Technical Board Issues

1
Technical Board Issues
2

• Composition to date
• P.Clarke
• R.Middleton
• D.Colling
• G.McCance
• S.Fisher
• Lex Holt/Paul Anderson
• J.Gordon
• A.McNab
• R.Hughes-Jones
• F.Harris
• A.Martin
• S.Burke
• D.Kelsey
• N.Brook

3
TB Meetings

• December
• adoption of DataGRID reporting mechanisms for
  WP1-7
• Jan 9th
• EDG Post quarterly submission review of
  delivered resources
• EDG Review of UK deliverable responsibilities
• Gantt chart testbed functionality
• Testbed rollout planning first discussion
• Application builders workshop planning
• adoption of TB-SUPPORT_at_JISCMAIL.AC.UK
• Feb 8th
• Detailed discussion of Testbed rollout planning
  gt SEE TOMORROW
• First discussion of non-LHC exp support
• GridPP DEVELOPMENT Grid

4
TB Documentation

• EDG resource management document produced and
  circulated publicly
• WP1-7 mechanisms now in place and being used
  usefully.
• Applications posts monitoring mechanisms now
  being reviewed
• Testbed rollout planning and support document in
  preparation
• iterated within TB
• next step is circulation to EB and WPs affected
  (WP6) for comment
• will then be circulated to all for comment
• to be outlined tomorrow
• Note TB-WWW pages not very clever yet being
  fixed now

5
TB Organised meetings

• Application Builders meeting 31st Jan _at_ RAL
• aim was how to use middleware talks where
  appropriate (eg WP1)
• in addition overview of what other middleware
  does
• All future meetings will be as requested by
  GridPP (i.e. the audience
• Will probably only cover one theme
• Next planned is half day (or more) on use of Job
  submission system
• We will attempt to make the format more training
  oriented(perhaps use RAL or IC training rooms)
• Will circulate request for interest 6 weeks
  from now