Dear All,
Please find attached the weekly GridPP Project Management
Board Meeting minutes. The latest minutes can be found each week in:
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/pmb/minutes/this-week.txt
(as well as being listed with other minutes e.g. 020304.txt).
Cheers, Tony
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Tony Doyle, GridPP Project Leader Telephone: +44-141-330 5899
Rm 482, Kelvin Building Telefax: +44-141-330 5881
Dept of Physics and Astronomy EMail: [log in to unmask]
University of Glasgow Web: http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~doyle
G12 8QQ, UK Video - IP: 194.36.1.234
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GridPP PMB Minutes 24 - 4th March 2002
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Present: Roger Barlow (RB), Nick Brook (NB), Tony Doyle(TD),
Steve Lloyd (SL), Robin Middleton (RM), Neil Geddes (NG)
Secretarial Help
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TD reported that interviews had been held and an offer made. It is hoped that
the person would be in post soon and be able to take minutes in future.
Progress on Actions
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ACTION 15.2 TD to iterate with OC on understanding of management of Tier2
Centres. The OC will not now be in April and dates in May are being sought. SL
will go to Oxford to talk to Paul Jeffreys on Thursday (7th) and TD will go a
week later.
ACTION 17.9 SL with Andrew McNab, improve website. Andrew will go to QM on
20th March and he and SL will implement new structure.
ACTION 17.11 TD Contact AstroGrid project Manager. NG made contact. A
(technical) meeting is proposed (2 May) but PC doesn't want it to discuss
'management' issues.
ACTION 17.14 JG Revise Tier1/A Staffing levels. Ongoing.
ACTION 17.19 DB process spreadsheet from PC and use in reporting. Ongoing.
ACTION 17.23 PC, RM , NB and Frank Harris to improve communication of TB
and EB with WP8. The spreadsheet pro forma for quarterly reporting has been
given to NB and Frank for them to digest. A dry run using LHCb is planned. NB
and Frank will redefine the LHCb deliverables and their dependency on EDG
deliverables in time for PC to discuss it with Darren Green. A small EB/TB
sub-committee will be set up to look at the reports. There could be some
clustering of reports e.g. Ganga. Information on recruiting is required from
the experiments. NEW ACTION: 24.1 RM.
ACTION 17.30 NB and RB to finalise EB meeting at end of March. Done. Will
be March 26 at UCL 11am to 5pm.
ACTION 20.1: PC & TD to produce integrated risk assessment document &
GANTT charts for OS meeting in April. PC and TD will meet in Paris (Wednesday
evening).
ACTION 20.3: MDS/R-GMA discussion at TB meeting. OGSA/MDS/R-GMA discussions
ongoing. No longer a single action.
ACTION 20.5: NG to finalise written document describing how PPARC
controls unfunded EU effort with Fab. This has been done. Needs Fab to agree
and needs to be signed (in Paris?).
ACTION 23.1 NB Agree reporting of experiment posts with EB. This is part of
action 17.23. There is no need for separate reporting. NB will circulate
proposal to EB and PMB.
ACTION 23.2 SL to circulate CV. Done.
Demonstrators
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TD reported on demonstrators for the Gordon Brown visit. March 25 is the
date for preliminary input to NeSC. We potentially have LHCb and BaBar. An
event display could be provided to visualise output locally. This wouldn't
be gridified but would make the demo look better. LHCb doesn't plan to do
anything special for the UK. EDG demonstrators are in various states of
flakiness. The Bio applications looked best. Maybe BaBar can provide
something. There will be a demonstrator for query optimisation but this
may be part of the NeSC contribution. The decision date is April 8th.
Other experiments are free to contribute if they want to but NB already
circulated to the EB and got no response. It is important that we have
GridPP displayed prominently on everything.
NeSC
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TD reported that NeSC has a funded project EDIKT with 12 posts including an
Architect and Project Manager. It will be based at NeSC with Arthur Trew in
charge.
AOB
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NG reported that there was about to be a call for proposals for Framework
6 at the end of this month. We need to get involved in any follow-on to
EDG. NG thought it worth considering an alternative to PPARC being the UK
partner. Either a single lead institute or a consortium.
RB asked whether phone and video facilities were really required for the
Manchester collaboration meeting given that they were little used at
Cambridge. It was agreed that we did not need phone but should keep the video
option open in case e.g. someone from the US experiments wanted to contribute
from the States.
It was reported that 5 sites including RAL are in Testbed 1 and it is now open
for other sites to join.
Next Meeting
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There will not be a meeting next Monday but one will be held at CERN on
Tuesday evening. The following week is the Bristol monthly PMB.
Outstanding Actions
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ACTION 15.2 TD to iterate with OC on understanding of management of Tier2
Centres.
ACTION 17.9 SL with Andrew McNab, improve website.
ACTION 17.14 JG Revise Tier1/A Staffing levels.
ACTION 17.19 DB process spreadsheet from PC and use in reporting.
ACTION 17.23 PC, RM , NB and Frank Harris to improve communication of TB
and EB with WP8.
ACTION 20.1: PC & TD to produce integrated risk assessment document &
GANTT charts for OS meeting in April.
ACTION 24.1 RM to get information on recruiting from experiments.
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