**CDF-II Memorandum of Understanding**

**among the**

**Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,**

**the CDF-II Collaboration**

**and the University of Glasgow**

I.  **[Personnel and Coordination of Responsibilities]{.underline}**

    A.  The following members of the University of Glasgow are presently
        participants in the collaboration. This level of commitment is
        expected to remain approximately constant for three year

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  Name                 Title   Loc   [2004/05]{.underline}   [2005/06]{.underline}   [2006/07]{.underline}   [2007/08]{.underline}   
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  R.St.Denis†          P       F/G   80%\*                   80%\*                   50%\*                   50%\*                   LHC,Teach

  P.J.Bussey†          P       F/G   80%                     80%                     80%                     80%                     ZEUS,Teach

  S.D'Auria            P       F     100%                    50%                     10%                     10%                     LHC (4/05 on)

  A.S.Thompson         P       G     50%                     50%                     50%                     50%                     LHC

  A.Robson             P       G     0%                      50%                     100%                    100%                    LHC

                                                                                                                                     

  P.Athalon            S       F     100%                    100%                    100%                    100%                    

  T.Davies             S       F     100%                    100%                    100%                    100%                    

  T.Unverhau‡          S       G     100%                    0                       0                       0                       

  L.Nicolas            S       F     100%                    25%                     0                       0                       

  B.Ward\[2\]          S       F     100%                    0                       0                       0                       

                                                                                                                                     

  M.Burgon-Lyon\[1\]   CP      G     100%                    100%                    100%                    100%                    

  P.Millar\[1\]        CP      G     70%                     70%                     70%                     70%                     LHC

  S.Hanlon\[1\]        CP      G     30%                     30%                     30%                     30%                     LHC
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\*R. St. Denis is the University of Glasgow CDF-II coordinator. Other
10% duty is LHC.

†R.St.Denis and P.J.Bussey each spend 60% of their time at FNAL

‡T.Unverhau will Graduate By Jan 2005

\[1\] Full time Computing professionals working on Metadata for CDF,
ATLAS

and in general. Not CDF Authors, contribute only service work according
to attached deliverables and milestones reportable to GridPP. Level 1
develerables monitored by the UK Science Ministry.

\[2\] On leave

B.  The coordinator for the University of Glasgow is R. St. Denis and
    the representative on the CDF-II Executive Board is R. St. Denis.
    The alternative members for the Executive Board are P.J.Bussey,
    S.D'Auria and A.S.Thompson.

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I.  **[Responsibilities of Glasgow University]{.underline}**

    A.  [Project: GridPP Metadata Working Group]{.underline}

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1.  Project coordinator across CDF,CMS,ATLAS,LHCB,D0, BaBar,CMS:R. St.
    Denis

    A.  [Project:Accelerator Divison Work:]{.underline}

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1.  Computations of optimization for Lithium lens for antiproton
    production: Bussey

    A.  [Offline Activities:]{.underline}

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1.  Maintenance of Pythia interface (A.S.Thompson)

2.  Maintenance of Ariadne interface (A.S.Thompson)

3.  Mintenance of Error checking code for SIXD, ISLD (A.S.Thompson)

4.  Header Class maintenance for SIXD, ISLD (A.S.Thompson)

5.  Maintenances of validation of the data structures for ISLD, SIXD
    (A.S.Thompson)

    A.  [Offline Representative]{.underline}

        1.  [A.S.Thompson]{.underline}

    B.  [Deliverables]{.underline}

        1.  Metadata handling and query language for SAMGrid;
            integration of software with LHC

        2.  Feedback and debugging of CDFGrid for use in analysis: MC,
            stripping, ntuples.

    C.  [Operational Activities]{.underline}

        1.  Post-docs and graduate students will participate as Aces or
            SOS.

        2.  All will be first line testers of the CDFGrid software as
            applied to analysis.

        3.  Metadata Working Group (R. St. Denis)

        4.  Metadata software for SAM (Burgon-Lyon,Millar,Hanlon)

        5.  Support of Lithium lens computation program and fielding of
            computation requests (P.J. Bussey)

    D.  [Supervision]{.underline}

        1.  Non-SAMGrid Offline activities are coordinated by
            A.S.Thompson.

        2.  Grid activities relevant to CDF are coordinated by R.
            St.Denis.

        3.  Accelerator activities are coordinated by P.J.Bussey.

    E.  [Schedule]{.underline}

        1.  See addendum for deliverables to GridPP (Project Month 1 is
            September 2004)

# **Addendum: Deliverables for GridPP Metadata Posts**

The following outlines the deliverables for the GridPP Metadata posts.
These are focused upon: the ATLAS experiment; the CDF experiment;
generic metadata. Level I deliverables are displayed with a whole
number, n, and their associated Level II and III deliverables are shown
underneath as n.1, n.1.1 etc.

The deliverables are shown in their intended order, with the post
responsible indicated.

PM means project month, starting with month 1 on September 1, 2004.

