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. 021104.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 55 - 4th November 2002
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Present: Tony Doyle, Steve Lloyd, Nick Brook, Robin Middleton, John Gordon,
Peter Clark, Dave Britton, Tony Cass.
Two minor changes were made to last week's minutes:
ACTION 52.6 : JG to announce final dates of next Collaboration Meeting.
- ongoing - dates are fixed but JG has still to speak to PPD about a web site.
NEW ACTION: 54.1 NB to check that RB can attend the meeting on 21st on
behalf of EB since NB cannot.
Discussion on PMB Meeting to be held at Bristol
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TD confirmed that the next face to face PMB meeting on the 21st November
would now be held at Bristol instead of IC. He will produce a draft status
report to the board for discussion beforehand which will then be finalised
for the Science Committee meeting on 26th November. NG's role will be to
give a financial breakdown on PPARC's e-science spending. Figures and
estimates will be given to NG to base his input on but this information
will not be produced at the Science Committee Meeting. TD stressed that
it was important that a very clear message on GridPP's progress as to
successes and achievements be highlighted. NB was concerned about
producing estimated figures which could be taken as read but was assured
that some form of expectation had to be given and these would be clearly
stated as approximate.
TD asked NB if there had been any further feedback from the EB and he said
that the only response had been from UKQCD so he had sent further reminders.
(Since the meeting all but CMS have responded that they will attempt to
provide the figures requested by the deadline of November 15th.)
RM was asked to report on EGEE and said that he was trying to see where
GridPP fits in with the core programme. TD said a clearer picture was
needed. He had discussed this with NG who agreed that information services
were important and that monitoring, Tier-1 and -2 infrastructure would be
put forward as agenda items. There would be further discussion on this
item with NG later in the week, since he was attending the core EGEE mtg.
(NG subsequently circulated a list of EGEE priority areas to the PMB.
The following areas are the likely ones to develop into work packages/services
with a lead centre responsible for coordinating across Europe:
o Replica Management, databases, mass storage
o Resource Brokering, VO management
o Security, AAA
o Information and Monitoring and User Interfaces
o Fabric management, software/middleware packaging
o Networking, file transfer
o Support for applications, APIs and portals, interactive
applications, user requirements
o Physics, chemistry
o Engineering
o Biomedical
o Earth Observation
o Public Sector
o e-Science integration, collaborative tools, training, outreach
o integration of new initiatives and partners
).
PC had no update from the TB but wished to discuss an issue relating to
network monitoring and the need to make a framework identifying people who
are doing specific jobs. In particular, there was some confusion as to
who had been appointed to work on network monitoring under Robin Tasker,
in response to EB requests. JG said this had still to be decided but it
would be someone who was already working at CLRC (RAL).
Review of Actions
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Standing Items
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SI-2 : SL said he would be posting the news item about the preview of the
"WorldGrid" demo at SC2002 in which Bristol is participating.
(since the meeting a news item has been added and the
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/demos/ page has been updated to link to
further SC2002 demos)
ACTION 35.4 : TD to contact sites which do not yet have a "green dot".
- ongoing
ACTION 37.3 : JG to review deputy job description.
- ongoing
ACTION 40.36: DB check and pull together risk assessments.
- ongoing - emails have been sent but there has been no response as yet
ACTION 52.6 : JG to announce final dates of next Collaboration Meeting.
- ongoing - dates are fixed but JG has still to speak to PPD about a web site.
ACTION 52.7 : TD to help Barbara get a GridPP certificate.
- done
ACTION 53.1 : RB to generate financial requirements for Babar.
- ongoing
ACTION 53.2 : NB to contact Andrew McNab to enable access to top-level
applications pages by EB web authors.
- done
ACTION 53.3 : ALL to provide input to long-term planning document by
November PMB meeting.
- ongoing -
ACTION: 54.1 NB to check that RB can attend the meeting on 21st on behalf
of EB since NB cannot.
- done - the meeting has now been moved to Bristol.
ACTIONS AS AT 4th November 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 35.4 : 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 52.6 : JG to discuss with RM and Dave Kelsey on the web site
for the next Collaboration Meeting (GridPP6).
ACTION 53.1 : RB to generate financial requirements for Babar.
ACTION 53.3 : ALL to provide input to long-term planning document by
November PMB meeting.
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