Deployment Board Introduction

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Deployment BoardIntroduction

• David Kelsey
• 29 Oct 2004
• d.p.kelsey_at_rl.ac.uk

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Agenda

• Morning
• Objectives
• Introduction
• Review of past (the most recent quarter)
• Current deployment issues
• Afternoon
• Reports from related projects
• Deployment Team plans
• Future plans and priorities
• Plans for next meeting (annual review)
• AOB

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Todays Objectives

• First meeting of the new Deployment Board
• Understand and agree its role
• Identify individual responsibilities
• Agreed inputs and outputs of the DB
• Clear record of GridPP deployment plans and
  issues
• Understand how middleware and applications
  development will impact deployment activities
• Understand how CERN, UK NGS, Grid Ireland, EGEE
  and LCG developments will impact deployment
  activities
• Agreed list of priorities for the deployment team

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Deployment Board

• Replaces GridPP1 Technical Board
• Prototype to Production
• Mandate (primarily a technical body)
• Determine and oversee execution of technical plan
• Report to GridPP PMB
• Ensure GridPP-wide issues discussed/solved
• Provide forum for tech info exchange
• Oversee deployment and use of GridPP h/w
• Tier1 Tier2 coordination/liaison
• Ensure integration of external tech developments

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DB members

• Production Manager Jeremy Coles (RAL)
• (acts as Deputy Chair)
• Tier1/A Manager Andrew Sansum (RAL)
• 4 Tier 2 Technical Coordinators
• London Owen Maroney (Imperial)
• North Grid Alessandra Forti (Manchester)
• Scot Grid Fraser Speirs (Glasgow)
• South Grid Rhys Newman (Oxford)
• UK HEP SYSMAN chair Pete Gronbech (Oxford)
• CERN T0/Deployment David Smith (CERN)
• Applications Area Coordinator Roger Jones
  (Lancaster)
• Middleware Area Coordinator Robin Middleton (RAL)

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DB Members (2)

• Technical experts (invited by DB chair)
• Stephen Burke (RAL) LHC deployment
• Dave Colling (Imperial) Workload Management
• Steve Fisher (RAL) InfoMonitoring
• Andrew McNab (Manchester) Security
• Robin Tasker (DL) Networking
• Steve Traylen (RAL) Deployment
• UK NGS Stephen Pickles (Manchester)
• EGEE/Grid Ireland John Walsh (Dublin)
• DB chair DPK
• A total of some 20 people

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DB tasks

• Meet Quarterly
• Review progress during last quarter
• q reports, logbooks, metrics, milestones,
  deliverables, current status
• Consider and prioritise future plans
• Short term and longer term
• Discuss technical issues (and resolve?)
• Once per year (Feb meeting 2 days?)
• More detailed review of complete year

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Deployment Team

• The GridPP DTEAM
• Builds on the regular TB-support meetings
• JC (Production Manager) leads the team
• Where the action is!
• Make and execute plans
• Discuss and fix technical issues
• Meet regularly
• DB will take a more formal overview
• But is still a technical body
• Can be consulted when DTEAM is stuck!

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Communication

• Two new mail lists
• GridPP-DB_at_jiscmail
• GridPP-DTEAM_at_jiscmail
• Mail list attributes
• Web pages
• http//www.gridpp.ac.uk/db/
• Public unless we identify a need for a private
  area
• We need to discuss how to develop the deployment
  area web (infrastructure)

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DB relations