October 2001 US ATLAS Physics and Computing Advisory Panel (PCAP) Review


PCAP Review, Oct 29-31 2001, ANL

From John Huth:

The charge for the November "Lehman" review is below. This review should be viewed in part as a preparation for the November review. I would like the Level 2 managers to organize the presentations in their respective domains noting the charge for the Nov. review.


Meeting information

The meeting will be held at ANL. See the ANL PCAP travel info page.

The meeting will be in the HEP building, 362, room F108 [I think -- needs confirmation - TW]


Draft agenda

Monday Oct 29th - Arrival of Reviewers, executive meeting from 11-1,
meeting of presenters 3-5 - locations to be announced.


The room for setting up laptops is H-122, very close to the
main door of B.362.


Tuesday Oct 30th

8:00-8:30         Project Overview         J. Huth        30 min
8:35-9:30         Intl. ATLAS
                           Overview        N. McCubbin    15 min
                           Data challenges G. Poulard     15 min

9:35-10:00         Physics                 I. Hinchliffe  25 min
10:00-10:15        Break
10:20-10:55        Software                T. Wenaus      35 min
11:00-11:20        Architecture            D. Quarrie     20 min
11:25-11:45        Data mgmt.              D. Malon       20 min
11:50-12:10        Det. activities         J. Shank       20 min

12:15-1:00          Lunch  (Lunch will be brought in in the form of
                    sandwiches)
                   LHC Computing Grid Project  M.Kasemann

1:00-1:50          Facilities/Tier 1        Gibbard/Baker  50 min
1:55-2:25          Tier 2/distr. facilities Gardner/Shank/May  30 min
2:30-2:55          Networking               McKee          25 min
3:00-3:35          Grid plans               Schopf/Wenaus  35 min

3:40-4:00          Break

4:00-4:45          Exec Session
4:45-5:15          Presentation of questions to presenters

6:00               Dinner

Wednesday, Oct 31st

8:00-9:30          Response to questions/discussion
9:30-9:45          Break
10:45-11:45        Exec Session
12:00-1:00         Presentation of findings
1:00-2:00          Lunch
2:00 -4:00         Writing time

Thurs. Nov. 1st

Writing sesssion for reviewers, if required


Charge for the November agency review

For reviewers - assess:

The overall scope of the U.S. LHC S&C efforts and their connections to both the international LHC S&C efforts and the CERN LHC Computing Project;

The risk to U.S. LHC S&C schedule or scope given current funding profiles and overall LHC project

The contributions of each of the U.S. collaboration in providing supporting core and detector-specific software deliverables to the international ATLAS and CMS computing efforts

The function, scope and structure of the national (Tier 1) U.S. LHC computing facilities and their relationship to any smaller regional and university facilities

The integration of computing infrastructure efforts (such as networking and grid computing) into the planning and execution of the U.S. LHC S&C projects

The plans of the U.S. collaborations to provide computing resources to users and their success in integrating them into the software development process

Existing and possible common computing project which could benefit both ATLAS and come

The Project Management Plans, organizational structures and adequacy of personnel for each of the U.S. LHC S&C projects


Documents

May 2001 PCAP review report
    Responses to comments and recommendations



T. Wenaus