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LHC Computing Grid ProjectBrief Status Report

• LHCC
• 24 January 2002
• Les Robertson
• CERN - IT Division
• les.robertson_at_cern.ch

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Project Startup

• First pre-POB working meetings have taken place
• Software and Computing Committee SC2
• Project Execution Board PEB
• Not yet fully populated
• Resources
• First materials funding received
• First staff should arrive next month
• A number of agreements signed and in preparation
• Launch Workshop Organised
• 11-15 March at CERN

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SC2

• Sets requirements and monitors progress
• Three Requirements Technical Assessment Groups
  (RTAG) initiated
• data management persistency
• software management process tools
• maths libraries
• Small, focused, limited duration (2 months)RTAG
  recommendations will be used by SC2 to define
  formal requirements
• Launch Workshop
• Goal to agree on -
• Project scope, priorities
• High-level Work Plan of the project (goals and
  milestones)
• Concrete next steps

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PEB

• Bootstrap process working on areas that do not
  conflict with SC2
• Short term priorities
• computing data challenges
• interoperability of international grids
• fabric management planning

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Status of Funding Agreements
Country Status of agreement
Austria Agreement for 3 doctoral students per year
France Agreement for a few systems programmers few computer scientists volontaires internationals (coopérant) First person selected, starts April
Germany First materials funding received Recruitment of 10 systems staff under way
Hungary Agreement signed - short term visitors
India Letter of intent software development team 10 people for 5 years, in India
Israel Agreement for 1-2 engineers recruitment started
Italy Agreement prepared recruitment process started - 15 people as CERN fellows few senior people associated materials funding
Poland post graduate engineer, selected, starts April
Spain up to 5 post-graduate engineers
Switzerland Agreement signed 3 3-year people (networking 2 applications)
United Kingdom Funding provided through GridPP project first recruitment completed first of 10 people starts in February first materials funding agreed
Other countries Establishing formal contacts