GISC Washington Status Doc 21r1 ET WISC Task Team on GISCs Toulouse, France 12-14 February 2014 Robert Bunge

Portal Status OpenWIS based Portal Primary systems on two stand-alone servers in Silver Spring, Maryland. Configured for failover. Backup pair running on virtualized systems at Fairmont, West Virginia. Primary systems expected to be moved to VMs this spring VMs boot off NFS server Data hosed on NFS server Data feed from RTH MSS

Portal Status About one dozen users. Not actively marketed to partners and customers yet Operationally monitored via Big Brother system used to monitor MSS Exchange of meta data with a several DCPC’s Exchange of meta data with several other GISCs Recently demonstrated to a number of important US partners

Capacity Building in RAIV National outreach: letter sent from U.S. PR to nominated U.S. DCPCs Formal start of outreach process  Asks for contacts  RA-IV outreach: in planning stages  Currently working with Canada Potential RA-IV workshop  Continue to update both WMO and XML metadata  First updates in many years in most cases  RMDCN Next Gen Status Circuit install at New York Hotel site Waiting on patch panel install at NY remote site Expected to be operational within 30 days

GISC Washington reports progress in the standup of backup portal systems at a backup location in West Virginia. GISC Washington will also be migrating their current OpenWIS implementation of the portal from standalone machines to virtual machine systems that will boot off a NFS server. Current efforts also include improving internal monitoring of the portal systems by the RTH monitoring staff and development of on call support staff lists, recovery procedures and other details needed to bring the US portal to an internal operational status. The US continues to update the GTS metadata for the first time in many years. A number of outreach efforts are underway with US partners and customers regarding WIS and the use of the portal. A number of internal customers have expressed hope that the portal and GISC metadata sharing will allow rapid discovery of data, especially during emergencies. The US has also officially reached out to US DCPCs regarding their efforts and opening channels of communication. GISC Washington continues to exchange metadata with several GISCs and more recently Canada and two US DCPCs on an experimental basis. The next generation RMDCN circuit has been installed at the New York City “hotel” location, but we are currently awaiting installation of patch panels needed to activate and use the circuit. This is expected to occur within the next month.