GDB 13th June 2012

Main topics

Post-TEG Working groups (Ian Bird)

Continuing discussions of future WGs; eg Wahid to look at Storage WG

Storage Accounting Update (John Gordon)

Implementation roadmap exists for EMI providers; to be incorporated in EMI 3, but John to investigate timescale

Information System Status and Evolution (Maria Alandes Pradillo)

Caching mode available; not fully rolled out. glue-validator available, future plans to automate this

AAI on WN update (Romain Wartel)

PROPOSAL: "All WLCG sites must implement necessary mechanisms to pull central banning lists from the central Argus instance, for example by deploying Argus locally. The deployment of these solutions should be followed up in the GDB"

EMI News (Doina Cristina Aiftimiei)

Is the WN in SL6 ready? Cristina: yes, in EMI2, but 32bit binaries are missing Discussion of EMI1 testing - might be that people should go straight to EMI2

EMI End: What Consequences for WLCG?

Globus SW support at OSG (Brian Bockelman)

Discussions including use of Cream/Glue2; this to be investigated as it impacts use of the WMS

EMI Sustainability Plans (Alberto Di Meglio)

End of EMI not end of product teams Ian Bird: the outcome of the above WLCG-EMI-EGI meeting needs to be how do we manage software in the future, also to discuss: how do we do certification, stage rollout and deployment in general.

Environmental Information on WN (Tony Cass)

Some implementation; in discussion this ended with leaving HS06 as is, to be picked up again later

===glexec Deployment: next steps (Maarten Litmaath)

Tier0/1 progress seems good - Tier 2's not discussed but mentioned that those could be shown next time.

Federated Identity Pilot (Romain Wartel)

Trailer for federation activity - Romain asked for expressions of interest.