1. External Communication & Coordination Ruth Pordes ruth@fnal.gov

2. 31 Jan 2008 2Overview Current Initiatives  Starting second round of quarterly meetings with major stakeholders/VOs. Had second (every 6 weeks) LIGO meeting. Positive communication and progress made.  Meetings between TeraGrid management dropped of.  Blueprint/design meeting with WLCG- EGEE productive. Next phone meeting of management July 7th.  Writing paper for SciDAC2008; Need to gather poster.  Attendance/reporting at NSF/DOE Magic meeting.  Working with WLCG MB & OSG Facility on US LHC OSG Reports for accounting and availability/reliability  Council chairs working on Science Advisory Committee meeting Accomplishments Since Last Report (27th March?)  Scidac web page article posted.  Network world interview Issues / Concerns  Still issue of ongoing iSGTW editor. Waiting for consultant req for 3 articles a month to go through Fermilab purchasing. Move iSGTW to Annes communications area.  Concerns filtering back from agencies.

3. 31 Jan 2008 3 WBS - Science Goals WBS Task NameWhoStartFinishComments 6Science GoalsPordes9/3/077/1/0874% 6.1CMS 9/3/075/30/0865% 6.2ATLASJim Shank11/12/077/1/0865% 6.3CDF 11/12/07 0% 6.3.1CDF: opportunistic Monte Carlo and Analysis on OSG sites at 5,000 jobs/day Rick Snider, Stephan Lammel 11/12/07 0% 6.4D0Brad Abbott11/12/076/15/08100 % 6.5STAR: 10,000 jobs/dayJerome Lauret11/12/07 0% 6.6LIGO: Demonstrate use of OSG grid accessible storage for LIGO application Blackburn11/12/0711/30/0710% 6.7NanoHUB?: 200 hours/day on OSG sites with 90% success rate? Gerhart Klimeck11/12/07 40%running 100 jobs a day but the success rate is lacking

4. 31 Jan 2008 4 WBS - External Communication WBS Agency Task NameWhoStartFinishComp lete 5.1NoProject External CommunicationPordes10/1/079/30/0825% 5.1.1NoMonthly written reports to Council Pordes10/1/079/30/0875% 5.1.2NoSemi-annual written reports to JOG Pordes1/7/087/26/0850% 5.1.2. 1 NoFirst mid-year reportPordes1/7/081/26/08100% 5.1.2. 2 NoSecond full-year reportPordes7/7/087/26/080% 5.1.3NoAnnual Project Review with DOE/NSF Pordes8/1/089/15/0850% 5.1.4NoManage External RelationshipsPordes9/29/089/30/0850% 5.1.5NoQuarterly sub-area status, progress, issues reporting into twiki 10/1/079/30/0845%