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
PS 184th F2F minutes will be circulated later.
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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 185 - 12th September 2005
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Present: Tony Doyle, Dave Britton, Roger Jones, Robin Middleton,
Tony Cass, Steve Lloyd, Dave Newbold and Sarah Pearce (Skype)
Apologies: John Gordon, Jeremy Coles, Peter Clarke
1. LCG Phase 2 Planning - UK input
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TD wished to finalise the figures for Tier-1 Planning. The figures
correspond to those which were circulated last April to go into the MoUs
for LCG.
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/tier1a/board/doc/LCG_MoU_output_Mar05.doc
with two modifications on the T1-T0 networking side:
2005 2006
WAN (Mbits/sec) 2500 2500
(from
WAN (Mbits/sec) 10000 10000
TD said that each April, we should try to set up current planning figures
for Tier-1 and Tier-2 to be used as preliminary pledges for the following
year. These would then be reviewed in September.
TD said the next Tier-1 Board meeting would be on 23rd September and a
draft agenda was being prepared for this. There will be a great deal to
discuss as a new structure for Tier-1 will be implemented due to changes
in staffing. John Womersley, new Director of Particle Physics at CCLRC
has been invited to attend this meeting and TD will make contact with Ken
Peach (former director) to ask him to attend also.
2. Meeting Dates
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See
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/meetings/
Note: the meeting page for GridPP14 is now complete (inc. notes on all the
discussion sessions). See
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/gridpp14/
TD wanted to clarify and finalise future meeting dates as follows:
The 15th GridPP Collaboration Meeting would be held at RAL, 11th-12th
January 2006. The face-to-face meeting is arranged for 10th January.
DB/DTEAM will be held on 13th January. It is hoped that accommodation for
this can be booked at Coseners.
The 16th GridPP Collaboration Meeting at QMUL was provisionally arranged
for July 2006 but after some discusssion it was decided to bring
it forward by one week. SL will check on availability at the end of
June (NEW ACTION).
Note: this was completed next day. The dates are now fixed for 27-29 June 2006
TD said he would prefer to have a 3-day meeting and extend the invitation
to CERN. Not having a 3rd meeting in 2006 would serve as a way to
enable/encourage people from GridPP to attend the GGF in Geneva in
~September 2006. A PMB meeting will also be held the day before GridPP16.
3. AHM Plans
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SP said that BP had arranged to get posters printed. The stand, fliers
etc have been agreed and BP has also arranged a timetable for the demos.
JG had confirmed that the rugby shirts have arrived at RAL. BP is also
organising a duty-rota which will be available this week if anyone needs
to change their slot.
TD said they could use the existing schools talk for the stand but SL said
it may need some editing for AHM audience. SP said that BP was working on
slides that would run constantly on the stand so that people could talk
with the revolving presentation. SL said he would discuss this further
with BP. Some slides may need to be more specific to AHM audience.
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 that a draft press release via JC on Service Challenge 3 will go
out soon.
She is also preparing an item on 'Gridsitewiki'.
See
http://wiki.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Main_Page
SP said that John Dyer had sent an invitation for people to attend the 2nd
NREN-GRIDS Workshop in Amsterdam on Monday 17th October 2005. This is
being hosted by TERENA. She has forwarded the information to UKHEPGRID.
TD wished to discuss the Bio-Med VO (WISDOM) from the GridPP perspective.
SP said she would prepare a GridPP news item on this later this week.
SI-2 Production Manager's weekly report of issues.
To be reported following Deployment Board.
(JC commented that few UK sysadmins have registered for the EGEE Operations
workshop.)
REVIEW OF ACTIONS AS AT 22nd AUGUST 2005
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183.1: RJ to circulate the URL on Tier-1A Utilisation to the UB (in the
absence of Dave Newbold)
done
183.2: TD to discuss the lack of CMS response to 05Q2 with Peter Hobson.
done - TD said he had discussed this with PH, DN, DC, & RJ and it was
agreed that CMS would sort this out internally. (DB had suggested the
PPDG web page methods for gathering info. for the logbook)
183.3: RM to conclude discussions on Storage Logbook with SF and then
submit to DB
ongoing - change from Storage to InfoMon
REVIEW OF ACTIONS AS AT 5TH SEPTEMBER 2005 (draft)
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184.1: TC to write document "How CERN helps the small sites"
ongoing - make more specific by adding 'to install and manage the LCG software'
184.2: DN to report on GridPP All Hands abstracts
ongoing
184.3: RM and RJ to document Gap Analysis
ongoing
184.4: DN to document UB questionnaire issues
ongoing - PMB to respond also?
184.5: RJ to contact Todd about CDF deliverables
ongoing - discussion took place between TD, DB, RJ, Stefan Stonjek & Jeff
Tseng. It was agreed that JT would take this on.
ACTIONS AS AT 12TH SEPTEMBER 2005
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185.1 SL to check on availability at QMUL the end of June to book GridPP16
Note: this was completed next day. The dates are now fixed for 27-29 June 2006
DONE
AOB
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DN asked about the appointment of deputy chair to the User Board and after
discussion with TD it was decided that DN should approach the intended
candidate and invite him to the Tier-1 Board meeting.
There were no discussion notes available from last week's PMB as yet. It
was hoped that a PMB meeting could be held next Tuesday lunchtime to
review and pick up any further actions from this and the GridPP14 meeting.
ACTIONS AS AT 11TH SEPTEMBER 2005
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183.3: RM to conclude discussions on InfoMon Logbook with SF and then
submit to DB
184.1: TC to write document "How CERN helps the small sites to install and
manage the LCG software"
184.2: DN to report on GridPP All Hands abstracts
184.3: RM and RJ to document Gap Analysis
184.4: DN to document UB questionnaire issues
184.5: RJ to contact Todd about CDF deliverables
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