Deployment

October 2023 - April 2024

Next we had a deployment discussion between NMFS OCIO and SEFSC OMI/IT. This meeting took place in late October and finalized the technical logistics ahead of OCIO creating the project and handing it off to SEFSC IT. An update in early December indicated that the charter was awaiting final signatures within OCIO and that a security review was underway.

The GCP project was created in January 2024 and handed off to SEFSC OMI/IT. At this point it was up to us at the SEFSC to learn how to use the terraform images and provision the resources. OCIO assisted considerably with this. By April we had our production environment (prod) provisioned and ready to begin testing.

From here on out, our science team has continued to work closely with our IT to learn the GCP environment, figure out permissions, and tweak resources. Our development environment (dev) will be provisioned once we are satisfied with the configuration and functionality of prod.

Specifications

In the end, we deployed the following resources:

Compute engines

  • 1x e2-standard-4 (VIAME-Web)
    • 4 vCPUs
    • 16 GB memory
    • 128 maximum number of persistent disks (PDs)
    • 257 TiB maximum total PD size
    • 8 Gbps maximum egress bandwidth
  • 1x n1-standard-16 (VIAME-Worker)
    • 16 vCPUs
    • 60 GB memory
    • 128 maximum number of persistent disks (PDs)
    • 257 TiB maximum total PD size
    • 32 Gbps maximum egress bandwidth
    • 1x NVIDIA TESLA T4 GPU with 16 GB memory

Storage