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 the work that PSFC has done to support DOE and the expensive fusion runs ( current and future) with collaborative tools.
Objectives:
- enhance the levels of ad-hoc communication needed to support a fusion run and facilitate the participation of the necessary decision makers
- to increase operational efficiency and to minimize experiment 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
- Joshua Stillerman
sip:jas@mit.edu or jas@psfc.mit.edu
mailto: jas@psfc.mit.edu
- Tom Fredian
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
- 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. If letter not ready by 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 to work with new SER config file? We will have upto 50 clients 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