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December 1999
(AG Schedule originated September 1999)

Wednesday, Dec 22
10:00am HST
Hoang Nguyan, MHPCC, hoang@mhpcc.edu, 808-879-5077--ex308
Demo request from Hoang for demo at UNM.

Wednesday, Dec 15
Tom Coffin tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu
2:30 pm
In response to Marv Langston, Deputy CIO, DoD's, request for a tour and briefing for the Pentagon renovation people we are providing a tour and briefing at ACCESS Wednesday Dec 15 at 2:30 pm. Marv is particularly interested in "Col Kirsch's folks looking at the voice and video over the network work they are doing".

Tuesday, Dec 14
Rick Stevens
9:00 am
Jeff Eschbach, Gerald Labedz, and Barry Menich (from Motorola) will be onsite, hosted by AG team and Rick.
4:00pm
Cherry Murray (Lucent), candidate for lab directory, visting AG, AM (uM).

Tuesday, Dec 14
Randy Butler, rbutler@ncsa.uiuc.edu
(late morning – 5pm)
Rich Guida - Federal PKI Working Group Chair
Rich's presentation (45 minutes), followed by Alliance PKI effort presentation, then review and discussion of key issues.

Wednesday, Dec 8
10:00-4:00 CT
Terry Disz
Test cruise for corridor one.... all sites possible please be up and running on ag and mud.

Thursday (8:30am-5:00pm), Friday (8:30am-4:00pm)
Dec 2-3, 1999
at ANL, Building 221
Rick Stevens
AccessGrid Research and Development Conference (register through fritsch@mcs.anl.gov )

Thursday
Dec 2, 2:00 - 5:00 PM TIM
Sites: MHPCC, AHPCC (UNM)
Contact: Ernie Herrera
Note that this does not require Argonne participation. We will need to retain the capability of running independent sessions on the bridge (from SC 99) for this though.

Wednesday (1/2 day)
Dec 1, 1999 (1:00pm-5:00pm)
at ANL, Building 221
Rick Stevens
"Short Tutorial.  Setting up and operating an AG node."  (register through fritsch@mcs.anl.gov)

Wednesday
Dec 1, 1:00 - 5:00 PM CST - Civil Rights Training for MHPCC
Sites: MHPCC, AHPCC (UNM)
Contact: Ernie Herrera
Note that this does not require Argonne participation. We will need to retain the capability of running independent sessions on the bridge (from SC 99) for this though.

November 1999

Tuesday
Nov 30, 2:00 PM CST - Career Dev Tng for MHPCC
Sites: MHPCC, AHPCC (UNM)
Contact: Ernie Herrera
Note that this does not require Argonne participation. We will need to retain the capability of running independent sessions on the bridge (from SC 99) for this though.

Nov 13-19 
SC99
http://www.supercomp.org/sc99/ 
ANL Confirmed.

Monday
Nov 8
Jim Farrar, farrar@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Conference between Larry Smarr and the Access Center in Washington DC.  All sites welcome. 
ANL Confirmed.

Friday
Nov 5
at 4 Central, 5 Eastern, and 12 Maui
John Greenfield, green@arc.unm.edu , University of New Mexico
UNM, School of Management, November 5 from 4-5 Central time.
THE ALBUQUERQUE HIGH PERFORMANCE
ANL Unconfirmed.

Friday
Nov 5, 1  pm HST, 4pm MST, 5pm CST, and 6pm EST
Margaret Lewis, MHPCC
Computational Chemistry discussion and preparation for SC99.  Sites requested to attend - AHPCC and MHPCC.
ANL Unconfirmed.

Thursday
Nov 4, 10:00-12:00 pm eastern time
Tom Coffin
Larry Smarr briefing to Ruzena Bajcsy of NSF
Postponed - date to be determined.

Monday-Tuesday
Nov 1-2, 8am-4pm CST
Jim Farrar, NCSA-UIUC
Origi Training Workshop.  They would like to broadcast this learning experience and have anyone interested join in.  They will be advertising it around the computing world so we may have some outside interest in this one.
ANL Unconfirmed.

October 1999

Oct 28, 12:00 pm eastern time
Vikram Gazula
University of Kentucky, Vice President & others
This is basically a hello kida demo which might last for a few mins. Any sites that can participate would be appreciated.
ANL Unconfirmed.

Oct 22
PACS Meeting. 
Remy Evard, ANL
Using AG all day for PACS meeting.
Most of the other Alliance sites would participate, and folks in PACS without an AG would go to the closest site. We'd probably need to host about 8-10 folks.  (Boston, KY, UNM, MHPCC (whee, time zone fun), and ACCESS)  <<No CAVE or AM demos>>
Confirmed.

Oct 22
ASCI Dry Run 
Practice sessions for ASCI Site Review ongoing throughout day...
Confirmed.

