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This Confluence space is used to track the PPA Scientific Computing Applications division meetings.

Meetings

Are generally every 2nd Wednesday at 10:00 Pacific Time.

We are now using ReadyTalk instead of EVO
Meeting information
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Meeting Agenda Responsibility Table 2012

April 30, 2014 - 11:00-12:00 Cypress Room, BLD 40

current events- Amber
- Vacation usage FY14
- desktop support
- HEP Software collaboration/CERN
- HEP Forum on Computational Excellence
Any status/news from around the room

Oct 16, 2013 - 10:00-11:00 Mad River, RSB

current events - Amber
Any status/news from around the room

June 26, 2013 - 10:00-11:00 Ballam

PPA News - Richard
- Astronomy and Computing
- Farm monitoring
  - Main RTM page
GEANT4 multi-threading - Andrea Dotti 20' G4MT-For-SCA.pptx G4MT-For-SCA.pdf
Round the room status updates
- SCS status
AOB

May 22, 2013 - 10:00-12:00 Kavli 3rd floor

PPA News - Amber
PPA Cluster update - Yemi (ppaCluster.pdf)
LSF9 Presentation from IBM/Platform (pptx, bad pdf made by anders)- John Laroco

Apr 23, 2013 - 10:30 am Madrone

Pause for Excellence (slides)
Commonalities:
- Group 2
- Born in mid-to-late '60s
- Like hiking and camping
- Lived in multiple countries
- Speak at least one other language and like languages
- Take photographs
- Have less than 5 lifetime traffic tickets

Apr 17, 2013 - 10:00 am Kavli 3rd floor

PPA News - Amber
- PPA Department Heads meeting
The Snowmass Process for Computing (pdf) - Lothar Bauerdick
HPC/Theory for Snowmass (pdf) - Stefan

Mar 20, 2013 - 10:00 am Kavli 3rd floor

PPA News - Amber
- Lali Chatterjee visit
LTDA status (pdf) - Marcus
Recap of ROOT Users meeting (pdf) - Heather

Feb 20, 2013 - 10:00 am Panofsky

PPA News - Amber
Recap of NERSC Users Group Meeting - Warren

Feb 6, 2013 - 10:30 am Madrone/ROB

PPA News - Amber
- CD/SCS announcement- Shirley Gruber is SCS Manager
- Hardware update
- PPA advisory committee charter
Update on SCA manpower planning - Amber
Intro to NERSC (at 11am) - NERSC

Jan 23, 2013 - 10:00 am Bldg 50 A/B

PPA News - Amber
News updates from Experiments and Projects (5 mins each)
- Anders (SuperCDMS)
- Tina (BABAR)
- Stuart (KIPAC, PPA Cluster)
- Richard (Fermi, LSST camera test data, DESC)
- Tony (LSST CCS, EXO)
- Norman (SiD)
- Stefan (Theory)
- Makoto (G4)
- AndyH (xrootd)
- Igor/Andrei (LCLS)
- anyone I missed

Nov 7, 2012 - 10:00 am Bldg 50 A/B & evo

Vagrant Demonstration - Booker Bense
News:
- TBD

Oct 24, 2012 - 10:00 am Bldg 50 A/B & evo

WNoDeS demo - CNAF/INFN - (Slides)
News:
- PPA Dept Heads meeting - Anders
- PPA hardware purchase update - Yemi
- Bonus points: why does the campus proxy server for journals not work on the visitor net??

Sept 26, 2012 - 10:00 am Bldg 50 A/B & ReadyTalk (866-740-1260)

News:
- Org changes - Richard
- PPA hardware purchase update - Yemi
XLDB 2012 recap - Collective oral summary
SUNCAT Computing (pdf, ppt)- Jens Hummelshøj

Aug 29, 2012 - 10:00 am Bldg 50 A/B & ReadyTalk (866-740-1260)

News:
- New look SCA Confluence space
- LCLS is looking for a software developerto work with Igor and Andrei:
  - Let me know if you know of any good candidates!
Meeting with Thomas Ndousse (DOE ASCR)
Google visit - Jacek Becla (slides)
Batch system evaluation - Steffen Luitz
Critical Materials Hub - Anders W. Borgland

Aug 15, 2012 - 10:00 am Bldg 50 A/B & ReadyTalk (866-740-1260)

News
- Computing Division Reorganization - Amber Boehnlein
DEVOPS and SLAC - Booker Bense

Aug 1, 2012 - 10:00 am Bldg 50 A/B & ReadyTalk (866-740-1260)

