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/php/pmb/minutes.php?latest
as well as being listed with other minutes at
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/php/pmb/minutes.php
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, 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
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GridPP PMB Minutes 155 - 20th December 2004
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Present: Tony Doyle, Dave Britton, John Gordon, Steve Lloyd, Tony Cass
& Peter Clarke.
Present by audio: Roger Jones, Dan Tovey, Sarah Pearce.
Apologies: Dave Kelsey, Robin Middleton, Jeremy Coles.
1. Case for LCG phase-2 funding to Science Committee
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TD referred to a memo sent by him, LR & TC in August to PPARC and the
UK/CERN Committee in which an outline case for funding of £1M was decribed
for LCG Phase 2. Following a PPAP meeting, where the case of LCG funding
for Phase 2 was also presented, a series of questions were then issued by
PPARC to which TD had responded. TD said that a full case had been
requested by PPARC which should be presented to the Science Committee who
will meet again on 2nd February 2005. He said the document should be
prepared by mid-January and the LCG Status Report for the Oversight
Committe will be used for support/reference to the significant
achievements of LCG Phase 1.
2) OC Papers Review
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Executive Summary: TD said that the Executive Summary report had not been
updated and just contained outline headings. This will have be prepared
over the Christmas period, with aprropriate cross-referencing on LCG, EGEE
and the Production Report.
Project Map: DB said he had still been working on GridPP1 and had not yet
received updates on BaBar from RB. He had therefore been unable to fully
complete the GridPP1 Project Map.
Resource Report: DB said he had worked on the finances to show how
GridPP1 resources had been fully spent. He needed some information from DK
to account for some of the spending across the boundary from GridPP1 to
GridPP2.
Note: this was later provided by DK.
With respect to GridPP2, TD noted that EGEE funding would fall by
approximately one third in Phase 2, which would have some effect in the
UK, and this should therefore be incorporated in the planning.
DB noted that GridPP2 funds would thus be fully committed.
LCG Report: TC confirmed that this was now complete and approved by all
concerned. The status would be changed to final and sent to SL.
Note: this was provided shortly after the meeting.
EGEE: JG said they had tried to be circumspect w.r.t. meeting the
development deliverables (Glite). This was acknowledged to be a
concern, currently being addressed by a CERN-led committee.
MSN: PC noted that the report by RM was final.
Deployment Report: SL would add some detail to items in this report,
regarding Tier-2 and MoUs. There was some discussion on accounting and
deployment status in various areas. TD said he would send a link to SL to
show resource usage for VOs.
http://goc.grid-support.ac.uk/gridsite/accounting/cic.php
Applications Report: A version of the report for July to October has been
sent to SL. DT has also sent a document on User Board Summary in addition
to this. This would not be attached to the Application report but
provided as a separate User Board report.
Tier-1/A Report: A new version to include service challenges will be
completed today by TD & JG.
Note: this was provided shortly after the meeting.
Dissemination Report: SP confirmed that this was final.
Logbooks: These are on the secure website and available for the OC to
view via a password.
Timeline - TD said all areas were almost complete and should be final be
the end of today. The Executive Summary would be completed over
the Christmas period.
DB noted that there was a significant amount of work to do on the
Project Maps and Resource Planning. The initial draft Exec Summary would
not contain references to the Project Map or Resource Report. All
documents would be available for release to the OC by early January.
Note: all other documents were made available to the OC following the
PMB meeting.
3) JPhysG Status
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SP said that she had posted the full version on
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/papers/jphysg
and had sent a message to UKHEPGRID
asking for comments by 14 January. The PMB hoped that everyone would
contribute fully and provide comments by then.
4) GridPP 12
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The agenda would be changed to include an item on CERN-led service
challenges.
REVIEW OF ACTIONS
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140.9 RM to finalise LHC Deployment Logbook
ongoing - some feedback has been received
143.1 TC to investigate making existing LCG sourced RPMs visible at CERN
ongoing
145.4 RJ to ensure quarterly reports from the Applications are completed
done
145.5 RM to ensure quarterly reports on Middleware areas are produced
done
STANDING ITEMS
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SI-1 ALL: to provide any news items and meeting dates for the web page to SP.
SP said she would be posting an item on the LHCb training meeting. TD
said he would post the talk that he had given to UK Theorists at Durham on
Friday. See
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/talks/#overviews
SL asked about an ATLAS training course at NeSC. TD and RJ noted this
one was ATLAS-specific and part of the ATLAS e-Science programme, but
there would be one on distributed analysis which could be supported by
GridPP later in the new year.
AOB
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DB asked if anyone had some further information on a discussion regarding
the risk register which took place at the last face-to-face meeting.
DB & TD will discuss during the first week of January to finalise all OC
documents. The next PMB meeting will take place on Friday 7th January at
1.00pm to discuss OC meeting and also the next CB meeting. TD wished all
board members a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
ACTIONS AS AT 20th DECEMBER 2004
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140.9 RM to finalise LHC Deployment Logbook
143.1 TC to investigate making existing LCG source RPMs visible at CERN
STANDING ITEMS
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SI-1 ALL: to provide any news items and meeting dates for the web page to
SP.
SI-2 Production Manager's weekly report of issues.
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