Present:
JLab: Beni, Sandy, Chip
UConn: Richard
IU: Ryan, Jake Bennett
Boilerplate:
Background:
The GlueX collaboration has started to use OSG grid tools to do simulation over the past year. The computing resources deployed by the GlueX VO are all at UConn. The client tools have been installed at the University of Regina and Indiana University. Richard Jones of UConn has recently tried to install these tools at JLab, so far without success.
Purpose of the installation:
We would like to have JLab-based collaborators gain experience using a collaboration tool deployed and used productively at some of our member institutions.
Beyond that there are some modest simulation runs planned, mainly to test new versions of the software and to create and store benchmark datasets. The grid center at UConn has been indentified as a convenient, accessible place to store these and similar simulated datasets. Having the grid tools installed would allow access to these data for JLab-based collaborators in a standard, well documented way and would allow JLab-based collaborators to contribute their labor to the production effort.
Purpose of the Meeting:
At this meeting we want to clarify the goals of the installation, understand the difficulties encountered thus far, and assess the level of support that would have to be provided by JLab IT Division in order to succeed in this effort and under what circumstances those resources can be made available.
Grid:
Richard showed his site: zeus.physics.uconn.edu???
Chip described the economics of why we do not want a OSG site at JLab.
He agreed to help set up the clients here, including allowing the persistent daemons. He wanted a one-paragraph description of what each of them do. For now, they will continue to run in user space. We will run the 64-bit versions only and they will live on ifarml6 running under user jonesrt.
Certificates:
The certificates that Ryan and Jake are asking for are issuted by the DOE. That certificate is a prerequisite for applying for membership to a OSG VO. JLab grants these on behalf of the DOE. The JLab needs to have the person in jlist for a certificate to be granted.
Jake will register as a user (jlist). Ryan’s application was not discussed specifically; there seemed general agreement that they both should get the DOE certificate.
Questions for Richard:
- Where is the data plan/computing plan?
- Information frontier grant: where is the proposal?
- What is the URL of the UConn grid site?
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