Oct 21, 12 - 2 pm ET & 4:30 - 6pm ET
Tom Coffin, tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Larry Smarr to present talk. Possibly…Emerging 21st Century Trends in Information Infrastructure

Oct 14, 10:00am to 12:00pm CT
AG Reservation. 
Jim Farrar, farrar@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Sites involved: NCSA-UIUC, Utah, and ANL.
CANCELLED!

Oct 14, 2:00pm CT
Tom Brown, tbrown@mcs.anl.gov
"Private Session.  Participating sites:  ANL and EVL. (CAVE calibration, tracker meeting Argonne and EVL.)
Confirmed.

Oct 14, 3pm CT
Tom Coffin, tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Illinois Senate High Technology Task Force
Larry would like to showcase the Access Grid with folks from Argonne, NCSA, and Access DC during their visit to campus.
Confirmed. (video shoot as well)

Oct 8, 3:00-5:00 pm CT
ET Steering Committee Meeting
Rick Stevens
Attendees or Participants:  Charlie Catlett, catlett@ncsa.uiuc.edu, Rick Stevens, stevens@mcs.anl.gov , Mary Fritsch, fritsch@mcs.anl.gov , Phoebe Lenear, p-lenear@uiuc.edu, Dan Reed, reed@cs.uiuc.edu , Dennis Gannon, gannon@cs.indiana.edu , Ian Foster, foster@mcs.anl.gov , Valerie Taylor, taylor@ece.nwu.edu
Rick noted that this meeting will be Online via the AccessGrid from ANL and NCSA.. and also an audio conference line will be set up. Dan and I will send out an agenda soon.
Confirmed.

Oct 7, 1-3:00 CT
John Greenfield, green@arc.unm.edu
UNM and NCSA (Danesh Tafti)
Use of the bridge for this meeting. 
No ANL participation required.

Oct 6, 2-3:30 CT
Air Force Council of CIO
John Greenfield, green@arc.unm.edu
Participation: As many remote sites as possible. Would like ANL. Need bridge.   Organizer: Ernie Herrera
The Air Force Research Laboratory Council of Corporate Information Officers is holding their annual meeting at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque.  They are very interested in a demonstration of the ACCESS Grid and its applicability to meet AF needs for collaboration in research. The Commander of AFRL, and his deputy, have been suitably impressed by the AG's capability such that they are considering a prototype for AFRL use.
Unconfirmed.

Oct 6, 1-3:00 CT
Illinois State Representative
Jim Farrar
Participation: All sites welcome - this can be combined with participation in Air Force Council conference above.
Confirmed.

Oct 5, 2-3:30 CT
Air Force Council of CIO
John Greenfield, green@arc.unm.edu
Participation: As many remote sites as possible. Would like ANL. Need bridge.   Organizer: Ernie Herrera
The Air Force Research Laboratory Council of Corporate Information Officers is holding their annual meeting at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque.  They are very interested in a demonstration of the ACCESS Grid and its applicability to meet AF needs for collaboration in research. The Commander of AFRL, and his deputy, have been suitably impressed by the AG's capability such that they are considering a prototype for AFRL use.
Unconfirmed.

Oct 4
ANL PHOTOSHOOT
Ann Snowberger/Mary Fritsch
Futures Laboratory - MCS - ANL
Confirmed.

Oct 4-8
Research and Development
Futures Laboratory - MCS - ANL
ANL requests some downtime/preparation time during this week for research and development in connection with upcoming SC99 conference in November.
Confirmed.

Oct 1
MHPCC Access Grid Demo
Margaret Lewis
8 - 8:30 am HST, 12 - 12:30 pm MDT, 1-1:30 pm CDT, and 2-2:30 pm EDT
Group: IBM Executives including Lou Bifano, Mike Henesey, Paul Horn
Sites Requested to Attend: MHPCC, UNM, ANL, and AC-DC.

Agenda
8 am - 8:05 am - Introduction of sites
8:05 am - 8:15 am - Access Grid Overview - Frank G.
8:15 - 8:25 am - Discuss and Q&A between the groups
Confirmed.

September 1999

Thursday, Sept 30
4:45pm
Remy Evard to host
Visit of Members of the Illinois Senate Taks Force on High Technology
(see agenda below)
FLers to demos AG, CAVE, and AM.  Time will be about 30 minutes or so.  Basic AG stuff (Voyager recording, playback) with Terry or Lisa MCing.  CAVE and AM doing hairpin vortices and crayola land with Randy, Terry, Ivan amd Mark helping out.
CANCELLED DUE TO TOUR RUNNING LATE.

Wednesday
Sept 29
10:00 am, EST
Site Coordinator -- Allison Clark, NCSA, 217-244-0768
ACCESS DC
Visit of 20-30 Tribal College Presidents to ACCESS D.C ( Boston may be tapping in ... others to be confirmed.)
Unconfirmed.

Wednesday
Sept 29
Site Coordinator -- Margaret Lewis and Cheryl Lawrence
(see details below)
MHPCC
Date -- Wednesday, Sept. 29th
Time -- 9:30 am - 10:30 am HST - 1:30 pm MDT, 2:30 pm CDT, 3:30 pm EDT
Event -- Meeting for the Technical Task Force of the Regional Ed Laboratory
More information at:  http://www.relnetwork.org
Unconfirmed.

