TRE Satellite Event notes - Open source infrastructure and collaborations#
Prompts#
How many open-source TREs do we want?
Do we need separate collaborations for each open-source TRE?
Can we collaborate across different TRE platforms?
Notes#
What are people currently using?#
On-prem
Azure
AWS
What open-source solutions exist?#
TREEHOOSE (used at Dundee)
based on AWS service bench
Turing Data Safe Haven
BSD licence
Microsoft AzureTRE
MIT licence
Who is able to work on a common codebase?#
Azure
Turing
AWS
Dundee (HIC)
If a single code base is too difficult to work in practice, it would still be very valuable to have some common governance, policy, guidelines, specifications.
Who is interested in deploying and evaluating multiple TRE solutions?#
Turing
UCL
Sheffield
Dundee
Who is interested in working on common governance specification?#
Turing
Dundee
EPCC
IAC#
On-prem open stack implementations using Terrafrom etc.
Trade off between ‘transferability’ and ‘conveniences/maintainability’
Can just use VMs, more transferable but adds managment burden
Container based solutions .e.g. kubernetes. Another layer of abstraction that removes cloud-vendor dependencies.
Running graphical desktops is difficult (maybe impossible for Windows)
How to include HPC?#
Burst out for running particular jobs?
Actions/next steps#
Common governance - take the initiative to set this up
Send invitation to a kick-off meeting
Similiar discussion on code - What do we have already, do we want to combine or adopt a single codebase