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TeraGrid Science Advisory Board, 8-9 January 2009, Arlington, VA
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Meeting Notes:
Scott Lathrop's Notes:
Dan Katz's Notes:
Thursday, 8 January 2009
8:00 am Continental breakfast in meeting room
8:30 am Convene, welcome and introductions
8:45 am State of the TeraGrid and transition plans: TG Phase II → Phase III “XD” (TG presentation + discussion)
10:15 am Break
10:45 am TG Strategic Plan (TG presentation + discussion)
- (current draft plan to be circulated in advance of meeting)
- Background Documents: TG mission-vision-strategy v5.0 [ DOCX ] [ PDF ]
- Final Presentation: TG Strategic Plan Discussion [ PPTX ] [ PDF ]
- Draft Presentations: TG Strategic Plan-DRAFT
11:45 am Discussion of morning topics
12:15 pm Working lunch
1:00 pm Measuring TG’s success and impact (invited speaker, TBD + discussion)
1:45 pm Allocations
- Update on new resource allocation policy (TG presentation + discussion)
- Final Presentations: Allocations_SAB_090108-FINAL [ PPT ] [ PDF ]
- Draft Presentation: SAB Allocations (Updated: 1/5/2009)
- Policy question: continue current allocations policy or focus some systems on capability and others on capacity? Interactive use? (TG presentation + discussion)
- Policy question: maintaining breadth of science expertise of the allocation panel and science impact as a criterion for allocation ( Yeung presentation + discussion)
2:45 pm Supporting loosely coupled “megajobs” (aka “many task computing”; Maechling presentation + discussion)
3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm TG Integrated Program Plan (TG presentation + discussion)
- (current draft IPP to be circulated in advance of meeting)
- Background Documents:
- PY5_SOWCall_102808 [ DOC ] [ PDF ]
- TG-IPP-PY5_v4_SAB_Instance_PDF.pdf
- TeraGrid GIG-RP PY5 Budget Summary.pdf
- Final Presentation: TG_PY5_Planning_Process [ PPT ] [ PDF ]
- Background Documents:
4:30 pm Broadening TG’s reach
- What user communities is TG missing, or not impacting, as much as it should, and how should TG contact them?
- Are there upcoming Grand Challenges that need to be planned for in the design of XD?
5:00 pm How does the TG best fit with large experimental, observational, modeling or cyberinfrastructure efforts that are ongoing or may be in the planning stages?
- What opportunities exist for collaboration between TG and other US agencies in HPC and grid computing?
- Groups outside the US in HPC and Grids (e.g. DEISA)?
- Background Documents: TeraGrid_Collaborations
5:30 pm Discussion of afternoon topics
6:15 pm Adjourn
7:00 pm Dinner (TBD)
Friday, 9 January 2009
8:00 am Continental breakfast in meeting room
8:30 am What is the appropriate level for user support in TG/XD and how should it be paid for?
- TG presentation: current level and methods of support
- Final Presentation: SAB_09_UserSupport-FINAL [ PPT ] [ PDF ]
- Draft Presentation: SAB_09_UserSupport_RR2.ppt
- Discussion of SAB white paper (for delivery after SAB meeting)
10:00 am Break
10:30 am How can/should the SAB and TG work together more closely?
- Well-defined questions from TG to SAB → concrete answers
- Well-defined questions from SAB to TG → concrete answers
11:00 am Peer-reviewed papers at TG10 conference? (TG presentation + discussion)
11:30 am Discussion
- Further reactions to topics discussed on Thursday (transition, strategic plan, allocations, broadening reach, collaborations, user support)
- How often should TG SAB meet? Should next meeting be at TG09 in DC in June/July?
- Action items and writing assignments
12:30 pm Working lunch
1:00 pm Continuation of discussion as needed
2:00 pm Adjourn
