Agenda
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for meeting of 23rd September, 10am-4pm, CR4, R1.

0. review remit of the Tier-1/A Board 
See
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/tier1a/board/
(mainly for new members)

1. review/approval of previous minutes            [20']

ACTION 6.1: RAS to investigate feasibility of abandoning disk servers
and installing extra drives in CPU boxes instead.

ACTION 6.2: RAS to produce service architecture plan with aim of
reducing complexity.

ACTION 6.3: DT (now DN) to work with UB to consider Tier 2 allocations,
taking into account the different functionality from the Tier 1. Aim
should be to consider moving work not needing Tier 1 functionality to
Tier 2.

ACTION 6.4: RAS to produce detailed Tier 1/A spending plan for this FY
including miscellaneous costs.
 
ACTION 6.5: RAS to summarise his investigations on recent unscheduled
power outages and conclusions on any required changes.

[See RAS e-mail of Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:08:52]

2. Issues arising from GridPP OC in July [TD] [15']
[See TD e-mail of Sat, 2 Jul 2005 10:16:36]

3. PPARC statement on future financial planning [DM]     [15']
- to address request w.r.t. bringing forward FY06 funding to FY05.

4. Summary of Tier-1 plans [RAS]                         [30']
(i) FINAL 2004 outcome 
(defining format of output for 2005 outcome anticipated at the next 
meeting)
(ii) Procurement methods summary and proposed response to OC
(outline document to be presented)

5. Summary of Tier-1 UB requirements [DN]                [20']

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

6. Tier-1 Planning [DB]                                  [50']
to review the complete plan currently 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 2005

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

7. Agreed briefing statement to RRB-UK  [TD]             [10']
LHC Planning Figures are summarised at
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/tier1a/board/doc/LCG_MoU_output_Mar05.doc
Now submitted - short discussion on proposed timescales

8. POB report [NG]                                       [20']

9. Status of recruitment at the Tier-1/A                 [5']

10.Quarterly Reporting - issues arising [RAS]            [15']
Quarterly report to be circulated prior to the meeting

11.Hardware Status and Operating issues [RAS/JG]         [15']

12. LCG Service Challenge status/schedule [RAS/JG]       [20']

13. PP Director and e-Science participation in future meetings [20']
Review if the current roles are appropriate.

14. AOCB

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