Grid Deployment Board – 10 February 2004 - 1

GD LCG Workshop

• Goals• Give overview where we are• Stimulate cooperation between the centres • Improve the communication between the system managers on the sites• Focus on a small number of issues in the work groups (4-5)• Leave the workshop with tasks lists

• Overview in form of a plenary presentation with multiple speakers and strong participation of the sites

• Status of the sites (resources, utilization,common services…)• Transition from LCG1-LCG2 (problems, lessons learned, next steps)• Data challenges, first hand experience reported by a site manager• Operation and user support

– GOC and FZK user support reporting – Security and accounting

• Maintaining the LCG 2 code base– LCG's structure for this at the time of the workshop– open issues

Grid Deployment Board – 10 February 2004 - 2

GD LCG Workshop

• Working Groups • From code change to release

– Process for the chain from bug fix/ extension over integration, testing, certification and packaging to release distribution. How to tune the process to get best cooperation/sharing between the sites and ensure some level of quality? Who "owns" which part of the process.

• Storage in LCG2– With strong participation of the experiments

• Information System & Monitoring– One solution for both? Which solution? How could a transition work?

Questions concerning the schema should be addressed here too.• Documentation

– Writing the LCG cookbook. What has to be covered? How can we do this as a joint effort. The aim is to start collecting all our little bits of documentation and create an integrated handbook out of this. How to keep it up to date.

• System manager bonding session– Suggested by John Gordon to get the site managers into closer contact.

The weekly phone conference is a start, but nothing compares to direct interaction.

Grid Deployment Board – 10 February 2004 - 3

GD LCG Workshop

• Summary of the workgroups• Plenary presentation where each of the workgroup reports on

– outcome– tasks taken by which site

• This could be followed by a short discussion of additional open issues