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October 31st, 2013 - 2:00-4:00pm - Madrone conference room B48 (a.k.a. ROB)

• Budget and PPA status
  • there is an ongoing review of the computing in HEP. Timeline: a report should be ready in December.
    The charge is to assess what is going on in the field and where the money is going.
    The 10% (people+hardware: 75M$) of HEP budget goes into computing resources.
    Solutions need to be found in order reduce the amount of funds that go into HEP computing.
    • Are common projects an option in our Collaborations based world? 
• SLAC networking to NERSC (Tony)
  • Very close to hit the ceiling in the 100GBit between SLAC and NERSC.
    A dedicated NERSC network connection from SLAC?
• LSF and MPI.
• Conferences
  
  • SuperComputing2013
  • CHEP 2013 + DPHEP
• From previous meeting
  
  • Status of hardware purchases (PPA-ATLAS-Theory , Fermi)
  • Policy Task Force
  • SRCF update
  • Migration from RHEL5 to RHEL6

September 18th, 2013, 10:00am - Cedar conference room B48 (a.k.a. ROB)

• Hardware purchases
  • PPA+ATLAS+Theory
    • cores will go up to 46k, PPA subsidizes infrastructure and storage
    • see details: https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/SCA/Modeling+PPA+Cluster+Needs
    • accounting problems sorted out, order ready to go out anytime
    • hardware expected up & running by end of calendar year
    • New features with LSF: dynamic cluster and multi cluster management (with licenses) together with fairshare accounting
  • Fermi storage acquisition (disk + tapes)
    • what happened to the centralized storage planning ?
• Policy task force meeting for account deletion procedures later today (Andrea Chan).
  • Policy task force charge: develop cyber policies for the lab to address the lack of policies for IT
  • Following up on DOE inspection of SLAC IT
  • A number of issues: from management, remote access, ... and very little exists about procedures.  Main focus is on windows accounts.
  • Other points to review: security, network, documentation and procedures, ...
• SRCF status update
• Migration to RHEL6 and end of support for RHEL5
• ...
• AOB

June 24th, 3:00 pm - Madrone conference room (ROB)

• DPHEP Collaboration Agreement
  • DPHEP website: http://www.dphep.org/
  • Collaboration Agreement and other documents:
    • DPHEP 7 Workshop Timetable
    • DPHEP Collaboration Agreement: [pdf]
• Resources and changes
  • LSF 9: mid August if no problems.
  • Black Boxes: turn off by end of CY ?
  • Migration to RHEL 6 of all batch nodes: not all groups ready, so it is a "not for now".
  • 30k shares temporarily allocated to Theory (10k each from Atlas, BaBar, Fermi).
• SRCF status update.
• Invest in institutional computing?
• AOB

May 10th, 2013, 3:30pm - Madrone conference room (ROB)

• LSF9.1 presentation : May 22 at 10am in 3rd floor Kavli conference room.
• Amber: SRCF status (pptx)
• RichardD: Resource planning
  • https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/SCA/Hardware+Acquisition+Projections
• Round the table news and comments
• AOB

March 28th, 2013, 4pm - Redwood conf room (ROB)

• Tina: New version of the charge for PPA Scientific Computing Coordination (pdf)
• Random notes from the meeting (PLEASE: FEEL FREE TO CORRECT)
  • PPA planning for CPU/disk/tape acquisitions (spending: 300k$ for FY2013)
  • LSF 9.1 in testing, mpi not working yet
  • Computing needs and Tools
    • large overlap between CDMS, DarkSide, LZ, etc...
      • propose/develop common tools and platforms
      • High cost of next generation pushes toward cooperation
      • Apply for grants ? Should this matter be advertised within PPA ?
    • Some groups have none or little money for computing but they need support (LSST, EXO, LBNE,...)
      • EXO needs better support for ROOT, Python, TWA, ... that right now happens through BaBar
        • centralized ?
  • Loss of institutional knowledge
    • waste of time reinventing the wheel after making the same mistakes over and over ...
    • How do we protect such knowledge?

February 5th, 2013

• Kick off meeting
• Proposal for this meeting series -- Tina
• PPA/SCA Planning -- Amber