHS, Utrecht, Maastricht, Arizona / CyVerse
Authentication Working Group
- Goal: To provide a more flexible authentication mechanism to the iRODS Server
- SURF, NIEHS, Sanger, Arizona / CyVerse, IT4Innovation, Utrecht, KU Leuven
S3 Working Group
- Goal: To develop tools to present iRODS as S3-compatible storage to existing S3 clients
- Arizona / CyVerse, NIEHS
Imaging Working Group
- Goal: To provide a standardized suite of imaging policies and practices for integration with existing tools and pipelines
- New York University, Santa Clara University, UC San Diego, NIEHS, Harvard, Arizona / CyVerse, Open Microscopy Environment (OMERO), UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core, KU Leuven, Maastricht, NYU Langone, UMass Medical, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Sanger, UCSC, Crick (UK), U. Osnabrück, CRS4 (Italy), RIKEN (Japan)
Organized community efforts to standardize protocols, technologies, and methodologies
2021-2022 Efforts
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Development of Localized User Groups
- Global community requires local sustainability
- Restarting travel and presence
- Broaden focus with multiple partnerships
- Globus
- Pacific Teck
- EIT
- CSIR
- ThinkParQ
- InfiniteTactics
- Multiple RENCI proposals
Our Business Model
Start with proof of concept
- Use Case Driven
- Hands on
- Service and Support Contracts
Consortium Membership
- Four Levels - $10k to $150k
- 10 to 300 hours of support
- Participation in Software roadmap
- Discounted hourly rate
Tier 3 Support
- Systems Integrators
- Compute Vendors
- Storage Vendors
Questions?
Thank you!
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