Meeting Coordinates

1. Dial Toll-Free Number: 866-740-1260 (U.S. & Canada)
2. International participants dial: Toll Number: +1 303-248-0285
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June 24th, 3:00 pm - Madrone Conf 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
  • Black Boxes
  • Migration to RHEL 6 of all batch nodes
• AOB

May 10th, 2013, 3:30pm - Madrone conf 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