# Presentation: 927209

## RCWG Update

- Sheila Cisko, Chair,
- Fermilab

- ESCC

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## Topics

- RCWG description & members
- ECS status
- Recent activities
- Future activities
- Observations
- Contact Information

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## RCWG Description

- Remote Collaboration Working Group is representative of DOE sites and universities which use ESnet Collaboration Service (ECS)
- Purpose is to interact between DOE collaboration community and ESnet Collaboration Services (ECS) staff

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## RCWG Membership

- 	Sheila Cisko,
- 	Chair  	Fermilab
- 	Alan Sill 	Texas Tech University
- 	Andy
- 	Kromphardt	University of Iowa
- 	Art Bray 	SLACCarl Scimeca  	Princeton Plasma 			Physics Lab
- 	Chris Masullo 	Brookhaven National Lab
- 	Christian Helft   IN2P3-LAL
- 	Brooks Collins   	SLAC
- 	Deb Agarwal     	LBNL
-    	Ed Ritenour      	LBNL
- 	Hans Frese 	DESYGheni Abla	General Atomics
- 	Janine Jensen 	Pacific Northwest National 		Lab
- 	Jim Berry 	Sandia National Lab
- 	Joao Fernandes	CERN/VRVS.org
- 	Josh Stillerman 	MIT
- 	Karl Pommer 	Los Alamos National Lab

- 	Kars Ohrenberg 	     DESYKnute Bjorkli	     CERN
-       K. Estelle Dodson   NASA Ames Research 			     Center
- 	Marcy Santana 	     ESnetMartin Jara 	     LBNLReinhard Eisenberg DESY
-       Sabah Salih  	     University of Manchester
- 	Stan Kluz 	     ESnet
- 	Philippe Galvez 	     Caltech/VRVS.org
- 	Steven Goldfarb     University of Michigan
- 	Thomas Baron 	     CERN
- 	Thomas Uram 	     ANL/Access Grid
- 	Terry Schalk	     University of California – 			     Santa Cruz

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## ECS Stats

- H323
- port hours for November 2006: ~5800
- port hours for December 2006: ~4700
- These are the last H323 stats until new ECS infrastructure is installed:
- Codian MCUs to replace two Radvisions
- Tandberg gatekeeper
- Tandberg Management Suite (TMS)  to provide stats?
- No audio stats
- flushing out oversubscription abusers

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## ECS Status

- Results of DOE Survey to LHC Collaborators showed high satisfaction with ECS services
- especially H323 & phone
- also indicated desire for collaborative desktop and document sharing
- Authors finalizing ECS Workshop05 Report when
- Mike Pihlman retired from ECS in October ’06
- 1 of ECS’s 1.5FTE
- Clint Wadsworth reassigned to ESnetv4 in Dec. ’06
- .5 of ECS’s 1.5FTE)

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## ECS Status (cont’d)

- ESnet outsourcing day-to-day support to TKO Video Communications
- (Turn-Key Operations)
- ESnet continues to procure, own, house & maintain ECS hardware
- Upgrading current infrastructure and replication for increased capacity and back-ups
- TKO to assist ESnet with designing infrastructure

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## Recent RCWG Activities

- Establishing working relationship with TKO
- RCWG _cautiously _optimistic about changes
- concerns:
- ESnet ECS = 0FTE
- Current ECS = Operations
**Past ECS = Operations ****plus**** RCWG R&D**
- fulfillment of ECS Workshop Report recommendations
- adding future technology developments
- web collaboration, HD, IM, meeting recordings
- collaboration & interoperations with other services
- EVO/VRVS & Hermes(CERN), ViDe & others

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## Recent activities (cont’d)

- ECS Workshop 05 Report
- _[http://ecsworkshop.lal.in2p3.fr](http://ecsworkshop.lal.in2p3.fr/)_
- Recommendations have not changed since report to ESCC in July ‘06
*except *the greater need for an updated audio & web collaboration MCU @ ESnet
- Users are finding solutions through outside services that:
- do not interoperate with ECS/VRVS/et al
- are costly to DOE
- are no longer centralized to provide unified communication tools for all DOE/Office of Science projects
- are storing documents on vendor servers

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## Recent RCWG activities (cont’d)

- Shaping Collaboration 2006 Conference
- RCWG members organized, joined or presented
- _[http://cern.ch/ShapingCollab2006](http://cern.ch/ShapingCollab2006)_
*Why this conference was important:*
- it proved needs to unify, collaborate, interoperate, and interconnect
- it emphasized that communication collaboration requires support at local levels as well as funding agencies
- it showcased interesting studies and projects that could serve the ECS community well

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**Notes:**
1.5 days on LHC Collaboration tool issues
1.5 days on WACE 
(Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments)
1.5 days on LHC Collaboration tool issues
1.5 days on WACE 
(Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments)
1.5 days on LHC Collaboration tool issues
1.5 days on WACE 
(Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments)
Notes: Shaping Collaboration conference was 1.5 days on LHC Collaboration tool issues and 1.5 days on WACE (Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments)

## RCWG Future Activities

- Distribute ESnet Consolidated Requirements Survey to ECS community
-  with emphasis on user video, audio & web collaboration communication needs
- Methods:
- members @ DOE labs contact site coordinators
- members @ US & non-US institutions contact PIs, co-spokespersons, project leads
- email survey to ecs-info list (all registered ECS users)

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## Future RCWG Activities (cont’d)	

- Plan next Workshop
- RCWG instead of ECS
- likely to be “virtual”
-  all by video, phone, stream and web
- date tbd
- Join Shaping Collaboration06 activities
- Membership drive
- Investigate solutions for meeting tools
- repositories, agenda servers
- Create RCWG document repository

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## Future RCWG Activities (cont’d)

- Outreach to LHC and ILC
- help collaborations select interoperable tools
- Showcase Codian features
- Especially H239
- Streaming
- Custom video display (full to individual)
- Continued interactions with industry vendors & developers

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## ?How to keep world class experiments communicating without adequate support and funding for collaboration resources. 

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## Contact Information

- Contact Sheila Cisko _[scisko@fnal.gov](mailto:scisko@fnal.gov)_
- 	for connection information
- RCWG Meetings
- Mondays 11amCDT
- _[RCWG@ES.net](mailto:RCWG@ES.net)_

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