PTB Meeting

Tuesday 13 Sept 2011, 10:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

Teleconference

PTB meeting, 10:00-12:00, 13 September, 2011 Calling details: lund.room.1 conferencing service Proposed agenda: ---------------- 0) Follow up 1) News, Dow amendment 2) Release plan: quick overview and approval 3) Task Forces 3a) EMI task forces overview and updates on the EMI TFs 3b) External task forces/Working Groups (EGI, WLCG) The following groups need to be filled with EMI representatives: - EGI Federated Virtualisation - EGI Accounting - WLCG Data Management - WLCG Storage Management - WLCG Workload management - WLCG Databases - WLCG Security Model - WLCG Operations Consideration 4) Requirements 5) Development tracking (dev tracker): -- Objectives status -- Development tasks status 6) aob -- tech area web articles -- Lyon

PTB meeting, 10:00-11:46, 13 September 2011

Calling details:  skype conferencing service in Lund

Present:  Jon, Balazs, John, Laurence, Patrick, Marco

Excused: Cristina


0) Follow up

Approval of the meeting notes from the previous PTB meetings (19.07.2011 and 6.09.2011): meeting notes approved

Actions: checked. open ones are carried over and recorded below

1) Dow amendment

Balazs briefly explained the major changes. Call attention that even though integration and standard implementation is not explicitly listed as JRA1 tasks, these must be performed as part of the regular "area development work"


2) Release plan: product updates

The following products will have minor updates: glite-MPI

PTB endorsed the planned minor release.


3) Task Forces


3a) EMI task forces

The PTB reviewed the existing task forces collected on the wiki page:

https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/EmiTaskForces

some notes from the discussions:

- task forces should have well-defined concrete mandate and once the job is done the task force should be closed.

- cloud and virtualiation TF: mandate is to deliver the EMI strategy that will make possible the definition of product team level dev tasks for every area.
This TF is now under NA3. Until the EMI cloud strategy is released no virtualization/cloud activity is expected in any of the areas.

- MPI framework TF: this one should not do mpi accounting. that belongs to the compute accounting record TF.

- compute accounting TF:

--Marco to check with the group the plans wrt. parallel mpi usage records ("mpi accounting")

--According to area leaders, the L&B product has nothing to do with Compute accounting record.

-Infosys services consolidation: problematic. difficulty to get people engaged.

-nagios TF:

nagios plugin names should have the format: product-name-nagios-plugins. The product name may contain the emi prefix. Examples:

voms-nagios-plugins
emi-bdii-nagios-plugins
nordugrid-arc-nagios-plugins

"product name" can be used in a flexible manner, it does not need to 100% match the current EMI product names. This is because sometimes plugins are developed for multiple products.


- a possible new TF in data: idea to set up task force around "http". Patrick to post details.


3b) External task forces/Working Groups (EGI, WLCG)

The PTB proposes the following EMI members to be appointed as EMI representatives for the various external groups:


- EGI Federated Virtualisation

Shahbaz or someone from the testbed activities

- EGI Accounting

John Gordon (APEL), Andrea Guarise (DGAS) Jon Nilsen (usage records),

- WLCG Data Management

Paul Millar

- WLCG Storage Management

Jon Nilsen

- WLCG Workload management

Marco Cecchi

- WLCG Databases

no EMI

- WLCG Security Model

John White

- WLCG Operations Consideration

Laurence Field


4) Requirements

Balazs explained what PTB, the area leaders are supposed to do with the requirements and due to shortage of time the req. analysis was shifted to next meeting


5) aob

-- tech area web articles

area leaders disagree and don't want to write articles. It is believed that the job is an NA2 task. There are no available, free people in JRA1.


-- Lyon

almost everybody will attend Lyon:

Patrick, Balazs: till wednesday,  John Wednesday and Thursday, Laurence: Monday and Tuesday, Jon: full week.



ACTIONS
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- Cristina and Balazs: formulate the PTB's role in RfC and Release endorsement. Send outcome to SA2, Maria

- Morris to contact Iber Grid people and ask them to report the details of the SRM client problem to GGUS.

- area leaders to check and be able to report on the progress of EMI approved requirements:
https://savannah.cern.ch/task/?group=emi-req

- area leaders to check the new set of EGI requirements (not yet EMI accepted):

https://rt.egi.eu/guest/Ticket/Display.html?id=2278
https://rt.egi.eu/guest/Ticket/Display.html?id=2279
https://rt.egi.eu/guest/Ticket/Display.html?id=1673
https://rt.egi.eu/guest/Ticket/Display.html?id=1187
https://rt.egi.eu/guest/Ticket/Display.html?id=1388
https://rt.egi.eu/guest/Ticket/Display.html?id=1202
https://rt.egi.eu/guest/Ticket/Display.html?id=2280
https://rt.egi.eu/guest/Ticket/Display.html?id=1381
https://rt.egi.eu/guest/Ticket/Display.html?id=1674
https://rt.egi.eu/guest/Ticket/Display.html?id=1983
https://rt.egi.eu/guest/Ticket/Display.html?id=2731

- Area leaders: check Dow and in particular the JRA1 WP reference card (the one that lists milestones and deliverables)

- Marco: contact the compute accounting TF and clarify their plans (when?) for "mpi accounting"

-Balazs: ring the bell around infosys consolidation TF. Contact and remind expected contributors.

- Patrick to post details of the proposed "http" data TF.

- Balazs:  send the identified EMI names for the different external groups to the right people.

- Everybody checks the task force wiki page and provide missing links, info (edit the page directly):

https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/EmiTaskForces