scholarly journals Deploying a new realtime XRootD-v5 based monitoring framework for GridPP

2021 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 02052
Author(s):  
Robert Currie ◽  
Wenlong Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Storage Systems ◽  
Remote Site ◽  
Site Administrators ◽  
Distributed Caching ◽  
Monitoring Framework ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Site ◽  
Monitoring Service ◽  
New Framework

To optimise the performance of distributed compute, smaller lightweight storage caches are needed which integrate with existing grid computing workflows. A good solution to provide lightweight storage caches is to use an XRootD-proxy cache. To support distributed lightweight XRootD proxy services across GridPP we have developed a centralised monitoring framework. With the v5 release of XRootD it is possible to build a monitoring framework which collects distributed caching metadata broadcast from multiple sites. To provide the best support for these distributed caches we have built a centralised monitoring service for XRootD storage instances within GridPP. This monitoring solution is built upon experiences presented by CMS in setting up a similar service as part of their AAA system. This new framework is designed to provide remote monitoring of the behaviour, performance, and reliability of distributed XRootD services across the UK. Effort has been made to simplify ease of deployment by remote site administrators. The result of this work is an interactive dashboard system which enables administrators to access real-time metrics on the performance of their lightweight storage systems. This monitoring framework is intended to supplement existing functionality and availability testing metrics by providing detailed information and logging from a site perspective.

MONARCHS, TRAVELLERS AND EMPIRE IN THE PACIFIC'S AGE OF REVOLUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 77-96
Author(s):  
Sujit Sivasundaram
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islanders ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Global History ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Cultural Terms ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Site

AbstractThe Pacific has often been invisible in global histories written in the UK. Yet it has consistently been a site for contemplating the past and the future, even among Britons cast on its shores. In this lecture, I reconsider a critical moment of globalisation and empire, the ‘age of revolutions’ at the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the nineteenth century, by journeying with European voyagers to the Pacific Ocean. The lecture will point to what this age meant for Pacific islanders, in social, political and cultural terms. It works with a definition of the Pacific's age of revolutions as a surge of indigeneity met by a counter-revolutionary imperialism. What was involved in undertaking a European voyage changed in this era, even as one important expedition was interrupted by news from revolutionary Europe. Yet more fundamentally vocabularies and practices of monarchy were consolidated by islanders across the Pacific. This was followed by the outworkings of counter-revolutionary imperialism through agreements of alliance and alleged cessation. Such an argument allows me, for instance, to place the 1806 wreck of the Port-au-Prince within the Pacific's age of revolutions. This was an English ship used to raid French and Spanish targets in the Pacific, but which was stripped of its guns, iron, gunpowder and carronades by Tongans. To chart the trajectory from revolution and islander agency on to violence and empire is to appreciate the unsettled paths that gave rise to our modern world. This view foregrounds people who inhabited and travelled through the earth's oceanic frontiers. It is a global history from a specific place in the oceanic south, on the opposite side of the planet to Europe.

scholarly journals An audit of UK audiological practice in specialist paediatric oncology centres regarding hearing assessment of children at risk of ototoxicity due to chemotherapy

2021 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
E C M Brown ◽  
C Caimino ◽  
C L Benton ◽  
D M Baguley
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Paediatric Oncology ◽  
Chemotherapy Drugs ◽  
Team Working ◽  
Platinum Based Chemotherapy ◽  
Hearing Assessment ◽  
Self Test ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Monitoring Service

AbstractObjectivePlatinum-based chemotherapy drugs are associated with substantial ototoxicity. The hearing of children treated with these drugs should be closely monitored.MethodA questionnaire was sent out to the 19 audiology departments associated with national paediatric cancer specialist centres in the UK looking at current practice in ototoxicity monitoring.ResultsResponses were received from 17 of 19 centres (89 per cent). All offered some form of audiometric monitoring service. Extended high-frequency testing (9–20 kHz) was only utilised by 7 services (29 per cent). A majority of respondents were reluctant to consider self-test devices in paediatric ototoxicity monitoring (n = 9; 53 per cent). Provision of long-term audiological follow up is sporadic with only 4 (23 per cent) respondents keeping all children with normal hearing under review once treatment is completed.ConclusionWhile some good practice in paediatric ototoxicity was identified, opportunities exist to improve clinical practice and protocols, promote multidisciplinary team working and to utilise technologies such as extended high frequency and self-test audiometry.

