S.L.LloydGridPP CB 29 Oct 2002Slide 1 Agenda 1.Introduction – Steve Lloyd 2.Minutes of Previous Meeting (23 Oct 2001) 3.Matters Arising 4.Project Leader's Status Report – Tony Doyle 5.Discussion 6.Tier-2 Centres –Steve Lloyd 7.EU Framework VI – Tony Doyle 8.GridPP – Steve Lloyd 9.Any Other Business 10.Date of Next Meeting

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 29 Oct 2002Slide 2 Matters Arising Project Management Board –Dave Britton appointed as Project Manager (funded by GridPP) –Administrative Assistant (Barbara Scott) –CB Chair not funded by GridPP Experiments Board –Roger Barlow re-elected as Deputy Chair – Takes over as Chair from Nick Brook next year LTA to CERN –Now possible through CERN LCG Money PPARC Oversight Committee –Met with us 3 times (Dec 01, May 02, Oct 02) –(Unhappy, Very Unhappy, Very Happy)

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 29 Oct 2002Slide 3 Project Leader's Report Tony Doyle

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 29 Oct 2002Slide 4 Tier-2 Centres GridPP Currently funds: –Tier-1/A Hardware and Support Staff –Middleware Staff –Applications Staff –CERN Hardware and Staff GridPP proposed should be ~4 ‘Regional’ Tier-2s GridPP does not fund Tier-2s Potential Tier-2 hardware exists through JIF/JREI/SRIF etc Two recent surveys carried out: –January 2002 Grants ‘Form G’ –July 2002 GridPP Tier-2 Questionnaire

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 29 Oct 2002Slide 5 Tier-2 Centres Many UK Institutes could be Tier-2s All major UK Institutes want to be (or be part of) Tier-2 centres. Four obvious geographical groupings: ScotGrid –Edinburgh, Glasgow Northern –Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield Southern –Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford, RAL-PPD London –Brunel, IC, QMUL, RHUL, UCL

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 29 Oct 2002Slide 6 Tier-2 Centres ScotGrid –Well established as prototype Tier-2 Northern –Have met once together, plan to meet again soon –Very significant resources Southern –Bristol, Oxford, RAL-PPD have submitted EoI to GridPP London –Informal discussions so far

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 29 Oct 2002Slide 7 Tier-2 Centre Resources Estimated resources at end of 2003 (from Institute returns) Number of CPUsAmount of Disk (TB)Amount of Tape (TB) London Northern Southern ScotGrid Number of CPUsAmount of Disk (TB) BaBar110829%7630% CDF45312%3915% D03208% 83% ATLAS94725%7228% CMS3048% 94% LHCb54314%4016%

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 29 Oct 2002Slide 8 Tier-2 Planning Encourage these Institutes to formally get together Establish some sort of MoU between GridPP and the Institutes Request an additional 2 FTE of effort from PPARC to be matched from elsewhere to fund 1 FTE at 4 Regional Centres for last year of GridPP Try and minimise System Management effort required to run the centres (see Rollout Plan)

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 29 Oct 2002Slide 9 EU Framework VI Tony Doyle

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 29 Oct 2002Slide 10 The Future of GridPP GridPP is funded for 3 years from 1 Sept 2001 (1 Jan 2001 for EDG) i.e. ends by Oct 2004 End effects till end of 2004 LHC starts > 2006 Need to have built a robust, production Grid with sufficient capability and capacity by then

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 29 Oct 2002Slide 11 The Future of GridPP GridPP is now well established with –PPARC, UK Core e-Science, Internationally Broadly based in UK HEP –CB - Group Leaders Has taken over much of CNAP's previous role –Running Central Facilities -> Proto Tier-1/A Centre Effective Management Structure Propose that GridPP continue beyond 2004 Need to decide priorities and prepare to bid against new money.

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 29 Oct 2002Slide 12 Future Priorities? Continue supporting Tier-1/A staff Continue ramp up of Tier-1/A hardware Support for Tier-2 staff –Complimentary to University funding Continued support for Applications development –Through rolling grants? Continued support for Middleware development –Including Framework VI etc Ramp up of Tier-2 hardware –From University funding (SRIF etc)? Continued support of CERN staff Continued ramp up of CERN hardware

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 29 Oct 2002Slide 13 Any Other Business

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 29 Oct 2002Slide 14 Next Meeting Date of Next Meeting