Present: Jacek Becla, Rob Cameron, Richard Dubois, Tony Johnson, Imre Kabai, David MacFarlane, Stuart Marshall, Brian Moritz, Vineet Rawat, Henry van den Bedem.

Meeting agenda page

Minutes:

• Richard and David briefly discussed the ALD retreat
  • presented plan and timeline for developing sci. comp. goals
  • Amber discussed funding opportunities

• Rob provided update on ITSC
  • No meeting since since last SCSC meeting

• Imre provided update on FudForum
  • Production version is up
  • Many issues with governance remain and are under discussion
    • Working with Richard, Rob, Tony, Theresa, Stuart, ...
    • Forum on governance to discuss issues

• Vineet provided update on seminar series
  • Discussed information provided by Arno here
  • Kavli auditorium is booked for the first three talks:
    • Tue April 26 4PM: Garth Williams (LCLS Coherent X-ray Imaging)
    • Tue May 17 4PM: TBD, possibly Bill Dally
      • Suggestion of Susan Holmes (Statistics and Bio-X at Stanford)
    • Tue June 6 4PM: Ralf Kaehler (Cosmology visualization)
  • In need of publicity in the very near future
    • SLAC Today article to announce series
      • kept separate from workshop anouncement
    • Posters to announce the first talk
    • Any campus mailing lists that might be useful (and willing)
    • External lists?
      • PARC Forum
      • Bay Area ACM
      • Bay Area IEEE
  • Scientific Computing Seminar Series is the agreed upon name
  • David asked about funding
    • None for refreshments, perhaps we can ask ALDs?
    • We may be able to get travel money for external speakers
      • Suggestion of Salman Habib of Argonne

• Richard led discussion on workshop
  • Set for June 20-21 in ROB
  • Organization
    • Split up as directorates?
    • Organized around common themes? Preferred.
  • Format
    • Jacek proposed very little presentation, more panel-led discussion
      • Panel needs to be carefully chosen and givewn specific instructions
      • Need topics, moderators, panels
  • People
    • From outside? Probably not.
    • Maybe from campus? Maybe.
  • List of topics:
    • GPU/hybrid/manycore computing
    • Cloud computing
    • Visualization
    • DAQ & controls
    • Storage/IO/networking
      • SSD, xrootd
    • Experimental simulation
    • Data mioning
    • Scientific databases
    • Collaborative tools
  • Workshop talks can lead to useful seminar series topics
  • Only ~2 months left
    • People are planning vacation
    • Need to get the word out ASAP
      • SLAC Today article
      • Noted as an event in the SLAC Today event archive
    • Need to consolidate speaker list (timeframe of 2-3 weeks)
    • Needs website soon (is the Confluence page sufficient?)
  • Clarify purpose and goals
    • What will attendees learn?
  • Should there be external reviewers?
  • Steering committee?
    • SCSC + other interested parties (Jacek, Rob, Tony, Henry, Norman and Travis?)

• Imre, Rob brought Google's exacycle program to everyone's attention

Actions:

• Arno on seminar series
  • SLAC Today article (this week, April 11, preferably)
  • Add to SLAC Today event archive
  • Start poster process (at Terry's earliest convenience)
  • Confirm second speaker

• Richard on workshop
  • Digest and organize suggested topics, seek input via Confluence page
  • Advertise
  • Assemble speaker list with help from SCSC members
  • Create web (Confulence?) page for publicity