# Presentation: 784519

## A View from the Top

**A View from the Top**

- Al Geist
- June 13-14
- Houston TX

## Participating Organizations

**www.scidac.org/ScalableSystems**

**Coordinator: Al Geist**

**Participating Organizations**

**ORNL**
**ANL**
**LBNL**
**PNNL**

**PSC**
**SDSC**
**IBM**
**Compaq?**

**SNL**
**LANL**
**Ames**
**NCSA**

**SGI**
**Scyld**
**Intel**
**Unlimited Scale**

**Participating Organizations**

**Main Web Site**

## Scalable Systems Software Center

- February 21-22
- Houston TX

**Review of Last Meeting**

- Details on page 18
- Main project notebook

## Progress Reports at Feb. mtg

**Al Geist **– working groups, notebooks, telecoms
**Working Group Leaders** –
- What areas their working group is addressing
- Progress report on what their group has done
- Present problems being addressed
- Next steps for the group
- Discussion items for the larger group to consider
**Demonstrations of Prototype Components**
- Several intra-component demos

- Slides can be found in Main Notebook p. 18

## Consensus and Voting:

**Basic Authentication for Wire Protocol Proposal:**
-   Passed strawvote  8 for / 3 against  / 3 abstain
**Single Method Monitoring XML interface:**
-   Passed strawvote   12 for / 0 against / 1 abstain
**XML Schema Formalization Proposal:**
-   Passed strawvote  12 for / 0 against / 2 abstain
**RAS Considerations:**
-   Discussion of high availability needs

## Scalable Systems Software Center

- February-June

**Progress Since Last Meeting**

## Five Project Notebooks filling up

- A main notebook for general information
- And individual notebooks for each working group
- Over 172 total pages – 42 added since last meeting

- Get to all notebooks through main web site
**www.scidac.org/ScalableSystems**
- Click on side bar or at “project notebooks” at bottom of page** **

- Two requested notebook features available by end of June:
- Print all pages or pages from search result
- Subscribe and be notified by email of changed pages

## Four Bi-weekly Working Group Telecoms 

**Less talk more work**

**Resource management, scheduling, and accounting**** **
**     **Tuesday 3:00 pm (Eastern)**  1-800-664-0771   keyword “SSS mtg”**
**Validation and Testing**
**     **Wednesday 1:00 pm (Eastern)**  1-877-540-9892   mtg code 999157**
**Proccess management, system monitoring, and checkpointing **
**     **Thursday 1:00 pm (Eastern) ** 1-877-252-5250  mtg code 160910**
**Node build, configuration, and information service**
**     **Friday  3:00 pm (Eastern)  **1-888-469-1934  mtg code ****58145 ****(changes)**

## Developing Prototype Components

- Authentication &
- Communication
*R. Lusk*

- Meta
- Scheduler
*D. Jackson*

- Meta
- Manager
*S. Scott*

- Accounting
- S. Jackson

- Scheduler
*D. Jackson*

- System/Job
- Monitors
*M. Showerman*

- Package
- Services
*J. Mugler*

- Information
- Services
*JP Navaro*

- Allocation
- Management
*S. Jackson*

- Queue
- Manager
*B. Bode*

- Job
- Manager
*B. Bode*

- Checkpoint /
- Restart
*P. Hargrove*

- Process
- Manager
*R.Lusk*

- Service
- Directory
*N. Desai*

- Node
- Manager
*T. Naughton*

- C-Plant
- XML interface
*E. Debenedictis*

**Resource Mgmt**
**Working Group**

**Build & Configure**
**Working Group**

**Process Mgmt**
**Working Group**

## Working Group Mailing Lists 

**Resource management working group **
**     ****sss-rm@lyris.pnl.gov**
**Proccess management working group **
**     ****sss-pmwg@lbl.gov**
**Node build, configuration working group**
**     ****sss-infrastructure@mcs.anl.gov**
***Validation and testing working group***
***     ******scidac-tivx@sandia.gov***

- Mailing lists used for
- notification of new notebook entries
- meeting setup or changes
- Not for ideas and proposals

## Scalable Systems Software Center

- June 13-14,2002

**This Meeting**

## Agenda – June 13

-   8:00     Breakfast
-   8:30     Al Geist – “View from the Top”
-   9:00     Fred Johnson – MICS report including
-                                     (PI mtg, open source, SciDAC review)
-   **Working Group Reports**
-   9:30	Scott Jackson – Resource Management
- 10:30     Break
- 11:00 	Erik Debenedictis – Validation and Testing 12:00
- Lunch  (on own but go somewhere as group)
-   1:00     Paul Hargrove – Process Management
-   2:00 	Narayan Desi – Node Build, Configure
-   3.00      Break
-   3:30      **Prototype Demos**
**	**node manager
- 	big multi-component demo
-   5:00     Discussion of repositories, copyrights, export control
-   5:30      Adjourn
-   Working groups may wish to get together in evening

## Agenda – June 14

-   8:00     Breakfast
-   8:30     **Discussion, proposals, strawvotes**
**	**Scott – byte count protocol proposal
- 	Narayan – Event Management Proposal
- 	Scott- HMAC security proposal
- 	JP- Bugzilla Information
- 	Discuss documentation
**	**
- 10:30     Break
- 11:00     Al Geist – Summary
-                                 next steps overall and for working groups
-                                 next meeting date: October 10-11, 2002
- 12:00     meeting ends