Welcome to the 18th GridPP Collaboration Meeting

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Welcome to the 18th GridPP Collaboration Meeting

• Introduction
• GridPP3 Proposal
• Site Readiness Reviews
• My ATLAS Tests
• Dissemination
• Timeline

Steve Lloyd, Chair of the GridPP Collaboration
Board
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GridPP3
Finally Approved!!! Submitted - July 13 2006
Approved - Council Meeting 7 March 2007 Bottom
line - 25.9m New Money Contingency etc Total
Project - 30m (GridPP2 GridPP3) (September
2007 to 31 March 2011) Approximately corresponds
to the 70 scenario Details from Dave
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Site Readiness Reviews

• Review of all UK Tier-2 Sites Management,
  Operation, Technical and Experiment
• Both sides aware of issues, obligations, plans,
  costs, service levels etc
• Feed back issues to sites and to Deployment Team,
  PMB, LCG/EGEE etc

Tier-2 Management Experiments Technical Other Tier-2 Coordinator Dates
SouthGrid Neil Geddes Steve Lloyd Andrew Sansum Olivier van der Aa 9-14 March
London Robin Middleton Dave Newbold Stephen Burke Graeme Stewart 17-20 April
NorthGrid Tony Doyle Glenn Patrick Jeremy Coles Pete Gronbech 14-18 May
ScotGrid Dave Kelsey Roger Jones John Gordon Alessandra Forti 21-23 May
RAL PPD, Birmingham, Oxford, Cambridge done
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My ATLAS Tests
Run ATLAS test jobs at each UK site once an hour
Almost best ever
http//hepwww.ph.qmul.ac.uk/lloyd/atlas/atest.php
Typical
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System is Unstable!
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Dissemination

• LHC_at_Home Moving (slowly) to the UK
• Science Museum - Exhibition starting 3 April
  features GridPP RTM - runs for 6 months
• OGF/EGEE Manchester, 7-11 May - Stand as with
  AstroGrid at AHM but with RAL e-Science
• BA Festival of Science York, 10-14 September
  GridPP will have an exhibition (needs volunteers)
  Clashes with AHM so good excuse?

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Timeline
2006
2008
2007
GridPP2
GridPP2
GridPP3
GridPP3 Proposal Submitted July 13
End of GridPP2 (31 August 2007)
Start of GridPP3 (1 March 2008)
14TeV
900GeV
LHC
Now (GridPP16)
Now (GridPP18)
First LHC Collisions November 2007
14TeV LHC Collisions Spring 2008