August 15, 2008

REDDnet Collaboration Meeting

• August 15, 2008 -- 11:00ET/10:00CT/8:00PT
• Call 510-665-5437
• Meeting ID is 7333

Attending

• Bobby, Matt, Paul and Santi (Vanderbilt ACCRE)
• Diana and PR (SFASU)
• Chris, Gerrald, Micah and Terry (UTK)
• Dan (Vanderbilt Physics)

Agenda

• Status reports
  • UTK depots (Gerrald)
    • short term interest in deploying IBP based SEs for OSG...
    • high capacity link to Fermilab will unfortunately not be useful for REDDnet because its a point-to-point
    • would like to deploy a REDDnet based SE, but right now they are deploying a dcache based SE (physics cluster)
    • have a campus cluster as well, freeing up some space there, they will be a part of UT network.
    • Micah has funding for standard REDDnet depots.
    • same amount at NCState
  • CMS and REDDnet (Dan, Chris)
    • Next week at CERN, Dan will work with Lassi Turi on fixing the CMSSW interface that has been broken in the most recent release of CMSSW.
    • hope very soon to get started with an initial test group of three CMS users to try out using REDDnet as a SE for their work.
  • Status of FACIT-Globetrotter work (Santi, Chris)
    • hidden file was cause of compile problem UCSB was having (we believe)
    • corrupted argument problem in Javaws can be fixed and Santi will do that
    • Chris will repackage all of this and make sure it will work when UCSB goes to install it.
  • Status of depots (Bobby)
    • Fixing the bad SDSC depot
    • Any fall-out from the depot upgrade? (and simultaneous l-server upgrade)?

• Brief Status reports
  • Status of TVNA work
  • VM Depot Status (Bobby)
    • Are we still on target for Monday?
  • Status of work at SFASU (Diane)
  • Status of ORNL depots (Bobby, Jim)
    • did Lun for Jim get created?
  • PerfSONAR integration status (Bobby, Martin)
  • UTK tests
  • Terscale Supernova Project (Terry)
  • Status of CERN depots
    • nothing to say here, Dan and Paul will know more when they get there next week.