John Gordon, STFC-RAL GDB meeting @CERN April 8th 2009 Introduction John Gordon, STFC-RAL GDB meeting @CERN April 8th 2009

GDB meetings in 2009 Second Wednesday of each month June – OGF26 Chapel Hill, HPDC Munich October – OGF27 Banff Avoiding EGEE 09 September 21-25 January 14 February 11 March 11 April 8 May 13 June 10 July 8 August 12 September 9 October 14 November 11 December 9

Pre-GDB meetings Rooms booked for 2009 (most months) Batch Systems, CEs. Planned for this week Storage for Tier2 (continued) DPM, Storm, Hardoop May? Virtualisation - June Site Management - July Tier1 Reliability Fabric Monitoring Service Hardening Special Interest Groups WMS, Batch, FTS

Forthcoming Events LHCOPN Utrecht April 21-22 ISGC, Taipei, April 21-23rd 2009 HEPiX Spring Meeting, Umeå, May 25-29th 2009 STEP09, worldwide, June HPDC, Munich, June 11-12th 2009 ISC, Hamburg, June 23-26 EGEE III 1st Review June 24-25 EGEE09, Barcelona, September 21-25th 2009 HEPiX Fall Meeting, NERSC, Berkeley, October 26-30 SC’09, Portland, Oregon, November 16-20th 2009

GDB Issues Pilot Jobs , glexec, SCAS Service Reliability Storage Reaction and mitigation of other incidents Publishing Installed Resources Benchmarking CREAM EGI SL5

EGI Still progressing in separate strands EGEE writing a second year workplan to anticipate EGI Anticipating no-cost extension if required Keep EGI services running as priority EGI EGI.eu will be in Amsterdam Setting up formal EGI organisation with Council and MoU Appointing Director Forming Teams to develop transition plan Will also work on proposals WLCG EU and many NGIs stress that EGI must deliver for LHC WLCG needs to define what that means Also propose an SSC for PP

EGI Transition Milestones March 12: Deadline for technical persons from NGIs Will work on transition document (which will also be a core of future project) Early April: MoU and LoI available End April: LoI signed by interested NGIs May 6: (proto)EGI Council established NGIs signing LoI are constituents The EGI Project(s) team confirmed; this includes the project director(s) identification/confirmation (the person who will lead the team(s)) June: MoU signed, (full)EGI Council setup The Transition towards EGI Deliverable published March—May: EGI.org setup preparation Includes search for EGI.org director and identification of EGI.org key personnel June: EGI.org director appointed/identified September: EGI.org setup at the latest (one month before the call closure) July—December: EGI Project(s) preparation and submission The MoU signing will continue after June, but the “latecomers” may not have direct influence on the composition of project preparation team nor on the selection of EGI.org director 2-Mar-09 J. Knobloch - EGI Transition 3-Apr-2009

Topics for Future Meetings Installed Resources Reports User Support Analysis Support Following workshop, in preparation for STEP09 Pilot Jobs/SCAS testing Other Suggestions?