Meeting at SciDAC PI meeting, Washington Jan 15-17, '02
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Les met with Rolf Riedi of Rice  to discuss INCITE,  how to proceed with 
automated chirp measurements, and arranging visits for a student to SLAC 
and Jiri Navratil to Rice. 

It appears the best time for Jiri to go to Rice 
will be end of March (after March 25th when Rolf returns from vacation). 
The student is Hong Kong Chinese so I will work on seeing what is needed 
to prepare for her visit. She would like to come as soon as possible since 
this quarter she has a light load. 

We agreed we need a C/perl chirp analysis program that can be called from an 
application. This development will be led by Rice, since they understand the 
analysis needed. Rolf does not feel this is very hard.  This analysis code 
will be used to reduce the data so it is easy to report on (e.g in a time 
series graph) or to use to  compare with something else. Rolf will assist 
with coming up with reasonable parameters with which to call chirp. Typical 
optimum chirp sizes (# of packets sent in a chirp) is in the range 6-10.  
We should also saves the results from one chirp run to use as input 
parameters to the next chirp run. SLAC will keep the raw chirp data for 
up to a month (about 30MBytes), and make it available (e.g. via FTP or 
HTTP) for Rice to pick and keep a permanent copy. Some handshaking will be 
needed so SLAC will know Rice has got the data, and it can be deleted. 

Rolf encouraged SLAC to make contact with Vinay Joseph Ribeiro 
[vinay@ece.rice.edu] while he is in the Bay Area (working as an intern 
for Sprint). Rolf said Vinay will be returning to Rice to continue his 
thesis work. Jiri has been in contact with Vinay and they are trying 
to arrange a meeting.