Project Management

The management of the LCG-Project is composed of two boards: the Executive Board (Comité de Pilotage) and the Management Board (Comité de Direction). In addition, the Scientific and Technical leaders have the operational responsibility of the project. The roles of each one of these bodies are detailed in the LCG-France project description document.

These section present the membership of those boards as of June 2010.

LCG-France Executive Board (Comité de Pilotage)

• IN2P3 Director (Chair): Michel Spiro (2004-2010), Jacques Martino (since April 2010)
• IN2P3 deputy Director in charge of Particle Physics and Computing: François Le Diberder (2004-2008), Etienne Augé (since July 2008)
• IN2P3 deputy director in charge of Technical projects: Pascal Dargent, Christophe De La Taille (since 2011),
• CEA/IRFU Scientific Director: Jean Zinn-Justin (2004-2008), Ph. Chomaz (since July 2008)
• World-wide LCG collaboration: LCG project leader: Les Robertson (2004-2007). Ian Bird since January 2008.
• Experiment representatives:
  • ALICE: Pascal Dupieux (2004-2008)Yves Schutz(since January 2009)
  • ATLAS: Daniel Fournier
  • CMS: Yves Sirois
  • LHCb: Elie Aslanides
• Ex-officio members:
  • CC-IN2P3 Director: Dominique Boutigny
  • IN2P3 Computing: Cristinel Diaconu. (François Etienne 2004-2007)
  • CEA Computing: Laurent Crouzet (2004-2006). Jean-Pierre Meyer since 2007.
  • Scientific Project Leader: Fairouz Malek
  • Technical Project Leader: Fabio Hernandez (2004- July 2010), Fréderique Chollet-Le Flour (from July 2010)
  • Tier-2s and Tier-3s technical coordinator:Yannick Patois (since Dec.2010)

--Admin 14:28, 19 mai 2010 (CEST)

LCG-France Steering Board (Comité de Direction)

• Scientific Project Leader (co-chair): Fairouz Malek
• Technical Project Leader (co-chair): Fabio Hernandez(2004- July 2010), Fréderique Chollet-Le Flour (from July 2010)
• CC-IN2P3, Director: Dominique Boutigny, Invited User-Support representative: Ghita Rahal
• IN2P3 Computing representative: Cristinel Diaconu. (François Etienne 2004-2007)
• CEA/DSM Computing representative: Laurent Crouzet (2004-2006). Jean-Pierre Meyer since 2007.
• Tier-2s and Tier-3s technical coordination: Fréderique Chollet-Le Flour(2006-July 2010), Yannick Patois (since Dec. 2010)
• Experiment representatives:
  • ALICE: Yves Schutz (2004-2008), Laurent Aphecetche (since January 2009)
  • ATLAS: Eric Lançon
  • CMS: Claude Charlot
  • LHCb: Andrei Tsaregorodtsev
• CC-IN2P3 Tier-1 and AF representative: Fabio Hernandez since 2004. Pierre Girard (from July 2010)
• Tier-2s Representatives
  • GRIF: Jean-Pierre Meyer, Michel Jouvin
  • LPC Clermont: Dominique Pallin, Jean-Claude Chevaleyre
  • Subatech - Nantes: Laurent Aphecetche, Jean-Michel Barbet
  • LAPP: Eric Fede (Nadine Neyroud 2007-mid 2010) ,Stéphane Jézéquel
  • IPHC: Daniel Bloch, Yannick Patois
  • CPPM: Edith Knoops(Thierry Mouthuy 2005-mid 2008) and François Touchard (Chris Bee 2005-mid 2010)
• Tier-3s Representatives
  • LPSC: Sabine Crépé-Renaudin,Christine Gondrand
  • IPN-Lyon: Denis Pugnère and Stéphane Pérries

--Admin 14:28, 19 mai 2010 (CEST)

LCG-France Project Leaders

Scientific Leader

Fairouz Malek : ATLAS experiment group leader at LPSC (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie)

Technical Leader

Fabio Hernandez (2004-July 2010): also IN2P3 Computing Centre Deputy Director.

Technical leader From July 1st 2010

Fréderique Chollet-Le Flour

--Admin 14:28, 19 mai 2010 (CEST)

Representatives for France before the W-LCG Project Boards

• Computing Resources Review Board (C-RRB):
  • IN2P3: François Le Diberder (2004-2008), Etienne Augé (since July 1st, 2008) and Fairouz Malek
  • CEA/IRFU: J. Zinn-Justin (2004-2008), Now, Philippe Chomaz and J-Pierre Meyer
• W-LCG Overview Board (OB): Fairouz Malek/ Fabio Hernandez (Deputy since 2004); Fréderique Chollet-Le Flour (deputy from July 2010)
• W-LCG collaboration Board (CB):
  • CC-IN2P3 Tier-1 and Analysis Facility: Fairouz Malek/Fabio Hernandez (deputy since 2004). Fréderique Chollet-Le Flour(deputy from July 2010).
  • Tier-2 GRIF: Jean-Pierre Meyer
  • Tier-2 LPC Clermont:Dominique Pallin
  • Tier-2 Subatech - Nantes: Laurent Aphecetche
  • Tier-2 LAPP - Annecy: Stéphane Jézéquel
  • Tier-2 IPHC - Strasbourg: Daniel Bloch
• Grid Deployment Board (GDB):
  • For LCG-France Tier-1/AF:Fabio Hernandez(until July 2010)
  • For LCG-France Tier2/Tier-3s: Fréderique Chollet-Le Flour(until July 2010).
  • For LCG-France infrastructure as a whole: Fréderique Chollet-Le Flour(from July 2010).
  • For the CC-IN2P3 Tier-1 and AF: Pierre Girard (from July 2010)
• Management Board (MB):
  • Until July 2010: Dominique Boutigny / Fabio Hernandez (Deputy)
  • From July 2010: Fréderique Chollet-Le Flour/ Dominique Boutigny(deputy)

--Admin 15:01, 19 mai 2010 (CEST)