PMB Review of Tier-1 (2-13)

Friday 10 May 2013, 10:30 → 16:20 Europe/London

CR16 RL R80 (RAL)

David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

Coffee before meeting starts

11:00 → 11:10 Meeting Objectives

Speaker: Prof. David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))

11:10 → 11:20 Finance and Staff

What we'll be covering and where

Speaker: Andrew Sansum (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

Slides T1_2013_Finance_and_Staff.pdf T1_2013_Finance_and_Staff.pptx

11:20 → 11:30 CSD Review Background/Scientific Computing Department Overview

What we know so far (and can repeat) about the corporate services review and potential impact (if any) on Machine Room and Network Operation. Very quick summary of last year's changes with the merger of ESC and CSD.

Speaker: david corney (STFC - Rutherford Lab)

Slides Scientific_Computing_Department.pdf Scientific_Computing_Department.pptx

11:30 → 12:00 Service Operation Overview, Experiment Input and Production Team Plans

Availability Drill down on availability Callouts Experiment input - what is going well - what issues they have? High Level Overview of Interventions ? Production Team Plans for coming year

Speaker: Gareth Smith (STFC (RAL))

Slides Gridpp_Review_of_Tier1May2013.pdf Gridpp_Review_of_Tier1May2013.pptx

12:00 → 12:20 Review of Major Power Incidents

Key issues from the services committee review of the power incidents Overview of our response and restart

Speaker: Andrew Sansum (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

Slides T1_rev_2013_V5.pdf T1_rev_2013_V5.pptx

12:20 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:20 Site Networking Status and Plans

- Noteworthy developments since last review (June 2012) - Strategic overview of site network issues affecting the Tier-1 - Development plans for coming year (site architecture, service management and IPV6)

Speaker: Mr Robin Tasker (STFC)

Slides 20130509_Tier_1_Review_Core_Network_Service_FINAL.pdf 20130509_Tier_1_Review_Core_Network_Service_FINAL.pptx

13:20 → 13:40 Database Team Status and Plans

- Key developments in last 12 months - Overview of Current Service (what we are running) - Current issues - including team leader departure - Development plans/priorities for coming year - parting thoughts for the future

Speaker: Richard Sinclair (STFC RAL)

Slides databases_gridpp2013_V2.pdf databases_gridpp2013_V2.pptx

13:40 → 14:00 Fabric Team Status and Plans

- Key developments in last year (including C300 phaseout) - Outstanding issues (bandwidth limitations) - Development plans (Network, Atlas Centre, +...) - Thoughts on procurement (also to include Tape Planning)

Speakers: Martin Bly, Martin Bly (STFC-RAL)

Slides 2013-05-10_Tier1_Review_-_Fabric_Team.pdf 2013-05-10_Tier1_Review_-_Fabric_Team.pptx

14:00 → 14:20 Grid Team Status and Plans

Overview of last year's key developments Current operational challanges - Batch server start rates - Job setup failures Overview of Key Development Plans - Status of Cloud - Virtualisation - Configuration Management - SL6 - CVMFS

Speaker: Ian Peter Collier (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB))

Slides gridpp_review_2013_gst.pdf gridpp_review_2013_gst.pptx

14:20 → 14:40 CASTOR Team Status and Plans

- Developments in last year - Current outstanding issues - Plans for coming year - Longer term CASTOR plans from CERN (long term sustainability)

Speakers: Shaun De Witt (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB)), Shaun De Witt (Unknown)

Slides 20130510_PMB_CASTOR_Report.pdf 20130510_PMB_CASTOR_Report.pptx

14:40 → 15:10 Disk Storage System Strategy (speaker TBC)

- Short presentation on strategic issues affecting storage system deployment - General discussion about how to proceed

Speakers: Shaun De Witt (STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Council (GB)), Shaun De Witt (Unknown)

Slides Next_Generation_Storage.pdf Next_Generation_Storage.pptx

15:10 → 15:20 Private PMB Discussion?

15:20 → 15:30 Summary and Next Steps

Speaker: Prof. David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee