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.