GridPP News NeSC opening “Media” dissemination Tier 1/A hardware Web pages Collaboration meetings Nick Brook University of Bristol

NeSC Opening NeSC opening Edinburgh April 25th 3 GridPP demos (dummy run 5 th April): LHCb (MC production facility) BaBar (monitoring) Query services Handouts Any experiment wishing to produce a handout for the “package” are encouraged to do so

Dissemination A new GridPP news section on Web page Each item appearing is also forwarded to PPARC who will produce a press release if appropriate Experiments encouraged to provide news

Hardware for Tier 1/A  CPU upgrade  Ghz CPUs  4 x39 racks  Each dual has 1GB RAM  30GB internal disk  Each box 100Mb ethernet  Disk cluster  26 disk servers  Each server dual GHz CPU  Each 2shelves of 12x80GB IDE disk and Gbit NIC  Tape  Increase capcity by 35TB  Upgrade Gb switch capacity Started to arrive at RAL last week

EB web page Needs (asked) to be re-vamped Each experiment should have a “link” to provide information about their Grid activities Request: the UK collaboration should put together a page for the web

Collaboration Meetings Next meetings Manchester – 9 th & 10 th May Imperial – 24 th & 25 th September Manchester meeting will include the Grid “teach-in” on job submission Propose for May meeting repeat format of Cambridge meeting for expt. presentation LHC Expt + Lattice – Nick US Collider + others – Roger Future meetings - individual expts. when substantial progress to report with overview of rest