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=BeSTGRID Steering Committee meeting, November 2007= |

Thursday 8 November 2007 12:00 - 1:00 All documents tabled at SC meetings along with all BeSTGRID documentation available in the BeSTGRID Repository

Meeting to be held via EVO

Issues for this meeting compiled from the BeSTGRID project in JIRA

  • Attendees
  • Paul Bonnington
  • Robin Harrington
  • Chris Messom
  • Nick Jones
  • Sam Searle

;Apologies

;Previous Meeting

October 24 2007

  • Next Meeting

December 2007

Administration

  • Review action items from previous SC meeting

  • Sam to contact Vladimir and Gerrit to arrange a session

  • Proposed date 6th December for next Steering Committee meeting to be agreed

  • Confirmed

MoRST ChatShop and Meeting with MoE about Fed IAM

  • Paul, Nick, Sam, Gerry, John Hine, Neil James all represented BeSTGRID and KAREN interests, which was very well received

  • Initial chatshop on Federated IAM

  • Ran through achievements of BeSTGRID project, with specific reference to US, UK, AUS projects, and where they are on the technology lifecycle with respect to the each regions relative maturity, and how early stage BeSTGRID still is

  • Noted that BeSTGRID has acted as a catalyst for the formation of early capability, but still a long way to go.

  • Discussed need to establish a NZ eResearch Infrastructure Committee. This was agreed as being a good path forward.

  • Paul has approached John Hine, Neil James, Mik Black, Rob Ballagh, Jenni Harrison. John and Neil have already replied enthusiastically.

  • MoE IAM workshop

  • Realised that the overlap is mainly in the IAM space

  • Have done a demo of the BeSTGRID wiki auth'd via ESAA at the IMS conference by James Dalziel and Martin Rothbaum

  • Agreed that Use Cases need to be developed to highlight requirements important to researchers

  • Use Cases discussed were:

  • AuScope collaborations with AUS, NZ

  • Bio Engineering between Oxford and Auckland

  • BioPortal, which VPAC / David Bannon is interested in collaborating on

  • EVO is nearly shibbolised, increasing ease of access

  • Suggestion is to establish a wiki page on BeSTGRID wiki, and ellicit contributions

  • Check with Neil James that could also publish capability map

  • Paul made notes on his blog http://www.bonnington.org/?p=47

  • This stimulated conversation on the AAF Mini Grant scheme, which has been seen as critical to establish the capability.

  • Agreed to support Neil on his Mini Grant approach

  • Nick noted that several smaller organisations were interested in contracting out the IAM work to more capable organisations

  • Some of the business drivers weren't clear to some participants at the AAF workshops

BeSTGRID Continuity Planning

  • Continuity & Succession planning at Auckland is continuing in the form of a plan paper put forward to senior management

  • KAREN CBF Advisory Panel did discuss this, with the feedback being that the Panel are keen to ensure momentum is maintained. No conclusion was reached on the path forward, but the discussion will continue.

  • Robin noted that UC were putting in a CBF application by end of November

  • Focused on complementary work in the Data Management space

  • Paul offered support and contributions

  • Sam offered assistance to others preparing submissions

  • Paul noted that ongoing central support for Auckland based eResearch support staff was looking very likely

Progress Reports

Massey

  • BeSTGRID@HOME

  • Terms of ref drafted

  • External company handling visual components

  • BOINC server up, awaiting test dna (chicken)

  • Performance testing VMware globus gateways

  • started testing

  • Anton to Melbourne, December (Authorisation)

  • Anton visited Grid Ireland

  • Potential collaboration, demo projects

  • BeSTGRID cluster software

  • MrBayes (mpi + sequential) installed, to be exported

Canterbury

Auckland

New Business

Action Items

*Sam to discuss Sakai demo with interested parties *Paul to discuss elliciting Use Cases for Federated IAM for Research, in collaboration with Neil James *Nick to complete quarterly report to TEC