[Twg] 2010-12-16 meeting minutes

[John Carrier]

Attached are the minutes from today's meeting.  I will post the new whitepaper draft shortly.

--jc
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OpenSFS Technical Working Group
Meeting minutes : 12/16/2010

Concall: start : 9:30a PT, end : 10:32a PT)

Next meeting: Thursday, 1/6/2011 @ 9:30a PT/12:30p ET
   Dial-in numbers are 715-726-4994 or 866-304-8294.  The meeting ID and
   password are 7012090.

Attending:  

   Name              Organization   email
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   John Carrier      Cray           carrier at cray.com
   Justin Miller     Indiana Univ.  jupmille at indiana.edu
   Steve Simms       Indiana Univ.  ssimms at indiana.edu
   Josh Walgenbach   Indiana Univ.  jjw at indiana.edu
   Damian Hazen      LBL            dhazen at lbl.gov
   Shay Seager       OpenSFS        ssseager at gmail.com
   Andreas Dilger    Oracle         andreas.dilger at oracle.com
   Dave Dillow       ORNL           dillowda at ornl.gov
   Ercan Kamber      RAID, Inc.     ercan_kamber at raidinc.com
   Robert Reed       Whamcloud      rread at whamcloud.com


Agenda:  
   * review the draft whitepaper

Discussion
   
   The team thought the first draft captured the discussion at SC. We
   surveyed individuals and the biggest hole was not addressing our
   interaction with the other working groups in OpenSFS.  We then went
   through the document section by section. Shay mentioned the
   need to address expected resource commitments from the member
   companies.  We addressed this idea in a new section.  
   
   Specific changes are described below:
      
   Mission statement 
   - needed to be broader
      - replace "I/O performance requirements" with "stability,
         performance, and management requirements" 
   - remove reference to "Moore's law", although that is at the heart of
      the imbalance between processors, memory, and storage performance.

   Roadmap
   - remove references to Oracle.  OpenSFS is focused on the needs of
      the HPC community. period.
   - add text that requirements will come working with other working
      groups in addition to the OpenSFS membership and Lustre community.

   Feature Development
   - add text to describing our intent to work with the other working
      groups during the RFP process and require contractors to work with
      them during integration.

   Member Requirements -- new section 
   - to help scope time commitments, we defined the expected roles for
      the following functions
      - working group co-chairs
      - RFP co-leads
      - members 

   Meeting schedule
   - no change