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* Sheldon, Tackett, Pathak, Brown (VU)
* Sheldon, Tackett, Pathak, Brown (VU)
* Swany (UDel)
* Swany (UDel)
* Sean McKee (U. Mich)


== Current Agenda (Start time this week, 10EDT/9CDT)==
== Current Agenda (Start time this week, 10:30EDT/9:30CDT)==


=== Application Communities ===
=== Application Communities ===
*A note about communications: Use the list! (Terry)
*Fusion
*News from Electron Microscopy (Micah/Chris)
*AmericaView (PR)
*AmericaView (PR)
Had several conversations with the board and some of the members.


=== Deployment and Operations ===
=== Deployment and Operations ===
* Current status of deployment effort: Fermi, ORNL, etc. (Bobby)
* Current status of deployment effort: Fermi, ORNL, etc. (Bobby)
* Do we have a chance of getting a REDDnet node at CERN (Paul, Martin)
* Do we have a chance of getting a REDDnet node at CERN (Paul, Martin)
* Status of AMPATH testing (Surya)
* Status of AMPATH link(Surya)
**Dedicated machines up and running?
**Had a general discussion of the problem of long RTT and latency on this link.
**Has Marting got his accounts?
**We need to get better data. But the key point is that we don't seem to be making any progress in this area. We seem to be blocked by the "dirty little secret" of HP networking. The approach that depends on careful control, expert tuning of the backbone routers won't scale, and we may have encountered that here.
** Current solutions seem to depend on artificial tricks that won't scale.
** Plan: Set it up to run at whatever rate we can get (400 Mbps) and let it run. Utilization is what people are looking for, so let's do that.
* After SC, all of the hardware is going to be shipped back to Vandy.


=== Technology: Hardware, Software ===
=== Technology: Hardware, Software ===
* Current state of the components of the L-Store software Suite(Alan, et. al)
* Current state of the components of the L-Store software Suite(Alan, et. al)
**SRM: Plans for Alex's testing/demoing of SRM at SC06 (see http://www.reddnet.org/mwiki/index.php/SRM_SC06_Demo)
**L-Store
**L-Store
**Clyde
**Clyde  
**SRM interface
*Availability of alternative versions of the IBP depot code. (Micah)
***It's been completed and shown to be interoperable.
***The client is on the L-store wiki page. They LBL people have used it to move data from Vandy to CERN. They're using their SRM tester on top of L-Store.
*** Micah wants to set up a persistent SRM/L-Store demo out at ORNL. It would show movement of data via this system back and forth to CERN. Micah will take point on getting this going.
***Ian Fisk is very excited about this interface, but there SRM version problems.
* Current state of the Nevoa components and tools (Hunter)
* Current state of the Nevoa components and tools (Hunter)
**StoreCore
* Agreement to discuss the formulation of a standard directory protocol in at the Chicago meeting (i.e. on Dec. 3, the day before the large meeting).
***Have a new version up an running with all the dead depots from the old depots removed.
***They're moving ahead with advanced IBP clients (reader/writer) using Java.  They want a new client version ready for demo.
**LoDN_Brazil (http://dvnserver.pop-sp.rnp.br)
***The storage working group is up for review. They're going to show their version of LoDN.  It can use either the L-Bone or StoreCore for resource discovery. The integration is done in the WebStart client. There can be user defined volumes added to the store core. This allows people to share a common IBP infrastructure but can also contribute their own. The model they're presenting is a public resource that RNP controls, but which you can add to, but you can also add resources that only.
***Micah made a point about the problems that we need to watch for with regard to how the different versions of LoDN are evolving manage policy and  what that means when you give an exnode to a directory. Hunter's group is doing things like adding group access policy, etc. Need to choose a simple permission structure that people can standardize on.


=== Organization and Funding Opportunities ===
=== Organization and Funding Opportunities ===
*Status of NSF Physics at the Information Frontier(PIF)
**Probably not going forward on the PIF.
**Maybe we could submit it in the spring. 
*Status of NSF PIRE  
*Status of NSF PIRE  
**Vandy has given approval to go ahead on the NSF PIRE
**Vandy has given approval to go ahead on the NSF PIRE
**6 page preprop due in Oct.  
**6 page preprop due in Oct. 30.
*What's happening with the SBIR?
*What's happening with the SBIR?
**EoN systems is working on back-up capabilities under L-Store IBP
**Envelock systems is working on back-up capabilities under L-Store IBP
**Due Date:
**Due Date: December 4


