Mbirn: Data provenance:Tcons:20061130AgendaAndMinutes

Agenda

When: Thursday Nov 29, 2006, 1pm Eastern.

How: Dial 1-218-936-1000 and enter the Conference ID 29497 followed by # key.

1. Review tasks from last tele-conference
   1. Original schema versus first draft proposed schema
   2. Tool list
   3. Generating output
   4. Specification table

Participants

1. Nicole Aucoin
2. Anthony Kolasny
3. Timothy Brown
4. Jyl Boline
5. Allan McKenzie-Graham
6. Randy Notestine
7. Jagadeeswaran Rajendiran

Minutes

Mouse:

1. internal loni pipeline (talk directly with Jags) and shiva
2. nuerotrain, drexel pipeline, ucsd pipeline
3. registration method for each data type
4. AIR
5. minc tools
6. get mouse birn programmer to look over data prov spec.

Version

1. air - one version for all sub packages
2. minc tools have one package version, but binary versions are different
3. back out changes (version and commandversion), use the Lib tags instead to designate other packages that binaries depend upon or are a part of

Hostname

1. loni pipeline: the pipeline is run on your desktop, pieces can run on the rack
2. check with birn cc about how to get hostnames from the rack/grid
   1. jeff
3. how much is embedded in the pipeline? the grid engine will send it back, can't count on the executable itself

Inputs/Outputs:

1. put out all args in arguments tag, and split if necesseary into inputs and outputs

Tool list:

1. to be added: mouse tools
   1. Alan will get unblocked by the web admin and add in his list

XML:

1. Nicole: write up code snippets for outputting data prov info in xml and post

Tags:

1. need to update info for subversion
2. waht other programs are running at the same time?
   1. will it be useful? overload, how to reproduce? no

Next stages:

1. capture information
2. deal with branching and merging
   1. talk to Dinying about fbirn schemas
   2. forking
      1. dagman with condor pools, how does the grid system do it?
      2. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.4/2_11DAGMan_Applications.html
      3. http://www.teragrid.org/userinfo/jobs/condorg.php
   3. update the schema
   4. syam: double check my annotations
3. who will deal with the updated xmloutput?
   1. lddmm - anthony
   2. freesufer kevin teich
   3. mouse - alan
   4. slicer - nicole
   5. loni - jags
   6. roger woods - author of air rwoods@ucla.edu
4. next: mike mendez chairs next series of tcons - when?

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