July 16, 2008

REDDnet Collaboration Meeting

• July 16, 2008 -- 11:00ET/10:00CT/8:00PT
• Call 510-665-5437
• Meeting ID is 7333

Attending???

• Santi, Alan, Matt (Vanderbilt ACCRE)
• Dan (from CERN, Vanderbilt Physics)
• Diana and PR (SFASU)
• Micah, Terry, Harrold and Chris (UTK)
• John (ORNL)
• Paul (from Fermilab, Vanderbilt Physics)

Agenda

Heavy on Library of Congress Issues today, preparing or phone call with them tomorrow.

• Status of FACIT-Globetrotter work (Santi, Chris)
  • Description of whats to be done - Globtrotter/REDDnet integration
  • where are we on getting this done?
  • Phone call tomorrow with LoC, others

• Status of TVNA work
  • "l-sync" tool status (Matt)
  • What would LoC have to do to get this going?

• Status of FACIT transfers
  • "VM Depot" status - for LoC Depot (Bobby, Matt)
  • have we found out about their depot requirements? (Bobby, Mat)
  • Can they use "l-sync"?
  • what do we want to ask tomorrow about these? (compile list of questions)

• Status of work at SFASU (PR, Diane)

• Status of CERN depots
  • Hardware procurement status
  • best guess on when it will be ready to ship
  • hosting, power, etc., arrangements with CERN
  • installation plans
  • shipping plans

• Status of CMS work
  • Crab/REDDnet integration
  • setting up REDDnet as a Storage Element (SE) for CMS - whats required, what we plan to do
  • Once integration complete, plans for "unintentional" use by CMS
    • they routinely submit jobs
    • jobs will run and use REDDnet without user even knowing or requesting
    • once this happens we can tout to CMS software gurus
  • Plans for intentional use at Caltech, other places?
  • root plugin plans (get it distributed with standard root distribution)

• Terascale Super Nova Status

• Status of ORNL depots (Bobby, John)

• PerfSONAR integration status (Bobby, Martin)

• Evaluation of Jian's visualization stuff (Micah)

• What does Dan need to test NFU version of CMS software?