CESWP 
Virtual Organization Meeting 2010.01.20
1. Introductions
2. Project Overview
3. VO Expectations
4. Work to Date
5. Project Plan
6. Modeling/Simulation Discussion
7. Next Meeting
8. Q & A
Who's who in the CESWP Virtual Organization?
Robert Rankin (Principal Investigator), Professor, Department of Physics, University of Alberta
Michael Hesse, Director, Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Raymond Walker, Professor in Residence, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Earth and Space Science, UCLA
William Liu, Senior Scientist, Canadian Space Agency
Hans De Sterck, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Aaron Ridley, Associate Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan
Moritz Heimpel, Associate Professor of Geophysics, Department of Physics, University of Alberta
Rob Simmonds, Research Director, Grid Research Centre, University of Calgary
Patrick Mann, CTO, Cybera

Also attending...
John Shillington, Tech Lead, CESWP Project
Clare Watt (Science Team VO Rep), Research Associate, Department of Physics, UofA
May Lynn Lee, Project Coordinator, CESWP Project
Barton Satchwill, Senior Developer, CESWP Project
Everett Toews, Senior Developer, CESWP Project
Todd King, Programmer Analyst, UCLA
Robin Winsor, President and CEO, Cybera
Jill Kowalchuk, Vice President, Project & Partnership Development, Cybera
Lindsay Sill, Project Manager, Cybera
See CESWP Mind Map presentation for a high level review of the project's Statement of Work.
In short, CESWP is about making it easier for space physicists to share, run, and collaborate on modeling and simulation work.
In order to do this, we will create a compute cloud that will span several countries by the end of the project, including Canada, the US, and China.
 
Once we have the kernel of our CESWP compute cloud, we will virtualize CSSDP and move it into the cloud.
In parallel with our other work, we will start to move space weather simulations into the cloud and make them available to researchers.
Introductions
Project Overview
What is expected of  you as a VO member?
Guide Greedily: Bring ideas and models to the table that will help both the project and help you.
Provide feedback on plans, completed work, and work in progress.
Please let May Lynn know who your delegate is so we always have someone to work with/consult/attend meetings if you aren't available.
Steer the project
Attend the VO meetings
Keep in touch with the project team
Read the project blog (www.ceswp.ca) 
(short weekly postings)
Agenda
What have we accomplished so far?
Note: Project start date was October 1, 2009.
John, Barton, Everett (Oct 1, 2009)
May Lynn (Nov 1, 2009)
Chen Zhang (Workflow with Hadoop) (Jan 1, 2010)
Andree Susunto (MPI-parallel space weather simulations) (Jan 1, 2010)
As of January 20, 2010, we have...
Staffed the project
Investigated the technology (ongoing)
Clouds: Amazon Web Services, Eucalyptus
Hypervisors: KVM, Xen, VMWare
OSs: Ubuntu, CentOS
See CESWP tech blog (www.cewsp.ca/ceswptech/) for a complete list of technologies used
Learned about CSSDP (our sister project)
Learned the Space Physics domain
(well, we've started to learn...)
regular meetings with Science Team
attend weekly Space Physics seminars
attended AGU
okay, we're still ignorant, but learning
Got an actual model running in the cloud
Magnetoseismology model (Konstantin Kabin)
running on portal VM, "hot" VM, "cold" VM
running on Amazon EC2 instances (VMs)
learned CSSDP functionality and project scope
learned about technology
built a system test harness for CSSDP using Selenium
Got a test version of CSSDP running in the cloud
got test version running on AWS
getting test version running on proof-of-concept Eucalyptus cloud (work in progress)
Built our first experimental Eucalyptus cloud
Front end server has CentOS, Xen and Eucalyptus Cloud and Cluster Controllers
Node server has CentOS, Xen and Eucalyptus Node Controller
Got 18 VMs running on Node server
Still in progress...
...not a bad start, but we have many mile(stone)s to go before we sleep.
Project Plan
Seven milestones
Planned completion June 30, 2011
See "CESWP Milestones" presentation for milestone details
Milestone 1 is currently in progress 
Target M1 completion date: Feb. 28, 2010
On track for on-time, on-budget M1 completion
Modeling/Simulation Discussion
Formed Virtual Organization and held first meeting (i.e. this meeting).
Which models should we put in CESWP?
In which order should we add them?
So far we've focused mostly on FDAM models (see http://project.fdam.ca:7000/fdam/)
We've also talked to Aaron Ridley about GITM
What are your thoughts?