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 #

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 for account deletion (Andrea Chan)
- Following up on DOE inspection of SLAC IT
- a number of issues: from management, remote access, ... and with very little exists about 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: \[[pdf|https://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=4&resId=1&materialId=slides&confId=248701]\]

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