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News Nick Brook

University of Bristol

•PMB News

•Feedback from “review”

•LCG News

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PMB News

Meeting with Oversight Committee successful

Asked risk register by 15th Dec

Documentation on CERN production Grid

Meet in future 1 month after quarterly reports

PMB “short-term” goals:

•Generic GridPP portal ?? (see LCG news)

•Increase use of Grid certificates ??

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PMB NewsLong-term plans• Continue supporting Tier-1/A staff• Continue ramp up of Tier-1/A hardware

– UK leading role in computing infrastructure for LHC

• Support for Tier-2 staff– Complementary to University funding

• Continued support for Applications development– Beyond middleware data-handling interfaces?– As part of rolling grant programme?

• Continued support for Middleware development– including Framework VI EGEE project [DataGrid']

• Ramp up of Tier-2 hardware– available via University SRIF/JREI/future funding?

• Continued support of CERN staff• Continued ramp up of CERN hardware

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PMB News

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Review “feedback”

General

•Applications are beginning to deliver

•Need to co-ordinate reporting

•Deliverables match Dave B ProjectPlan (now available off EB web page)

•New, expt specific templates will be provided to achieve that goal

• “Deliverables” are not set in stone – but OSC have now seen them. Any changes need justification

Queries from reporting procedure have been addressed to directly EB contacts

Expts will be requested to provide “demonstrations” of functionality of prototypes (corresponding to major deliverables) at future GridPP collaboration meeting

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LCG News 1st (pre-)release of persistency software (POOL) – 3rd

October

• Targets navigational support

• Release tool is CMT & SCRAM

• Decision hoped CMT vs SCRAM by next release

• http://lcgapp.cern.ch/project/persist/

Blueprint RTAG has reported to SC2

• Plan to have two IT seminars @CERN (!!)

i. LCG approach

ii. ROOT approach

• See today’s agenda page for a copy of report

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LCG News LCG Software Process & Infrastructure work plan

Proposed development cycle for the LCG application area projects

SPI must support it adequately

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LCG News LCG Software Process & Infrastructure work plan

SPI will follow it too

-Releasing as soon as possible

-Work with users

-Having a simple view on the process

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LCG News LCG Software Process & Infrastructure release

schedule• December 2002 - Beta Versions

– Many components will be available before• February 2003 - Version 1.0

– All components and services except Software Library (but basic), Project portal (but basic)

– Monitoring if resources will need to be injected• May 2003 - LCG Test - Version 1.1

– Software Library, Project portal and all features– Standard templates and tools available

• September 2003 - Version 1.2 – LCG software process– Standards for user specifications– Design guidelines and specifications

• end of 2003 until 2005 – Development Version 2, support and maintenance

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LCG News First Grid Deployment Board meeting in Milano – Oct

4th • WG1: Selection of Grid Middleware to be deployed on LCG-1– Technical Assistant: David Foster– Chair: J.Renner Hansen – Members: Eric van Herwijnen, Laura Perini, Tony Wildish, Yves Schutz, Simon Lin

• WG2: Resource planning – Technical Assistant: Ian Bird– Chair: V.White– Members: Wolfgang Von Ruden, David Stickland, Gilbert Poulard, Klaus-Peter Mickel, Slava Ilyin,

Federico Carminati, Anders Ynnerman

• WG3: LCG-1 Security, Authentication, authorization and registration policy.– Technical Assistant:D. Kelsey– Chair:M.Delfino– Members: Thomas Kachelhoffer, Randy Sobie, Vicky White

• WG4: Real operations procedures – Technical Assistant:T. Cass– Chair:F. Ruggieri– Members: John Gordon, Tony Wildish, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Klaus-Peter Mickel

• WG5: User support model. – To be definedPresentations: http://cern.ch/lcg/peb/gdb/milano_4oct02/presentations/