1. John Gordon, STFC GDB meeting @CERN October 12th 2011
Introduction
John Gordon, STFC
GDB October 12th

2. Since the Previous Meeting
EMI AHM, Padova, October
HEPiX Fall Meeting, Vancouver, October
20th Anniversary Meeting

3. GDB meetings in 2011 December in Salle Anderson, Bat 40. January 12
February 9
March 9
April 11
May 11
June 8
July 13
August 10
September 14
October 12
November 9
December 14

4. GDB meetings in 2012 Continue with the second Wednesday Rooms booked
Jan 11th – start at 1400 – devote to TEG?
March 14th Motor Show, OGF,
LHCC wb 19/3
EGI UF wb 26
April 18th – avoids Easter Week
May is 2 weeks clear of CHEP
Any More Clashes?
January 11
February 8
March 14
April 18
May 9
June 13
July 11
August 8
September 12
October 10
November 14
December 12

5. Forthcoming Events SC11, Seattle, 14-17 November
LHCONE Meeting, Amsterdam, 1-2 December
EGI Information Services Workshop 1 December
ISGC, Taipei, 26 February - 2 March 2012
OGF 34, Oxford March
EGI User Forum, Munich, March
Also EMI Technical Forum
HEPiX Spring Meeting, Prague, April 2012
WLCG Workshop, NYC, 19-20th May 2012
CHEP2012, NYC, 21-25th May 2012
HEPiX Fall Meeting, IHEP, October 2012

6. GDB Issues MU Pilot Jobs (TEG) , SCAS, Argus, gLExec (TEG) CREAM
Virtualisation
Installed capacity
OPN, LHCONE
CVMFS
Information Service

7. LCG-CE/CREAM Sites no longer required to run an LCG-CE.
Proposed removing from Availability calculation in October
Provided ACE worked OK (it did)
But reliable CREAM for SGE not yet rolled out
MB discussed yesterday and decided to wait longer for the anticipated release of CREAM for SGE.
News this afternoon

8. Disk pledges
Floods in Thailand are seriously affecting disk availability and price
Costs already risen by 25-30%
Problem is likely to be long-lasting: 6-9 months?
Affecting ongoing procurements at CERN and several (all?) Tier 1s, and presumably at Tier 2s
Can affect both disk server and CPU server procurements…
Risk/liklihood:
2012 disk installation may be very(?) late, and potentially reduced wrt pledges
Situation still evolving … but not clear how it will get better very soon
Experiments need to be prepared for this situation…

9. December Technical Evolution Groups OSG CREAM SGE
Experiments Operational Issues

10. Today Technical Evolution Groups Accounting Middleware HEPiX
Staged Rollout
HEPiX
Benchmarking
Virtualisation