Introduction
Welcome to the 9th GridPP Collaboration Meeting
• Dissemination Officer
• GridPP2 Posts
• Tier-2 Centres
Steve Lloyd, Chair of GridPP Collaboration Board
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Dissemination Officer
• Welcome to Sarah Pearce
– For her to disseminate your work
– You have to tell her about it
– Especially interested in
• news, articles and papers for the website
• links with other e-science projects or industry
• any dissemination you've been doing
– Please introduce yourself at this meeting
– Arrange to make contact etc
(s.pearce@qmul.ac.uk)
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Role of Dissemination Officer
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lead all dissemination and public relations activities within GridPP;
be an ex-officio member of the PMB;
promote the UK Particle Physics Grid and its use by other experiments and
disciplines;
develop industrial links and contacts;
liaise with PPARC PUS;
oversee the overall design of the GridPP Website and ensure that content
is up to date and relevant;
coordinate demonstrations and act as 'Booth Manager' at events such as eScience All Hands meetings and Open Days;
represent GridPP and its interests at relevant events;
ensure the timely release of news items and press releases;
maintain up to date lists of GridPP publications, talks and promotional
material;
exploit PUS and other PR funding opportunities;
ensure that the GridPP PMB and other management boards are fully aware
of publicity issues and funding and collaboration opportunities;
act upon requests for help with publicity or industrial liaison from all
members of GridPP or external bodies;
report to the Project Manager on matters relating to any project
deliverables and milestones defined within her purview.
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GridPP2 Posts
• GridPP2 Approved - £15.9M plus a possible
further £1M to LCG at CERN subject to strong
case to Science Committee
– Essentially the so-called "Regained Programme"
• GridPP2 Tendering Process
– Proforma-1s (Report on GridPP1 Work) received by
12 December.
• Assessed by PMB by 9 January
• Currently feedback being sent to PIs by TD
– Proforma-2s (Specification of future work)
available by 19 December
– Proforma-3s (Bids for posts) received by 9 January.
• Assessed by Peer Review Selection Committee (PRSC) on
16 January
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PRSC
• Peer Review Selection Committee
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Steve Lloyd (Chair)
Dave Britton
Nick Brook
Jon Butterworth
Tony Doyle
Neil Geddes
George Lafferty
Robin Middleton
Les Robertson
Pete Watkins
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PPRP
PPARC
PPGP
CERN
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PRSC Outcome
• 33 Bids approved
– subject to varying amounts of iteration on
deliverables
• 4 Bids not yet approved
– but should be - subject to successful
renegotiation of deliverables
• 2 part bids to be re-tendered for one post
(BaBar)
• 7 bids rejected
• 1 new post to be re-tendered for one post
(Portal)
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PRSC Outcome
Tender Document
5
Tier-2
Tier-2
+1 Data Management
-1 Data Management
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Middle/Sec/Net
-1 Network
-0.5 Workload
Middle/Sec/Net
+1 LHC Deployment
+ 1 Portal
+ 1 PhenoGrid
-1 LHC Deployment
Applications
-0.5 BaBar
13.5
Outcome
Applications
Tier-1
Tier-1
52.5
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18.5
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GridPP Portal
• PRSC did not approve CALICE, MICE or UKDMC bids
• Agreed that GridPP resources should be available to
these experiments (and others)
• Suggested 1 new post to develop a "GridPP Portal"
– That CALICE, MICE, UKDMC... can use if they want to
– Can be used for dissemination purposes –
demonstrations, small scale production...
• New Proforma-2 (SL) in a couple of weeks
• Invite Proforma-3 bids against this.
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Loose Ends
• Approved posts to agree deliverables with DB
• Not yet approved posts to agree programme
with PMB
• New Tenders for
– GridPP Portal
– Getting BaBar on the Grid
• Further 8.5 Tier-2 Hardware support and
operations staff ('Pro-rata')
– See later
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Timeline
• Till 18 February
– prepare for Oversight Committee/Grid Steering
Committee
• By 1 March
– DB to develop detailed Financial Plan (against
which new PPARC grants can be signed off)
• After 1 March
– iteration/discussion on Project Map deliverables
• Mid March to Mid April
– JES Submission as soon as discussions complete
• Need to assess impact of ARDA, Metadata Group....
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Tier-2 Centres
• It was agreed (CB etc) that the 8.5 Hardware
support and Operations staff would be
allocated 'pro-rata' to:
– The 'amount' of disk and CPU 'committed' to
GridPP from 2004-2007.
– What does 'amount' mean?
– What does 'committed' mean?
• Need to define these in an MoU between
GridPP and the Tier-2 Centres.
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Tier-2 MoUs
GridPP wants:
• Access to Tier-2 resources
– For all experiments
– Up to an agreed level of integrated utilization
(target share)
• Appropriate OS, middleware and application
software installed
– On dedicated GridPP front ends if necessary
• Sufficient accessible monitoring so that
service levels can be ratified
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Tier-2 MoUs
The Tier-2 Centres want:
• GridPP Manpower to run them
• Control of their own resources
• Nothing that compromises their own Security
• Their own target share of the resources
• As little prescription of OS, software etc as
possible – especially on the back end (worker)
nodes
• Support from GridPP Operations Team
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Tier-2 Centres
Next moves:
• Attempting to set up a 1 day meeting between
Tier-2 centres and GridPP to try and produce
an acceptable draft MoU
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GridPP: SL + TD + JG/DK
SouthGrid: Jeff Tseng + ...
ScotGrid: Tony (2 hats) Doyle + ...
NorthGrid: Roger Jones + ...
London: Dave Colling + ...
• Hope is that the ... is 1 or 2 per Tier-2 so that
we can sit round a table.
– Not looking hopeful – Phone Confs instead?
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Talks
Please send me your talks for the website:
s.l.lloyd@qmul.ac.uk
or on memory stick
(preferably before you give it)
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