1. April 9, 2002SweGrid, Uppsala STAC Strategic Technology Advisory Committee Bo Kågström, HPC2N substituting Lennart Johnsson, PDC

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4. April 9, 2002SweGrid, Uppsala STAC - Mission Provide oversight for major SNIC projects Assist SNIC (Board,Director) –in developing use policies –with technology roadmaps Advice SNIC on international opportunities of national scope

5. April 9, 2002SweGrid, Uppsala STAC Lars Andersson, UNICC Tord Ekelöf, SweGrid Sverker Holmgren, UPPMAX Lennart Johnsson (Chair), PDC Bo Kågström, HPC2N Matts Karlsson, NSC Göran Sandberg, LUNARC The STAC members are the Directors of HPC centers with a national or regional/local major user community. As needed STAC may invite leaders of major projects to serve on the committee on a term basis. Currently, Tord Ekelöf, SweGrid project Principal Investigator serve in such capacity. Current STAC members

6. April 9, 2002SweGrid, Uppsala SNIC/STAC - Activities SweGrid Testbed project –HPC2N, LUNARC, NSC, PDC, UNICC, UPPMAX Grid Research –Resource management and portals Erik Elmroth and Bo Kågström, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå University –Data bases in Grid environments Tore Risch, Dept of Information Technology, Uppsala University –Grid security Olle Mulmo and Lennart Johnsson, Dept. of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, KTH

7. April 9, 2002SweGrid, Uppsala SweGrid STAC’s first major project Steering Committee of SweGrid SweGrid Technical Group Charter: Advice on Platform architectures and sizes (Mass) storage for SweGrid Software environment(s) Procurement Implementation

8. April 9, 2002SweGrid, Uppsala SweGrid Technical Group Niclas Andersson, NSC (convener) Mattias Ellert, UPPMAX Olle Mulmo, PDC Börje Josefsson, SUNET Åke Sandgren, HPC2N Paul Wasebrot, UNICC Per-Anders Wernberg, LUNARC One representative from each center, one from SUNET. Current members

9. April 9, 2002SweGrid, Uppsala SNIC/STAC and SweGrid Operations to be integrated with regular center operations (eventually) Applications for major usage through SNAC, the Swedish National Allocations Committee (next call deadline: May 2) Integration with Nordic and European Grids over the next couple of years

10. April 9, 2002SweGrid, Uppsala SweGrid An exciting Challenge and Opportunity with Great Potential Details in talks during the rest of the day