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  No:      PM   Post      Deliverable

  1        3    All       Review and assess all known documents referring to
                          HEP metadata use cases

  1.1      2    ATLAS     Review and assess ATLAS documentation referring to
                          HEP metadata use cases

  1.2      2    CDF       Review and assess of CDF documentation referring to
                          HEP metadata use cases

  1.3      3    Generic   Review and assess documentation referring to HEP
                          metadata use cases

  2        6    All       Documenting schema for metadata

  2.1      5    ATLAS     Document AMI schema for metadata

  2.2      5    CDF       Document SAM schema for metadata

  2.2.1    4    CDF       Document existing Dimension Editor

  2.3      6    Generic   Summary document of differences in schema for
                          metadata between experiments

  3        8    All       Definition of Metadata service (including distinction
                          by experiment)

  3.1      7    ATLAS     Definition of Metadata service in AMI

  3.2      7    CDF       Definition of Metadata service in SAM

  3.3      7    Generic   Architecture and Planning Report

  4        33   All       Implementation of appropriate metadata

  4.1      9    All       Initial minor release

  4.1.1    4    ATLAS     AMI Admin Tool

  4.1.2    5    All       Review of EGEE Metadata Catalog

  4.1.3    6    Generic   Design of Grid Services

  4.1.4    6    CDF       Develop Dimension Editor

  4.1.5    8    All       Develop prototype Metadata Catalog

  4.1.6    9    All       Software and associated documentation

  4.2      21   All       1st Major release

  4.2.1    20   ATLAS     User Metadata writing capability code and
                          userdocumentation in commisioning run

  4.2.2    24   All       Prototype distributed metadata service with GANGA
                          interface, delivery middleware and web services
                          interface.

  4.2.3    18   CDF       Optomised Dimension Editor

  4.2.4    18   Generic   Review Architecture and Planning Report

  4.2.5    20   Generic   Design and Refactoring of Grid Services

  4.2.6    21   All       Software and associated documentation

  4.3      33   All       2nd Major release

  4.3.1    33   ATLAS     Production release

  4.2.2    30   CDF       Fully functional Dimension Editor

  4.3.3    30   Generic   Review Architecture and Planning Report

  4.3.4    32   Generic   Design and Refactoring of Grid Services

  4.3.5    33   All       Software and associated documentation

  5        11   All       Document common monitoring requirements

  5.1      10   ATLAS     Document monitoring requirements of AMI

  5.2      10   CDF       Document monitoring requirements of SAM

  5.3      10   Generic   Document common monitoring requirements (using AMI
                          and SAM documents)

  6        12   All       Assisting wider adoption of Metadata service (to be
                          reviewed annually)

  6.1      o    All       Maintain collaborative resources ( to be reviewed
                          quarterly)

  6.1.1    o    Generic   Wiki

  6.1.2    o    ATLAS     GridPP Metadata web pages

  6.1.3    o    Generic   CVS repository

  6.1.4    o    Generic   Defect tracking

  6.1.5    o    CDF       Other resources for collaborative work

  6.2      12   All       External Presentations

  6.2.1    12   All       Submit documentation to the GGF-PNGA working group in
                          GridForge

  6.3      12   All       External Project Integration Report (Confidential)

  7        16   All       Review Metadata service definition

  7.1      14   ATLAS     Review AMI implementation

  7.2      14   CDF       Review SAM implementation

  7.3      15   Generic   Identify generic components

  8        19   All       Throughput testing of database access via Metadata

  8.1      18   ATLAS     AMI throughput testing of database access via
                          Metadata using AMI

  8.1.1    18   ATLAS     Evaluation of AMI Metadata service from DC3

  8.2      18   CDF       SAM throughput testing of database access via
                          Metadata using SAM

  8.3      18   Generic   Common testing interface

  9        28   All       Contribution to EGEE Development

  9.1      4    ATLAS     Initial EGEE Phase 1 release

  9.2      16   CDF       Final EGEE Phase 1 release

  9.3      28   Generic   Initial EGEE Phase 2 release

  10       30   CDF       Produce documentation on distributed databases

  10.1     28   ATLAS     Review POOL and RLS for DD (ATLAS)

  10.2     28   CDF       Review SAM and RLS functionality

  11       24   All       Produce documentation on user access optimisation of
                          data access via metadata

  11.1     23   ATLAS     Produce a document on user access optimisation of
                          data access via metadata in AMI

  11.2     23   CDF       Produce a document on user access optimisation of
                          data access via metadata in SAM

  11.3     23   Generic   Produce generic document on user access optimisation
                          of data access via metadata

  12       36   All       Final evaluation of metadata components

  12.1     35   ATLAS     Final evaluation of ATLAS metadata components

  12.1.1   27   ATLAS     Evaluation of ATLAS metadata services in
                          commissioning run

  12.2     35   CDF       Final evaluation of CDF metadata components

  12.3     35   Generic   Final evaluation of metadata components (summary)
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Note:

The following Generic Metadata deliverables have been moved to Data
Management :

PM10 & PM21 : Tier 1 and Tier 2 Support Report

**CDF-II Memorandum of Understanding**

**among the**

**Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,**

**the CDF-II Collaboration**

**and the University of Glasgow**

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