scholarly journals Monitoring advances including consent: learning from COVID-19 trials and other trials running in UKCRC registered clinical trials units during the pandemic

Trials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon B. Love ◽  
Emma Armstrong ◽  
Carrie Bayliss ◽  
Melanie Boulter ◽  
Lisa Fox ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Monitoring Task ◽  
Critical Data ◽  
Site Monitoring ◽  
Clinical Trials Unit ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Trial Monitoring ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected how clinical trials are managed, both within existing portfolios and for the rapidly developed COVID-19 trials. Sponsors or delegated organisations responsible for monitoring trials have needed to consider and implement alternative ways of working due to the national infection risk necessitating restricted movement of staff and public, reduced clinical staff resource as research staff moved to clinical areas, and amended working arrangements for sponsor and sponsor delegates as staff moved to working from home.Organisations have often worked in isolation to fast track mitigations required for the conduct of clinical trials during the pandemic; this paper describes many of the learnings from a group of monitoring leads based in United Kingdom Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) Clinical Trials Unit (CTUs) within the UK.The UKCRC Monitoring Task and Finish Group, comprising monitoring leads from 9 CTUs, met repeatedly to identify how COVID-19 had affected clinical trial monitoring. Informed consent is included as a specific issue within this paper, as review of completed consent documentation is often required within trial monitoring plans (TMPs). Monitoring is defined as involving on-site monitoring, central monitoring or/and remote monitoring.Monitoring, required to protect the safety of the patients and the integrity of the trial and ensure the protocol is followed, is often best done by a combination of central, remote and on-site monitoring. However, if on-site monitoring is not possible, workable solutions can be found using only central or central and remote monitoring. eConsent, consent by a third person, or via remote means is plausible. Minimising datasets to the critical data reduces workload for sites and CTU staff. Home working caused by COVID-19 has made electronic trial master files (TMFs) more inviting. Allowing sites to book and attend protocol training at a time convenient to them has been successful and worth pursuing for trials with many sites in the future.The arrival of COVID-19 in the UK has forced consideration of and changes to how clinical trials are conducted in relation to monitoring. Some developed practices will be useful in other pandemics and others should be incorporated into regular use.

Remote Monitoring Framework for Elderly Care Home Centers in UAE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raafat Aburukba ◽  
Assim Sagahyroon ◽  
Loay Taha Kamel ◽  
Abdulla Mohammed Al-Shamsi ◽  
Hussain Surti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Care Home ◽  
Monitoring Framework

scholarly journals Re-Assembling Anti-Oppressive Practice (1): The Personal, the Political, the Professional

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 645
Author(s):  
Janet Batsleer
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Work Spaces ◽  
Informal Educators ◽  
Paolo Freire ◽  
The One ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Site ◽  
Uk Higher Education

This essay offers a broken narrative concerning the early history of anti-oppressive practice as an approach in the U.K. to youth and community work and the struggles over this in the context of UK higher education between the 1960′s and the early 2000’s. Educating informal educators as youth and community workers in the UK has been a site of contestation. Aspects of a genealogy of that struggle are presented in ways which link publicly available histories with personal memories and narratives, through the use of a personal archive developed through collective memory work. These are chosen to illuminate the links between theory and practice: on the one hand, the conceptual field which has framed the education of youth and community workers, whose sources lie in the academic disciplines of education and sociology, and, on the other hand, the social movements which have formed the practice of informal educators. Six have been chosen: (1) The long 1968: challenging approaches to authority; (2) the group as a source of learning; (3) The personal and political: experiential learning from discontent; (4) Paolo Freire and Critical Praxis; (5) A critical break in social education and the reality of youth work spaces as defensive spaces; (6) New managerialism: ethics vs. paper trails. The approach taken, of linking memory work with present struggles, is argued to be a generative form for current critical and enlivening practice.

