S.L.LloydGridPP CB 19 February 2003Slide 1 Agenda 1.Minutes of Previous Meeting (29 Oct 2002) 2.Matters Arising 3.GridPP2 Planning 4.EGEE 5.Any Other Business 6.Date of Next Meeting

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 19 February 2003Slide 2 Minutes of Previous Meeting Minutes of CB Meeting 29 October 2002 –Approved? Actions: –SLL to write to PPARC about long term computing support. Done – no reply. (GridPP2 bid will make this more explicit). –SLL to summarise losses in Grants round. A few computing posts lost. No evidence of specific targeting of computing jobs.

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 19 February 2003Slide 3 Matters Arising Successful second EU DataGrid Review Tier2 Centres –All 4 regions presented at recent GridPP Collaboration meeting and have submitted EoIs –4 x 0.5 FTE from 1 September 2003 –Plans to GridPP by 1 May 2003 –Hopefully more posts in GridPP2 Risk Register –First version complete, for next Oversight Committee Experimental Deliverables –being iterated JCSR bid to JISC –Middleware support through Grid Support Centre

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 19 February 2003Slide 4 Risk Register

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 19 February 2003Slide 5 GridPP2 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 19 February 2003Slide 6 Likely PPARC Call PPARC e-Science Centres –Development and deployment of computing centres for the LHC experiments including: UK National Tier-1 Centre Local or Regional Tier-2 Centres –Astronomical Virtual Observatory data centres –Collaborative software developments with CERN and ESO Applications Development The Grid enabled applications software for the LHC experiments, including reconstruction, simulation and analysis software required for full exploitation of the first LHC data in 2007 Data Processing pipelines.... in Astronomy

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 19 February 2003Slide 7 GridPP2 Bids Bids probably due by end of May 2003 We intend to address funding through to LHC exploitation: –GridPP –GridPP –Exploitation2007 – onwards Envisage one main GridPP2 bid plus several separate bids from Experiments and possibly Tier-2 centres

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 19 February 2003Slide 8 GridPP2 Overview FundingBidder Tier-1 StaffPPARCGridPP Tier-1 HardwarePPARCGridPP Tier-2 StaffPPARCGridPP or Institutes Tier-2 HardwareSRIF/JREI... Tier-0 StaffPPARCGridPP Tier-0 HardwarePPARCGridPP App Interface StaffPPARCGridPP App Develop StaffPPARCExperiments Middleware StaffPPARC/EU?GridPP ManagersPPARCGridPP Travel and Misc costsPPARCGridPP

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 19 February 2003Slide 9 Possible Bids Overview 1 Overview of whole GridPP1/GridPP2/Exploitation programme Suggested breakdown of costs by area GridPP2 Bid Detailed bid for: Tier-1 Staff Tier-1 Hardware Tier-0 Staff Tier-0 Hardware Application Interface Staff Middleware Staff Managers Travel etc GridPP2 Document Expt A Bid Detailed bid for: Application Develop Staff Expt B Bid Detailed bid for: Application Develop Staff Tier-2 X Bid Detailed bid for: Tier-2 Staff Tier-2 Y Bid Detailed bid for: Tier-2 Staff

S.L.LloydGridPP CB 19 February 2003Slide 10 Possible Bids Overview 2 Overview of whole GridPP1/GridPP2/Exploitation programme Suggested breakdown of costs by area GridPP2 Bid Detailed bid for: Tier-2 Staff Tier-1 Staff Tier-1 Hardware Tier-0 Staff Tier-0 Hardware Application Interface Staff Middleware Staff Managers Travel etc GridPP2 Document Expt A Bid Detailed bid for: Application Develop Staff Expt B Bid Detailed bid for: Application Develop Staff