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

Name: Joshua Stillerman Contact information:
sip:jas@mit.edu or jas@psfc.mit.edu

Name: Tom Fredian Contact information:
sip:twf@mit.edu or 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 31^st 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