NA4 Steering Committee Meeting

Name: NA4 Steering Committee Meeting
Start: 2009-04-16T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2009-04-16T16:55:00+02:00
Location: LAL Phone Conference

Thursday 16 Apr 2009, 14:30 → 16:55 Europe/Zurich

LAL Phone Conference

Evangelos Floros (GRNET)

Description

Title: NA4 Steering Committee Date: Thursday, 16 April Time: 14:30-16:00 Size: 10 people Phone: +33 (0)1 56 78 86 88

- 14:30 → 14:50
  Demo Proposal for EU Review 20m
  Finalization of the proposal for demonstrations to give at the EU Review.
  Candidate EU Review demonstrations (in UF4 contribution order):
  Criteria to consider when ranking candidate demonstrations:
  - Scientific or technological impact of subject
  - Broad interest and/or applicability in the subject
  - Novelty of the presentation (a couple reviewers and commission members will have see all/most of the EGEE review demos)
  - Visual appeal of subject and presentation
  - Engaging speaker with ability to clearly convey subject
  - Capability to cast the entire project (not necessarily just NA4) in a good light
  - Actual or perceived willingness of the presenter(s) to commit time for preparations in the coming months and to physically travel to the meeting.
  In addition the AMB also expressed a desire for 1 'internal' (linked to EGEE cluster) and 1 'external' (typically from an external project) demonstration. They also expressed a desire to show something that makes it clear that EGEE is accessible/usable to individual researchers, rather than just large teams/collaborations.
  External Advisory Committee results on UF4 demos:
  - Best Infrastructure Demo: Scaling out EGEE sites on Amazon EC2 with OpenNebula (Demo C)
  - Best Application Demo: The e-NMR GRID platform for structural biology (Demo G)
  - Most Discussed (Runner-Up): Digital Libraries on the Grid to preserve cultural heritage (Demo F)
  Demonstrations listed in Featured Contributions milestone:
  - Fusion/HEP: The HEP-Fusion technology transfer using Ganga and DIANE in the EGEE Grid (Demo D)
  - Life Science: Medical Data Manager use case: 3D medical images analysis workflow (Demo E)
  - Earth Science: The Climate-G testbed: towards a large scale data sharing environment for climate change (Demo B)
  - Astronomy & Astrophysics: The Synthetic spectra modeling under GRIDCOM interface (Demo H)
  Demonstrations given in previous reviews:
  - EGEE-II Final Review: Fusion (F), Health-e-Child (Siemens)
  - EGEE-II First Review: Intelligent Distributed Data Mgt. (DKRZ, ES), WISDOM Production Env. (LS), Dashboard (HEP)
  - EGEE-I Final Review: Ganga Grid User Interface (HEP), Medical Data Processing (LS)
  - EGEE-I First Review: GEMS (CC), gPTM3D (LS), EGEODE (ES)
  Voting procedure:
  1. NA4 SC will discuss the demos during the meeting.
  2. After the discussion, each NA4 SC member will cast a ballot that ranks all 8 demos in order of preference, with 1 being the highest rank and 8 being the lowest. All demos must be ranked and each number 1-8 must appear exactly once.
  3. Each NA4 SC member at the meeting will have one ballot and all ballots will count equally.
  4. The values for each demo will be totalled.
  5. The demos will be ranked from lowest (most desired) to highest (least desired) totals.
  6. In the event of a tie, Cal's ranking will break it.
- 14:50 → 15:10
  
  Status of DNA4.3 and DNA4.4.1 Deliverables 20m
  
  Discussion of the current status of the DNA4.3 and DNA4.4.1 deliverables (achievements and updated work plans) and of what is needed to finalize draft for the reviewers.
- 15:10 → 15:25
  
  Wrap Up of UF4 15m
  
  Status of the Book of Abstracts. Status of call for papers for Journal of Grid Computing
- 15:25 → 15:45
  
  Preparation for SSC Workshop and EGI Transition 20m
- 15:45 → 15:55
  
  AOB 10m