CERN/LCG Status GridPP PMB May 1st 2002 [e-mail]

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CERN/LCG StatusGridPP PMBMay 1st
2002Tony.Cass_at_CERN.ch
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GridPP funded Staff at CERN

• IT/ADC
• Ian Neilson from 16th April. Working on
  certificate authority then scaling up EDG
  testbed.
• IT/API
• Jacek Generowicz from 1st Feb. Working on GEANT4,
  in particular, tracking visualisation
• Maria Girone from 1st April. Settling in.
• IT/FIO
• John Hearns from 1st April. Configuration
  installation management relates to WP4 effort
  and LCFG.
• Bill Tomlin from 16th April. State Management.

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RTAG Status

• 6 RTAGs created to date
• RTAG1 (Persistency Framework status completed)
• RTAG2 (Managing LCG Software status running)
• RTAG3 (Math Library Review status running)
• RTAG4 (GRID Use Cases status starting)
• RTAG5 (Mass Storage status running)
• RTAG6 (Regional Centres status starting)
• Two more in advanced state of preparation
• Simulation components
• Data Definition Tools

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Applications area has momentum

• Torre Wenaus started as Area Manager in March.
• Activities in the Applications area are now well
  organised. See http//cern.ch/lcg/peb/applications
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• Weekly Applications area meetings initiated
  together with Architects Forum.
• Active work for Software Process and Persistency.
  Work plan must be developed for SC2 approval.

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Fabrics Grid Deployment

• LCG Level 1 Milestone deploy a Global Grid
  Service within 1 year
• sustained 24 X 7 service
• including sites from three continents
• identical or compatible Grid middleware and
  infrastructure
• several times the capacity of the CERN facility
• and as easy to use
• Ongoing work at CERN to increase automation and
  streamline configuration, especially for
  migration to RedHat 7.2.
• Aim to phase out old CERN solutions by mid-2003.

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LCG Timeline
Prototype of Hybrid Event Store (Persistency
Framework)
Hybrid Event Store available for general users
applications
Distributed production using grid services
Full Persistency Framework
Distributed end-user interactive analysis
LHC Global Grid TDR
50 prototype (LCG-3) available
grid
LCG-1 reliability and performance targets
First Global Grid Service (LCG-1) available
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Summary of LCG presentation to RRB

• Project got under way early this year
• Launch workshop and early RTAGs give good input
  for high-level planning
• to be presented to LHCC in July
• New plan takes account of first beam in 2007
• No serious problems foreseen in synchronising LCG
  plans with those of the experiments
• Collaboration with the many Grid projects needs
  more work
• Technical collaboration with the Regional Centres
  has to be established
• Recruitment of special staff going well (but need
  to keep the recruitment momentum going)
• Very serious problem with materials funding