Tier-2 Phone Conference 30/04/04
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Present: Steve Lloyd, John Gordon, Roger Jones, Dave Colling,
Jeff Tseng, Dave Kelsey, Phil Clark.

There was a discussion of the latest spreadsheet version (v3). SL had added a
column for Moore's Law extrapolation and an overall weight (currently 0 or 1).
Each entry in the 'future' section of the spreadsheet was discussed and a
decision made as to whether it should count or not. It was agreed that future
resources from rolling grants should count 0.7. It was clarified that the
future resources were incremental and some duplicate entries were hence
removed. A few uncertainties still remain - the status of the Liverpool MAP3,
the future Bristol resources and some details of Glasgow SpecInts.

It was reconfirmed that new posts should be SP11.

RJ said that having an MoU was starting to become urgent. SL said that he
hoped one could be drafted in time for discussion at the face to face at
GridPP10. It was agreed to move the meeting to 11 and to request phone access.

DC reported that JG, ST, DK(ant) and himself had met at Cork to discuss the
hardware purchase and a suggested spec had been circulated by email. DC will
check with AS and then get some quotes both for identical systems and for the
suggested different systems.

It was agreed that the next phone meeting would be on Wednesday 5 May from
9.00 to 10.00 assuming that the questions on the spreadsheet are clarified by
then. It should then be possible to agree the post allocations.