Welcome and CNAP News Thanks to Gareth Smith and RAL for hosting the meeting

Last CNAP meeting was on March 22 nd Atlas Data Store – Dave Corney. They had had a meeting on the 4 th March (where PP were not well represented) at JET. They use the same kit, and have made an arrangement to store offsite backups for each other. There is a need for a mailing list. People did not know about the SRB interface. User group meetings should be yearly. Could upgrade to 5PB capacity by upgrading the tape drives. May need to look at Network/servers in the future. Digital Curation project, aims to be a self funding project. Go fast on Network – Tricks- need to make available to users. See course at UCL July 13th & 14th. EU & JISC have noticed that GEANT/JANET is not loaded.

Reports from Astro and PP System Managers. Linux Debate: Gridpp has some contingency and could trade off h/w for licences for RHEL if necessary. This is basically the top level solution to the Linux Distributions Problem. Technical concerns were discussed, more later. PPNCG making progress in connecting FNAL (cdf/d0) to UK at high speed. UKLIGHT project. High bandwidth testbed, RAID controllers, Interface cards, TCP switches, Public Domain Knowledge.

A proposal from Neil Geddes, “Future Development of PPARC e-Science Programme” A PPARC e-Science group will continue to: Monitor and steer gridpp & Astro grid through to 2007 Administer PPNCG, computing system management, e-science summer schools & training Develop PPARC strategy for data curation Develop PPARC strategy for Astronomical Software Review and develop a model for LHC computing for physics exploitation in the UK Support an e-science committee, formed by the merger of the Grid Steering Committee and CNAP (PPARC IT Committee?) There should be a PPARC IT Steering Committee to: Provide strategic and financial oversight of large e-Science projects Advise PPARC and Science Committee, through PPARC e-Science Group, on IT issues, such as IT training, system manager support, new programmes, computer networking and High Performance Computing etc. Provide expert assessments, as required, of large PPARC IT investments. EG through cross membership of other committees of members with a broad view of IT across PPARC activities. Proposal GSC and CNAP merge to become IT Committee should remain a similar size, but should also cover HPC System managers meetings and PPNCG to report through the IT Committee (with chairs in attendance) New Committee, independent chairman, meet twice a year, oversight of gridpp, astrogrid etc Produce yearly report for PPARC. CNAP FUTURE