June 20, 2002 DOE/NSF Midpoint Review

Meeting information

This is a 'midpoint' review (in between major reviews in the fall) by the DOE and NSF to review the status and plans of the US ATLAS Physics and Computing Project.

The meeting will be held at NSF headquarters, 4201 Wilson Blvd, Arlington VA.

June 20 dinner

Agenda

Agenda from DOE

 9:00  Project overview - status of action items from November     J. Huth  30 min
 9:30  Software overview, and LCG project status & plans           T. Wenaus  40 min

10:30  Break

10:45  Architecture/Framework                                      D. Quarrie  30 min
11:15  Physics                                                     I. Hinchliffe  20 min
11:35  Data management                                             D. Malon 20 min

12:00  Lunch

14:00  Facilities - Regional Center                                B. Gibbard and R. Baker 30 min
14:30  Grid efforts/testbed                                        K. De and Rob Gardner 35 min
15:xx  Summary - project management perspective                    Howard Gordon

Charge

The charge for this review will be to assess:

• The overall status 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 and deliverables given current funding profiles and overall LHC project schedules; in response to the April M&O review please discuss the "optimization" of funds across construction/M&O/S&C
• The contributions of each of the U.S. collaborations in providing and 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 other computing facilities planned for the LHC;
• 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 ability of the U.S. collaborations to provide computing resources to users so that they can substantially and effectively contribute to the LHC physics program, from its initial startup to full luminosity;
• Existing and possible common computing projects which could benefit both ATLAS and CMS; and
• The Project Management Plans, organizational structures, and adequacy of personnel for each of the U.S. LHC S&C Projects.
• Responses to specific recommendations from the "baseline" review in November 2001.

Documents and links of interest

• Nov 2001 DOE/NSF review, Fermilab
  • Reviewers' report
• Oct 2001 PCAP reviewers' report
• Project Management Plan
• US ATLAS Physics and Computing Quarterly Reports
  • Jan-Mar 2002
  • Oct-Dec 2001
  • Jul-Sep 2001
• Software quarterly reports (contained in the full reports)
  • Jan-Mar 2002
  • Oct-Dec 2001
  • Jul-Sep 2001
• WBS, Schedule and Manpower
  • US ATLAS WBS: Full   To level 4
  • Major milestones
  • US software personnel breakdown by WBS activity and year
  • US software project funded personnel by year
  • Software effort breakdown for FY02 (updated 6/02)   Excel
  • Other views of WBS and schedule information are available on the planning page.
  • International ATLAS planning
• Draft institutional MOUs
  • BNL Tier 1
  • BNL software
• LHC Computing Grid Project (LCG)
  • LCG High Level Plan (draft)
  • LCG main page
  • Software Computing Committee (SC2)
  • Project Execution Board (PEB)
  • Applications Area

T. Wenaus