Les Robertson, Jürgen Knobloch, 22 July 2004

            Revised 31-August

Topics for PEB meetings

September to December 2004

 

Specific items

Conditions database and collections – present and discuss scope appropriate to the person-power

14-Sep

Re-iterate the decision on sharing the fabric funding available at CERN for offline with online. – Maybe have a general discussion on the role of online and DAQ in LCG (databases, data challenges, Tier-0 operation, location of filter farms, networking, software, etc.). For such a discussion DAQ people from the experiments would be invited.

?-Sep

Present and discuss the LCG Phase-2 plan

21-Sep or
5-Oct

Report on progress to solve the manpower deficit

5-Oct

Database services project: present and agree work plan

12-Oct

Report on progress with the Lightweight Disk Pool Manager – October

19-Oct

Present and discuss an outline of the LCG TDR – September/October

9-Nov ?

Review status of application area projects in preparation of the LHCC review – October/November

16-Nov

Agree on the 2005 capacity plan for the fabric at CERN – November

23-Nov

Present and discuss the ARDA status and its plans for 2005 – October/November

30-Nov

Present AA development & support plan through 2008 - December

7-Dec

Endorse gLite development and deployment plan and migration from LCG-2 - December

14-Dec

 

Regular items

Report on major decisions of the Architects’ Forum and the GDB

 

Endorse proposals for major LCG-2 releases

 

Identify major problems in the project and follow up their solutions

 

Coordinate plans for data challenges – including preparatory work such as testing

 

Provide feedback from data challenges and define follow up actions

 

For each service challenge: endorse goals & timetable; follow up on progress

 

 

Items of interest to the PEB but discussed at other places

Inter-working of grids à GDB

 

Security at Tier-2 centres - GDB

 

LINUX distributions à DTF& GDB

 

Internal review of the LCG areas (except for Applications) in preparation of the LHCC review