From: Albert Lazzarini Date: Wed Jun 05, 2002 03:16:10 PM US/Pacific To: LSCComputingCommittee Cc: Barry Barish , Rainer Weiss Subject: [Lsccompcomm] Minutes of meeting on 28 May 2002 A brief meeting of the LSC Computing Committee took place on 28 May. In attendance were: Kent Blackburn Patrick Brady Erik Katsavounidis Albert Lazzarini The following people were absent: Sam Finn Scott Koranda Tom Nash Alan Wiseman No agenda was circulated for this meeting due to Lazzarini's travel the previous week. The following items were discussed: [1] It has been agreed that the bi-weekly series of meeting should be moved to the alternate set of Tuesdays. Hence, effective with this meeting, the sequence of meetings will be 28 May 2002 + 14*n days. People should have received the new DCS notification of this schedule. I deleted the remaining meetings in the old series. [2] Kent discussed the cgi-bin web interface LDAS is developing in order to enable LSC members to self-serve of passwords and to make new user account requests. The system is being developed with the intent of having it in place in time for S1, and certainly completely in place by S2. The infrastructure we are developing should be easily adapted to other, similar needs, such as requesting LSC computing resource access for data analysis projects. This interface could replace the brief email which Patrick sent out some time ago asking extant users to request account renewals for their UWM accounts. Related to this, Lazzarini is working with Veronica (LIGO webmistress) to develop links off the LSC home page for the LSC computing committee pages that will post user proposals for LSC computing resources allocation, usage statistics, resource inventories, etc. The usage access request applications that could be modeled on the cgi-bin infrastructure described by Kent would be accessible at this site. [3] Warren Anderson reported that the UTB effort to upgrade its internet access by developing a proposal to NSF likely has died a stillbirth. Warren reported that he had indeed identified an NSF program specifically developed to provide funding to institutions wishing to upgrade their intern2 connectivity. He then passed this information to the UTB IT service group, but it is his assessment that they were less than enthusiastic about pursuing the effort and he beleived that the proposal was never written. LIGO and the LSC had written a letter of support to the UTB group to be included in the proposal. [4] The upcoming ITR2003 proposal was discussed once again. Albert agreed to contact NSF to seek guidance on how to proceed regarding scheduling a visit to NSF and developing a proposal concept. Lazzarini contacted Bev Berger about this. She replied that the ITR2003 program and scope was still in the process of being defined, and that the announcement of opportunity was not yet written. She talked to NSF colleagues regarding a visit by LSC principals to NSF to discuss the ITR2003 opportunity. She reports that the CISE program office was undergoing a change of personnel for next year. She suggests that now is too ealry to visit. However, she agrees that once the announcement is published later in the summer, a visit to NSF is in order. In addition, she said that she would be happy to meet with us by telephone in order to develop a strategy and concept for our proposal. Lazzarini replied that he would meet with this committee to decide how to best use Bev's support as we proceed. (Minutes taken by Albert) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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