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. 020930.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 Meeting 50 - 30th September 2002
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Present : Tony Doyle, Steve Lloyd, Dave Britton, Robin Middleton, John
Gordon, Tony Cass, Roger Barlow
Apologies : Nick Brook, Pete Clarke, Neil Geddes
* Review of Documents for the OverSight Committee (OSC)
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TB Q7 report is incomplete as not all submissions have been received
ACTION : RPM to update with latest input, write preliminary summary for PMB
Executive Summary and circulate to PMB
EB Q6 report is almost final, the Q7 report is still pending.
NEW ACTION 50.1 : NB to circulate the final Q6 report to the PMB
Resource Report : Dave is only just back and will start work on the
report, updates to the Project Map and Resource Database are being done:
hope to have a first draft by noon Tuesday (1st October). Project Map
needs tidying for internal consistency and risk the assessment framework
needs to be incorporated. (The EDG-UK risk assessment document will be
used as a basis for a GridPP document). For the OSC, a "plan for a plan"
will be presented and the EDG-UK risk assessment can be referred to from
the PMB executive summary as being in first draft.
NEW ACTION 50.2 : DB to confirm spends actual .vs. plans for CLRC with
Dave Kelsey
TC noted that the LCG report was available in primitive draft form.
NEW ACTION 50.3 : TC to produce first draft for PMB by Tuesday 1st
October.
Tier-1A Report : draft already circulated, a few areas still need further
expansion, testbed paragraph is needed as the TB report does not give much
detail.
NEW ACTION 50.4 : JCG to finish report, in particular the effort table
(cross check with DB and DPK) and testbed area.
Tier-2 report : finished except the number for resource valuation; decide to
take number from Form-G of Jan 2002.
ACTION 47.12 : JG to propose nominal value for Tier-2 resources
(based on the Tier-1/A cost/specint and cost/TB of disk) and send to SLL.
NEW ACTION 50.5 : TD to circulate draft of executive summary including
areas to draw attention to the OSC - will be in template form with sketchy
details.
NEW ACTION 50.6 : ALL to finalise their inputs on the Executive Summary by
Tuesday evening (1st October).
N.B. Absolute final deadline for docs to be finished by Mon 7th October
when the URL will be submitted to the OSC by Steve. Final comments on
documents apart from exec. summary should be received by Friday 4th
October.
* Date for EU Review
====================
The new proposed dates conflicts with the revised dates for the 6th GridPP
Collaboration meeting at the Coseners House (which had itself been
designed to avoid conflicts with other dates including the EU review).
Frank Harris has highlighted that a year close date of 30th November 2002
would mean application deliverables based around release 1.2.X and not
release 2. Robin pointed out that before EDG goes ahead with this revised
schedule it needs to convince itself that there will be sufficient change
to demonstrate from the last review and that the concerns outlined in the
reviewers report would be adequately addressed.
NEW ACTION 50.7 : RPM to present arguments on EU review date change to Fab
on behalf of GridPP
Actions review
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SI-1 : ALL : Continual review/improvement/update of the GridPP website
Possible changes on the EB pages; poster type docs should be
converted to native web version; links to external developments need to be
made to show awareness of the wider picture; Project Map links need to
point to parts of the EB website. Roger & Nick will review.
SI-2 : ALL : to provide any new items to SL (who will pass on to PPARC)
NEW ACTION 50.8 : TD to provide a paragraph intro to SLL for an "In the
News"article on the PC Magazine article on Power Grids
NEW ACTION 50.9 : SLL to advertise the latest call for eScience
studentships from PPARC
SI-3 : ALL : supply SL/TD with meeting dates for the web page
possibly the new dates for the EU review - when fixed (?)
SI-4 : EB & TB to improve their areas of the web.
EB are acting and TB are fine for now.
ACTION 35.3 : DB to pull additional effort from reporting spreadsheet.
DB will do it manually for Q7 : DONE
ACTION 35.4 : TD to contact sites which do not yet have a "green dot"
Sheffield will be added to the Green Dot map this week : ONGOING
ACTION 37.3 : JG to review deputy job description.
ongoing
ACTION 40.36 : DB check and pull together risk assessments.
progress made : DONE
NEW ACTION 50.10 : DB to implement full risk assessment process in time
for next OSC
ACTION 47.1 : RM to identify top level risks associated with EDG.
