User Board - Terms of Reference
The User Board ensures that the requirements for the major Particle Physics experiments that will use the Grid are properly taken into account in the strategy of the PMB. The User Board meets approximately quarterly to:
1) Ensure that the GridPP project remains science driven and that the project develops to meet the needs of the UK Particle Physics community;
2) Keep an overview of both technical and experimental software developments, ensuring these developments are compatible;
3) Facilitate close working relationships between the UK experimental collaborations to identify common areas for the development of Grid-enabled experimental software;
4) Overview the major hardware purchases within GridPP to ensure compatibility with the needs of the experimental collaborations and between collaborations;
5) Promote the use of the developing Grid structures for a wide variety of computing needs in the whole of the UK Particle Physics community.
Application Interface
It is not within the scope of GridPP to fully develop the applications themselves. It is however required to ensure consistency in the methods used to develop grid interfaces and provide a working forum. Some of the applications are being developed by large international collaboration, though it is hoped that others will be the product of smaller UK groups. GridPP2 is requesting a continuation of funding for effort to help deploy the applications on the UK grid. Within GridPP, funded effort has help promote common work between both CDF and DO and the SAM system, and between ATLAS and LHCb with the GANGA work. The UB would be responsible for the effective use of such effort, for example, through collaborative projects across experiments.
Application Use
During the GridPP3 period the UK-based resources will be extensively used by the LHC "data challenges" and by other applications. The evolution to a production quality grid must take place in a manner, and at speed, that matches the needs of the users. The UB would have a responsibility for defining, representing, and probably brokering, the many user needs. It is essential that there is good two-way communication between the users and the providers.
Membership of the UB
The UB is not foreseen to be a voting body. Priorities between different groups will largely be defined by resources they contribute to the grid and by the priorities set by funding within the UK HEP programme. Conflicts would be resolved by the PMB as necessary. These conflicts would be reported to the CB such that the overall reconciliation is transparent. The UB, therefore, should have single representation from all significant user groups.
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