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NMI Testbed GRID
Draft Minutes of Monthly Conference Call
April 29, 2004, 4-5pm EST

On the Call:

GSU

Art Vandenberg

TACC

Ashok Adiga

SURA

Mary Fran Yafchak

Purpose of meeting - Review status of NMI Testbed GRID.

Discussion of action items

Only SURA, TACC and GSU on the call. We discussed progress on following items:

Applications on the GRID - We're still focusing on hardware more than applications. Need to consider applications, which are drivers for doing the grid. Nova Ahmed will continue her genome alignment algorithm and can plan to test on various site nodes in addition to UAB Beowulf cluster. Has contacted Shelley Henderson at USC.

Given we can run an application at one institution, we should exercise the BridgeCA and run it elsewhere, using local CA certificates (or possibly commercial certs? GSU is working with GeoTrust id certs.)

MDS for Virtual Organization - NMI Testbed GRID portal

Georgia State still working on portal install. TACC offered help. We'll schedule time to discuss.

Portal options - TACC, Georgia State, UMich, UAB all developing grid portals. Seems OGCE is the preferred model. We should compare notes on portal specifics: user community, grid resources, applications. Intent of the NMI Testbed GRID is to represent cross-institutional resources and applications.

Documentation - Documentation remains important. As noted, applications and portal details needed.

NSF REU Resources - GSU, TACC.

TACC close to hiring NSF REU.

Other - Contacts from interested entities - Mary Fran notes that we continue to get inquiries from non-Testbed entities as to our grid work. We've heard from:

  • University of Iowa, Boyd Knopst (contacted Art during Internet2)
  • George Mason University, Phil Yang (via Mary Fran, Art followed up)
  • Food & Drug Administration, Kathleen Morrish (via Mary Fran, Art followed up)
  • University of Houston, Barbara Chapman (Mary Fran, no follow up by Art yet)
  • University of California Los Angeles, Kejian Jin (Mary Fran, no follow up by Art yet)

So, we need to consider an intake process (grid experience, collaboration potential.) and begin metrics process. It is suggested that we at least point these contacts to the NMI Testbed sites, including Catalog of Grid Applications ( http://art12.gsu.edu:8080/grid_cat/index5.jsp ). For instance, Kathleen Morrish was looking to build infrastructure for FDA and the Catalog provided her with some potential contacts and information (info that is filtered rather than, say, a Google search on "grid".) I also provided her a link to www.gpds.org for completeness.

NEXT CALL : Thursday May 27, 2004 4:00-5:00pm EDT

 

 

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