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. 030113.txt).
Cheers, Tony
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Tony Doyle, GridPP Project Leader Telephone: +44-141-330 5899
Rm 478, 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: 194.36.1.32
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GridPP PMB Minutes 63 - 13th January 2003
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Present: Tony Doyle; Steve Lloyd; Nick Brook; John Gordon; Robin
Middleton; Dave Britton; Neil Geddes; Tony Cass; Peter Clarke (part by
phone)
Agenda for GridPP6 Collaboration Meeting
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TD said that the agenda was nearing completion and that some sessions for
Thursday afternoon had been shortened slightly to allow for a 6.30pm
finish. Some talks have yet to be finalised namely those of David Boyd
and Steven Fisher. Jens Jensen's talk on WP5 was confirmed. The North
Grid Report would be given by Roger Jones and/or members of his team. RM
confirmed that at least 20 people had registered for the event. TD said
they may try to include a short PMB meeting during GridPP6 if there was
time.
The board then discussed the conflict created by the GridPP6 meeting and
Grid Workshop in Brussels overlapping and it was agreed that someone
should try to go to Brussels to represent GridPP. Possible candidates
mentioned were Frank Harris, Richard Kenway and Mark Parsons. TD said he
would try to contact Mark and NB would check with Frank. TD would also
prepare 3 slides for submission along with an explanation that the
Brussels workshop has clashed with another Grid meeting (NEW ACTION 63.1).
REVIEW OF ACTIONS
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SI-2 NG announced the outcome of the e-Science studentships and stated
that funding would be given to Leicester, Exeter, Glasgow, Durham,
Bristol, UCL, Manchester, Cambridge, IC and Cardiff. SL will post this
as a news item.
SI-3 SL noted that meeting dates were being kept up to date as far as
possible.
SI-4 There had been response to NB's most recent request to update
individual experiments' EB web pages.
ACTION 35.4 : TD to contact sites which do not yet have a "green dot".
- ongoing - TD has discussed this with GMcC who is now working on this
and is using the new amber code as suggested.
ACTION 37.3 : JG to review deputy job description.
- ongoing
ACTION 53.1 : RB to generate financial requirements for Babar.
- ongoing
ACTION 56.1 : SL to put the Long Term Planning information together.
(see ACTION 59.1) SL is still waiting for further input from others for this.
ACTION 57.3 : RM to email UK HEP Grid about the PPARC ruling on travel.
- done
ACTION: 59.1 : PC & RM to provide further information to SL for Long Term
Planning document. Also required is a more detailed breakdown of Tier-1
staff from JG.
- ongoing - PC & RM have been having discussions about this and are still
working on it.
ACTION 61.1 : RM to link and announce GridPP6 registration page.
- done - More than 20 people have already registered for this.
ACTION 61.3 : JG to arrange dates and venue for second EDG tutorial
session in UK.
- ongoing - JG has already spoken to lecturers regarding this and has
arranged provisional dates of 7th to 11th April at Imperial College.
ACTION 61.5 : JG to give SL background to problems with delivery of effort.
- done - JG explained the situation and SL said he would contact the
institute. (NEW ACTION 63.2)
ACTION 62.1 : RM to email UK Hepgrid informing them how GridPP would
provide travel support for CHEP 2003 event and also GGF7.
- done - RM said there had been good feedback with 10 enquiries for CHEP
and 2 for GGF. PC noted that funding via NeSC for GGF7 was not possible.
This is not meant for individuals but more for a bigger application for
longer term of travel. PC was encouraged to apply wrt his GGF role.
NEW ACTION 63.1 : TD to prepare and submit 3 slides for GRID workshop in
Brussels with an explanation that it has clashed with a GridPP
Collaboration Meeting.
NEW ACTION 63.2 : SL to contact institute re problems with delivery of
effort.
AOCB
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Tier 2:
It was stated that D Colling is preparing an 'Expression of Interest' for
a London Tier 2. D Newbold and D Kelsey's report on the Southern Tier 2
would be going ahead. Northgrid would be having a meeting next week.
Scotgrid would be receiving an upgrade on kit which would greatly increase
disc capacity.
RM confirmed that he would be stepping down as chairman of the DataGrid
Project Management Board at the end of his year of office. A final action
was to formally appoint a CERN (LCG) member onto the DataGrid PMB. TD was
asked to deputise for NG at the LCG POB meetings and accepted. There was
some further discussion on developments within various experiments at
sites in the UK and CERN.
After some debate regarding an agenda for next Monday's meeting at IC, the
board decided that a face-to-face meeting was not necessary and should be
cancelled with a VC meeting instead at 1 o' clock. A review meeting with
DB, NB & PC has still to be arranged.
ACTIONS AS AT 13TH JANUARY 2003
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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.
Actions
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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 53.1 : RB to generate financial requirements for Babar.
ACTION 56.1 : SL to put the Long Term Planning information together.
(see ACTION 59.1)
ACTION: 59.1 : PC & RM to provide further information to SL for LongTerm
Planning document. Also required is a more detailed breakdown of Tier-1
staff from JG.
ACTION 61.3 : JG to arrange dates and venue for second EDG tutorial
session in UK.
ACTION 63.1 : TD to prepare and submit 3 slides for GRID workshop in
Brussels with an explanation that this has clashed with a GridPP
Collaboration Meeting.
ACTION 63.2 : SL to contact institute re problems with delivery of
effort.
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