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. 020520.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 33 - 20th May 2002
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Present: Tony Doyle, Dave Britton, John Gordon, Robin Middleton, Roger
Barlow, Steve Lloyd, Neil Geddes (by phone), Barbara Scott (secretary).
The PMB discussed a date for the next CB meeting which (currently)
looked likely to be 12th June.
Before discussing action points, the PMB discussed three agenda items as
follows:
FrameworK 6
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NG reported on this stating that the intention is to submit and EoI for a
large integrated project and that Cern will be taking a leading role.
There will be collaboration with national e-science centres, other
sciences and industry. This will allow access to funding for
infrastructure from the EU. It is hoped that the UK will support it. NG
has discussed this with Tony Hey who is very keen on certain aspects of
the expression of interest. There is a draft version of the EoI which he
will send to everyone. RM asked who would handle the input for regional
areas and NG said that he/Tony Hey would do it.
Tier-1 and Tier-2 Centres
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JG noted we needed to report on Tier-1 with a view to also reporting on UK
Tier-2s for the LCG Grid Deployment Board (GDB). RM stated that they were
still unclear as to what Tier 2 was and we may end up with something
unsuitable. TD agreed, but said that we needed to outline steps necessary
to provide the CPUs required by the regional centres by Sep 2004 (at
least) including data storage. The current planning (prior to input from
SC2) for Sep 2004 is:
1. 1000 CPUs and 0.25 Pbytes data storage at prototype Tier-1
2. 4 * ~(250 CPUs and 0.06 Pbytes data storage) at 4 Tier-2 centres
JG said that he would report back on the basis of detailed knowledge of
the prototype Tier-1, scaled by a quarter for each of the envisaged Tier-2
centres.
Feedback from OC
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TD noted two major points had been highlighted from the OC meeting. The
first was required on the timescale of a month - a "Metrics for Success"
document which will be reworked by DB who will define the list and collate
information, bearing in mind future ability to "automatically" measure
input. It is intended for this to be drafted within a month and will
require input from all areas of the PMB. The broad areas considered are:
Tony - scale
Tony - integration
Steve - dissemination
Nick - UK physics analyses (LHC)
Roger - (other experiments)
Robin - DataGrid
TonyC - LHC Computing Grid
Pete - interoperability
John - infrastructure
Dave - finances and future funding
Inputs have already been received from SL-Metrics for Dissemination
(in this case already in the form of ~10 metrics); NB-list of achievements
so far (a basis for the metrics); PC-GANTT charts (needed as a
starting point for some of the metrics) etc.
JG identified various sub-areas under "infrastructure" - LCG experiments
input, sites data challenges etc. which should be referred to in the
metrics.
NEW ACTION 33.1 : ALL to provide input to draft Metrics for Success
document.
NEW ACTION 33.2 : DB to edit/author Metrics for Success document, based on
PMB input.
The second major point highlighted was that the OC committee insisted
that the PMB appoint a Project Manager to oversee actions taking
place and, more importantly, document progress. TD produced a draft
management chart showing how the Project Manager would relate to others
within the PMB.
NEW ACTION 33.3 : TD to define position/role of Project Manager.
NEW ACTION 33.4 : TD to appoint Project Manager.
Review of Actions
=================
(The actions list was based on those potentially outstanding from the
30th PMB meeting)
ACTION 17.14 : JCG revise Tier 1/A staffing plans
---ongoing - some work has been done on it.
ACTION 17.19 : DB process spreadsheet from PC and use in reporting.
---ongoing - some progress has been made but more work is required.
ACTION 20.1 : PC & TD to produce integrated risk assessment document &
GANTT charts for OS meeting in April
---done (although OC asked for further info - see 26.2)
ACTION 25.1 : RM collate TB Q5 reports and provide summary document
---done
ACTION 26.2 : TD to build a document from the GANTT chart in the form of
Daron Green's request.
---not done - this is replaced by a meeting which will be arranged with
Daron Green to ensure that the requirements are communicated effectively
NEW ACTION 33.5 : TD to arrange a meeting with OC Chair (Daron Green).
ACTION 26.5 : RM determine estimates of travel expenses in each category
based on last year's spends and devise accounting budget codes according
to agreed categories for the next FY
---done for Glasgow although discussion took place with regard to creating
further budget codes to give a more accurate view of expenditure. The
broad-based categories lie under TB, EB, PMB and General (inc. collab.
mtgs.)
NEW ACTION 33.6 : RM to define and implement budget codes for this FY.
ACTION 28.1 : EB & TB to improve their areas of the web (some progress
already noted for both - for TB-WP specifics need looking at)
---done, this will now appear under the standing item. RB noted that
currently there is only input from LHCb and BaBar on the EB web pages,
so there is room for improvement here.
ACTION 28.2 : PC/Ben West - add first version of Gantt chart on the web
---done
ACTION 28.6 : RM & NB to suggest joint EB/TB dates up to end of 2003
---done. The dates will be posted on EB/TB meetings page.
NEW ACTION 33.7 : RM & NB to post EB/TB dates on EB/TB web pages
ACTION 29.2 : SL post NeSC demo news item
---done
ACTION 29.3 : TD to e-mail PIs with info on experiments reporting mechanism
---ongoing.
ACTION 30.1 : TD to contact TC with info on requirements.
---done
ACTION 30.2 : TD to circulate PC draft technical managment document to PMB
for input from TD, NB, JG, RM.
---done
ACTION 30.3 : TD to contact Guy Ricket to verify form of input to OC.
---done
ACTION 30.4 : ALL to prepare draft input documents for OC by May 1st
---done
Standing Items
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SI-1 : ALL : Continual review/improvement/update of the GridPP website
Vision Summary uploaded to website.
SI-2 : ALL : to provide any new items to SLL (who will pass on to PPARC)
Steve plans a News item explaining how to send a job to the Grid.
SI-3 : ALL : supply SLL/TD with meeting dates for the web page
TB/EB dates to be put on website - CB date to be entered.
A.O.C.B.
Barbara is pricing accommodation in Edinburgh for the GGF event in July.
A note will be sent this week in order to provide a cheaper accommodation
option.
All PMB/TB/EB (formal) documents will now be numbered.
Requests for a document number will be handled by Barbara.
Requests should be sent with title, one word identifier and a single line
description to Barbara Scott <[log in to unmask]>.
ACTIONS AS AT 20TH MAY 2002
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ACTION 17.14 : JCG revise Tier 1/A staffing plans
ACTION 17.19 : DB process spreadsheet from PC and use in reporting.
ACTION 29.3 : TD to e-mail PIs with info on experiments reporting mechanism
ACTION 33.1 : ALL to provide input to draft Metrics for Success document.
ACTION 33.2 : DB to edit/author Metrics for Success document, based on
PMB input.
ACTION 33.3 : TD to define position/role of Project Manager.
ACTION 33.4 : TD to appoint Project Manager.
ACTION 33.5 : TD to arrange a meeting with OC Chair (Daron Green).
ACTION 33.6 : RM to define and implement budget codes for this FY.
ACTION 33.7 : RM & NB to post EB/TB dates on EB/TB web pages
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