WLCG-India_Monthly_meeting

Thursday 2 Mar 2023, 11:00 → 12:10 Asia/Kolkata

Online

Vikas Singhal (Department of Atomic Energy (IN))

Minutes of monthly online meeting for the GRID India Project:-

The meeting is convened on 02/03/2023 at 11:00Hrs AM online using ZOOM.  All the members of the TIFR Tier-2 and ALICE/STAR India collaboration and CMS India computing committees were invited. A few members could not join the meeting.

Following points were discussed:-

1: A monthly meeting on each first Thursday of the month (online 60 minutes) will continue to discuss different aspects of the GRID India project with main focus for technology know how between two Indian (CMS, ALICE) Tier-2s.

2: First meeting was between the representatives of two tier-2s only, but now onward it is decided  to include all the members of ALICE India and CMS India Tier-3 computing committees.

3: As per agenda items, Puneet Patel, TIFR Tier-2 presented status of TIFR Tier-2 in detail (presentation uploaded on the meeting Indico page https://indico.cern.ch/event/1249345/). He also discussed about the back-end services and its configurations in his presentation.

 

4: GRID India project deputy coordinator provided an overview about the GRID India project and its present status in detail (presentation uploaded on the meeting Indico page). Other than TIER-2 requirements, a detailed discussion was made with respect to TIER-3 resources and its budget allocations. It was also noted that "Overhead budget" for the TIER-3 collaborating institutes under DST for the GRID India project will be based on the 5% of the budget provisions for the particular TIER-3, however, the maximum overhead provisions will be capped as per DST rule.

 

5: Last meeting queries were also discussed. 

 

Note:- The last month (February 2023) we could not have the Monthly GRID India meeting, due to upgradation of TIFR Tier-2. First meeting was on 05/01/2023 and Prasun S. Roy, VECC has presented about Kolkata Tier-2 back-end services and configurations. Details are available on https://indico.cern.ch/event/1234841/.
 

 

11:00 → 11:20 TIFR Tier-2 Details

May be focused on Architecture and Internal Network part.

Speakers: Mr Brij Kishor Jashal (IFIC, Univ. of Valencia, CSIC (ES) and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)), Mr Puneet Kumar Patel (Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research (IN))

TIFR Grid Infrastructure and Services.pdf

11:20 → 11:30 Regional Grid India Project Status

Speaker: Vikas Singhal (Department of Atomic Energy (IN))

GridProjectMarch2023Status.pdf

11:30 → 11:50 Last meeting queries and Answers

11:50 → 12:00 AOB