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Georgia State University
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Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3968
Phone +1 404 463 9685
Email: avandenberg@gsu.edu

NMI Testbed GRID
Draft Minutes of Monthly Conference Call
March 25, 2004 , 4-5pm EST

On the Call:

UAB

John Paul Robinson, Zach Garner

UAH

Sandi Redman

GSU

Art Vandenberg

TACC

Ashok Adiga

Educause

Ann West

Purpose of meeting - Review status of NMI Testbed GRID.

Internet2 Spring Member Meeting session

We noted the Internet2 Spring Member Meeting session that will include discussion of NMI Testbed GRID:

NSF Middleware Initiative: Leveraging Enterprise Middleware to Support Virtual Organizations and Grids

April 20, 2004 , 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM EDT

http://events.internet2.edu/2004/spring-mm/sessionDetails.cfm?session=1314&event=203

Ann West advised that Brian Gilmore, University of Edinburgh , will discuss JISC initiatives in UK related to virtual organizations. Kevin Thompson, NSF, will present NMI perspective, Jim Jokl and Art Vandenberg will present status of NMI Testbed GRID. The theme is essentially:

".developing tools and resources to enable scientists and researchers to more effectively and easily participate in national and international grid-related projects and virtual organizations."

We have 15 minutes to present status of NMI Testbed GRID related to these monthly calls ( UVa Bridge CA has separate time allotment), we will not have a "live demo" capability but will discuss:

  • Vision for the NMI Testbed GRID virtual organization
  • Participating sites - outline of site environments and resources
  • Concept of how these site resources will be combined into VO
  • Overview of catalog
  • Brief example of genome alignment program (GSU to UAB access)
  • Plans for May-August timeframe.

NOTE : Ann West requested draft slides by April 14. Art will copy NMI Testbed GRID & requests site input .

Discussion of action items

We reviewed action items from previous meetings.

Applications on the GRID - ("What'll ya have?" versus "What'd ya got?")

ACTION : Provide detailed information on grid nodes. Responsibility : each site Target Date : March 23, 2004

Please provide synopsis . For instance, Georgia State initially plans to contribute:

  • 5 Sun Netra X1s with 30g disk each - 150g disk store
  • Shibboleth Origin site tied to enterprise authentication
  • Commercial identity certificates from GeoTrust
  • GRID application catalog
  • Initial GridPort portal for NMI Testbed GRID
  • 2 NSF REU students (catalog, documentation, installs of NMI components)
  • 2 Graduate Students (genome alignment program, portal)

And UAB is contributing:

  • 32 processor Beowulf cluster
  • Pubcookie implementation
  • Enterprise CA
  • .

UAH suggested:

  • Application development and prototyping expertise
  • NASA Information Power Grid ( IPG ) certificates (do I have that right?)
  • .

TACC suggested:

  • Resources
  • NSF REU to work on portal
  • .

USC suggested:

  • Linux cluster
  • Enterprise CA
  • Pubcookie implementation
  • ..

UMich suggested:

  • KX.509
  • .

These resources are important to our effort - representing a heterogeneous set of resources, enterprise middleware that we will bring to our NMI Testbed GRID Virtual Organization .

MDS for Virtual Organization - NMI Testbed GRID

ACTION : Find out about the MDS ; establish a VO MDS for NMI Testbed GRID. Responsibility : Georgia State (though input welcome!). Target Date : March 23, 2004

  • Georgia State working through install of R4 NMI All Bundle , then GridPort. Not clear if other sites experiencing issues with install. [ As of April 2 were successful , though significant issues with install of NMI All Bundle as documented - at least for Solaris platform: must install GPT from source; if use Globus CA, must combine NMI All Bundle setup-gsi with Globus setup; services startup doc is missing from NMI All Bundle, so need to use those provided with NMI components; seems NMI MPICH-G2 docs may be unclear on root vs. user installs. ]
  • TACC advised they will provide NPACI Hotpage contact who may be helpful.

Portal options - Compare and contrast

ACTION : Continue GridPort and OGCE work. Responsibility : GSU, UAB, TACC? UMich? Target Date : March 23, 2004 and ongoing.

· Georgia State still working GridPort (see above discussion on NMI All Bundle install).

· UAB reports they are focusing on OGCE as vehicle for faculty demo of applications planned about June.

· Georgia State genome alignment program might be demo application.

· UAH genome data-mining application might also be considered.

Documentation

ACTION : Document. Responsibility : All sites. Target Date : Now.

In discussing web site, UAB observed that their "@ Lab" site is "in progress" as internal evaluation for UAB and perhaps not ready for prime time. We discussed using Plone ( http://plone.org/ ) as an open source document management system . Georgia State will look into this. Georgia State has in the meantime started a NMI Testbed GRID page to post these minutes pending Plone setup. (Also, clearly, a portal such as GridPort or OGCE would be a documentation component.)

NSF REU Resources - GSU, TACC.

ACTION : Engage NSF REU and NMI Testbed GRID GRAs . Responsibility : GSU, TACC, (UMich?) Target Date : Immediate

TACC and Georgia State will have their resources work together on portals at least.

NEXT CALL : Thursday April 29, 2004 4:00-5:00pm EST

 

 

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