Engineering:UCSD

UCSD Progress (in preparation for SLC AHM)

Dissemination

• Introductory meeting and demonstration with Tina Kapur & Birn-CC.
• Hosted NAMIC dissemination event (February 17-18).
• Taught Data Grid course at UCSD dissemination event.
• Attended NAMIC dissemination event.
• Attended SLC AHM.
• Instructions available for deploying a "tunneled" SRB server.

Infrastructure

• Researched, tested and deployed a newly configured SRB server for NAMIC that allows for the tunneling of all SRB commands via SSH. This tunneling has been tested with the command line (SCommands), Java (JARGON) and Windows (InQ) clients. The current staging server is running at UCSD and is available for testing.
• A server co-located at BWH will be discussed at the AHM.
• Leveraged BWH BIRN Rack to provide gigabit connection for na-mic.org.
• Researching and developing a parallel system for backend parallel processing of Slicer3 algorithms
• Discussed the use of BatchMake for submitting grid-like jobs to a Condor pool

Data Sharing

• Hosting NAMIC data on data grid accessible to all NAMIC participants.
• Providing data grid and Portal support to all NAMIC participants.
• Provided custom project space for NAMIC in BIRN Portal.
• Provided account generation for first batch of NAMIC users. New users can now utilize the new account request feature in the Portal.
• Working with Isomics to assist core 3 sites in their data uploads.
• Provided template data hierarchy constructs and integration of hierarchy in data grid.
• Provided statistics to Tina Kapur on account creation, number of uploaded data sets, and audit information.

Monthly Progress (since July 2007)

July - September 2007

• Inception, analysis, architecture, design and implementation of Grid Wizard Enterprise (GWE).

October 2007

• Presentation and live demo of first GWE prototype at BIRN AHM. (PowerPoint / PDF)
• Work towards GWE first release.

November 2007

• Work towards GWE first release.

December 2007

• Launch of GWE's:
  • project site
  • issue tracking system
  • mailing lists.

January 2008

• Unit tests of GWE's first release candidate components.
• Internal pre-release of first version of GWE.
• Load testing and system testing of internal pre-release.
• Document GWE guides, technical details and collaboration tools in the GWE project site.

February 2008

• First release of GWE (version 0.6.alpha). See its 'features' page for details.
• Work towards GWE version 0.6.1.alpha.

March 2008

• GWE version 0.6.1.alpha released. See its release notes for details.
• GSlicer3 integration effort released. (Overview Presentation / Video Demo / Documentation @ GWE Project Site / Documentation @ NAMIC Wiki Site).
• Presentation of GWE and GSlicer3 at the 2008 Engineering review at Utah.

April 2008

• Work towards GWE version 0.6.2.alpha.
• GWE version 0.6.2.alpha released. See its release notes for details.
• Wrote paper "Simplifying the Utilization of Grid Computation using Grid Wizard Enterprise" to be submitted to the 'MICCAI Grid Workshop'.

May 2008

• Inception, design and implementation of the 'Chain Modules Engine' (a project different from GWE and which will be worked in parallel):
  • Functional Specification.
  • Java implementation technical details.

June 2008

• Work towards GWE version 0.6.3.alpha.
• GWE version 0.6.3.alpha released. See its release notes for details.
• NAMIC summer week presentations and projects:
  • GWE Special Topic Breakout
  • Grid Computing Project
  • Module Chaining Project

July 2008

• Two extra rounds of edition of the paper submitted to the 'MICCAI Grid Workshop'. Paper was accepted and scheduled for a long presentation in September.
• Work towards GWE version 0.6.4.alpha.

Miscellaneous

• Weekly NAMIC engineering teleconferences.
• GWE testbed and user's support.