OSG Council Monthly Teleconference

• Date: April 8th, 2008
• Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Time
• Attending: Michael Ernst (BNL), Rob Quick (EB-Operations), Brad Abbott (DZero), Ruth Pordes (OSG Director), Dick Greenwood (DOSAR), Craig Stewart (Indiana University), Kent Blackburn (OSG Council Chair)

Agenda/Minutes

Status from the OSG Executive Director

• March metric to the JOT and Council will be sent out before the Council Meeting and will speak to this.
• Bi-weekly report to the Council sent out before the meeting and will invite feedback.

Minutes:

Ruth's bi-weekly report was circulated to the OSG Council and OSG Executive Board email lists this morning. They are available at the URL, or from the OSG Council Website under the "Executive Director Reports" Section for April 8th, 2008.

• Kent and Paul have asked that the Executive Director continue to send reports to the Council on a bi-weekly basis.
• Engage VO has ramped up to roughly 30,000 CPU-HR/Day
• Don't expect that the limit for Engage has been reached
• Have held 4 first round quarterly meetings with major scientific stackholders
• March metrics report to the Joint Oversight Team (JOT) attached to email and at the URL above

Michael Ernst added that this ramping up has already begun with data production as part of the preparation. ATLAS would very much like to use any resources available. ATLAS will be exercising the full analysis chain in June. Currently US ATLAS has the largest Tier 1 center, making up about 24% of the capacity. The analysis chain would involve every stage from CERN to through the Tier 1, out to the Tier 2s and onto the physicists desktops. ATLAS will know much more at about usage model by the end of June. One of the difficult issues expected to face is data replication.

Formation of "ad-hoc" subcommittee on "At-Large VO Representation"

Purpose: Review the current VO membership of the OSG, compare this with the current representation of the OSG Council members and make a recommendation for a process to appoint the two open "At-Large" representatives. The time line should assure that "At-Large" representatives have been appointed and available for participation no later than by the time of our next face-to-face Council Meeting in approximately 6 months (~September 2008). An important element of this process should be to contact VOs without current representation in order to understand their views of and needs from the OSG Council.

Members: Bill Kramer, Shaowen Wang, Dick Greenwood, Tom Furlani (NYSGrid), Ruth Pordes (ex-officio), ...

Minutes:

Agreed that this "ad-hoc" subcommittee had the appropriate size and composition to be able to move forward with organizing a kick-off meeting and to be able to work towards the goal of appointing two "At-Large" representatives by the time of the next Face-to-Face meeting in September. Subcommittee membership will include either Kent or Paul or both.

• Kent will send out an email to the members of the subcommittee suggesting a kick-off meeting in a few days for sometime in the next week to 10 days.

Formation of "ad-hoc subcommittee on "Re-Organization of OSG Council"

Purpose: Review and make recommendations regarding the organization of the OSG Council. The subcommittee will be charged with making recommendations for changes that are seen to be advantageous to the strategic planning of the Open Science Grid and should include a careful review of the relationship between the OSG Executive Team, The OSG Executive Board and the OSG Council. Additionally, the organizational classification of the OSG representatives could be improved to better capture our membership roles. The subcommittee will be asked to present their findings and make a recommendation at the next face-to-face OSG Council Meeting in approximately 6 months (~September 2008).

Members: Jerome Lauret, Ruth Pordes (ex-officio), ...

Minutes:

Agreed that this "ad-hoc" subcommittee did not have sufficient membership to move forward even with either Kent or Paul or both on board given the importance of the subject matter.

• Kent will send out an email to the council requesting additional members this week.

Council Recommendation for the continued support of MonALISA? at the OSG GOC

Rob Quick of the OSG Grid Operations Center (GOC) has requested that the OSG Council make a decision whether or not to continue to run the MonALISA? Service at the GOC.

The two most recent emails that have reached the Council co-Chairs on this subject are provided below.

• Email sent by Rob Quick to OSG Executive Board (and others) on March 13th, 2008 at 7:15AM Pacific Time
• Email reply from Harvey Newman to same recepient list on March 13th, 2008 at 3:55PM Pacific Time
• http://monalisa.grid.iu.edu:8080/show?page=index.html

Minutes:

Rob Quick (OSG Executive Board - Operations/GOC) provided the link above to MonALISA? above. Rob proceeded to describe what was provided by MonALISA? and what effort was involved, using the link above as a reference:

• currently provides a very nice interface to data from roughly 25% of the OSG (12 sites reporting to it)
• roughly half of these sites are full reporters and the other half are partial reporters
• Rob pointed out that the active nodes and idle nodes presentation was quite nice for site administrators

* Kent will send out an email to the council regarding the recommendation for MonALISA? from the Council

AOB

Minutes:

Kent recognized that there were suggestions for reducing the frequency of Council meetings suggested in Chapel Hill, but he would like to assure a smooth transition from the previous Council Chair to the new Council co-Chairs by continueing for the time being with the monthly telecons on the same schedule, particularly with all the important activities that are currently in the works. The frequency can be revisited after the transition period has been successfully crossed. This was acceptable to all on the call.

-- KentBlackburn - 31 Mar 2008