LCG Introduction John Gordon STFC GDB meeting CERN
LCG Introduction John Gordon, STFC GDB meeting @CERN October 12 th 2011
LCG Since the Previous Meeting • EGI Technical Forum, Lyon, 19 -23 rd September – OGF, e-Concertation • LHCONE Meeting, Amsterdam, 26 -27 September 2
GDB meetings in 2011 LCG • Most months on the second Wednesday • Rooms booked • • January 12 • February 9 • March 9 • April 11 • May 11 • June 8 • July 13 • August 10 • September 14 • October 12 • November 9 • December 14 3
LCG GDB meetings in 2012 • Continue with the second Wednesday • Rooms booked • Jan 11 th – DG Staff Talk – afternoon meeting • March 14 th – Motor Show, OGF, – EGI UF not the following week • April • 18 th – avoid Easter Week • May is 2 weeks prior to CHEP • Any More Clashes? • January 11 • February 8 • March 14 • April 18 • May 9 • June 13 • July 11 • August 8 • September 12 • October 10 • November 14 • December 12 4
Forthcoming Events LCG • EGI AHM, Padova, 17 -19 October • HEPi. X Fall Meeting, Vancouver, 24 -28 October – 20 th Anniversary Meeting • • • SC 11, Seattle, Nov 14 -17 ISGC, Taipei, 26 February - 2 March 2012 OGF 34, Oxford 11 -14 March EGI User Forum, Munich, 26 -30 March WLCG Workshop, NYC, 19 -20 th May 2012 CHEP 2012, NYC, 21 -25 th May 2012 5
GDB Issues LCG • • MU Pilot Jobs, SCAS, Argus, g. LExec CREAM Virtualisation Installed capacity OPN, LHCONE CVMFS Information Service 6
LCG glexec • Many sites have now installed • OPS and experiment tests working • TEG will urgently discuss the identity requirements and report by the end of the year. • Until then a lower priority for more sites to install glexec • Argus still desirable for other reasons. 7
LCG LCG-CE/CREAM • Sites no longer required to run an LCG-CE. • Proposed removing from Availability calculation in October – Provided ACE worked OK (it did) – But reliable CREAM for SGE not yet rolled out • MB postponed confirming this change until the end of October. 8
Today LCG • Technical Evaluation Groups • WLCG Networking • Middleware – Staged Rollout • User Support • CVMFS • Tier 3 s
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