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Present: Dave Britton (Chair), Pete Clarke, Jeremy Coles, Pete Gronbech, Steve Lloyd, Andrew McNab, Louisa Campbell (Minutes).
Apologies: Tony Cass, David Colling, Dave Kelsey, Tony Doyle, Roger Jones, Andrew Sansum, Gareth Smith.
1. OC Documents
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PG summarised version 12 which has had input from the PMB. This is now very close to a final version and will be submitted tomorrow. There are a few points to address after DB’s alterations to the Introduction this morning, including UKT0 to incorporate all national funders, rather than specifically STFC. Points to amend include:
a) Sentence on Dirac consortium, notes a list of VOs we are involved with demonstrating our reach beyond the original remit of particle physics – this will be amended to note ‘others’ and flags other projects we are involved in and the current position. AS is prepared to respond to questions in this regard.
b) EOSC hub addressed to AS (not present). Open science cloud led by STFC – this sentence needs clarified rather than being explained later in the report.
c) AS highlighted the EGI council is chaired by the UK – PG will remove the highlight.
d) (page 14) GridPP computing section of the Tier1 report – needs clarification on whether the CPU utilisation refers to overall or just CMS. This will be updated to clarify this is general and not specific, but noting that CMS experienced the biggest impact. Also remove the 2nd and 3rd performance issues – i.e. impacted by Castor performance issues.
e) Production database teams (page 16) – this needs to be clarified to relate to operations, but there is no spare capacity to develop into research work.
f) Minor typos were corrected.
The STFC-style spreadsheet has now been updated with all the figures and circulated. Next week DB has 2 presentations to write and an examiners meeting so the presentation for the OC needs to be finalised asap.
Document numbers – as there is only 1 document it should be 177 – the Financial report will be numbered and kept as an internal document and not publicly available.
ACTION 635.1: PG will make all the final suggested changes and submit to OC documents.
2. AOCB
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a) LHCb issue on file access using XRootD has been raised as a ticket and is being investigated.
3. Standing Items
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SI-0 Bi-Weekly Report from Technical Group (DC)
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Nothing to report.
SI-1 Dissemination Report (SL)
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The post for replacing Tom Whyntie has been extended.
SI-2 ATLAS Weekly Review and Plans (RJ)
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No report submitted.
SI-3 CMS Weekly Review and Plans (DC)
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No report submitted.
SI-4 LHCb Weekly Review and Plans (PC)
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Speeding up of the Echo testing is being attempted.
SI-5 Production Manager’s report (JC)
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There are some issues re ATLAS but not from CMS at the moment and therefore nothing to report.
SI-6 Tier-1 Manager’s Report (GS)
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No Report submitted.
SI-7 LCG Management Board Report of Issues (DB)
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No report submitted.
SI-8 External Contexts (PC)
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Nothing of significance to report.
REVIEW OF ACTIONS
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630.2: DB and PG will continue to work on metrics and funding strategies at the macro level. Ongoing.
630.3: DB will tweak his metrics and funding model based on CPU. Ongoing.
631.2: ALL to work on OC documents for submission by end May. Done.
632.1: DB will work on the Introduction of OC doc. Done.
632.2: DB and PC will work on Wider Context section of OC doc. Done.
632.3: PG will work on PI5 status and Risk Register of OC doc. Done.
632.4: AS will work on Tier-1 section of OC doc. Done.
632.5: JC will work on Deployment Status of OC doc. Done.
632.6: RJ will work on ATLAS section of OC doc. Done.
632.7: DC will work on CMS section of OC doc. Done.
632.8: AM will work on LHCb section of OC doc. Done.
632.9: JC and DC will work on Other VOs section of OC doc. Done.
632.10: SL will work on Impact and Dissemination section of OC doc. Done.
633.1: AS will put together a proposal for HAG. Ongoing.
ACTIONS AS OF 30.05.17
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630.2: DB and PG will continue to work on metrics and funding strategies at the macro level. Ongoing.
630.3: DB will tweak his metrics and funding model based on CPU. Ongoing.
633.1: AS will put together a proposal for HAG. Ongoing.
635.1: PG will make all the final suggested changes and submit to OC documents.