Introduction Welcome to the 9th GridPP Collaboration Meeting • Dissemination Officer • GridPP2 Posts • Tier-2 Centres Steve Lloyd, Chair of GridPP Collaboration Board S.L.Lloyd GridPP9 Introduction Slide 1 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) S.L.Lloyd GridPP9 Introduction Slide 2 Role of Dissemination Officer – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 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. S.L.Lloyd GridPP9 Introduction Slide 3 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 S.L.Lloyd GridPP9 Introduction Slide 4 PRSC • Peer Review Selection Committee – – – – – – – – – – Steve Lloyd (Chair) Dave Britton Nick Brook Jon Butterworth Tony Doyle Neil Geddes George Lafferty Robin Middleton Les Robertson Pete Watkins S.L.Lloyd PPRP PPARC PPGP CERN CNAP GridPP9 Introduction Slide 5 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) S.L.Lloyd GridPP9 Introduction Slide 6 PRSC Outcome Tender Document 5 Tier-2 Tier-2 +1 Data Management -1 Data Management 16 18 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 S.L.Lloyd 6 14.5 18.5 13.5 52.5 GridPP9 Introduction Slide 7 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. S.L.Lloyd GridPP9 Introduction Slide 8 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 S.L.Lloyd GridPP9 Introduction Slide 9 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.... S.L.Lloyd GridPP9 Introduction Slide 10 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. S.L.Lloyd GridPP9 Introduction Slide 11 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 S.L.Lloyd GridPP9 Introduction Slide 12 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 S.L.Lloyd GridPP9 Introduction Slide 13 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 – – – – – 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? S.L.Lloyd GridPP9 Introduction Slide 14 Talks Please send me your talks for the website: s.l.lloyd@qmul.ac.uk or on memory stick (preferably before you give it) S.L.Lloyd GridPP9 Introduction Slide 15