Scientific Advisory Group meeting
The first annual OSG Scientific Advisory Group meeting was held June 12th with three participating members of the committee: Dr. Helene Armitage from IBM, Dr. Barry Barish from Caltech and Professor David Schwartz from the University of Wisconsin Madison. OSG presentations and a summary of the lively discussions that took place throughout the day are posted.
Please Upgrade to OSG 0.6.0
Sites who have not yet upgraded to OSG 0.6.0: .It is essential that you upgrade before the next release comes out.
Upcoming Service Outage
The DOEGrids CA will have an outage July 5, 2007 from 9AM PDT to 1PM PDT due to a major software upgrade. The web browser based service ( https://pki1.doegrids.org ) and CRL updates will resume once the upgrade is complete. Because of a change in an internal interface of the CA, a related package (PPDG-Cert-Scripts) will also require an update. The updated PPDG-Cert-Scripts package is expected to be available for installation by sites on July 6. An announcement will be made at that time.
New VDT Releases
There will be new releases of the VDT over the next few weeks in preparation for the OSG 0.8.0 release in August -- stay tuned!
SciDAC Presentation
Read the presentation given by Miron Livny, OSG PI and Facility Coordinator at the Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing Conference:
"Pleasantly Parallel Computing – Accomplishments and Opportunities"
Next Year's Program of Work
The OSG Executive Team has had a series of discussions planning next year's program of work. We have agreed to focus on the following areas: Operations stability; ability of users to determine status and source of failures to increase usability; metrics (accounting and presentation of); progress on data movement and management; and strengthening the customer support function.
Don't hesitate to contact any of the members of the team (et-osg at opensciencegrid dot org) if you have related requests or concerns.
~ Ruth Pordes |
Do you know about the weekly meetings where you can contribute to and learn more about the OSG? If you can't make the meetings, minutes are available as well.
Operations - Mondays at 1PM, Eastern
The place to have your Support Tickets reviewed and addressed, for deliberation about problems being discussed on the Community Support mail list (osg-general at opensciencegrid dot org) for new sites and VOs to present their plans and needs and for updates from the operations group. Meeting Minutes
Integration - Thursdays at 2.30PM, Central
This is an important locale for addressing any issues with new versions of the software and services on OSG. Meeting Minutes
Documentation - Tuesdays at 11AM Central
Discussion of any and all documentation issues. Meeting Minutes (you must login to the Twiki to see these minutes)
Troubleshooting - Biweekly on Mondays at 2.30PM Eastern
This is where the investigations into end-to-end problems encountered by users are discussed and planned. Meeting Minutes
VDT Office Hours – Thursdays at 11AM Central
You can give input to and feedback on any issues and needs with the OSG Software Releases. Meeting Minutes
The OSG Users Group - Thursdays at 11AM Central (will join with the VDT Office Hours as needed) Meeting Minutes
Storage - Thursdays at 10AM Central
OSG Storage issues and support are discussed. Meeting Minutes
Security - Fridays at 11AM Central |
