June 3, 2002, NUG Business Meeting - Agenda

The NUG Business Meeting will take place at Berkeley Lab, in Perseverance Hall (Building 54, Room130), which is the conference room annexed to the Lab's cafeteria.


  8:00   pastries, fruit, juice, coffee, tea

  8:15   Welcome and meeting logistics
  8:30   NERSC Update
          - Implementation of the 5 Year Strategic Proposal
          - System Updates - NERSC-2, NERSC-3, NERSC 4 Procurement, HPSS, etc.
              - Crays to be decommissioned October 2002
          - NUG Queue Committee Update and Progress
  9:15   View from Washington

 10:15   Break

 10:30   NERSC and the Grid: the Unified Science Environment
 11:00   Update on security issues with FTP - PowerPoint Source or HTML
 11:30   Improving Network Performance

 12:00   Lunch

  1:15   Introducing Juan Meza - the new head of NERSC HPC Research Dept - PowerPoint Source or HTML
  1:30   Plans for GUPFS - the Global Unified Parallel File System
  2:00   FY 2003 Allocations - PowerPoint Source or HTML
  2:30   NERSC Center Metrics
  3:00   Off-site Storage Backup Discussion
  3:30   Visualization Update - PowerPoint Source or HTML; there are also three mpeg movies
  3:45   Questions and Comments
  4:00   Adjourn

  6:00   Dinner and NUGEX Business Meeting - Beckett's Restaurant,
         2271 Shattuck Ave (between Bancroft and Kittredge, East side)