Emerging Enterprise Storage Systems

2002 ◽  
pp. 192-216
Author(s):  
Bhumip Khasnabish
Keyword(s):  
Storage Systems ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Networked Storage ◽  
New Framework

This chapter along with the additional resources given in the references will support the usage of SAN technologies in enterprises. The first half of this chapter develops the new framework needed. The second half of this chapter details the capabilities of fabric topology. To lay the groundwork for a networked storage system, it is important to understand these concepts in order to best plan the first steps of building a new secure and open enterprise storage infrastructure.

scholarly journals Lightweight WLCG Sites

2019 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 07019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayank Sharma ◽  
Maarten Litmaath ◽  
Eraldo Silva Junior ◽  
Renato Santana
Keyword(s):  
Grid Services ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Batch Systems ◽  
Common Interface ◽  
Container Orchestration ◽  
A Site ◽  
Automation Tools ◽  
Orchestration Tools ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
New Framework

This article describes a new framework, called SIMPLE, for settingup and maintaining classic WLCG sites with minimal operational efforts and insights needed into the WLCG middleware. The framework provides a single common interface to install and configure any of its supported grid services, such as Compute Elements, Batch Systems, Worker Nodes and miscellaneous middleware packages. It leverages modern container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and confiuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible, to automate deployment of the WLCG services on behalf of a site admin. The framework is modular and extensible by design. Therefore, it is easy to add support for more grid services as well as infrastructure automation tools to accommodate diverse scenarios at different sites. We provide insight into the design of the framework and our efforts towards development, release and deployment of its first implementation featuring CREAM E, TORQUE Batch System and TORQUE based Worker Nodes.

scholarly journals Megafauna of the UKSRL exploration contract area and eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean: Annelida, Arthropoda, Bryozoa, Chordata, Ctenophora, Mollusca

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diva Amon ◽  
Amanda Ziegler ◽  
Jeffrey Drazen ◽  
Andrei Grischenko ◽  
Astrid Leitner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle ◽  
Remotely Operated Vehicle ◽  
Molecular Barcoding ◽  
Polymetallic Nodule ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Biological Studies ◽  
Threatened Habitat ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Site

There is growing interest in mining polymetallic nodules from the abyssal Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Despite having been the focus of environmental studies for decades, the benthic megafauna of the CCZ remain poorly known. To predict and manage the environmental impacts of mining in the CCZ, baseline knowledge of the megafauna is essential. The ABYSSLINE Project has conducted benthic biological baseline surveys in the UK Seabed Resources Ltd polymetallic-nodule exploration contract area (UK-1). Prior to ABYSSLINE research cruises in 2013 and 2015, no biological studies had been done in this area of the eastern CCZ. Using a Remotely Operated Vehicle and Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (as well as several other pieces of equipment), the megafauna within the UK Seabed Resources Ltd exploration contract area (UK-1) and at a site ~250 km east of the UK-1 area were surveyed, allowing us to make the first estimates of megafaunal morphospecies richness from the imagery collected. Here, we present an atlas of the abyssal annelid, arthropod, bryozoan, chordate, ctenophore and molluscan megafauna observed and collected during the ABYSSLINE cruises to the UK-1 polymetallic-nodule exploration contract area in the CCZ. There appear to be at least 55 distinct morphospecies (8 Annelida, 12 Arthropoda, 4 Bryozoa, 22 Chordata, 5 Ctenophora, and 4 Mollusca) identified mostly by morphology but also using molecular barcoding for a limited number of animals that were collected. This atlas will aid the synthesis of megafaunal presence/absence data collected by contractors, scientists and other stakeholders undertaking work in the CCZ, ultimately helping to decipher the biogeography of the megafauna in this threatened habitat.

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