Document Use Cases in Priority Order to inform IBM of how we wish to configure SCALE

[msdisme]

Motivation

To inform IBM how to help us configure the SCALE system we need to provide them more details about how we intend to use SCALE System.

These use case will be driven by:

• Testing goals
• Exposing GPFS storage to OpenShift and bare metal clusters in the NERC and MOC
• Use GPFS as a fast tier and off loading unused files to cheaper slower storage.
• and by a desire to allow researches to bring in already existing datasets and use and share them.

This will help identify things which are easy to accomplish and things which are unrealistic in the current version of Scale, but present in a future roadmap for SCALE, or unlikely to ever be part of the SCALE system.

These use cases should be ordered by priority and complexity by us to help focus the engagement.

Completion Criteria

• Draft of Use Cases Complete by @knikolla
• Draft shared widely for feedback (Wayne, Justin, Jason (RH), Heidi (RH), Sanjay (RH?), Milson, Naved, Hakan)
• Internal (Plus Rick) Meeting scheduled NLT 3/21 to explore
• Shared with IBM
• IBM meeting scheduled

Completion dates

Desired - 2025-03-19
Required - 2025-03-21

Supporting Documents

• Meeting Notes
• Use Cases Document
• IBM Use Cases PPT
• Use Cases Directory on Google Drive

[morantara]

@msdisme will this get done in this sprint? should it be pushed to a future sprint?

[msdisme]

Updated Kristi's draft into the current document linked above. Will review and add/update and share with others today. Work started in feb26-march 19 sprint, will continue into this one.

[msdisme]

Make changes based on the most recent feedback from Orran.

[msdisme]

Initial version done with messaging to IBM thta more may occur in the futur.e