Agenda
CSG Workshop and Meeting Agenda
The University of Southern California
3-5 January 2007
Wednesday 3 January 2007
**Shuttle bus service to Davidson Conference Center
**Bus circulates from 7:00 - 10:00
**Bus departs from Westin Bonaventure Flower Street entrance
CSG Workshop
**Embassy Room, Davidson Conference Center
7:30 Continental Breakfast
8:00 CSG Workshop: Models and Methods of Hosting Research Computing
Coordinators: Bill Clebsch; Jim Jokl, Tim Gleason, Erv Blythe, Dave Vernon,
Brad Wheeler, Jim Pepin, Kevin Morooney, Bruce Vincent, Phil Reese
Please see Addendum A for the detailed agenda.
10:00 Break
12:00 Lunch
**Vineyard Room, Davidson Conference Center
1:00 CSG Workshop: Large Scale Centralized Managed Storage Directions
Coordinators: Kitty Bridges; Michael Gettes, Scotty Logan, Ron Thielen,
Dennis Cromwell, Bruce Vincent
Please see Addendum B for the detailed agenda.
3:00 Break
5:00 Adjourn
Group Dinner - Vineyard Room, Davidson Conference Center
5:30 Cocktails
7:00 Dinner
7:30 - 10:30 Bus circulates between Davidson Center and hotel
Bus pickup from Figueroa Street entrance
Thursday 4 January 2007
CSG Workshop and CSG Meeting
**Embassy Room, Davidson Conference Center
**Shuttle bus service to Davidson Conference Center
**Bus circulates from 7:00 - 10:00
**Bus departs from Westin Bonaventure Flower Street entrance
7:30 Continental Breakfast
8:00 CSG Workshop: Collaborative Tools in Higher Ed: The growth, intersection and overlaps of options
Coordinators: Shel Waggener; Dennis Maloney, Chad Kainz, Joel Smith, Oren Sreebny
Please see Addendum C for the detailed agenda.
10:00 Break
12:00 Lunch
**Vineyard Room, Davidson Conference Center
** Walking tour of the Carole Little Building. The tour will start from
** the Davidson Conference Center at 12:30 PM and will take 80 minutes,
** returning to the Davidson Conference Center at 1:50 PM.
CSG Meeting
**Embassy Room, Davidson Conference Center
**(Note later starting time due to preceding campus tour)
2:00 I. Introductory Remarks (CSG Coordinator)
2:05 II. Short Slots and Breaking News (CSG Coordinator)
A. Workshop Reports
2:30 III. Policy Discussion 1: Common Goods & Proprietary Products
Coordinators: Dennis Maloney, Chuck Powell
3:30 Break
4:00 IV. Timely Topics and Gossip (Eadie)
The following topics will be covered:
Open AFS (Tom Dopirak)
I.T. Architects in Academia (ITANA.ORG) (Jim Phelps)
Licensing & Policy Summit for Software Sharing in Higher Education (UPDATE) (Brad Wheeler)
Avian Influenza Preparations (Gavin Eadie)
Others as time and interest allow.
Please send other Topics to Gavin
5:30 Adjourn
** Campus walking tour. The tour will start from the Davidson Conference
** Center at 5:30 PM and will take 30 minutes, ending at the Town & Gown
** at 6 PM.
Group Dinner - Town & Gown
6:00 Cocktails
7:00 Dinner
7:30 - 10:30 Bus circulates between Davidson Center and hotel
Bus pickup from Figueroa Street entrance
Friday 5 January 2007
CSG Meeting (continued)
**Embassy Room, Davidson Conference Center
**Shuttle bus service to Davidson Conference Center
**Bus circulates from 7:00 - 1:00
**Bus departs from Westin Bonaventure Flower Street entrance
7:30 Continental Breakfast
8:00 V. Organizational Issues (CSG Coordinator)
A. Steering/Membership Committee Issues (Jackson)
B. Treasurer's Report (Duwe)
C. Election of CSG Treasurer (CSG Coordinator)
D. Logistics for Spring 2007 Meeting (Antonelli)
(Columbia University, 23-25 May 2007)
E. Venues and Dates for Future CSG Meetings (Antonelli)
Please see Addendum D for the current list.
8:15 VI. Session Proposals for Spring 2007 Meeting (Jackson)
9:00 Break
9:30 VII. Policy Discussion 2: Google Scholar, etc
Coordinators: Greg Jackson, Bruce Vincent; Ken Frazier, John Wilkin
10:30 VIII. Policy Discussion 3: Digital Rights Management
Coordinator: Paul Hill
11:30 Adjourn
11:30 Lunch (box lunches available)
**Outside Embassy Room, Davidson Conference Center
**Shuttle bus service to hotel
**Bus circulates from 7:00 - 1:00
**Bus pickup from Figueroa Street entrance
Addendum A: CSG Workshop: Models and Methods of Hosting Research Computing
Detailed Agenda
7:30-8:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:00-8:10 WELCOME, LOGISTICS, AGENDA
Charles Antonelli, Bill Clebsch
8:10-8:50 RESULTS OF CSG SURVEY ON RESEARCH COMPUTING
8:50-9:45 KEY DRIVERS AND CHANGES IN HOSTING RESEARCH COMPUTING
PANEL: Pat Dreher, Jim Pepin, Tim Gleason, Bruce Vincent
9:45-10:00 BREAK
10:00-10:55 DEVELOPING & FUNDING CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
PANEL: Earv Blythe, Kevin Morooney, Bill Clebsch, Jim Jokl
10:55-11:50 RESEARCH COMPUTING GOVERNANCE
PANEL: Brad Wheeler, Jim Pepin, Dave Vernon, Phil Reese
11:50-12:00 WRAP UP AND NEXT STEPS
Bill Clebsch
Addendum B: CSG Workshop: Large Scale Centralized Managed Storage Directions
Detailed Agenda
1) Report out of storage survey results
2) Framing the discussion: definitions, emerging technologies, policy,
approaching storage from an architectural POV, etc.
3) Case study: library archive storage
BREAK
4) Case study: research storage - lots of small files (as in genomics),
lots of big files (as in astronomy, physics)
5) Case study: tiered storage architecture, virtualization
Addendum C: CSG Workshop: Collaborative Tools in Higher Ed: The growth, intersection and overlaps of options
Detailed Agenda
Introduction (Shelton Waggener)
ECAR report on Collaborative Tools (Oren Sreebny)
Findings from Collaborative Tools survey (Chad Kainz)
Whiteboarding questions about Collaborative Tools (Chad Kainz)
CMU/Colorado (Joel Smith and Dennis Maloney)
UC Berkeley (David Greenbaum and Shel Waggener)
Discussion roundtable (Chad Kainz facilitates)
Addendum D: Venues and Dates for Future CSG Meetings
Spring 2007 (Columbia University, 23-25 May 2007)
Fall 2007 (MIT, 26-28 September 2007)
Winter 2008 (Virginia Tech, 9-11 January 2008)
Spring 2008 (University of Michigan, 14-16 May 2008)
Fall 2008 (Cornell University, 24-26 September 2008)
Winter 2009 (University of Colorado, Boulder, 7-9 January 2009)
Spring 2009 Available! (13-15 May 2009)
Fall 2009 (New York University, 23-25 September 2009)
Winter 2010 Available! (6-8 January 2010)
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