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
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: 194.36.1.33
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GridPP PMB Minutes 196 - 5th December 2005
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Present: John Gordon, Sarah Pearce, Tony Doyle, Dave Britton, Robin
Middleton, Dave Newbold, Steve Burke, Tony Cass by phone.
Gizmo failed to work today.
Apologies: Dave Kelsey, Peter Clarke, Jeremy Coles, Steve Lloyd, Roger Jones.
1. GridPP15 arrangements
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TD noted that the pages were being drafted for release at
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/gridpp15/
JG noted that some changes had been made on the booking forms and local
arrangements were being made.
The registration deadline was fixed for Monday 19th December.
Note: invitation now sent out.
2. CHEP06 funding
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RM provided a summary spreadsheet with 33 entries. The results of the
abstract assessment by the CHEP organisers were now becoming known
(from the CHEP06 web pages).
Following discussion, the PMB agreed that:
a. full funding would be available for those personally presenting GridPP
relevant papers at CHEP06;
b. up to 50% funding would be available for those personally presenting
GridPP relevant posters at CHEP06.
Individual cases would be handled on the above basis via RM.
The PMB encouraged those allocated posters who could not attend to ask
others in GridPP to present them in their place where possible.
Support for the demo at CHEP06 would be funded via the dissemination
budget.
Everyone was encouraged to use low-cost travel options (booked prior to
Christmas).
STANDING ITEMS
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SI-1 ALL: to provide any news items and meeting dates for the web page to SP.
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SP thanked RJ & JG for their quotes for the SC05 news item.
SP noted that the webcast last week had gone well. Dave Colling and Gareth
Mitchell were congratulated.
SI-2 Production Manager's weekly report of issues.
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JC submitted the following report.
1) We continue to get 1 site per Tier-2 actively involved with
the throughput tests to achieve our 20% target before the end of
December. The initial sites will be Glasgow, Manchester, RAL-PPD and
Imperial. This activity is slightly decoupled from the SC3 work which
is not ideal.
2) The EGEE security challenges continue in the region. We have
experienced several problems with the way the Footprints ticketing
system works. A footprints upgrade to version 7.0 (which will solve
some problems) is scheduled for 10th December.
3) Sites have been encouraged to fill in their part of the ROC weekly
report before it is submitted. See
https://cic.in2p3.fr/index.php?id=roc&js_status=2&roc_page=5&subid=roc_report&id_report=449
Sites can change the relevance of the test(s).
JG noted that ALL sites should start responding to this.
4) LHCb have responded to the VO Box questionnaires.
JG noted that ATLAS and ALICE have provided input previously.
Note: issue arose shortly after the meeting where deployment of the ATLAS
VO box currently contradicts LCG security guidelines (requiring release of
host certificate). This will be discussed further next week.
SI-3 LCG Management Board Report of Issues.
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JG and TC noted that:
1) Metrics are being worked on in collaboration with existing EGEE
developments;
2) Security papers were agreed at the last meeting;
3) A real security incident had taken place at CERN. This was being
actively investigated on the security lists.
4) Progress on the Castor SRM at RAL was on schedule. There was a lot
of discussion on the developments of SRM 2.1 for CASTOR, Dcache and DPM.
It was noted that the interfaces to the experiments file catalogue systems
were relatively less developed.
SI-4 Documentation Officer's weekly report of issues.
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SB noted that a sidebar link was now made to
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/deployment/users/
from Activities->User Area
Work was ongoing on the CA part and various other areas such that the
user documentation area would be ~complete by Christmas. The formal
announcement of the pages would be made at GridPP15.
ACTIONS
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184.1: TC to write document "How CERN helps the small sites to install
and manage the LCG software"
- ongoing
184.3: RM and RJ to document Gap Analysis
- ongoing
184.4: DN to document UB questionnaire issues
- ongoing
187.1: JG to prepare combined actions list from GridPP14 meeting
- ongoing
194.1: TD to compile a registration form and agenda for GridPP15
- done
195.1: TD to discuss a presentation on portals with Gidon Moont for
GridPP15
- done
195.2: JC to provide a list of deployment team members for GridPP15 and
send to JG
- done
ACTIONS AS AT 5TH DECEMBER 2005
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184.1: TC to write document "How CERN helps the small sites to install
and manage the LCG software"
184.3: RM and RJ to document Gap Analysis
184.4: DN to document UB questionnaire issues
187.1: JG to prepare combined actions list from GridPP14 meeting
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