News
- PPA Dept Heads July 19 meeting recap
HelpDesk impressions - Tom Glanzman (PPA rep on committee)
Work on VMs - Joanne Bogart

July 18, 2012 - 10:00 am Bldg 50 A/B & ReadyTalk (866-740-1260)

News
- PPA ergonomics safety/evaluation
- Summertime! Record your vacation/travel times!
  - New: How to export your calendar from Google calendar
Brief report from Google IO 2012 - Tony

(Note meeting will finish by 10:55 to allow people to get to the 11:00am IT all hands meeting in Kavli)

June 20, 2012 - 10:00 am Bldg 50 A/B & ReadyTalk (866-740-1260)

News
- summertime! Record your vacation/travel times!
- News from LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration formation meeting
- OHEP Science & Technology review of SLAC, June 18-20
Xrootd update - Andy
Meeting Minutes

May 30, 2012 - 10:00 am Bldg 50 A/B & ReadyTalk (866-740-1260)

News
- PPA S&T review - 18-19 June
Meet and Greet New CD Director/CIO - James Williams
- Quick recap of PPA Science - Richard
Impressions from CHEP - CHEP attendees (RichardsD & M, Anders, TonyJ, Heather, Douglas, AndyH, Jacek, Makoto, Homer, Tina, Wei)
- RichardD
- Heather
AOB
Meeting Minutes

May 18, 2012 - 10:00 am Bldg 50 A/B & ReadyTalk (866-740-1260)

News
SCA Technical Coordinator (pdf , ppt) - Tony
G4 Workshop Summary - Richard Mount (https://www.orau.gov/transformwkshop2012/default.htm)
- Also Transforming Geant4 Workshop
Meeting Minutes

May 4, 2012 - 10:00 am Bldg 50 A/B & ReadyTalk (866-740-1260)

News
Status of PPA Hardware Proposal Survey - Stuart, Steffen
Age Profile of Batch machines - Richard
Recap of Stanford Algorithms Class (pdf) - Tracy
AOB
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Apr 20, 2012 - 11:00 am Bldg 50 A/B & ReadyTalk

News
SCS Status/Activities (pptx, pdf) - Shirley
GlusterFS - Igor
AOB
Minutes

Apr 6, 2012 - 10:00 am ROB A/B & EVO

News
- New CD Director
Welcome to the new SCA - Amber
Report on PPA support and LSST opportunities - RichardD
Funding opportunities currently in play - RichardM
AOB

Feb 10, 2012 - 09:30 am Ballam & EVO

News
Announcement - David MacFarlane
Discussion of Black Box End of Life options - Amber - Amber
PPA computing hardware proposal - Steffen PPA-Cluster-SCA-020912.pdf
AOB

Jan 27, 2012 - 10:00 am Ballam & EVO

News
- PPA Dept Heads meeting
- CIO search update
- reclass/salary adjustment deadline in mid Feb
Informal updates from everyone

Nov 18, 2011 - 10:00 am Ballam & EVO

News
- PPA Dept Heads meeting recap - Richard
ADASS impressions - Tony, Richard

Oct 28, 2011 - 10:00 am Ballam & EVO

News
- PPA Dept Heads meeting recap - Richard
- offsite SCA emergency info and mailing list - Karen, Charlotte
5-yr Lab scientific computing plan - Amber Talk
XLDB impressions - Tony, Brian, Joanne, Amber...

Oct 14, 2011 - 10:00 am Ballam & EVO

News
- PPA Retreat Part Deux recap - Richard
- offsite SCA emergency info and mailing list - Charlotte
All about fisheye- Brian

Sept 30, 2011 - 10:00 am Ballam & EVO

News
- PPA Retreat recap

Sept 16, 2011 - 10:00 am Ballam & EVO

News
- PPA Dept Heads meeting recap
round robin of project stati:
- KIPAC - Stuart
- BABAR - Homer/Tina
- EXO - Tony
- Fermi - Richard
- GEANT4 - Makoto
- xrootd - Andy
- ATLAS - Richard Mount in absentia?
- CDMS - Anders
- LSST - Max/Tony
- HPS - Homer

Aug 5, 2011 - 10:00 am Ballam & EVO

News
- Aug 2 DoE reverse site visit recap
Porting Fermi Science Tools to GPUs - Denis Bastieri (Padova)

July 22, 2011 - 10:00 am Ballam & EVO

News
- prep for Aug 2 DoE reverse site visit
- report from Feb OHEP Scientific Computing review
- News from the July 21 PPA Department Heads meeting
- purchasing deadlines before FY12 (laptops before 8/18)
- update from Tony on EXO MC run
SciDAC meeting recap - Amber

