Nov 2002 PCAP Review

November 2002 US ATLAS Physics and Computing Advisory Panel (PCAP) Review

PCAP Review, November 14-15 2002, LBNL

Local organizers web page

First logistics notice

Draft agenda



  Thursday Nov 14th

  9:00  - 9:30   Executive session with management
  9:30 - 10:30   PCAP executive session
  Break
  10:45 - 11:15  Project Overview. John Huth
  11:15 - 11:45  Budget Profiles, Milestones. J. Shank
  11:45 - 12:45  LCG Status+Plans. Torre Wenaus
  12:45 - 1:30   Lunch
  1:30  - 2:00   Physics. I. Hinchliffe
  2:00 - 2:20    ATLAS core software status/plans.  D. Quarrie
  2:20 - 2:40    ATLAS DB software status/plans  D. Malon
  2:40 - 3:00    Other US ATLAS software status/plans T. Wenaus
  3:00 - 3:30    Facilities Status+Plans.   B. Gibbard
  3:30 - 4:00    US Testbed Status+Plans.  Kaushik De

  Break
  5:15 - 6:00    Executive Session

  Dinner out PCAP/US ATLAS

  Friday,  Nov 15th

  9:00 -  09:45   Progress on VDT and Interoperable Grid Testbeds R. Gardner
  9:45 - 11:15   Breakout sessions
                     1. Data Challenges/Facilities/Grids (Perseverance Hall)
                     2. Core Software                    (Building 2 Room 300F)
  Break
  11:30 - 12:00  Homework questions from yesterday. John Huth/J. Shank
  12:00 - 02:00  PCAP Executive session/lunch

  02:00 - 3:30    Exec session with management

  3:30 - 4:30    Exectutive session 
  Break
  04:45 - 5:45    Closeout discussion

  Dinner on your own (suggestions available)

  Saturday, Nov 16th

  9:00-12:00 Committe writing session
             Last Meeting with Management (John Huth, at least).
  Lunch

Charge to the PCAP panel

Last meetings

Nov 2001 DOE/NSF review at FNAL
- report
Oct 2001 PCAP review at ANL
- report

Documents

ATLAS Data Challenges: report to the Executive Board. PDF
Project Management Plan - Draft of 21 Nov '01 Word PDF
NSF proposal for M&O/Computing
US ATLAS Physics and Computing Quarterly Reports
- q3 2001
- q4 2001
- q1 2002
- q2 2002
- q3 2002
- q4 2002 <== The newest
US ATLAS WBS: Full To level 4
Software planning highlights
US ATLAS software planning is fully integrated with Intl ATLAS planning
- Major planning milestones Full Brief
- Subproject schedules for major US core software activities
  - Framework Full Brief
  - Event model Full Brief
  - Databases and data management Full Brief
  - QA and support Full Brief
  - Software releases Full Brief
  - Data Challenges Full Brief
- Software personnel
  - US software project funded personnel profile
  - Detailed personnel breakdown
Grid
- Full Grid WBS projection All levels To level 2
- Grid software WBS (Grid WBS 1.3) All levels To level 3
- Grid related schedule Full Brief
Recent material of interest
- ATLAS Computing Cost Sharing, September 2002
- ATLAS Data Challenges
  - ATLAS DC page
  - DC1 Phase 1 report, October 2002
  - DC1 Phase 2 plans, September 2002
- LCG general
  - LCG page
  - LCG status report to LHCC, October 2002
  - LCG High Level Plan, June 2002
- LCG applications software
  - Applications Area page
  - LCG Applications Area planning
  - Persistency RTAG report, April 2002
  - LCG POOL project workplan, August 2002
  - LCG Architecture Blueprint Report, October 2002
  - LCG Architecture Blueprint seminar, November 2002
The rest is simply copied from an old review at this point...
MOUs and software agreements
Software effort breakdown for FY02 Excel PDF
Grid planning
- PPDG in ATLAS
- ATLAS PPDG Quarterly Reports. Full PPDG reports can be found at the PPDG web site.
- ATLAS GriPhyN plan (draft)
- Distributed IT facilities plan
- US ATLAS network planning document
- Transatlantic network committee (TAN) report
- Internet2 HENP Charter
Technical documents and web pages relating to recent work
- Database event store architecture document
- Athena User Guide, Athena Developer Guide (includes StoreGate event data access)
- ROOT based I/O
- Magda distributed data manager
- ATLAS nightly software build facility
- pacman package manager
- Geant4 in Athena

T. Wenaus