Minutes of meeting on 2002.03.12 We held a brief meeting at the regularly scheduled time. The following individuals were in attendance: Kent Blackburn Patrick Brady Sam Finn Erik Katsavounidis Albert Lazzarini Alan Wiseman Absetn: Warren Anderson Tom Nash We reviewed the minutes from the face-to-face meeting at FNAL and discussed a variety of topics regarding pending actions and priorities. A brief review of the consensus list of priorities: 1. We need to develop attachment to the instituional MOUs for Centers with "signifcant shareable resources". This includes the Tier 2 centers, but may extend below this level in the higherarchy if appropriate. All the details of the MOUs may not yet be clear to everyone, but we should work to develop an outline which may contain TBDs. It is important to identify the subject matter of the attachments. The attachments will be expected to identify resources made available ot rhe LSC. They may also list "private or reserved" resources that are not included. 2. Security and data catalogs. We will invite Scott Koranda to make a presentation to the Committee to discuss the present status of thinking and design regarding how the various grid toolkits will be used to provide LSC users with appropriate permissions to discover and access LIGO databases. In addition, we woulld like for Scott to discuss the Certificate Authority model that has evolved in this community and that we will need to adopt in order to make use of grid resources. 3. Method for allocating resources. We have crafted a reasonable process for the allocation of resources. Albert will draft a memo that incorporates the points we discussed at FNAL for this model. He will circulate it in time for us to discuss this at the LSC meeting. 4. This committee needs to provide a mechanism for the LSC to be able to go after new opportunites as a united body. The intent iis to foster proposals submitted by multiple groups "on behalf of the LSC". There are several aspects to this: (i) request (require?) that any group within the LSC who is considering developing a proposal to request computing resources from any funding agency share this intent with the computing committee. The intent is to provide some visibility into what is going on within our community and to be able to foster team formation when and where it is appropriate in order to collectively improve the Collaboration's chances of success in any one endeavor. (ii) use the committee as a means to make known (through announcements of opportunity) whenever we are aware of upcoming announcements that could be of interest to the LSC. We would work to form teams as appropriate to develop proposals in response to these opportunities. This is especially relevant at this time in getting ready for this Fall's round of ITR opportunities. ***********************Points contributed by Sam to my notes***************** (iii) The committee has a special responsibility to identify collaboration (as opposed to member institution) infrastructure (including support) needs. Where possible, the committee will organize proposals that address these needs using existing programs. (iv) Opportunities for support and infrastructure can be created by the LSC, acting as an organization, that cannot be created by individual institutions, acting with the "support" of the LSC. The committee should identify and advise the LSC and lab directorate of support and infrastructure needs best addressed in this manner. **************************************************************************** 4a. Related to this is the need to develop a list of required FTEs for the present Tiers 1 and 2 centers. This is related to coming to closure on the functions and roles of the centers. Rai and Barry had suggested that we sit down with Bev Berger to discuss this need during the LSC week. I do not feel that we have a sufficiently well thought out plan yet to discuss with her. Comments on this? Minutes taken by Lazzarini. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIGO Laboratory California Institute of Technology M/S 18-34 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 Data and Computing Room 609 Millikan Library Office: +1.626.395.8444 Facsimile: +1.626.304.9834 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Lsccompcomm mailing list Lsccompcomm@ligo.caltech.edu http://mm.ligo.caltech.edu/mailman/listinfo/lsccompcomm