1. Computing Needs Panel Marco Apollonio, Linda Coney, Mike Courthold, Malcolm Ellis, Jean-Sebastien Graulich, Pierrick Hanlet, Henry Nebrensky

2. Coney heplnw17 –Problem: Died in Dec before Christmas Not know what went wrong Was our only gateway onto site for external users Only linux box at RAL for analysis Provided immediate access to data during running for debugging –Who can fix it? Nobody responsible –Not PPD – only in spare time –Alan Doo tested it some –Not ISIS –Not MICE – Henry worked on it Online –Need access to Online machines (OnRec01a, OnRec02a) –To update software OnMon & OnRec –Add histograms to online mon & reco –Nobody can get in to do anything (since December)  no improvements or change unless at RAL What we need: –Computing Support – RAL –Officially classify us as something, PPD or ISIS or some defined combo –New computing expert postdoc or grad student? eLOG –Problem: Originally (temporarily) hosted at Daresbury Froze up, failed to load Lost information –Moved to IIT in October – Temporary –Solved immediate problem (thanks IIT) –During this User Run  failed to load –Certificate error –SOLUTION – need it at RAL

3. Linda Coney – CM26 – 24 March 2010 heplnw17 (Coney) It might be useful to have a PC at RAL that can be used for analysis and software develpoment tasks. heplnw17 could fill these roles, but someone must be found to  identify the cause cause of the hardware failure & repair/replace it  responsible for sysadmin & backups  liaise with PPD to ensure meets their security requirements (it’s on their network) PPD IT support have been troubleshooting the physical machine but we still need a sysadmin. 3 STILL ON A DESK IN R1