DONE (RPM to send to full PMB)
ACTION 47.2 : TC to produce a Status Report along lines of the previous
CERN report.
ongoing
ACTION 47.3 : SL to make previous OC documents public following review
by PMB.
DONE. Available from
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/docs/oversight/
ACTION 47.4 : NB to produce (Q6) summary document.
47-4 : DONE (almost, just needs circulating to PMB by tomorrow)
ACTION 47.5 : JG to produce Tier-1/A report including staff deployment.
ongoing
ACTION 47.7 : DB to add 4.4.6 saying that by Dec O3 UK will be part of
LCG approved testbed.
DONE
ACTION 47.9 : SL to add All Hands abstracts and update.
DONE (spreadsheet info sent to DB and added to Project Map)
ACTION 47.11 : DB to obtain CERN resource figures from Chris Eck for
project map.
DONE (now needs to be implemented)
ACTION 47.12 : JG to propose nominal value for Tier-2 resources
ongoing
ACTION 48.2 : JG to find lecturers for the tutorials
Steve Traylen has agreed, but problems in finding 2 other lecturers.
ongoing
ACTION 49.1 : NB to arrange EB meeting.
ongoing
ACTION 49.2 : JG to advertise EDG Tutorial on UKHEPGRID.
DONE
AOB
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TD : summary of PMB (1st year) actions review will be posted on the PMB
minutes area of the GridPP website.
ACTION : TD to post PMB minutes web site inc. index and 1st year stats.
RPM : reported that informally it is known that the 2 new "funded" posts are
now filled and expected to start on 7th October.
One post replaces Xiaomei Zhu and the other fills a gap in "funded" effort
to be supplied to EDG.
JCG : offers going out to candidates for Tier-1/A posts, a number of good
candidates were interviewed.
Next Meeting : To avoid the CNAP meeting the next video conf will be on 7th
October for 1 hour starting at 10am.
ACTIONS AS AT 30TH SEPTEMBER 2002
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Standing Items
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SI-1 : ALL : Continual review/improvement/update of the GridPP website
SI-2 : ALL : to provide any new items to SL (who will pass on to PPARC)
SI-3 : ALL : supply SL/TD with meeting dates for the web page
SI-4 : EB & TB to improve their areas of the web.
ACTION 35.3 : DB to pull additional effort from reporting spreadsheet.
ACTION 35.4 : TD to contact sites which do not yet have a "green dot"
ACTION 37.3 : JG to review deputy job description.
ACTION 40.36 : DB check and pull together risk assessments.
ACTION 47.2 : TC to produce a Status Report along lines of the previous
CERN report.
ACTION 47.5 : JG to produce Tier-1/A report including staff deployment.
ACTION 47.12 : JG to propose nominal value for Tier-2 resources
(based on the Tier-1/A cost/specint and cost/TB of disk) and send to SLL.
ACTION 48.2 : JG to find lecturers for the tutorials
ACTION 49.1 : NB to arrange EB meeting.
ACTION 50.1 : NB to circulate the final Q6 report to the PMB
ACTION 50.2 : DB to confirm spends actual .vs. plans for CLRC with
Dave Kelsey
ACTION 50.3 : TC to produce first draft for PMB by Tuesday 1st
October.
ACTION 50.4 : JCG to finish report, in particular the effort table
(cross check with DB and DPK) and testbed area.
ACTION 50.5 : TD to circulate draft of executive summary including
areas to draw attention to the OSC.
ACTION 50.6 : ALL to finalise their inputs on the Executive Summary by
Tuesday evening (1st October).
ACTION 50.7 : RPM to present arguments on EU review date change to Fab
on behalf of GridPP
ACTION 50.8 : TD to provide a paragraph intro to SLL for an "In the
News"article on the PC Magazine article on Power Grids
ACTION 50.9 : SLL to advertise the latest call for eScience
studentships from PPARC
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