Hello,

there will be a site readiness visit could people from each site let us 
  know the availability of PIs and sys admins among the dates listed 
below. It will be 1 day per site.

thanks

cheers
alessandra



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: NorthGrid Site Readiness
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:50:25 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tony Doyle <[log in to unmask]>
To: Glenn Patrick <[log in to unmask]>, Stephen Burke 
<[log in to unmask]>,     Pete Gronbech <[log in to unmask]>
CC: Roger Jones <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]

Hi Glenn, Stephen and Pete,
CC: Roger and Alessandra,

    We're down to review NorthGrid site readiness as noted in
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/pmb/minutes/070118.txt
"
6.  UK Site Readiness Review
============================
A Site Readiness Review of all GridPP sites is proposed.  Everyone on the
PMB will need to be involved. Each site visit will need a representative
of the management, of the experiment and of the technical side. There was
prolonged discussion of the teams. There was also a discussion of how a
separate team can allow a fair judgement of all sites. The opinion was
that the review should be on matters of fact, and so should not be
contentious if not always comfortable.  It was suggested that the T2
co-ordinators could also be involved in the review of other sites.

Northgrid: TD, GP, JC, PG
London: RM, DN, SB, GS
ScotGrid: DK, RJ, JG, AF
SouthGrid: NG, SL, AS, OA

DB will co-ordinate the whole activity.  The team will meet with the
Tier-2 Co-ordinator, the local sys. admin and the local PI.  The review
should cover fixed topics and metrics. TD has a prototype questionnaire
that can be developed. It covers hardware, software, operating systems,
users for the resource, configuration management.

The plan would be to have the reviews completed by the end of April."

In anticipation of problems in linking a whole 4-day slot, suggest we try
to link two site visits, thus we're looking for two 2-day slots from 26th
March onwards

26 Mar
27 Mar
28 Mar
29 Mar
30 Mar

2 Apr
3 Apr
4 Apr
5 Apr
(6 Apr - Good Friday omitted)

10 Apr
11 Apr
12 Apr
13 Apr

are suggested (initial) dates. Could everyone send their current
availability as soon as possible, so we can have a first pass on
constraining (pairs of) dates.

Suggested site pairings: {Lancaster, Liverpool}, {Manchester, Sheffield}.

-- 
Alessandra Forti
NorthGrid Technical Coordinator
University of Manchester