Agenda
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for meeting of 15th August, 10:30am-4pm, room 506, Kelvin Building,
University of Glasgow 

Coffee and pre-discussion - 10am

Aim: to review planning.
(note: it is assumed that the draft tender will be signed off before this
meeting)

1) Review of minutes of Meeting 11 - 19 Jan 2007 [~10']
available via:
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/tier1a/board/
(note that the meeting number has reverted to 11)

Action 11.1: RAS to organise a storage workshop and decide how best to
organise the activity of specifying the Tier 1 service architecture.
(This is related to action 10.1 which is now closed) 

Action 11.2: DN and User Board. Related to question of AFS once non-Grid
access turned off - UB to assess requirement for a national service. 

Action 11.3: RAS to prepare paper on Tier 1 AFS plans to meet the
user requirements.

Action 11.4: JG to discuss with Tony Cass about increased support for
additional storage classes in Castor. 

Action 11.5: JG to reconvene Tier 1 Hardware Assessment Group (HAG). 

Action 11.6: JW/NG (assume moved to NMcC/NG) to inform the board of
plans for Tier 1 experiment support posts.

2) Mass Storage Service Progress and Plans - Dave Corney & Andrew Sansum [~40']
inc. (a) "Criteria for success of Castor"
     (b) Tape Robot Planning

3) Financial Plan - Andrew Sansum & Dave Britton [~20']
Status of current planning

4) UB report and requests - Glenn Patrick [~30'] 

5) Non-Grid access (revised timetable) - Andrew Sansum [~20]

Lunch [12:30-1:30]

6) Preparations for Tier-1 Board review 
(a) questionnaire - Dave Britton & Tony Doyle [~20']
(draft for discussion, as input to the meeting on 21/11/07)
(b) meeting preparations [~10']

7) SLAs and MoUs - Dave Britton, Tony Doyle & Andrew Sansum [~30']
(draft inputs for discussion, as input to GridPP/STFC overall document
due ~October)

8) Staffing plan - Andrew Sansum [~15']

9) 2008 purchase plan: preliminary discussion - All [~40']
    including:
    i) when to initiate purchases for FY08 (inc. plans for new machine 
       room)
    ii) reqd. balance of purchases Tape/Disk/CPU/other infrastructure 
    iii)interim conclusions for 2008-09

10) Date of next meeting
(provisionally in the New Year, following the review)

11) AOCB