Agenda
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for meeting of 11th April, 10am-4pm, CR2, R1.

1. review/approval of previous minutes
[draft minutes attached]                                 [10']
ACTION 5.1 Andrew Sansum. to upload the BaBar requirements document on the
Tier 1/A web and inform the User Board of its existence (other experiments
are encouraged to produce similar documents).

ACTION 5.2 Tony Doyle. To request access to dCache source code on behalf
of GridPP.

Action 5.3 John Gordon. To raise the issue that the LHC experiments need
to coordinate their use of our Tier 1 at GDB.

                        Long-Term Planning
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2. PPARC statement on future financial planning [DM]     [10']
to ensure that the financial planning is within PPARC scope and,
in particular, that PPARC are aware of implications w.r.t. BaBar
rebate.

3. Summary of Tier-1 plans [RAS]                         [30']
to review 2004 outcome 
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/tier1a/board/doc/Tier1_2004_Experiment_Outturn.doc 
to highlight issues where choices have been made on
i) persistent storage planning
ii) disk purchases
iii) CPU purchases
iv) balancing requirements

4. Summary of Tier-1 UB requirements [DT]                [20']
to review long-term planning input from all experiments
(and include short statement on current planning, noting that the UB
meeting follows this meeting on 13th April).


11:20 -----Break------- 11:40

5. Tier-1 Planning [DB]                                  [50']
to review the complete plan at
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/pmb/ProjectManagement/Tier1Plan26b.xls
summarised in
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/tier1a/board/doc/Tier1Plan26b_Summary.doc
circulated on 31st March

12:30 -----Lunch------- 1:30

6. Agreed briefing statement to RRB-UK  [TD]             [20']
LHC Planning Figures are summarised at
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/tier1a/board/doc/LCG_MoU_output_Mar05.doc
Any proposed amendments should be discussed here.

7. POB report [NG]                                       [20']
Note: e-mail summary was sent by Neil following the last POB meeting

8. Representation on CERN committees  [TD]               [10']
This has been defined with agreement from all involved, but there
may be further discussion?

                        Short-Term Issues
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9. Quarterly Reporting - issues arising [RAS]            [15']
Quarterly report to be circulated prior to the meeting

10.Hardware Status and Operating issues [RAS/JG]         [15']
o Another power cut in March
o Difficulty in allocating disk in dynamic manner
o Tenders delayed until - a) effort was available and b) pending
evidence that utilisation justified additional capacity purchasing.
o Advertisements for Tier1 positions should appear very shortly.

15:00 -----Break------- 15:30

11. LCG Service Challenge status/schedule [RAS/JG]       [20']
o Service Challenge activity has sharply increased
o Increasingly concerned that there will be difficulties meeting
Service Challenge commitments

12. AOCB

16:00 -----End-------