CSG General Meeting
Meeting Summary
Tuesday – April 22, 2008
From 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
11348 Young Research Library

Attendees: Mike Van Norman, Ross Bollens, Mike Schilling, Bill Jepsen, David Snow, Paul Craft, Max Kopelevich, Bill Labate, Margo Reveil, Sean Pine, Tom Trappler, Tom Phelan, Kathleen O’Kane, Jackson Jeng, Nick Reddingius, Don Worth, John Min, Steve Duim, Kent Wada, Jackie Reynolds

The meeting was called to order at 2:06 p.m. on April 22, 2008 by Margo Reveil.

Agenda Item 1: Cyberinfrastructure Activities

• Background Information:

• The UCLA campus will collaborate with IDRE regarding the use of CI. The UCCI proposes two physical locations. One in Northern California and the other will be in Southern California’s San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). High-speed infrastructure will connect the two clusters.
• UCCI is the first step to creating virtualized data centers. In expanding data center space, the planning committee will consider options to cost-effectively deliver large power supply to the data centers that may include locating where energy cost are lower (for example near hydroelectric dams).
• To mitigate the eminent data center space shortage, funding would be needed to upgrade various data center spaces to increase capacity by four folds.

• Discussion Points:

• Currently, there are 18 clusters and ~800 nodes installed in the Math Science Data Center (MSA). There is a plan to encourage data center users to upgrade systems and hardware. The plan will re-evaluate the usefulness of the hardware with its owners.
• A step to alleviate the data center space shortage is with the shared cluster program. The program allows faculty to purchase nodes and allow any unused nodes to be reallocated for alternate use. The general purpose clusters utilize the shared cluster concept.
• High-level security data such as medical records do not qualify to use shared clusters and will have to use secured private clusters.

Agenda Item 2: CENIC and the state of networking within UCLA, other UC campuses and Internet2/NLR planning and ITGC report focusing on networking and CI

• Background Information:

• Internet2 recently release their strategic plan. The plan is divided into four parts: (1) connect the campus to the high-speed backbone; (2) upgrade the UC’s high-speed backbone; (3) upgrade the local campus’s backbone from a 1Gig capacity to 10Gig; (4) give researchers the capacity for high-speed use.
• CENIC has three networks that include the DC (all CENIC participant) and the HPR connecting to Internet2 and other HS network (mostly UC, USC, Caltrans).
• Internet2 is actively pursuing its community for feedback on their strategic plan.
• The recent development of the UCLA backbone aims to provide IPv6 capabilities for the entire campus. The backbone can support v6 networking and will be provided for outside researchers.

Action: Review the Internet2 wiki on its strategic plan. Contact Mike Van Norman if v6 networking is needed.

Agenda Item 3: CCLE Status

• Background Information:

• CCLE has heard from the Nursing School, OID, and OIT after sending out the opt-in letter. These groups have agreed to use the shared system. Other campus departs will make a decision later. CCLE expects a response from Humanities and the Libraries soon. The SMPG meeting will take place in early May. The contracted job offering has received ten applications. A concern was raised that the position is a contract position.

• Discussion Points:

• A question was raised about why the position is a contracted job offer. The reason may be due to limited funding, but two positions funded from the same funds offer two different contract terms – one position is for one year and the other position offers a three year contract.
• The purpose of the opt-in letter is to gain support from as many departments as possible so the letter was not heavily written with technical information.

Agenda Item 4: Campus messages about inappropriate access to PII/PHI.

• Background Information:

• The campus messages will detail what are appropriate and inappropriate uses of the OASIS login. The message came in response to the recent incident that involved the inappropriate access to PII/PHI at the UCLA medical center which has led to 18 staff members being released. This issue can be used as a good example to all staff about appropriate use of PII/PHI. Information regarding inappropriate access to PII/PHI will be sent to department heads who grant or need access to this data.

Agenda Item 5: Information Technology Compliance Coordinators

• Background Information:

• The first ITCC meeting will take place in May and will plan their meeting frequency.
• ITCC plans to gather the information and provide faculty and staff the necessary information to support the campus in implementing security policy.
• ITCC is considering an option of forming a “Faculty Champions Group.” The members will be faculty who will test different security and policy oriented projects, send feedback to ITCC, and assist with pushing information to fellow faculty members.
• ITCC will also serve as the advisory or support group that people can go to with questions, comments, suggestions regarding security and policy.

Agenda Item 6: Next meeting - Updates on ITPB working group activities - Are there other specific areas or projects CSG would like discussed?

ITPB working groups will be submitting reports on their progress. The CSG group has the option of receiving updates from individual group that will supplement the re-evaluation reports.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:49 p.m. on April 22, 2008.