GridPP Deployment Board

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539 (Blackett Lab, Imperial College)

539

Blackett Lab, Imperial College

London
David Kelsey (RAL)
Description
Meeting of GridPP Deployment Board. GridPP Dteam and Tier 2 Board members all welcome. VRVS access via room Sunny. Phone conference link also available (if you wish to be called please provide a phone number to David Kelsey or David Colling - before the meeting starts)
Minutes
    • 10:30 → 12:30
      Session 1
      • 10:30
        Welcome, Agenda agreement, note taker(s) 10m
      • 10:40
        Documentation issues 20m
        Speaker: Dr Stephen Burke (RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY)
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Applications and User Board 20m
        Discussion of plans for ramp-up to LHC startup and related issues
        Speaker: Dr Glenn Patrick (RAL)
      • 11:20
        Grid Ireland 20m
        Speaker: John Walsh (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 11:40
        UK NGS 20m
        Speaker: Stephen Pickles (University of Manchester)
      • 12:00
        Security policy and operations 30m
        Introduce Mingchao Ma. New JSPG policies. Discussion on GridPP3 approval process. Discussion on general security issues.
        Speaker: Dr David Kelsey (RAL)
    • 13:45 → 15:15
      Session 2
      • 13:45
        Middleware issues 45m
        • Networking (Robin Tasker) 10m
          Slides
        • Storage 10m
          Speaker: Jens Jensen (CLRC-RAL)
          Slides
        • Information & Monitoring 10m
          Speaker: Dr Steve Fisher (RAL)
          Slides
        • Workload Management 10m
          Speaker: Dr David Colling (Imperial College London)
        • Other middleware activities... 5m
      • 14:30
        Dteam issues 45m
        Possible issues to cover... SL4 deployment. Accounting/SpecInt scaling. glexec.
        Speaker: Jeremy Coles (Physics Department)
        Slides
    • 15:30 → 17:20
      Session 3
      • 15:30
        Tier 1 report 20m
        Speaker: Andrew Sansum (Particle Physics)
        Slides
      • 15:50
        PMB policy issues 40m
        Local users, non-Grid use and GridPP. The meaning of Site Availability. Killing jobs. Handling response time of middleware developers.
      • 16:30
        The GridPP3 Deployment Board 15m
        Discussion
      • 16:45
        AOB 15m