Joint GridPP PMB & Deployment team

Tuesday 28 Aug 2007, 14:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Ambleside [Drama Studio Breakout Room]

Dave Britton

- This is a one-off meeting between the deployment team and PMB members ahead of GridPP19. - See also http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/gridpp19/programme.html An EVO conference has been booked in the GridPP community for this meeting: GridPP PMB/DTeam Meeting Joint Meeting at Ambleside - connection for external participants Aug 28 12:30 - Aug 28 19:30 (Meeting is from 14:00-18:00 - time has been included for pre- and post-meeting set-up/discussion)

14:00 → 14:15 Welcome & main objectives for the joint meeting

14:15 → 14:40 Experiment-deployment engagement and communication

- The GridPP Oversight Committee encouraged closer working between site deployment and operations and the experiment teams. Have things improved. - What problems remain and how should these be tackled

14:40 → 15:00 Update on Site Readiness Review outcomes

- What were the main conclusions and actions - What has changed and what still needs to be addressed

15:00 → 15:30 Measuring site availability

- Look at results to-date for August availability figures (http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/SAM_availability:_May-August_2007) - Main factors affecting site availability - Setting targets for Q4 2007 and Q1 2008 - What needs to be done to improve availability!? - How should we collect the data more reliably?

15:30 → 16:00 TEA

16:00 → 16:15 Risks & issues

- Are there any particular existing problems that need urgent attention? -- Are any sites struggling to meet their MoU commitments -- Do all the Tier-2s now have working collaborations of sites -- Are any sites moving in an unsupportable direction!? -- What are the main risks we are facing?

16:15 → 16:35 Storage matters

- Support levels required - Storage accounting (now at v0.4)

16:35 → 16:45 Empty slot - top 5 current issues/Tier-1 questionnaire/Documentation

16:45 → 17:25 GridPP3: Formal structures

- What worked well in GridPP2 and what needs to be improved - Has the PMB been too detached from problems on the ground? - How will GridPP3 deployment and operations be different from GridPP2 - Site representation and the wider connections (WLCG GDB, MB, CB...)

17:25 → 17:45 GridPP3: The challenges ahead

- What are the likely milestones for 2008 running - Use of GridPP3 hardware funding

17:45 → 17:50 Review of actions from meeting

17:50 → 18:00 AOB