DANSE Organizational Meeting, Pasadena, Mar. 13, 2003

Distributed Data Analysis Architecture for Neutron Scattering Experiments
DANSE Organizational Meeting, Pasadena, Mar. 13, 2003
Room 210 Thomas, Caltech Campus

Purpose of the meeting
1) Explain DANSE -- Distributed Data Analysis Architecture for Neutron Scattering Experiments. Discussion of architecture, project, scope, effort)
2) Discuss roles and stakes for facilities, Caltech, users. Management. Next steps.
The morning will include presentations by Fultz and Aivazis, and a demonstration of a distributed software architecture.
The remainder of the morning and the afternoon will be an open discussion about software architecture, science, and organization.

DANSE white paper

Agenda and Issues

Breakfast
8 AM Red Door Cafe, Caltech Campus (one building northeast of Thomas)

Morning
8:30 Fultz: Overview: ARCS and DANSE (3.1 MB Powerpoint)
9:00 Lin and Kelley: Demo and commentary on distributed data analysis.
9:20 Aivazis: The DANSE architecture (2.0 MB Powerpoint)
10:00 Dan Meiron (Associate Provost for Information and Information Technology): Large-scale scientific computing at Caltech (11 MB Powerpoint)

Break
Discussion of topics including:
Needs of facilities, needs of Caltech, needs of DANSE project, management of DANSE project, organization of its subprojects.

Lunch

Afternoon
Further discussion of DANSE architecture, management, subproject organization, and revising the white paper into a proposal. Mike McKerns's short presentation on Porting to DANSE.

Summary of the discussion on the next steps for a DANSE project. (html)

Dinner
7 PM Cafe Santorini, Old Pasadena (70 W. Union St.)

Attendees:
Mike Aivazis Caltech aivazis@caltech.edu, Ian Anderson Oak Ridge andersonian@sns.gov, Chris Benmore Argonne benmore@anl.gov, Ward Beyermann UCRiverside ward.beyermann@ucr.edu, Kent Crawford Argonne rkcrawford@anl.gov, Bob Dalesio LANL dalesio@lanl.gov, Rob Dimeo NIST robert.dimeo@nist.gov, Brent Fultz Caltech btf@caltech.edu, Garrett Granroth Oak Ridge granrothge@ornl.gov, Tim Kelley Caltech tkelley@caltech.edu, Przemek Klosowski NIST przemek@nist.gov, Thomas Kozlowski LANL kozlowski_thomas@lanl.gov, JaeDong Lee Caltech jdlee@caltech.edu, Jiao Lin Caltech linjiao@caltech.edu, Johnny Lin Caltech jonny@caltech.edu, Mike McKerns Caltech mmckerns@caltech.edu Dan Meirion Caltech dim@its.caltech.edu, Ray Osborn Argonne Rosborn@anl.gov, Melvin Potter Chalk River Mel.Potter@nrc.gc.ca, Roger Pynn UCSB pynn@mrl.ucsb.edu Rick Riedel Oak Ridge riedelra@sns.gov, Lee Robertson Oak Ridge robertsonjl@ornl.gov, Tabitha Swan-Wood Caltech tabby@caltech.edu Ersan Ustundag Caltech ersan@caltech.edu, Tom Worlton Argonne tgworlton@anl.gov.
Workshop Coordinator: Elizabeth Welsh