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. 031020.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 99 - 20th October 2003
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Present : Tony Doyle, Steve Lloyd, John Gordon, Robin Middleton, Dave
Britton, Tony Cass, Roger Barlow by phone. Peter Clarke (by phone for
second half of meeting)
Apologies: Roger Jones, Dave Kelsey
1. Next Face-to-Face Meeting
============================
TD said that the next face-to-face meeting on 7th November would take
place at RAL instead of Manchester as being more convenient for most
people. Meeting time will be 10.30am for coffee with the meeting
commencing at 11.00am. RM has booked a room but warned that there may be
problems with VC connection (though he later confirmed that this had been
solved). TD said he would like to tour Tier-1 centre on Friday morning
prior to the meeting.
2. Agenda
=========
TD asked DB if they could iterate on agenda. DB said he would provide
this later in the day and it would include GridPP2 funding and profile,
EGEE, Framework 6, new LHC posts and LCG planning.
3. Term of Reference
====================
JG has prepared a draft term of reference for the Tier-1 Management
Committee Meeting which has already been seen by Ken Peach. TD to review
this and then discuss further with JG before circulating to PMB. An
agenda will also have to be determined for this meeting.
(NEW ACTION)
4. Tier-2 Input to LCG
======================
TD noted that input had been received from Durham and Edinburgh for
ScotGrid. TD still had to complete the web form. Input should be
copied to JG & SL for all 4 regional centres.
5. Middleware Posts Planning
============================
RM said this would not be reviewed until 7th November but said discussions
had taken place regarding an extension to a staff member's contract at
Herriot Watt. There was a short-term (~6 month) funding issue. TD said
that this should be incorporated as part of middleware posts planning
before OMII was set up.
RM to discuss this further with Steve Fisher (NEW ACTION)
6. Applications Area
====================
RB reiterated what NG had defined regarding 3 ring-fenced posts for
running experiments. He said that this would be built into the
planning for future posts.
Following earlier discussions with SL and TD, it was proposed to have a
half-day meeting at IoP in London, proposed dates: 11th or 18th February.
The working title suggested was "From Web to Grid" and will be aimed at
audiences conversant in PP but not the Grid. RB said he would provide a
draft agenda (NEW ACTION).
7. GridPP9
==========
TD is looking for feedback on the outline agenda that he is preparing.
8. Dissemination Officer's Post
===============================
SL said that an offer was made and had been accepted by Sarah Pearce
currently working at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.
Her expected start date will be in January. SL said he would invite her
to the face-to-face meeting in RAL in the hope that she could attend and
meet everyone.
9. News from EGEE
=================
RM said a final management meeting had been held with 2 representatives in
Brussels. Several points still had to be clarified. The official start
would be in April 2004 though various procedure had to be completed by the
end of this month. JG noted that the wording of the current documents
implied that all EU-funded and non-EU funded posts via GridPP for EGEE
production would be at RAL. This would need to be clarified at the
face-to-face meeting.
10. Production Manager's Role
=============================
TD said this post could be involved in LCG/EGEE production and asked JG if
it had been advertised. JG said he still had to finalise the job
description.
Review of Standing Items
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SI-1 : ALL : Continual review/improvement/update of the GridPP website.
TD asked SL if he could put the map back on the website.
SI-2 : ALL : to provide any news items to SL.
RM noted that the release of a stable, tested version of R-GMA was
imminent and could become a news item.
REVIEW OF ACTIONS
=================
88.1 : JG to update hardware document with disk plot.
ongoing - final changes are being made.
97.2: JG to prepare draft ToR for Tier-1/A management committee
done - being sent to PMB this week
97.3: SL to produce a document on Tier 2 planning to be reviewed at
the next PMB face-to-face meeting.
ongoing
97.4: RM to produce a document on middleware planning to be reviewed
at the next PMB face-to-face meeting.
ongoing
98.1: TD to formally request feedback from NG regarding running
experiments' application posts in GridPP2.
done
98.2: RB to prepare a document on application posts planning.
ongoing
NEW ACTION: 99.1: TD to provide agenda for Tier 1/A Committee Management
Meeting
NEW ACTION: 99.2: RM to discuss middleware posts planning with Steve
Fisher
NEW ACTION: 99.3: RB to provide agenda for meeting I.o.P.
AOB
===
2 documents were reviewed briefly: Review of Computing Resources for the
LHC Experiments and the latest LCG Quarterly Report. Further discussion
would take place at the face-to-face meeting on the future of high level
milestones associated to LCG.
PC said he hoped to arrange a meeting with RM and Tim Foster (BT) soon.
RM said he had already contacted Tim to let him know his availability.
RM noted RGMA had ran okay through the weekend but a longer test was
needed.
Standing Items
==============
SI-1 : ALL : Continual review/improvement/update of the GridPP website.
SI-2 : ALL : to provide any news items to SL.
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 AS AT 20TH OCTOBER
==========================
88.1 : JG to update hardware document with disk plot.
ongoing - final changes are being made.
97.3: SL to produce a document on Tier 2 planning to be reviewed at
the next PMB face-to-face meeting.
ongoing
97.4: RM to produce a document on middleware planning to be reviewed
at the next PMB face-to-face meeting.
ongoing
98.2: RB to prepare a document on application posts planning.
ongoing
99.1: TD to provide agenda for Tier 1/A Committee Management Meeting
99.2: RM to discuss middleware posts planning with Steve Fisher
99.3: RB to provide agenda for meeting I.o.P.
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