PPDG Projects and Collaborative Activities

PPDG Projects are classified in areas  of Common Services (CS). Each project is either a "Cross-cut" involving many teams, or a "Project Activity" which is reflects the work of a  single Experiment and a single Computer Science Group working closely together.

Collaborative activities

Project Activities

The PPDG development is structured as Experiment-CS Project Activities.  Each PPDG Project Activity will be led by a two person team:

• an experiment representative that will provide overall coordination and prioritization of the experiments needs
• a Computer Scientist who will identify applicable Grid technologies and coordinate the involvement of one or more CS projects in the activity 

Each Project Activity will follow a traditional project plan, both for the initial and all subsequent deployments. For each Activity the two project leaders (experiment and CS) will develop and publish a detailed plan to complete all necessary development and integration and to phase them into production. Regular status of each activity will be presented to the collaboration. Each Activity consists of

• Deliverables assessment analysis and deployment plan
• Specification and design (including commonality assessment and planning)
• Execution of deployment plan - including documentation and testing.
• Operation of service and performance analysis
• Analysis of future needs and potential for adapting the deliverable to other experiments. 

Following the first round of deliverables we will evaluate their applicability for adaptation and reuse for other experiments. After each activity some support and maintenance will be required for existing deployments by the continuing activities in the area. The Project Activities have a progression over three years. The first year concentrates on the extension and integration of existing software into the experiment systems and deployment of reliable, robust existing services. In the second year the focus is on extending the functionality of services and the transition of first year deliverables to other experiments. By the third year experiments will be moving towards the integration of a common infrastructure

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Last update: 02 September 2002