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 - Larry sent some details about this to PR but we haven't done much to work it out yet. They're creating a nine panel model for SC that Vandy wants to use with this software. The Vandy guys have examined the Google Map API and think it looks good.

The SFA folks think they can contribute on this, but they aren't sure whether they can get done in time for the America View Fall meeting

1. resource 0 problem progress? They can't reproduce the problem. This is a concern since it's did seem to be a real problem.
2. Where do things stand with StoreCore? The version we're working with now has fixed a couple of issues. Hunter noted two changes to the SC: it now has a database back end and they've added support for dynamic LUNs, which are criteria based. Dynamic LUNs are based on criteria (a stored query) that the administrator has supplied.

Diana hasn't done anything with SC yet; she's working with L-Store at the moment.

1. asynch reads, iolib for CMS?
2. SFASU experience
3. FACIT experience - Scott Smith has L-Store/Nevoa working after working with Larry. There was a question of whether StoreCore is able to synchronize multiple SC servers. People can deploy local SC servers to manage private resources and import all the public information.

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?)

All other business

Meetings for this semester: Friday's 9CDT/10EDT.