Present: Amber Boehnlein, Rob Cameron, Arno Candel, Ashley Deacon, Richard Dubois, Thomas Eriksson, Imre Kabai, Stuart Marshall, Randy Melen, Amedeo Perazzo, Jennifer Russell, Arno Candel
News:
- Amber will coordinate a telecon with Globus Online folks to investigate possible use at SLAC. She is looking for interested parties to participate.
- the Dan Hitchcock (ASCR) visit fell through
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- at current fill rates, the silos would be full in ~6 months
- options are to add a silo or go to higher density drives. The latter seems most sensible to start. 5 TB drives (T10000-C) exist for 1/2 the price per TB as the 1 TB ones. A drive runs $22k. Lance guesses we would need 8 drives to be worthwhile. We currently have 47 drives; capacity in the existing 2 silos is 128.
- he will be talking to folks at other labs (notably LLNL) who have experience with them. We will also need to do a few upgrades (ACLS, firware and HPSS) before the new drives can be used. It was stated that the new drives are not likely to be available before 6 months.
- in about 3 years, 10 TB drives should be available. Apparently they will be able to read and write the 5 TB tapes (and write at 10 TB density, I believe)
- For the SCSC:
- when does the decision to go with 5 TB drives happen
- how will we pay for them
- in the meantime, groups needing tapes on shorter than a 6 month leash should go 1 Tb (PPA is ordering 1800 of them now).
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- For Fall, we have the preliminary schedule:
- Oct 3 ICME tbd
- Tue Oct 11 SLAC tbd
- Oct 17 ICME Fumiko Hoeft about analysis of brain functions and diseases (ADD, Alzheimers)
- Oct 24 ICME, Charlie Taylor on flow through arteries and the heart
- Oct 31 ICME tbd
- Nov 7 ICME, Dan Niles, financial modeling and stock markets (sorry, bit out of whack, but need to accommodate him for other reasons)
- Tue Nov 15 SLAC tbd
- Nov 21 No seminar (Thanksgiving break)
- Nov 28 ICME tbd
- Tue Dec 6 SLAC tbd (last seminar of quarter)
- Action items:
- Arno needs to find out if we can have a room at SLAC for the monthly seminar on those three Tuesdays. DONE. Kavli auditorium is reserved