June 24, 2011 - 10:00 am Ballam & EVO

News
- Slides from the June 16 PPA Department Heads meeting including the electronic timesheets presentation.
Safety stand down (pdf)- All

June 10, 2011 - 10:00 am Ballam & EVO

News
Computing Cosmology Initiative - Stuart

May 27, 2011 - 10:00 am Ballam & EVO

News
- News from the May 19 PPA Department Heads meeting
- PPA vacation policy
- Still a few missing biographies
- ADASS 2011
LSST cluster tests (pdf) (ppt)- Jacek Becla

April 29, 2011 - 10:00 am Ballam & EVO

News
- introduce Amber Boehnlein
- SLAC Scientific Computing Jamboree - June 20-21
- promotions
- performance review news
WIRED - Dima

April 1, 2011 - 10:00 am Ballam & EVO

News:
- Mandatory vacation FAQ
- SLAC Scientific Computing Workshop: June 20-21, 2011
- PPA Advisory Committee meeting with emphasis on Non-Accelerator Physics: June 1-2. 2011
Nagios - Charlotte and Yemi

March 18, 2011 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News
- Dept Heads meeting
- Budget situation
BaBaR LTDA System Design - Steffen (BaBar-LTDA-SCA.pptx, BaBar-LTDA-SCA.pdf)

February 18, 2011 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News
- OHEP Scientific Computing review - preliminary feedback
- Budget situation
Extra Dimensions: 3D space and time in PDF - Norman

February 4, 2011 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News:
- PPA Dept Heads meeting
- OHEP Sci Comp review status
- SCSC meeting
- RD away for the rest of Feb
Show and Tell topics
- DropBox - Tony
- EverNote - Richard
- Synergy - Richard
- sshfs - Anders
- Google sketchup - Chee
- Mup - Joanne
- GraphViz (Web site )- Igor
- Another neat Graphviz application (Matthias) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graphvis
- Meld - Matthias
- "Universal" Makefiles - Kelsey
- Ethernet over Power - Max

January 21, 2011 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News:
- OHEP Sci Comp review planning
- feedback needed on IT SubCouncil issues - Stuart
- SCSC meeting next Friday - Richard
- SuperB update - Steffen
Advanced Web tools (ppt, pdf) - Tony

January 7, 2011 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News:
- position description deadline Jan 15
- OHEP Sci Comp review planning
Advanced Web Tools (pdf) - Igor
GWT (if time available) - Tony

December 3, 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO & phone

News:
- PPA Dept Heads meeting recap
- next SCSC meeting agenda
- test forum site
SuperB EDT/DAQ - Steffen (pdf, pptx)

November 19, 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News:
- HR
ADASS recap
- Richard
- Tom Stephens
- Jacek Becla
- Heather Kelly
- Joanne Bogart
News summary

November 5, 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News
- PPA Dept Heads meeting recap
- call for talk suggestions
- offices update
- SC10 update
- people activity changes
CHEP recap
- Tony (pdf )
- Andy (155 MB!), (pdf)
- Norman (in absentia)

October 22, 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News
All about GIT - Wilko

October 8, 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News
Impressions from XLDB4 - Anders
All about the IT SubCouncil- Stuart Marshall and Rob Cameron

September 10, 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News
Biographies: Please provide us with a short biography and picture.
Introduction to GEANT4 - Makoto

Aug 9, 2010 - 10:00 am - ISOC Control Room & EVO

PAUSE meeting - talking points
Any other news

July 23, 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News
- Bldg 84 office shuffles
- performance review stuff
- report from PPA Dept Heads meeting
GEANT4 applied to medicine - Joe
Biographies: Please provide us with a short biography and picture.

July 1, 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News
SPIRES/INSPIRE - Travis Brooks

June 3, 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News
- Bldg 84 office shuffling
- new hires approved
Fermi meets SCons - Joanne

May 21, 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News
Performance Review & Taleo - Anders
Surfing the Wave at Google I/O- Tony
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBQFXRW5ZiE
KIPAC Computing - Stuart

6 May 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News:
- Meet Helen
- Scientific Computing Task Force update
Web Applications for Data Monitoring etc - Max

22 April 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

News:
- From the Dept Heads meeting
Gaudi in Fermi - Heather

8 April 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

news
What's New in xroot (pdf, pptx) - Andy

25 March 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

news
- LDRD proposals
- from Dept Heads meeting
- status of prep for dept launch
PPA:Intro to LCLS - Igor/Andrei

11 March 2010 - 10:00 am - Ballam & EVO

Meet and greet
Catch up on news
Intro to (Super)CDMS - Anders
Minutes