Tuesday
Sept 28
9-3pm PST
Robert Lucas, Robert Clay,   925-294-3193, cell (925/519-2024) rlclay@ca.sandia.gov, pwdean@sandia.gov, dmfries@ca.sandia.gov, dmharre@sandia.gov, Diane Friesen, dmfries@sandia.gov, 925 294-2128
ISDN VIDEO CONFERENCE:
SNL/CA (912/112) and Argonne National Lab
Topic: Combustion Corridor
9:00 am - 3:00 pm (PDT)
Agenda from Bob Lucas:
1) Introductions of participants. Each institution should spend
fifteen minutes introducing their people and what they plan to
contibute. We need to know what research contributions we plan on making
and how to define success.
2) I have to brief the NGI PI meeting on our joint project next week.
Attached is a set of slides that we need to review and enhance. My goal
is to come to a common understanding of our "story".
3) Resource issues: WAN, LAN, access grid, computers, storage, etc.
4) Deadlines and opportunities: NGI PI meeting, SC'99, ???
5) Planning for future meetings (mailing lists, Web site, etc.)
Confirmed.

Monday
Sept 27
9:30 am
Melanie Loots 217-244-2921.  
Sam Gustman, the executive director of technology for the Shoah Visual History Foundation, will be coming to NCSA/UIUC September 27-29. He will be there to discuss possible joint projects with NCSA/Alliance staff, as well as to give a MillerComm lecture on the UIUC campus.
Remote participation.
Confirmed.

Monday
Sept 27
Jim Farrar, NCSA, farrar@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Alliance External Advisory Council (EAC) Meeting @ ACCESS
Unconfirmed.

Friday
Sept 24
Computation Institute Retreat Agenda
Gleacher Center
http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/maps/
7:30a Bus leaves from Argonne
8:00a Bus leaves from UC campus
8-9am Coffee and continental breakfast
9:00a Opening remarks and goals for Retreat
            Zimmer, Scott, Stevens, Foster
10:00p Coffee and more
10:10p Application Breakout sessions

Friday
Sept 24
Combustion project meeting.
Hope to have ANL and UW video-in to LBL, where LBL and Sandia will be represented at LBNL for Sept 24 for 9:00AM to 3:00PM (PDT).
Unconfirmed.

Wednesday
Sept 22
DOE2000 Site Visit
Review of DOE2K work in FL: View and discuss AccessGrid and connections to Voyager, Metro, ManyWorlds, CAVEav, and to other DOE2K collaborative projects. (Nestor for example..) Rick would like to use this to push the long term issues   of our ActiveSpace research agenda.  Mary Scott, (scott@er.doe.gov) and Stu Loken (loken@lbl.gov) visiting.
(FL would like to include an AG demo at 10:30 AM CDT, including as many AG sites as possible.  This demo will be about 15 minutes and I would like Frank Gilfeather if possible to be available from the UNM site for a short chat .. an informal round robin, experience discussion is what I'm looking for.)
Draft Agenda
9-11.30 Collaborative environments: progress, future directions, demos (Rick Stevens, Terry Disz, Bob Olson, others)
1-2.30 Collaboratory infrastructure: progress, future directions,demos (Ian Foster, Brian Toonen, Joe Insley, others)
3-5:00 Discussion, other demos
Rick Stevens
Confirmed.  Also to involve, CAVE, AM, AG

Wednesday
Sept 22
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 22nd
Time: 9:30 am HST, 1:30 pm MDT, 2:30 pm CDT, 3:30 pm EDT
Event: Demo for Col. J. Heald
Site Coordinator: Margaret Lewis and Steve Karwoski
I would like to request that UNM (Frank or Ernie), ANL (any of the tech team who could answer tech questions -- especially around security issues), and Access Center DC (Janet or Tom -- to show connectivity to DC area) to attend. Other sites are welcome to join.
Col. J. Herald is deputy to General Paul, head of AFRL. This is a follow-up to the demo that MHPCC did in early Sept. (my how time flies) for General Paul and part of the growing interest of AFRL to explore the future usability of this type of resource between the various AF labs.
Unconfirmed.

Monday
Sept 20
(see details below)
Alliance External Advisory Council (EAC) Meeting @ ACCESS 
(Agenda)
ACCESS-DC, NCSA, ANL and UNM
Rick Stevens
Jim Farrar, NCSA, farrar@ncsa.uiuc.edu,
Confirmed.

Tuesday/Wednesday
Sept 14-15
Chautauqua at Boston University
All sites.
Confirmed.

Wednesday
Sept 8
10am Mountain
11am Central
12pm Eastern
Vice Provost of UNM hosted by Frank.   We would like to show him the AG in action.
Lisa Childers, Rick Stevens
Confirmed.

Thursday
Sept 2
NGI Corridor One Kick Off Meeting
May use AG to provide remote participation of some form.
Rick Stevens
Confirmed.

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