DRAFT
Present: Amber Boehnlein, Arno Candel, Ashley Deacon, Richard Dubois, Thomas Eriksson, Imre Kabai, Stuart Marshall, Randy Melen, Brian Moritz, Amedeo Perazzo, Vineet Rawat.
Meeting agenda page
Minutes:
- Amber was introduced to members of the committee
- Richard briefly described the differences between the SCSC's and IT SubCouncil's mandates
- IT SubCouncil update
- Imre discussed the Methodology for making IT Roadmaps
- Roadmaps:
- provide high-level project plans including all dependencies, costs, incurred losses if the project were not completed, and resources;
- have an outlook of 0-5 years;
- are sliced according to 30 IT technology domains; and
- are presented to the CIO and IT SubCouncil
- Database roadmap provides an example
- Roadmaps:
- Stuart summarized the state of desktop and Apple support SLAs
- input is still required to identify user needs (to be discussed with, perhaps, Rafael, Tony)
- desktop support document needs further development (lack of structure/organization, some content missing)
- committee members requested access to the desktop and Apple support documents
- Stuart discussed the review of IT's eleven service portfolios; future SubCouncil meetings will cover the items in detail
- Imre discussed the Methodology for making IT Roadmaps
- Imre updated the status of the forum tool search
- handout provided with relevant details
- FUDForum is the recommended tool
- test instance available here
- Crowd was explained (consolidates identities from multiple sources, e.g., JIRA, UNIX, Windows, and its own credentialling); Confluence will soon switch over
- Richard and Randy updated search for new storage vendor(s)
- some possibilities included NexSAN, Dell (mid-range), other suggestions provided by Amedeo
- Randy described problems getting no-cost P.O.s and getting vendors for test rackings due to required safety training
- Amedeo, Stuart and Tom will meet with Lance to discuss how they can help
- Arno updated the Sci. Comp. seminar series planning (reviewed minutes of previous meeting)
- Richard reported that we'd get no help from above in funding coffee and snacks (lab policy that only the colloquium series gets this type of support)
- Amedeo has someone in mind to represent LCLS; Brian will look for a Photon Science rep., if unsuccessful, he'll take the job
- expressed need for SLAC Sci. Comp. mailing list (or equivalent), Henry had some ideas about mailing lists for campus
- Stuart mentioned only audio recording available in Kavli (though much of the infrastructure is there)
- no objections to the proposed timeline, Ashley suggests coordinating timing with other seminar series (alternating weeks, months, etc.)
- Randy believes the IT&T seminar series failed due to a lack of a broad set of interesting talks, stressing the need for a strong lineup at the outset
- possible venues discussed, Kavli 3rd floor seems best, seats about 40 to promote interactivity, but is in high demand and may be tough to book
- Richard discussed shifting the timeline by a couple of months to allow Amber (who starts April 25, tentatively) to settle in and participate in the organization of the Sci. Comp. Jamboree
- Sci. Comp. Jamboree at end of May (~6 weeks to organize with Amber)
- major goal will be a Tech. Roadmap around four months after the Jamboree
- SCSC to serve as organizing committee for Jamboree
- Richard discussed other business
- Amedeo has been asked to serve as the SCSC's deputy chair and is considering the offer
- Skype usage (and the 56kbps penalty box) continues to be a problem
- visitors in particular get no information about what they've done wrong
- CERN has instructions on disabling Skype's supernode here
- Randy proposed meeting with Bob, Les and Norm to figure out how to best resolve the issue
- those who would like to be included should contact Randy
- Recharge probably needs revisiting, it may not be workable in its current form
- How can the 5.5 FTEs deal with the fluctuation in support requirements?
- Is there other lab work they can shift to and from?
- Should the ALDs absorb the fluctuations via fixed costs?
- How can the 5.5 FTEs deal with the fluctuation in support requirements?
- Next meeting: Monday, February 14, 2011
Actions:
- Stuart to provide desktop and Apple support documents
- Imre to upload his handout re. forum tool search
- All are welcome to test FUDForum and provide feedback
- Amedeo, Stuart and Tom to meet with Lance to discuss possible roles in storage vendor search
- Amedeo and Brian to look for Sci. Comp. seminar working group members from LCLS and Photon Science, respectively
- Arno to investigate timing and venue for seminars, funding for coffee and cookies, SLAC-wide promotion
- Sci. Comp. seminar working group to line up possible speakers from their directorates
- Richard to update the timeline with a delay of about two months
- Think about theme/direction for Jamboree to tie together the lab's Sci. Comp. efforts
- Amedeo to respond to SCSC's deputy-chair offer
- Randy to organize meeting regarding Skype usage at SLAC (all those interested in attending should contact Randy)
1 Comment
Richard Dubois
Amedeo has graciously accepted to be deputy chair of the SCSC. In addition, he has asked Igor Gaponenko to represent LCLS' interests for the scientific computing seminar series.