LCG Introduction John Gordon, STFC GDB December14 th 2011

LCG 2 Since the Previous Meeting SC11, Seattle, November –EGI were there. Usual OSG and US T1 presence LHCONE Meeting, Amsterdam, 1-2 December –Prototype in place EGI Information Services Workshop 1 December

LCG December in Salle Anderson, Bat GDB meetings in 2011

LCG Continue with the second Wednesday Rooms booked Jan 11 th – start at 1300 – devote to TEG? March 21 st, April 18 th – avoids Easter Week May is 2 weeks clear of CHEP Any More Clashes? 4 GDB meetings in 2012

LCG LHCOPN/LHCONE, LBL, January 2012 ISGC, Taipei, 26 February - 2 March 2012 OGF 34, Oxford March EGI User Forum, Munich, March –Also EMI Technical Forum HEPiX Spring Meeting, Prague, April 2012 WLCG Workshop, NYC, th May 2012 CHEP2012, NYC, th May 2012 EGI Technical Forum, Prague, September 2012 HEPiX Fall Meeting, IHEP, October Forthcoming Events

LCG MU Pilot Jobs (TEG), SCAS, Argus, gLExec (TEG) CREAM Virtualisation Installed capacity OPN, LHCONE CVMFS Information Service Supported WMS? Site Dashboard? glite-cluster 6 GDB Issues

LCG 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 discussed again in November and decided to wait longer for the anticipated release of CREAM for SGE. –Released in November EMI1 update 11 –End of year to change calculation –Is it working? 7 LCG-CE/CREAM

Flooding in Thailand Any feedback from sites on disk availability? Disk Pledges

LCG Short Meeting Technical Evolution Groups? OSG CREAM SGE Site Dashboard? 9 January

LCG GDB has been suggested as a larger scale tester of the vidyo service. Can we do this in January? Need to make sure people have enough notice and practice before we go live with a real meeting. –Perhaps have a test session at the end of a lunch break. 10 Vidyo?

LCG Technical Evolution Groups Experiment Operations Middleware Identity Tracing Today