TEG

WLCG has created a number of Technical Evolution Groups to guide the technical development of the project. As the future of the WLCG Grid infrastructure will be first discussed in those groups, it is important for LCG-France to be part of those discussions. The different groups, their contact channels and area of work are presented on this page.

WLCG Technology Evolution Groups

Operations & Tools

• Chairs : Maria Girone (CERN), Jeff Templon (Nikhef)
• Wiki : https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGTEGOperations
• Egroup mailing list : wlcg-teg-operations_at_CERN
• Agendas : https://indico.cern.ch/categoryDisplay.py?categId=3770
• Main deliverables:
  • a document describing the current situation
  • and a strategy document to setup the plans for the next two or five years
• Site Input welcome (contribution deadline is 11th Nov.) : see https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGTegOperationsWG3WG5
• Subgroups :
  • WG1 : Monitoring & Metrics
  • WG2: Support tools + Underlying Services+ WLCG ops
  • WG3 : Operational requirements on middleware
  • WG4 : Application software management, deployment and configuration
  • WG5 : Middleware distribution management, deployment and configuration

Data Management

• Chairs: Brian Bockelman (CMS, OSG), Graeme Stewart (ATLAS)
• Wiki : https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGTEGDataManagement
• Egroup mailing list : wlcg-teg-data-management_at_CERN
• Scope :
  • Review demonstrators from 2010
  • Data placement (policy-based or dynamic)
  • Data transfer management
  • Transfer and WAN access protocols
  • Management od name spaces and catalogues
  • Understanding security requirements/needs

Storage Management

• Chairs: Daniele Bonacorsi (CMS), Wahmid Bhimji (Edinburgh)
• Wiki : https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGTEGStorage
• Egroup mailing list : wlcg-teg-storage AT CERN
• Scope :
  • Experiment IO/usage patterns(and so performance requirements for storage)
  • Requirements on future storage systems
  • Separation of archives and disk pools/caches
  • Storage system interfaces to Grid(SRM status?)
  • Filesystems/protocols (standards?)
  • Security/access controls
  • as site-­‐run services: storage management, performance measurements, monitoring, etc

Databases

• Chairs: Dario Barberis (ATLAS), Dave Dykstra (OSG)
• Egroup mailing list : wlcg-teg-data-management AT CERN
• Agendas : https://indico.cern.ch/categoryDisplay.py?categId=3754
• Main Topics:
  • NOSQL vs Oracle, MySQL, etc
  • Frontier, squids, vs 3D/Streams, GoldenGate, DataGuard etc
  • CORAL, COOL
  • What is framework for deploying new applications that need a DB?
• Next... Workshop on 7-9 November 2011 : https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=158091

Workload Management

• Chairs: Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Torre Wenaus (ATLAS)
• Wiki : https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WorkloadManagementTechnicalEvolution
• Topics :
  • Pilots & Frameworks
  • Resource allocations & management
  • Security models
  • New computing models
• Agendas: https://indico.cern.ch/categoryDisplay.py?categId=3768 NEXT... Meeting Nov. 3-4

Security

• Chairs : Romain Wartel (CERN), Steffen Schreiner (ALICE)
• Egroup mailing list : wlcg-security-teg AT CERN
• Scope :
  • WLCG risk assessment/analysis
  • AAI (Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure) on worker nodes
  • AAI on storage systems