1. DOSAR Workshop IX, South Africa, April 6-8, 2010 Wrap-up and discussion of short- term goals and Action Items Pat Skubic OU

2. DOSAR Workshop IX, South Africa, April 6-8, 2010 Outline Workshop Highlights DOSAR: Work in Progress Discussion about short-term action items

3. Workshop Highlights Thanks to local organizers for the unique venue!! DOSAR Workshop IX, South Africa, April 6-8, 2010 “ I think we should move!”

4. Workshop Highlights (con’t) DOSAR Workshop IX, South Africa, April 6-8, 2010 Discovery of complete skeleton in South African cave (Malapa) determined to be about 2 million years old. It could be “missing link” in human evolution between Australopithecus and Homo habilis (pictured below). Official announcement expected today. Possible grid computing application to Paleontology?

5. Workshop Highlights (con’t) Grid computing activities in South Africa –SA-Grid (multi-institutional grid computing) –Joint Research Unit Proposed user forum Global operations center Training (GILDA) Grid computing activities in Africa –Sub-Saharan Task Force for grid deployment Internet connectivity improvement in Africa DOSAR Workshop IX, South Africa, April 6-8, 2010

6. DOSAR Work in Progress HA-OSCAR (LTU) –Possible collaboration with SA Virtual and GPGPU computing (LTU & UTA) –Possible applications to image processing, radiation dose simulations, … Tier 3 deployment –MRI proposal funded for Bellarmine U. OSG monitoring software development (OU) DOSAR Workshop IX, South Africa, April 6-8, 2010

7. Discussion about updating short- term action items:

8. Current Short-Term Action Items Action Items (Short Term)Responsible persons Deploy OSG and commence Tier 3 analysis in all DOSAR sites: (and also support D0 MC) - Actively participate in computing grid efforts in LHC experiments: Horst, Michael, David, Jim Turn on new LONI_OSG site with storage & local DQ2Michael Write note for setting up D0/ATLAS and CMS computing site: dosar.org Michael, Horst, Dick Create Co-Linux OSG/CMS facility at USA (and contribute to Co-Linux documentation)Horst,Merrill Document the Univ. Of Okla. Co-Linux setup. Try out at UT-Arlington, other DOSAR institutionsHorst, Jae Virtual and GPGPU computingAmir, Alden, Box, Dick Non-HEP participation in OSG/DOSAR/OSCER Horst+ Henry, Eduardo, Sergio Communicate with OSG concerning DOSAR participation in next large proposalPat, Horst, Jae, Dick DOSAR Workshop IX, South Africa, April 6-8, 2010

9. New Action Items and Goals Collaborate on improvements to HA-OSCAR – further discussions. Collaborate on development of grid computing applications to Paleontology – further discussions. Collaborate on ATLAS physics analyses (top quark) Dick, Pat, Jim C, Flera, Ketevi + list, Simon. Write Lab partnership EPSCoR proposal to continue OSG software support (OU). Create WN pool of lab computers at UJ – Stav, Francois Organize DOSAR Workshop XI in Thailand – Yes and we will do further research on local participation and encouraging local groups to join DOSAR – Box to make a proposal GPGPU Computing collaboration with UTA – (Amir), LTU – (Box) and UJ – (Wimpie Clarke, Andre Nel), NECSA – (Gawie Nothnagel), group at UCT. MoU document for DOSAR-UJ specifying DOSAR mission and projects being worked on.