[THEGrid] Fwd: US-CMS LHC announcement

[Alan Sill]

Please call this to the attention of the high energy physicists at  
your institutions as soon as possible.  In addition to other  
networking work going on in conjunction with LEARN, the Internet2  
effort has recently launched a collaborative relationship with DOE's  
Energy Sciences net (ESNet), in the context of which it is  hosting a  
series of meetings at various locations to try to understand the  
needs of the Tier 2 and Tier 3 LHC-related efforts throughout the  
country, and is meeting with the physicists at each of these locations.

We have been able to get such a meeting arranged with Rich Carlson of  
Internet2 for Valentine's Day, Wed. Feb 14, at Texas A&M and would  
like to take advantage of the proximity of this date to the TIGRE  
developers meeting to be held a TAMU Feb. 15-16.  This will represent  
a chance for the high energy physics community to come to TAMU to  
describe directly to Rich and to representatives of LEARN their needs  
for moving LHC-related data over the next few years.  The importance  
of this meeting to high energy physics networking development over  
the near-term future is high, and I would strongly suggest attendance  
or the sending of a representative to this meeting.

We are working with our colleagues at Texas A&M to get a location.   
Please let me know and/or contact me by e-mail or phone if you have  
any questions.

Alan Sill
TTU

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Richard Carlson <rcarlson at internet2.edu>
> Date: December 18, 2006 7:52:28 AM CST
> To: wmarti at tamu.edu
> Cc: galmes at tamu.edu, Alan Sill <Alan.Sill at ttu.edu>
> Subject: Re: US-CMS LHC announcement
>
> Hi Willis;
>
> Your sources are very reliable. .-)  Yes I am working with Alan  
> Sill (TTU) to setup a LHC-T23 workshop on Feb 14, 2007 at College  
> Station.  Alan and I talked last week and we agreed that adding  
> this 1 day workshop to the currently scheduled Feb 15/16 meeting at  
> College Station would be the best way to maximize the attendance.   
> This, combined with other travel issues, left us with scheduling  
> the meeting for the 14th.  This does overlap with some of the JT  
> meetings in MSP, so I get to generate more frequent flier miles.
>
> The goal of this T23 workshop is to bring the LHC physicists and  
> the various network folks (campus, regional, national, ...)  
> together so we all have a common vision of how data will flow over  
> our networks.  I've been working on an agenda outline, which will  
> need to be tailored to each workshop location.  I'm planning on  
> having the Physicists talk about how they want to use the data, the  
> network folks will describe their infrastructure and services,  
> followed by some technology updates.  All of this will then go into  
> the development of a roadmap that will help set expectations for  
> all interested parties.
>
> I'm also working on some logistics now and expect to get some  
> meeting web sites up shortly.  I'll then get some no-charge  
> registration pages setup so we can begin to track who is coming.   
> And I'll need to work directly with folks like you and Alan to make  
> sure that the word gets out so we maximize the attendance.
>
> Thanks for the offer of help.  I'll get back to you shortly when I  
> have more details.
>
> Regards;
> Rich
>
>
> At 03:03 PM 12/16/2006, wmarti at tamu.edu wrote:
>> Howdy, Rich!
>>  Good to hear y'all getting the physicists and networking folk
>> together. Rumor has it from the Fall Member Meeting that you're
>> planning a meeting in Texas, at College Station, this coming
>> February. Could you confirm/deny/clarify? I heard the date
>> conflicted with the Joint Techs meeting; didn't know if the date
>> was locked in.
>>  I'd be glad to help coordinate local support. Several of us in Texas
>> schools are interested in impact of LHC data flow, and you might have
>> a large audience.
>> Cheers,
>>  Willis Marti
>>  Associate Director for Networking
>>  Computing & Information Services
>>  Texas A&M University
>
> ------------------------------------
>
>
>
> Richard A. Carlson                              e-mail:  
> RCarlson at internet2.edu
> Network Engineer                                phone:  (734) 352-7043
> Internet2                                       fax:    (734) 913-4255
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> Ann Arbor,  MI  48104

Alan Sill, Ph.D
TIGRE Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center
Adjunct Professor of Physics
TTU

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