1. UFP/CS Update David Hart

2. Highlights Sept xRAC results POPS Allocations RAT follow-up User News AMIE WebSphere transition Accounting Updates Metrics, Q2 2008

3. September xRAC 116 requests (56 LRAC, 55 MRAC, 5 Supplements) 370M SUs Available 400M SUs Requested 278M SUs Allocated (69.5% of Requests) 10 Advanced Support Requests 1.1PB disk and tape allocated Largest single allocation: 46M R. Sugar, MILC Six allocations of 15M SUs or more

4. POPS Long-awaited POPS-TGCDB communication via AMIE – Eliminates manual creation of allocations via NCSA systems – All allocations (and related requests) must be requested and processed via POPS – Workload can now be distributed TGUP-POPS pass-through authentication – No need to ‘re-login’ if user accesses POPS via TGUP Major upgrade rolled out YESTERDAY Sept xRAC awards are being processed via new POPS mechanisms. Thanks and credit to the Steve Quinn and the NCSA team.

5. Allocations RAT Follow-up Startup, Education, and Research requests – Up now. Revised documentation – Allocations Request Guide – Web, POPS, TGUP, KB – New and approved terminology Non-technical recommendations already being implemented – Past two xRAC meetings More POPS changes to come…. We’re working on it. First Startup request showed up yesterday (for ASP and Steele). First Education request show up minutes later (for TG Clusters).

6. Allocations RAT Follow-up, Pt 2 Startup review process will be affected. – Reviewers will now be the bottleneck. – TG-wide reviewer will be default; sites that want a hands-on review for their resource, let me know. – We also need Startup limits for each resource; we’re assuming 30k until told otherwise. Add-user process also moved into POPS backend. – NCSA staff will continue to process these requests for now Action items for RPs here!

7. User News New subscription handling – User preferences will be retained over time – Subscription to email news only via “official” TG email address Can be changed by user via TGUP – Other readers can monitor news via RSS or Web – http://news.teragrid.org/manage.php This just in…

8. AMIE Update New “tarball” version now ready Will speed packet transfer times by ~10x – More packets = more improvement Tested at 3 sites Will be rolling out into production in October

9. WebSphere Migration Contracts handed off to UC business office this week Training and planning to start asap 3 months estimated for migration activity – Portal, web, user info updates will be limited – Other activities will be delayed Migration effort accelerated by consulting firm – Hosting will be handled by 3 rd party provider Please excuse our dust as we upgrade to serve our users better.

10. WebSphere Migration, Pt 2 WebSphere upgrade will let us offer – User customization – Automatic password resets – Self-creation of TGUP logins – Many other “packaged” portlets And permit us to – Distribute developer and documentation effort among sites – Eliminate duplication of content between Web and TGUP – Eventually integrate TG Wiki

11. Accounting New metrics to be identified and incorporated into TGCDB Storage accounting to be pursued tgusage to get some overdue attention

12. TeraGrid Users, Q2 2008

13. TeraGrid Usage, Q2 2008

14. TeraGrid Summary, Q2 2008