Welcome to the 6th GridPP Collaboration Meeting

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Introduction
Welcome to the 6th GridPP Collaboration Meeting

• PPARC Oversight Committee
• Demonstrations
• Licences
• Where are we?

Steve Lloyd, Chair of GridPP Collaboration Board
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PPARC Oversight Committee

• 3 Meetings with us
• December 2001 Unhappy ?
• May 2002 - Very Unhappy ?
• October 2002 - Very Happy! ?
• Appointment of Dave B as Project Manager
• Creation of Project Map
• For Next Meeting
• Risk Register ?
• (Non) delivery of experiment deliverables ?

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GridPP Demonstrations

• Coming up
• LeSC Open Day 8 April IC
• IoP HEPP Meeting 14-16 April Durham
• e-Science All Hands 2-4 Sept Nottingham
• ...
• Need to
• Show our Grid works
• Look good
• Slick with 80 functionality is better than
  clunky with 95
• Easy to use - don't need our experts to run them
• Standing Demo Committee?
• Steve L, Dave C, Roger J, .... volunteers

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Licences

• EDG Licence exists
• Need other versions?
• GridPP add on to EDG software
• EDG -gt GridPPEDG everywhere?
• GridPP Standalone software
• EDG -gt GridPP everywhere?
• Experiment software
• Experiments (Software agreements...)
• Why do you want a licence?
• Who owns the software?
• EDG, GridPP, You, Your Institute...
• Disclaimer probably important

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Where are we?

• Almost exactly half way through the official 3
  years of GridPP
• Out of the frantic proposing, hiring, setting up
  phase long hard slog of getting it to work!
• Have convinced people we are serious (only real
  Grid in UK)
• New 31.6M of e-Science money certain to be
  GridPP-2
• Production Grid
• Support for Tier-1 (h/w staff) Tier-2 (staff)
• Experiments
• Grid other software
• Middleware EGEE (EU Framework 6)?
• (Fully fund LHC computing)