GridPP Technical Meeting 30 Jan 2015
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Clouds and VMs activity

 ATLAS - NTR
 CMS - NTR
 LHCb - Talking to in2p3 Lyon about OpenStack access

 IC - NTR
 Manchester - New version of Vac yesterday (0.18.0) 
 Oxford - working with Peter to get ATLAS jobs running

Storage - NTR
Network - NTR

HEP Software Foundation - workshop last week. Introduced idea of Associate
    project memberships rather than Incubator, to allow participation in
    activities rather than committment to become full member projects.

Security - Traceability Viydo meeting
           Face to face as preGDB: plan to get everyone in the room and then
            generated agenda for the afternoon

AOB - PRACE survey (deadline next week): 
      https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5VNGQBV           

      Access to grid.cern.ch cvmfs so can do Tarball installs there

Chat window:

Jeremy Coles: (30/01/2015 11:21)
Dear Colleagues

EGI has been invited alongside with other e-Infrastructures, to join
PRACE pilot call initiative for the awarding of storage and related data
management services as service provider along side the PRACE providers
of HPC capabilities. The first pilot call will be launched by February 06.

Purpose of the pilot call is to test the provisioning of storage
services to complement the traditional HPC capabilities offered by
PRACE. EGI has the opportunity to join by offering besides storage
component additional capabilities like distributed HTC and cloud services.

The aim of the pilots is to:
- Explore the opportunities arising from a joint call for free storage
contribution to be awarded/allocated to selected projects, following the
PRACE model of scientific excellence. The offering of other access
policies like pay per use is in scope.
- explore a new model of resources provision and deployment.

EGI partners are encouraged to participate to

Jeremy Coles: (11:24 AM)
For reference: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5VNGQBV

Ewan Mac Mahon: (11:33 AM) I think the advantage for us is a) PR, and b) 
technically getting people to use things our way. If they want to use 
things another way, it's both more work, and gets rid of that advnatgae.