DRAFT

Present: Rob Cameron, Arno Candel, Ashley Deacon, Richard Dubois, Thomas Eriksson, Imre Kabai, Stuart Marshall, Randy Melen, Brian Moritz, Amedeo Perazzo, Vineet Rawal.

Meeting agenda page

Minutes:

• introductions of new members
• Rob Cameron (chair of IT Subcouncil) introduced the IT Subcouncil. Richard will attend the 12/8 ITSC meeting and introduce the SCSC. And be the SCSC observer in the ITSC meetings at least for a while. 
• Randy described the status of the Head of Scientific Computing search:
  • offer to an unnamed candidate is expected to be presented when she visits next week
  • expect an answer by the beginning of January
• Imre gave us a list of projects that CD is working on and described the process he wants to embark on for new projects
  • details from Imre here
  • he described the state of a forum tool search: FUDForum has won out so far over other candidates, notably Confluence Bubbles. An instance will be set up for XLDB (since they don't care about SLAC single signon or 2-way email gateway (a la hypernews). Now it remains for CD to figure out who will work on this, set up the servers etc. For SCSC, we wanted to see the single signon and gateway. Neither are mandatory, though sign-on would obviate the need for people to create accounts in the forum and then migrate them to being based on their unix/windows authentication.
• Recharge Model Update
  • an updated (but sadly not current) version of a simplified costing model was shown breaking out the services into 4 storage areas, compute nodes and databases. Imre will embellish the spreadsheet with explanatory verbiage by the end of the week. It is due in to the CFO's office very soon.
• SCSC plans and timeline
  • a strawman timeline was shown, having the workshop in March followed by reviews of CD methods and manpower and then M&S in following months. July was targeted as having a first roadmap based on all that input. Starting a scientific computing seminar series by February was proposed.
• Next meeting
  • options for the next meeting were Jan 3 or 10. RD is in Seattle at the AAS the week of the 10th. We were reminded that the Orange Bowl is on the 3rd. It was suggested we try for a special alternate time. Fri Jan 7 in the afternoon is most likely from the Doodle poll results that determined the standing meeting time.

Actions:

• Imre to provide a list of the projects he gave us verbally
• members to propose names for the local organising committee for the workshop by the end of this week
• members to propose names for the seminars working group by the end of this week