Proposed agenda and questions
for Jul 8 S&C review

(email from I.Gaines, June 16, 2003)

The following questions are meant to guide the experiments in their
presentations at the Jul 8 review at NSF. The plan is for ATLAS to
present (and have discussions) from 9:00-12:30, and CMS to present
from 1:30-5:00. The presentations will be limited to 2 hours, with
the remainder of the time reserved for discussions and closeout.
The experiments should limit themselves to a small
number of presentations and should try to have specific answers for
these issues (as well as telling us about the general progress and
status of their projects).

Questions for Jul 8 LHC US S&C Review

Management

• Show the project management plan for the LHC research program
  (or show us a draft + a schedule for when the plan will be finalized).
• Procedures for determining S&C share of Research Program funds
• Budget for FY03, plans for FY04
• Milestones: data challenges; what else can be used to track project?
• Personnel: are all management jobs filled? plans?

Facilities

• HW installations at Tier 1 and Tier 2 for FY03, FY04
• plans for participation in data challenges
• personnel in place at regional centers, plans for ramp up
• What is the current understanding of the architecture for the Tier 1 center
  (in particular all disk or not)?
• Plans for selection of Tier 2 centers
• commonalities: ongoing plans for common hardware efforts?
• Grids: coordination with LCG, plans for US "demonstration" grids
• Networking: plans for ensuring adequate network bandwidth
• What are current plans for physics analysis centers?

Software

• Personnel in place, hiring plans
• Coordination with international efforts
• progress on software agreements to define project scope?
• progress on monitoring key deliverables from off project resources?
• milestones, project tracking: show key achievements of last 6 months,
  planned key achievements for next year

Responses to January Review recommendations