CADAC/SDSCMeeting02AUG07

SDSC Meeting on 02AUG07

Here is a summary of our previous telecon, and the basic agenda for our meeting with SDSC.

Contents

  1. Our telecon last Thursday.
  2. Tentative agenda for meeting with SDSC.

Telecon Summary

TODO Summary

  1. Write up policies on data access, archive structure and contributed software.
  2. Write up instructions on getting SRB clients and putting, getting data.
  3. Put up a website with general information, the policies and instructions.
  4. Mike will announce the CADAC at the end of the first day of the workshop.

Decisions

Please check my original email for what the summary of each topic was.

  1. Data access policy

Data contained within the archive (i.e., in the SRB vault on GPFS), will be readable by all CADAC members, and writable by the contributor.

  1. Archive Structure

Data will be stored by contributor, e.g., /home/padoan.cadac. Each user will be responsible for organizing their data, and documenting the organization of the data.

  1. Web site

Website needs the following:

  • Information from the LRAC
  • Policies
  • Instructions
  • Member list

Timeline: If the website is presentable by August 7th, we can start making announcements.

Update: Jake has just hacked apart the LRAC proposal, so we have the foundation of a site. I've poked around in the web site files, but I'm waiting for permissions to write to it. Once I do, I'm going to go for temporarily hiding the current portal, since it's totally insecure. Jake and I can add content by hand for now.

  1. User support responsibility

This will be largely split between Jake and SDSC. And we need to draw at least a fuzzy line between the two. Tentatively, Paolo will help support Jake at about 25%. See also the bullet in the agenda for the next meeting.

  1. Organizing contributed software

Users will place contributed software in a "cadac" directory in their home directory, like /users/ucsd/padoan/cadac. The directory should be group readable and executable. Again, documentation in the directory is a good idea.

  1. User accounts

Paolo has the ability to add users under the startup SU's, and we can add users to the SRB at any time. See SDSC agenda for our other questions.

SDSC Meeting Agenda

  1. CADAC Group

We need a group account on DataStar? and the SDSC TeraGrid? machines for the CADAC users. Currently, the srbVault is showing up under uic221, which is Mike's group.

  1. Level of support

Where do we draw the fuzzy line between standard SDSC support requests, and CADAC specific stuff?

  1. Adding new users
  • What is the fastest and simplest method for adding users?
  • How do we ensure that users are added to the SRB?
  1. Mailing list

How do we set up an archived mailing list for CADAC users?