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LCG experience inIntegrating Grid Toolkits Zdenek Sekera IT Division , CERN Outline What is LCG? LCG project goals With whom we work ? Basic LCG milestones What is LCG-0 ? What are the plans for LCG-1 ? What is the process to get to LCG-1 ? Conclusions Authors: Piera Bettini, Ian Bird, Flavia Donno, Maarten Litmaath, Di Qing, Louis Poncet, Andrea Sciaba, Zdenek Sekera, Marco Serra, David Smith What is LCG? LCG = LHC Computing Grid Creating the infrastructure for computing needs of LHC HEP experiments (Atlas, CMS, Alice, LHCb) All are worldwide collaborations, consequently the software has to work worldwide Project Goals applications - tools, frameworks, environment, persistency computing system ? global grid service cluster ? automated fabric collaborating computer centres ? grid CERN-centric analysis ? global analysis environment central role of data challenges LCG goals LCG goal is to bring physics world together by creating a user friendly, production quality environment for data processing and physics analysis. How? By integrating different grid toolkits or grid middleware into a homogenous package to guarantee the interoperability among different “ways of doing things”. LCG does NOT write grid middleware. What is “production quality”? It is all of the following in no particular order: availability 24 x 7 performance stability, robustness user friendliness maintainability user support Who are our partners? LCG is currently a “customer” of: iVDGL - VDT toolkit (including Globus Condor toolkits) EDG - European DataGrid project EDT - European DataTag project (monitoring) Globus - underlying software GLUE schema – HICB (DataTag iVDGL) product HICB = HEP Intergrid Coordination Board LCG can be considered a joint effort of all. It pulls together needed components from existing projects. Basic LCG milestones LCG is focused on batch experiments data challenges (phase 1) LCG release milestones: February - LCG-0