1. GISC Washington Status Doc 21r1
ET WISC Task Team on GISCs
Toulouse, France
12-14 February 2014
Robert Bunge

2. Portal Status OpenWIS based Portal
Primary systems on two stand-alone servers in Silver Spring, Maryland. Configured for failover.
Backup pair running on virtualized systems at Fairmont, West Virginia.
Primary systems expected to be moved to VMs this spring
VMs boot off NFS server
Data hosed on NFS server
Data feed from RTH MSS

3. Portal Status
About one dozen users. Not actively marketed to partners and customers yet
Operationally monitored via Big Brother system used to monitor MSS
Exchange of meta data with a several DCPC’s
Exchange of meta data with several other GISCs
Recently demonstrated to a number of important US partners

4. Capacity Building in RAIV
National outreach: letter sent from U.S. PR to nominated U.S. DCPCs
Formal start of outreach process 
Asks for contacts 
RA-IV outreach: in planning stages 
Currently working with Canada
Potential RA-IV workshop 
Continue to update both WMO and XML metadata 
First updates in many years in most cases 
RMDCN Next Gen Status
Circuit install at New York Hotel site
Waiting on patch panel install at NY remote site
Expected to be operational within 30 days

5. GISC Washington reports progress in the standup of backup portal systems at a backup location in West Virginia. GISC Washington will also be migrating their current OpenWIS implementation of the portal from standalone machines to virtual machine systems that will boot off a NFS server. Current efforts also include improving internal monitoring of the portal systems by the RTH monitoring staff and development of on call support staff lists, recovery procedures and other details needed to bring the US portal to an internal operational status. The US continues to update the GTS metadata for the first time in many years. A number of outreach efforts are underway with US partners and customers regarding WIS and the use of the portal. A number of internal customers have expressed hope that the portal and GISC metadata sharing will allow rapid discovery of data, especially during emergencies. The US has also officially reached out to US DCPCs regarding their efforts and opening channels of communication. GISC Washington continues to exchange metadata with several GISCs and more recently Canada and two US DCPCs on an experimental basis. The next generation RMDCN circuit has been installed at the New York City “hotel” location, but we are currently awaiting installation of patch panels needed to activate and use the circuit. This is expected to occur within the next month.