Sept. 29, 2006

Probable Attendees

• Blackwell (SFA)
• Hagewood, Assad (Nevoa)
• Beck, Moore(UTK)
• Sheldon, Tackett, Pathak, Brown (VU)
• Swany (UDel)
• Sean McKee (U. Mich)

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

Application Communities

• A note about communications: Use the list! (Terry)
• Fusion
• News from Electron Microscopy (Micah/Chris)
• AmericaView (PR)

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 testing (Surya)
  • Dedicated machines up and running?
  • Has Marting got his accounts?

Technology: Hardware, Software

• Current state of the components of the L-Store software Suite(Alan, et. al)
  • L-Store
  • Clyde
  • SRM interface
    • 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)
  • StoreCore
    • 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

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

Events, Education, Outreach

• Update from the OSG meeting (Could be brief)(Paul, Surya)
• Conversation with Miron Livny (Terry Micah)
• SC06?
  • Plans for hardware and demonstrations
  • Working with Ultralight
  • Working with OSG/Fermi?
  • Status of Ultralight plans (Alan)
• Plans for Internet2 Side meeting (Terry, Micah)