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- Developing criteria/metrics for project support levels within SCA**
- Take into account need to support existing experiments/projects vs need to develop new initiatives
- Support single experiment/projects vs set of SLAC based projects vs extended community
- Internal funding vs external funding
- Understanding existing and planned projects within SCA**
- Including projects which SCA could/should be involved in
- Try to identify common requirements which can be "factored out"
- Maximize reuse, eliminate unnecessary/unintentional duplication
- Defining technical direction for new projects**
- Attempt to balance leveraging of existing skill-sets vs understanding and exploiting new industry trends
- Need people's input on what we should be doing
- Form "task-force" to evaluate some new technologies
- Create SLAC wide developers "journal-club"
- Developing targets of opportunity for new projects and collaborations**
- Set of projects ready when new funding opportunities present themselves
- Developing priority list for existing/new projects
- Creation of (new) project teams**
- Possibly bring people together from different parts of SCA, and people from outside of SCA
- E.g. LSST Camera Control System
- SLAC Max, Tofigh, Owen Saxton, Stuart Marshall
- Paris, Indiana, Arizona, Brookhaven, ...
Possible Projects (very early ideas -- not meant to all be good ideas)
- New Projects**
- Projects with Computing Division
- Support for GIT, Fisheye, ...
- Interactive web based scientific computing status page
- Better integration between Crowd, Group Manager, Single sign-on
- Account management
- mathjax for confluence
- LSF with virtualization
- Data Management
- ** Data Portal for Photon Science (and Astro physics)
- ** Best features from Fermi data catalog, JCSG, CXIDB, ICAT, Dirac, ...**
- Why stop at presenting data location via the web?***
- Should be able to drill into and operate on data
- In a collaborative way
- Web based scientific data visualization tools***
- Extension/compatible with Google Visualization API
- Virtual Observatory integration
- LCLS real-time image displays
- Existing Projects
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- Technology selection criteria** Lifespan/stability** Adoption/Support** Popularity/Mindset** Language neutrality/Interoperability
- Google visualization API
- Web/HTML5/GWT/Dart/Json
- HDF5
- IPython/IPython Notebook
- Virtual Observatory
- MatLab
- DGAS (http://www.to.infn.it/dgas/)
- LSF virtualized cluster support
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