WLCG-India_Monthly_meeting
Online
Meeting held with representatives from VECC Kolkata, TIFR Mumbai, DU Delhi, PU Punjab and BI, Kolkata.
1: Puneet Patel TIFR (or Brij) will update about storage migration in the next meeting.
2: Regarding the GRID Project, it is mentioned that endorsement certificates have not been received from both CMS and ALICE Group of SINP Kolkata. Multiple mail and personal communication have been done for the same. But no concrete output.
3: It has been discussed thoroughly and decided that if an endorsement letter from the Institute head is not received then it is considered that particular institute is not willing to be part of the GRID India Project.
4: It has been decided to write minutes of the meeting on the meeting Indico page itself. The same will be treated as the decision taken.
5: VECC Representative updated his detailed discussion with the Director VECC and the Director VECC suggested that as the GRID project deputy coordinator is from VECC, so he needs to visit Mumbai and different collaborating institutes during the tenure of the GRID Project. He also suggested that to operate the GRID Computing Facility round the clock at least 4 and half persons are needed. VECC. suggested to revise the VECC Budget table with respect to domestic travel and person power.
6: A roadmap for the GRID project has been discussed. For the same, as a first step a few small physics problems related to computing will be searched from different Tier-3 groups and for each problem, a team will be formed which will work to find the solution for the particular problem.