Aug 23, 2007

Agenda for today's call

Infrastructure deployment Deployment (Bobby, Micah)

1. TeraGrid -
2. SFASU - Bobby has not received the hardware for this yet. There will be a 2-3 day turnaround. Bobby is going to try to speed up Capricorn. SFASU is next in line.
3. Caltech/Florida/Mich -

1. Vandy campus- There still working on getting imaging working on these nodes. Cluster imaging is working, it just needs to be applied to the depots in question. There are 14 depots available.

What there doing is making an L-Store appliance. One of the 4 drives is going to be used for the OS. They have a 4GB flash drive that attaches via USB that they're using to install the OS. Once the flash drive a approach is in place the 4 main drives are just they're for storage/metadata.

Bobby doesn't think we need to travel to get the remote depots up. If local people will do the minimal work - configure the KVM switch and the power strip - then we can do the rest remotely.

L-Store/Nevoa Software Development (Larry/Hunter)

1. Viewing Software
2. resource 0 problem progress?
3. asynch reads, iolib for CMS?
4. SFASU experience
5. FACIT experience

User Reports

1. AmericaView (PR)
   • any progress using VU depots?
2. FACIT (Terry/others)
3. CMS/RHIC (Dan)
   • gridftp, root, integration with L-Store?
4. Vanderbilt TV News Archive (Bobby)

Upcoming Events

1. Library of Congress Storage Meeting (DC???, Sept. 17)
2. I2 Meeting (San Diego, Oct. 8)
3. Supercomputing 07 (Reno, Nov. 11-15)
   • Demo! (CMS, FACIT, AmericaView?)