Meeting Coordinates
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Room at SLAC TBA
Next Meeting: May 10th, 2013
March 28th, 2013
- New version of the charge for PPA Scientific Computing Coordination (pdf) -- Tina
- 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
- 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
- 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