GridPP PMB Minutes 27 - 25th March 2002 ========================================== Present: Dave Britton, Nick Brook, Tony Cass, Tony Doyle, Steve Lloyd, Robin Middleton. Review of Actions ================= ACTION 15.2: TD to iterate with Oversight (OS) committee on understanding management of the Tier-2 centres. --- Discussed with Paul Jeffreys. Experiments to provide input. ACTION 17.9 SL with Andrew McNab; improve website. --- Much improved over the last week. Some pages require input from others (such as TB people). Would like link to experiments grid activity page if they exist. NB to raise at EB. ACTION 17.14 JG revise Tier 1/A staffing plans. --- Ongoing. ACTION 17.19 DB process spreadsheet from PC and use in reporting. --- Processing is done. Reporting side needs some input. Reporting of security? Should it be a separate line? TD wants to raise the profile. RM comments that some of it goes in through WP7 but how do we include securegrid effort at Oxford? ACTION 20.1: PC & TD to produce integrated risk assessment document & GANTT charts for OS meeting in April. --- Contacted Daron Green. ACTION 24.1 RM to get information on recruiting from experiments. --- 7/8ths done. ***NEW ACTION 27.1 RM to circulate latest information. ACTION 25.1: RM collate TB Q5 reports and provide summary document. --- Ongoing. ACTION 25.4 ALL to provide input on news each week: SL to select a news item and put up on the web. --- SL to email everyone to provide news. ACTION 25.5 TD to contact WP11 on the NeSC opening. --- Ongoing. ACTION 25.6 RB (BaBar), NB (LHCb) and TD (query optimiser) to propose NeSC opening demonstrators by March 25th. --- For the NeSC opening We have our 3 demonstrators. NeSC meeting today cancelled. TD pushing Malcom for definitive statement on what is needed for rehearsal on April 5th. LHCb demo worked on laptop at CERN. Others demos are being worked on. TD: Should GridPP have a handout: Poster front and words on back describing mission. ***NEW ACTION 27.2: SL/TD to produce draft version for April 5th. Based on web-pages. Demonstrators will require posters to go in package too. NB: Are there experiments without demonstrator who want to provide a handout.... poster one side (ask EB)? Tier-1/A poster from RAL? Update the one from January? (RM) ***NEW ACTIONL 27.3: RM to update Tier-1/A poster. ACTION 26.1: TD devise snappy, PR-friendly mission statement. --- Making the Grid work for Particle Physics - From Grid to Web - Exploiting the next IT Revolution. ACTION 26.2 TD build a document from the GANTT chart in the form of Daron's request. ---TD has left a message but DG yet to get back. ACTION 26.3 SL send news items for the website to NIG and Julia Maddock to assess suitability for a PPARC press release. --- Did this once. Action continues. ACTION 26.4 RM to discuss with Dave Morrell the carry-forward of GridPP travel funds. --- RM not discussed this yet. Wed maybe. ACTION 26.5 RM determine estimates of travel expenses in each category based on last year's spends and devise accounting budget codes according to agreed categories for the next FY. --- RM Expecting to report at meeting on 1st May. Other Items. =========== SL has circulated HEPCCC minutes. There is a bit about framework-6 but most information was already known. Nothing from Hans Hoffman yet. Discuss after Easter. Next meeting: Tuesday 2nd April 1pm. Road Map meeting: April 18th. SL to go. RM concerned about DG architecture and UK diverging so would like to go too. Meeting on April 22/23 in Berlin, paid for by IBM, TD to go and report back to PMB. ***NEW ACTION 27.4: TD to put meetings on Meetings Web-page. Collaboration Meetings. ======================= Next teaching would be about Job Submission and will form part of collaboration meeting. Should be two session on how to submit jobs to grid but needs to be well worked out so that it appeals to more than the TB (also experiment people and sysman types.) Dave Colling was seen as the key person but needs help from Andrew McNab. This type of teach-in identified as one of the quarterly cycle of TB meetings. TD: If collaboration meeting is not to have a set of TB status reports then there needs to be a TB summary report. EB at Collaboration meeting: Do same as last meeting. Later on, (perhaps by IC) might invite individual experiments who have made substantial progress to report in addition to these summary presentations. NEW ACTION 27.5: DB Pre announcement of IC meeting to HEPGRID. Actions 25/3/02 =============== ACTION 17.9 SL with Andrew McNab; improve website (CONTENTS). ACTION 17.14 JG revise Tier 1/A staffing plans. ACTION 17.19 DB process spreadsheet from PC and use in reporting. ACTION 20.1: PC & TD to produce integrated risk assessment document & GANTT charts for OS meeting in April. ACTION 24.1 RM to get information on recruiting from experiments. ACTION 25.1: RM collate TB Q5 reports and provide summary document. ACTION 25.4 ALL to provide input on news each week: SL to select a news item and put up on the web. ACTION 25.5 TD to contact WP11 on the NeSC opening. ACTION 25.6 RB (BaBar), NB (LHCb) and TD (query optimiser) to make handouts for NeSC opening demonstrators. ACTION 26.1: TD devise snappy, PR-friendly mission statement. ACTION 26.2 TD build a document from the GANTT chart in the form of Daron's request. ACTION 26.3 SL send news items for the website to NIG and Julia Maddock to assess suitability for a PPARC press release. ACTION 26.4 RM to discuss with Dave Morrell the carry-forward of GridPP travel funds. ACTION 26.5 RM determine estimates of travel expenses in each category based on last year's spends and devise accounting budget codes according to agreed categories for the next FY. ACTION 27.1 RM to circulate latest recruitment information. ACTION 27.2: SL/TD to produce draft version of GridPP poster for April 5th. ACTION 27.3: RM to update Tier-1/A poster. ACtion 27.4: TD to put meetings on Meetings Web-page. ACTION 27.5: DB Pre-announcement of IC collaboration meeting to HEPGRID. ___________________(Next meeting: Tuesday 2nd April 1pm.)____________________