8/14/08 Full team notes

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CEDPS All-Hands Call, August 14, 2008

Present: Ann Chervenak Dan Gunter Ravi Madduri Ian Foster

Susan Turnbull indicates that the ESG-OSG-CEDPS meeting tentatively planned for September will not happen at that time.

We discussed having our CEDPS all-hands meeting the week of September 29th. We provisionally plan a full-day meeting on October 1, with side meetings before and after. Ann will send out email to check availability.

Discussion of data-related issues (Ann):

  • Andrew has produced a document detailing a proposal for how to do storage allocation requests--presented in terms of "contracts." Discussion of this is ongoing.
  • Data replication client has been branched for inclusion in GT4.2. Rob will present this at an upcoming meeting organized by Susan Turnbull. Ann is reaching out to various application communities. Raj is putting Ann in touch with the UltraViz group.
  • Nick is making progress refining the SC demo which uses Stork. This is a work in progress.
  • We are waiting for status information from UW on when GridFTP+LotMan will be in VDT.
  • Ian comments that we should get together with the ORNL SNS people soon

Discussion of services (Ravi):

  • New gRAVI release has been produced--some nice feedback from caBIG
  • Brian Tieman @ APS -- nothing to report
  • Jem, summer student, has been working with Argonne BioDefense group, applying gRAVI and Taverna
  • Kyle, summer student, is working on some other bio pipelines (with a DOE connection)
  • Presenting at Susan Turnbull's workshop in October

Discussion of troubleshooting (Dan)

  • LBNL is working with BestMan group to produce better logs and to provide parsers
  • FermiLab has proposed that Andrew spend some time on troubleshooting relating to dCache. We think this is a good use of his time
  • Notes that STAR is getting bad performance--5 Mb/s--working to identify that
  • Submitted a poster on Pegasus work, with Ewa Deelman
  • Also on an eScience submission, with SCEC--CyberShake
  • Also writing a paper for USENIX logging conference
  • To do: follow up with OSG to see what is happening. We believe that syslogng is in VDT.

SC plans (All)

  • Troubleshooting plans a couple of demos
  • We need to think of other ideas!!
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