OUTREACH

FMS

As noted earlier, the natural HPCC user base in the FMS community is
not large.  Consequently, the the primary interface with the FMS
community has been through the DoD FMS CTA Lead, Robert Wasilausky,
and the various researchers involved in FMS CHSSI projects. In
addition to routine contacts be e-mail and at various meetings, this
fall, Syracuse University's FMS Lead, Prof. Wojtek Furmanski was
invited to attend an internal review of the FMS CHSSI program.  This
meeting, conducted at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
(SPAWAR), in San Diego California, provided an opportunity for the PET
team to keep abreast of CHSSI activities and for both groups to
exchange views as to the evolution of the field.  During a visit to
the Army Research Lab in Aberdeen Maryland, Prof. Furmanski also had
the opportunity to talk with the heads of the Aberdeen Test Center and
the Virtual Proving Ground project.  Although these organizations are
technically more closely allied with the IMT CTA area than with FMS,
there is a fair amount of overlap between the two fields, especially
in the opportunity for commodity distributed computing.
In conjunction with the CMS parallelization planning effort, Syracuse
researchers have also had extensive contact with the code's "owner",
Steve Bishop, and his group.  This included a visit by Prof. Furmanski
to Ft. Belvoir for a breifing and demonstration of the system.