=== Events, Education, Outreach ===
=== Events, Education, Outreach ===
*Update from the OSG meeting (Could be brief)(Paul, Surya)
* Conversation with Miron Livny (Terry Micah)
*SC06?
*SC06?
**Plans for hardware and demonstrations
**An SC06 page has been added to the Wiki (linked from "REDDnet at work")
**Working with Ultralight
**Plans for hardware and demonstrations. Need a good description of what will be demonstrated as the Vanderbilt booth so that we can distribute it to people we want to come see what we can do.
**Working with OSG/Fermi?
**Description of Jian's Demo:
''Creating a multiuser visualization facility based on distributed and heterogeneous resources has proved to be an elusive challenge for the high performance computing and visualization community.  We have developed a highly deployable solution to this problem. Our solution uses a collection of freely available, unscheduled and unreserved storage and computing resources, distributed across the network, to provide the essential infrastructure that such a visualization facility needs.  Our demonstration will show that large scale visualization of cutting edge simulation datasets can be shared among multiple distributed users from the same pool of distributed resources, requiring only a standard Internet connection for each user.''
**Working with Ultralight?  We don't know what's being planned here.
**Working with OSG/Fermi? We don't know what they're planning.
** Martin is doing a bandwidth challenge with Phoebus. It's not all-TCP-Phoebus. This demo is with Internet2.
**Engaging with ORNL about standing up an L-Store/SRM at their site.
**Status of Ultralight plans (Alan)
**Status of Ultralight plans (Alan)
*Plans for Internet2 Side meeting (Terry, Micah)
*Plans for Internet2 Side meeting (Terry, Micah)
** Hunter has talked to the RNP people and they're interested in attending, but details aren't clear at this point.


== Action Items ==
== Action Items ==

Latest revision as of 09:15, 29 September 2006

Probable Attendees

  • Blackwell (SFA)
  • Hagewood, Assad (Nevoa)
  • Beck, Moore(UTK)
  • Sheldon, Tackett, Pathak, Brown (VU)
  • Swany (UDel)

Current Agenda (Start time this week, 10:30EDT/9:30CDT)

Application Communities

  • AmericaView (PR)

Had several conversations with the board and some of the members.

Deployment and Operations

  • Current status of deployment effort: Fermi, ORNL, etc. (Bobby)
  • Do we have a chance of getting a REDDnet node at CERN (Paul, Martin)
  • Status of AMPATH link(Surya)
    • Had a general discussion of the problem of long RTT and latency on this link.
    • We need to get better data. But the key point is that we don't seem to be making any progress in this area. We seem to be blocked by the "dirty little secret" of HP networking. The approach that depends on careful control, expert tuning of the backbone routers won't scale, and we may have encountered that here.
    • Current solutions seem to depend on artificial tricks that won't scale.
    • Plan: Set it up to run at whatever rate we can get (400 Mbps) and let it run. Utilization is what people are looking for, so let's do that.
  • After SC, all of the hardware is going to be shipped back to Vandy.

Technology: Hardware, Software

  • Current state of the components of the L-Store software Suite(Alan, et. al)
  • Availability of alternative versions of the IBP depot code. (Micah)
  • Current state of the Nevoa components and tools (Hunter)
  • Agreement to discuss the formulation of a standard directory protocol in at the Chicago meeting (i.e. on Dec. 3, the day before the large meeting).

Organization and Funding Opportunities

  • Status of NSF PIRE
    • Vandy has given approval to go ahead on the NSF PIRE
    • 6 page preprop due in Oct. 30.
  • What's happening with the SBIR?
    • Envelock systems is working on back-up capabilities under L-Store IBP
    • Due Date: December 4

Events, Education, Outreach

  • SC06?
    • An SC06 page has been added to the Wiki (linked from "REDDnet at work")
    • Plans for hardware and demonstrations. Need a good description of what will be demonstrated as the Vanderbilt booth so that we can distribute it to people we want to come see what we can do.
    • Description of Jian's Demo:

Creating a multiuser visualization facility based on distributed and heterogeneous resources has proved to be an elusive challenge for the high performance computing and visualization community. We have developed a highly deployable solution to this problem. Our solution uses a collection of freely available, unscheduled and unreserved storage and computing resources, distributed across the network, to provide the essential infrastructure that such a visualization facility needs. Our demonstration will show that large scale visualization of cutting edge simulation datasets can be shared among multiple distributed users from the same pool of distributed resources, requiring only a standard Internet connection for each user.

    • Working with Ultralight? We don't know what's being planned here.
    • Working with OSG/Fermi? We don't know what they're planning.
    • Martin is doing a bandwidth challenge with Phoebus. It's not all-TCP-Phoebus. This demo is with Internet2.
    • Engaging with ORNL about standing up an L-Store/SRM at their site.
    • Status of Ultralight plans (Alan)
  • Plans for Internet2 Side meeting (Terry, Micah)
    • Hunter has talked to the RNP people and they're interested in attending, but details aren't clear at this point.

Action Items

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