NPPS Leadership Team

["Van Buren, Gene" <gene AT bnl.gov>]

Hi, Torre

Thanks for the slides. Some feedback...

I think we need to emphasize that the group has only been existence for 4 
months, and as such, expectations on deliverables so far should be kept low 
(especially in a review that covers 3 years of work). It should be made clear 
that the return on investing in this idea of consolidating the computing 
needs some time to be realized. NPPS was sold on the concept that there could 
be some gain from the consolidation at minimal cost, and how *that* is 
proceeding should be the focus. So I think Slide 15 needs to be an emphatic 
part of the presentation.

In that vein, I think it's not in our interest to list accomplishments that 
NPPS people have helped deliver from before their time in NPPS. Listing 
expertise and plans, like with the technical teams, is fine. And the weekly 
meetings are generating some cross-expertiment discussion that represents one 
of the goals of the group. And it's okay to state that the team members 
continue to deliver on things for their experiments (though we know this has 
already had some hiccups for a couple of the STAR personnel). So slides 16 
and 17 are probably best replaced with a single statement on having the STAR 
members continue to deliver for STAR as they have previously, while involving 
them in the weekly discussions and technical teams to move forward towards 
NPPS's additional goals.

Hope that helps,
-Gene


> On Sep 16, 2019, at 9:14 AM, Torre Wenaus via Phys-npps-mgmt-l 
> <phys-npps-mgmt-l AT lists.bnl.gov> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the comments so far,  OK will correct to 5 FTEs. Thanks in 
> advance for review report Alexei
>   Torre
> 
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 9:13 AM pinkenburg via Phys-npps-mgmt-l 
> <phys-npps-mgmt-l AT lists.bnl.gov> wrote:
> same from here
> 
> I have one small remark (thinking of Bernd that we will certainly not get 
> more manpower than we ask for). In the sPHENIX summary for manpower we did 
> identify/request 5 FTE's from NPPS. In slide 8 you mention 3-5 FTE for 
> NPPS. I would leave this at 5 in line with our manpower requests you show 
> on your slide 20
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 9/16/2019 8:09 AM, Brett Viren via Phys-npps-mgmt-l wrote:
>> Looks good to me.
>> 
>> I'm glad you are feeling better.
>> 
>> -Brett.
>> 
>> Torre Wenaus via Phys-npps-mgmt-l 
>> <phys-npps-mgmt-l AT lists.bnl.gov>
>> 
>> writes:
>> 
>> 
>>> My draft slides for the RHIC S&T review are linked from the agenda
>>> 
>>> https://indico.bnl.gov/event/6365/
>>> 
>>> Comments and corrections appreciated. Sorry they come late, thanks to 
>>> being sick, late enough that I
>>> have to post them (with the proviso they will change) at the same time I 
>>> circulate them to you. I'm
>>> better and will be in today. My talk is on Wed.
>>>   Torre
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