To: Candace Holman
From: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Subject: Response to Call for Participation (CFP) in PIC-SER Campus
Trials
Date: May 27, 2005
The Plasma Science and Fusion Centre and Information Services and
Technology departments of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
an Internet2 university, are pleased to submit a proposal to
participate in the PIC-SER Campus Trials.
Our response includes the background and objectives for the proposed
campus trial as well as responses to information requested in the CFP.
Background and Objective (Why we want to participate in a campus trial)
Martin , will you write a paragraph here on background, touching on
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the work that PSFC has done to support DOE and the expensive fusion
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runs ( current and future) with collaborative tools.
Objectives:
- enhance the levels of ad-hoc communication needed to support a
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- fusion run and facilitate the participation of the necessary decision
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- makers
- to increase operational efficiency and to minimize experiment
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- rescheduling costs
- Ability to include remote collaborators
- OTHER?
1. Name and contact information for a full-time employee who will
assume primary responsibility for the trial Name:
- Joshua Stillerman
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sip:jas@mit.edu or jas@psfc.mit.edu
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- mailto: jas@psfc.mit.edu
- Tom Fredian
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sip:twf@mit.edu or twf@psfc.mit.edu
mailto: twf@psfc.mit.edu
2. Commitment to provide Unix systems administration support over 4
months to support the trial
- YES
3. A project timeline of 60 days or less to install, configure, and
deploy the service
- 10 days to finalize server deployment
- 20 days to configure clients
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- 20 days to set up tests for trials
Feel free to change this timeline
4. A note of support from your organization's CIO or department head
Dennis to get a letter from Grochow that Head of PFSC could co-sign.
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If letter not ready by
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31st we will let them know it's forthcoming
5. Equipment commitment, including a server running a modern Linux
distribution and desktop or laptop machines for trial
participants, running Windows 2K/XP or Mac OS X, each with headset
and microphone capability
Josh to write a paragraph , noting the server is deployed. Need
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to work with new SER config file? We will have upto 50 clients
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running a mix of platforms
6. Indication of willingness to share experiences with the Internet2
community.
- We will create a web site to share our experience