1. 16 th Oct’02Nick Brook – University of Bristol1 News Nick Brook University of Bristol PMB News Feedback from “review” LCG News

2. 16 th Oct’02Nick Brook – University of Bristol2 PMB News  Meeting with Oversight Committee successful  Asked risk register by 15 th Dec  Documentation on CERN production Grid  Meet in future 1 month after quarterly reports  PMB “short-term” goals: Generic GridPP portal ?? (see LCG news) Increase use of Grid certificates ??

3. 16 th Oct’02Nick Brook – University of Bristol3 PMB News Long-term plans Continue supporting Tier-1/A staff Continue ramp up of Tier-1/A hardware –UK leading role in computing infrastructure for LHC Support for Tier-2 staff –Complementary to University funding Continued support for Applications development –Beyond middleware data-handling interfaces? –As part of rolling grant programme? Continued support for Middleware development –including Framework VI EGEE project [DataGrid'] Ramp up of Tier-2 hardware –available via University SRIF/JREI/future funding? Continued support of CERN staff Continued ramp up of CERN hardware

4. 16 th Oct’02Nick Brook – University of Bristol4 PMB News

5. 16 th Oct’02Nick Brook – University of Bristol5 Review “feedback”  General Applications are beginning to deliver Need to co-ordinate reporting Deliverables match Dave B ProjectPlan (now available off EB web page) New, expt specific templates will be provided to achieve that goal “Deliverables” are not set in stone – but OSC have now seen them. Any changes need justification  Queries from reporting procedure have been addressed to directly EB contacts  Expts will be requested to provide “demonstrations” of functionality of prototypes (corresponding to major deliverables) at future GridPP collaboration meeting

6. 16 th Oct’02Nick Brook – University of Bristol6 LCG News  1 st (pre-)release of persistency software (POOL) – 3 rd October Targets navigational support Release tool is CMT & SCRAM Decision hoped CMT vs SCRAM by next release http://lcgapp.cern.ch/project/persist/  Blueprint RTAG has reported to SC2 Plan to have two IT seminars @CERN (!!) i.LCG approach ii.ROOT approach See today’s agenda page for a copy of report

7. 16 th Oct’02Nick Brook – University of Bristol7 LCG News  LCG Software Process & Infrastructure work plan Proposed development cycle for the LCG application area projects SPI must support it adequately

8. 16 th Oct’02Nick Brook – University of Bristol8 LCG News  LCG Software Process & Infrastructure work plan SPI will follow it too -Releasing as soon as possible -Work with users -Having a simple view on the process

9. 16 th Oct’02Nick Brook – University of Bristol9 LCG News  LCG Software Process & Infrastructure release schedule December 2002 - Beta Versions –Many components will be available before February 2003 - Version 1.0 –All components and services except Software Library (but basic), Project portal (but basic) –Monitoring if resources will need to be injected May 2003 - LCG Test - Version 1.1 –Software Library, Project portal and all features –Standard templates and tools available September 2003 - Version 1.2 –LCG software process –Standards for user specifications –Design guidelines and specifications end of 2003 until 2005 –Development Version 2, support and maintenance

10. 16 th Oct’02Nick Brook – University of Bristol10 LCG News  First Grid Deployment Board meeting in Milano – Oct 4 th WG1: Selection of Grid Middleware to be deployed on LCG-1 –Technical Assistant: David Foster –Chair: J.Renner Hansen –Members: Eric van Herwijnen, Laura Perini, Tony Wildish, Yves Schutz, Simon Lin WG2: Resource planning –Technical Assistant: Ian Bird –Chair: V.White –Members: Wolfgang Von Ruden, David Stickland, Gilbert Poulard, Klaus-Peter Mickel, Slava Ilyin, Federico Carminati, Anders Ynnerman WG3: LCG-1 Security, Authentication, authorization and registration policy. –Technical Assistant:D. Kelsey –Chair:M.Delfino –Members: Thomas Kachelhoffer, Randy Sobie, Vicky White WG4: Real operations procedures –Technical Assistant:T. Cass –Chair:F. Ruggieri –Members: John Gordon, Tony Wildish, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Klaus-Peter Mickel WG5: User support model. –To be defined Presentations: http://cern.ch/lcg/peb/gdb/milano_4oct02/presentations/