Dear All,

    You are cordially invited to the 1st GridPP Collaboration Meeting,
to be held at Cosener's House on May 24/25th. Three items follow:
1. GridPP document
2. Draft Agenda
3. GridPP teamwork
with an appended registration form, to be returned by Thursday 3rd May,
if possible.

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1. GridPP document
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An updated version is kept in
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~doyle/GridPP/GridPP.htm
(Microsoft's less than valiant attempt at conversion to html)
and
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~doyle/GridPP/GridPP.doc
This is currently version 10.0 with changes marked in the properties of
the .doc file.

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2. Draft Agenda
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   1st GridPP Collaboration Meeting - Cosener's House: May 24/25th
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24th May
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10:30-11:00 Arrive (Coffee)
Scope, Aims and Background to the Meeting [Chair: Paul Jeffries, TBC]
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Note all talks currently [20' presentation + 10' discussion]

11:00-11:30 Introduction                               - Steve Lloyd
11:30-12:00 Current Project Structure                  - Tony Doyle
12:00-12:30 Current Manpower Allocations               - Dave Britton

12:30-1:30 Lunch

Work Group Structures and Plans
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Middleware I "Midfield" [Chair: TBC]
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1:30-2:00  A: Workload Management                      - TBC
                                                         (PP Dave Colling)
2:00-2:30  B: Information Services and Data Management - Alex Martin
2:30-3:00  C: Monitoring Services                      - Robin Middleton
3:00-3:30  D: Fabric Management and Mass Storage       - John Gordon
                                                         (PP Themis Bowcock)

3:30-4:00 Tea

Middleware II "Defence" [Chair: TBC]
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4:00-4:30  E: Security                                 - Dave Kelsey
4:30-5:00  F: Networking                               - Pete Clarke
5:00-5:30  K: CERN                                     - Tony Cass
                                                         (PP Les Robertson)
5:30-6:00  Discussion

6:00-7:00 Dinner

Experiment Objectives and Collaborations "Attack" [Chair: TBC]
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7:00-7:30  G: Prototype Grid                           - Dave Newbold
7:30-8:00  H: Software Support                         - Andrew McNab
8:00-8:30  I: Experiment Objectives                    - Nick Brook
8:30-9:00  J: Dissemination                            - Roger Jones

25th May
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Open Issues Discussion [Chair: TBC]
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9:00-10:00 Technical Issues:                 Discussion Leader - John Gordon
10:00-11:00 Experiment/Collaboration Issues: Discussion Leader - Andy Parker

11:00-11:30 Coffee

11:30-12:30 Sub-group Discussions
(Probably 4 groups - to be determined)
1. Attack, 2. Midfield, 3. Defence, 4. Shadow Project Management Board.

12:30-1:30 Lunch

Preparations for E-science Committtee
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1:30-2:00 PPARC perspective                            - Neil Geddes?
The e-science committee meets in the following week (30-31/5/01). We have
been asked to present the GridPP proposal to the committee. An agenda for
this section will be drawn up once this format becomes clearer...
3:00-3:30 Round Up Discussion on Future Plans: Discussion Leader?

3:30-4:00 Depart (Tea)

   A simple registration form follows below. Could you fill this in if you
can attend: please register with Tony by Thursday 3rd May. This will
enable an interim booking to be made. Everyone will be listed as
participants and be invited up to the Cosener's limit of ~30.
[current registrations: 12]

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3. GridPP teamwork
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  The key players who are reporting on activities in their areas are:

                            Roger Jones

            Dave Newbold    Andy McNab    Nick Brook

  Dave Colling    Alex Martin    Robin Middleton    Themis Bowcock

                  Dave Kelsey    Pete Clarke

                           Les Robertson

As you can see we're playing a 4-4-2 formation with a Dissemination
striker up front. The attack addresses goal-scoring opportunities in
the Prototype Grid, Software Support and Experimental Objectives areas.
A strong mid(dleware)field covering Workload Management, Information
Services and Data Management, Monitoring Services, Fabric Management
and Mass Storage builds on a Security and Network minded defence.
Goalkeeping duties ably performed by CERN.

   Please field your questions/problems/solutions via this team.

            Thanks, Tony
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Tony Doyle, Rm 482           Kelvin Building Telephone: +44-141-330 5899
Dept of Physics and Astronomy                  Telefax: +44-141-330 5881
University of Glasgow                   EMail: [log in to unmask]
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UK                                              Video - IP: 194.36.1.181
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   1st GridPP Collaboration Meeting - Cosener's House: May 24/25th
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Registration Form
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Name:

Institute:

Special Meal Requirements:

Planned Arrival Time:
(if different from 10:30 on May 24th)

Planned Departure Time:
(if different from 16:00 on May 25th)

Please return via e-mail to Tony Doyle <[log in to unmask]>.
Thank you.

Notes on travel:
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1. The GridPP Budget Holder is Robin Middleton
2. The GridPP Budget Code is FL69000 which will be used to pay for your
   participation in the first collaboration meeting and for associated
   travel within the UK.
3. May 24th EasyJet  6:30 Geneva->Luton
   May 25th EasyJet 20:00 Luton->Geneva
   is the "approved" route from/to Geneva [book early].