Present: Jacek Becla, Rob Cameron, Richard Dubois, Tony Johnson, Imre Kabai, David MacFarlane, Stuart Marshall, Brian Moritz, Vineet Rawat, Henry van den Bedem.
Minutes:
- Richard and David briefly discussed the ALD retreat
- presented plan and timeline for developing sci. comp. goals
- Amber discussed funding opportunities
- Rob provided update on ITSC
- No meeting since since last SCSC meeting
- Imre provided update on FudForum
- Production version is up
- Many issues with governance remain and are under discussion
- Working with Richard, Rob, Tony, Theresa, Stuart, ...
- Forum on governance to discuss issues
- Vineet provided update on seminar series
- Discussed information provided by Arno here
- Kavli auditorium is booked for the first three talks:
- Tue April 26 4PM: Garth Williams (LCLS Coherent X-ray Imaging)
- Tue May 17 4PM: TBD, possibly Bill Dally
- Suggestion of Susan Holmes (Statistics and Bio-X at Stanford)
- Tue June 6 4PM: Ralf Kaehler (Cosmology visualization)
- In need of publicity in the very near future
- SLAC Today article to announce series
- kept separate from workshop anouncement
- Posters to announce the first talk
- Any campus mailing lists that might be useful (and willing)
- External lists?
- SLAC Today article to announce series
- Scientific Computing Seminar Series is the agreed upon name
- David asked about funding
- None for refreshments, perhaps we can ask ALDs?
- We may be able to get travel money for external speakers
- Suggestion of Salman Habib of Argonne
- Richard led discussion on workshop
- Set for June 20-21 in ROB
- Organization
- Split up as directorates?
- Organized around common themes? Preferred.
- Format
- Jacek proposed very little presentation, more panel-led discussion
- Panel needs to be carefully chosen and givewn specific instructions
- Need topics, moderators, panels
- Jacek proposed very little presentation, more panel-led discussion
- People
- From outside? Probably not.
- Maybe from campus? Maybe.
- List of topics:
- GPU/hybrid/manycore computing
- Cloud computing
- Visualization
- DAQ & controls
- Storage/IO/networking
- SSD, xrootd
- Experimental simulation
- Data mioning
- Scientific databases
- Collaborative tools
- Workshop talks can lead to useful seminar series topics
- Only ~2 months left
- People are planning vacation
- Need to get the word out ASAP
- SLAC Today article
- Noted as an event in the SLAC Today event archive
- Need to consolidate speaker list (timeframe of 2-3 weeks)
- Needs website soon (is the Confluence page sufficient?)
- Clarify purpose and goals
- What will attendees learn?
- Should there be external reviewers?
- Steering committee?
- SCSC + other interested parties (Jacek, Rob, Tony, Henry, Norman and Travis?)
- Imre, Rob brought Google's exacycle program to everyone's attention
Actions:
- Arno on seminar series
- SLAC Today article (this week, April 11, preferably)
- Add to SLAC Today event archive
- Start poster process (at Terry's earliest convenience)
- Confirm second speaker
- Richard on workshop
- Digest and organize suggested topics, seek input via Confluence page
- Advertise
- Assemble speaker list with help from SCSC members
- Create web (Confulence?) page for publicity