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Phone Coordinates

1. Dial Toll-Free Number: 866-740-1260 (U.S. & Canada)
2. International participants dial: Toll Number: +1 303-248-0285
       Or International Toll-Free Number: http://www.readytalk.com/intl
3. Enter 7-digit access code, 3073828 followed by #

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)
  • 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
  • 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)

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

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