Security & Remote Computing

1. Year 1
   1. Building the Fusion Grid Infrastructure
      1. Provide certificate authority and Globus authentication services
      2. Necessary Globus components on Windows for SQL access
      3. Experiment combining Akenti authorization and Globus functionality
      4. Initial monitoring & refinement of Grid resource management techniques
      5. Globus deployment and training, standing up/adding resources, and general activities associated with building the Grid.
   2. Adapt fusion tools
      1. Modify MDSplus to use Globus
      2. Implement secure SQL access
      3. EFIT and TRANSP working in Grid environment with monitoring
      4. Investigate DCON/GATO/PEST and GS2 working in Grid environment
   3. Capability demonstrations and scientific community feedback
      1. November 2001 (SC01), April 2002 (Sherwood, TTF)
      2. Oversight Committee: November 2001 (APS), May 2002 (teleconference)
2. Year 2
   1. Building the Fusion Grid Infrastructure
      1. Deploy dedicated fusion CA and GSI services
      2. Refine Akenti mechanisms for specification/enforcement of policies
      3. Refine monitoring capabilities
      4. Expand Globus resource management to support between shot analysis
   2. Adapt fusion tools
      1. Refine MDSplus and SQL access
      2. Develop fusion specific resource use policies
      3. Implement between-pulse grid based experimental data analysis
      4. Additional fusion codes, as determined above, working on the grid
   3. Capability demonstrations and scientific community feedback
      1. November 2002 (SC02), April 2003 (Sherwood, TTF)
      2. Oversight Committee: November 2002 (APS), May 2003 (teleconference)

Visualization

1. Year 1
   1. Deploy fusion data access and visualization tools for CSET evaluation
      1. MDSplus data access and IDL based visualization tools
   2. Initial 3D visualization capability
      1. Prototype visualization techniques using NIMROD data as an example
      2. Create first draft of general visualization application
      3. Evaluate tool with other datasets and with very large datasets
   3. Initial testing with documentation to facilitate remote collaboration plan
      1. Investigate Chromium Library for wall to wall collaborative visualization
      2. Investigate VNC for workstation to wall collaboration
      3. Prototype Xplit system, desktop browser and vic windows operate on tiled display as a single desktop - Define Xplit architecture
      4. Prototype of AG sharing systems, allowing user to drag x-based application off of desktop into a shared space - Define X-windows based AG architecture
   4. Capability demonstrations and scientific community feedback
      1. November 2001 (SC01), April 2002 (Sherwood, TTF)
      2. Oversight Committee: November 2001 (APS), May 2002 (teleconference)
2. Year 2
   1. Refine 3D visualization capability
      1. Release 3D visualization application to community
      2. Define further enhancements based on general feedback
      3. Integrate security infrastructure into tool
      4. Investigate and prototype uncertainty visualization and new data comparison methodologies
   2. Implement remote collaboration plan based on year 1 results
      1. Create and demonstrate a control room wall mock-up
      2. Deploy initial wall-to-wall and workstation-to-wall capability for feedback
      3. Integrate new 3D visualization tool with display wall and AG
      4. Integrate security infrastructure into display wall and AG tools
   3. Capability demonstrations and scientific community feedback
      1. November 2002 (SC02), April 2003 (Sherwood, TTF)
      2. Oversight Committee: November 2002 (APS), May 2003 (teleconference)

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