[Twg] 2011-01-06 meeting minutes

[John Carrier]

My apologies for the delay posting these minutes.  I was traveling all last week and am playing catch-up this week.  I'm also including Shay's notes (in MS word .doc), which cover more of the flow of conversation.

Please send any corrections or additions to the list.

--jc
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OpenSFS Technical Working Group
Meeting minutes : 01/06/2011

Concall: start : 9:30a PT, end : 10:00a PT)

Next meeting: Thursday, 1/13/2011 @ 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
   ----------------- -------------- ----------------------------
   John Carrier      Cray           carrier at cray.com
   Justin Miller     Indiana Univ.  jupmille at indiana.edu
   Steve Simms       Indiana Univ.  ssimms at indiana.edu
   Marc Stearman     LLNL           marc at llnl.gov
   Chris Morrone     LLNL           morrone2 at llnl.gov
   Shay Seager       OpenSFS        shay.seager at opensfs.org
   Dave Dillow       ORNL           dillowda at ornl.gov
   Sarp Oral         ORNL           oralhs at ornl.gov
   Andreas Dilger    Whamcloud      adilger at whamcloud.com
   Eric Barton       Whamcloud      eeb at whamcloud.com
   Robert Reed       Whamcloud      rread at whamcloud.com

Agenda
   * F2F meeting  : Chicago: 1/25 8:30am - 1/26 12:00pm
   * requirements gathering
   * other business

F2F meeting
   The meeting was originally meant to get the WG chairs together. All
   WG members are welcome to attend, but you should make a request to
   the board to make sure space is available before booking travel.
   
   At the meeting, we are going to review the list of items the OpenSFS
   working groups should be working on.  The board would like the TWG to
   present a prioritized list of requirements, which we have gathered
   from OpenSFS members and other organizations in the Lustre HPC
   community.  We should also expect discussion of which feature(s) the
   TWG will pursue for development.

Requirements gathering

   Our goal is to reach out to the community to find requirements that
   we can use to create a long-term Lustre roadmap.  Eric's slides are a
   starting point.  The roadmap will lead to features that OpenSFS
   should consider developing.  

   We need this process to be inclusive, but don't have the time to be
   exhaustive.  We will listen to all suggestions, but need to
   acknowledge that not all will be feasible or can be met. We will
   accept suggestions at any time, but this initial search is intended
   to help set our long-term vision for the Lustre roadmap and identify
   some short-term projects that we can fund to move Lustre along the
   path.
   
   The following is a list of organizations we identified and the name
   of the TWG member who volunteered to contact the organization and
   present what they learn to the TWG. JohnC has the action of sending
   draft text to the reflector that we can all use to contact these
   organizations.  Please post any additions to the list to the TWG
   reflector. 

         Organization         TWG contact
         -----------------    ----------------
         Fujitsu              andreasD
         NASA                 andreasD
         TACC                 andreasD
         Terascala            daveD
         Bull                 ericB
         CEA                  ericB
         EuropeanOFS          ericB (via JC)
         JSC                  ericB
         Mellanox             ericB
         HPCFS                johnC
         lustre-community     johnC
         SGI                  johnC
         Xyratex              johnC
         ARL                  marcS
         AWE                  marcS
         PNNL                 marcS
         SNL                  marcS
         CSCS                 sarpO
         TSC                  sarpO
         NRL                  simms
         TI-TECH              ??

   schedule
      1/13 - accumulate / present requirement lists
      1/20 - prioritize gathered requirements for F2F

other business
   DaveD asked that people read Pam Hamilton's email "Ideas for
   consideration" and provide the requested feedback.  Dave will resend
   the email to the TWG.
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