Grid Deployment Board

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The Grid Deployment Board (GDB) is part of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid Collaboration (WLCG) and represents in particular the resource centres.

The GDB has several roles, including:

to make agreements between the resource centres and the experiments (VOs) - in practice this will require background agreements with other organisations that run various parts of the infrastructure - such as grid operations, certificate authorities, organisations providing VO management, network providers, etc.;
to make agreements between resource centres; to make agreements between resource centres and CERN;
to review schedules, service performance, resource utilisation, etc.;
to exchange information;
to act as a forum for technical discussions and planning.

The GDB meetings are open to all interested members of the WLCG collaboration. Other parties may be invited for specific discussions.

Usually decisions should be reached by common consent. In case there is a need for voting, each country has one vote. For a vote during a meeting only people present may vote. Votes may be delegated from the official country delegate to other people if announced to the GDB chairperson prior to the meeting.

The GDB chairman is elected for a two-year period (see the election rules). Re-election is possible but only with a two-thirds majority. Candidates, who do not have to be members of the GDB, are proposed by members at least one month in advance of the meeting at which the election is to be held.

The GDB reports to the LCG project leader. The chair of the GDB is an ex officio member of the WLCG Management Board, in which he represents the interests of the resource centres.

The GDB meets every month. Normally those meetings are held at CERN and exceptionally in other places. Meetings may be held during two consecutive days, the first day for more technical issues, the second day more managerial.

The GDB may start and stop working groups when needed to address technical issues.

Members of the GDB

Country	Member	Deputy	Tier 2
Australia	Geoffrey Taylor	Lucien Boland
Austria	Dietmar Kuhn
Belgium	Pascal Vanlaer	Giacomo Bruno Olivier Devroede
Brazil	Sergio Novaes	Eduardo de M Gregores
Canada	Reda Tafirout	Mike Vetterli	Pierre Savard
China	Gang Chen
Czech Republic	Milos Lokajicek
Denmark	John Renner Hansen	Anders Waananen
Estonia	Mario Kadastik
Finland	Klaus Lindberg	Jukka Klem
France	Pierre Girard	Dominique Boutigny	Frederique Chollet
Germany	Andreas Petzold	Jos van Wezel Andreas Heiss	Volker Guelzow
Greece	Ioannis Papadopoulos
Hungary	Gyorgy Vesztergombi	Dezso Horvath
India	P.S Dhekne
Israel	Lorne Levinson
Italy	M. Morandin	Luciano Gaido
Japan	Hiroshi Sakamoto	Tatsua Kawamoto
Korea (Republic of)	Soon Wook Hwang	Dongchul Son G. N. Kim
Netherlands	Jeff Templon	Ron Trompert
Norway	Jacko Koster	Farid Ould-Saada
Pakistan	Hafeez Hoorani
Poland	Maciej Gorski Andrzej Olszewski	Jan Krolikowski
Portugal	Gaspar Barreira	Jorg Gomes
Romania	Mihnea Dulea
Russia	Alexander Kryukov	Vladimir Korenkov
Slovenia	Borut Kersevan
Spain	Jose Hernandez	Alvaro Fernandez
Sweden	Leif Nixon	Tord Ekelof
Switzerland	Christoph Grab	Pablo Fernandez
Taiwan	Simon Lin	Di Qing
Turkey	Ilkay Turk Cakir	L. Baskus B. Ortakaya
Ukraine	Gena Zinovjev
United Kingdom	Jeremy Coles	John Gordon
United States	Ruth Pordes	Michael Ernst
CERN	Helge Meinhard
ALICE	Federico Carminati	Latchezar Betev
ATLAS	Hans Von Der Schmitt	Borut Kersevan
CMS	Ian Fisk	Daniele Bonacorsi
LHCb	Philippe Charpentier	Andrei Tsaregorodstev Ricardo Graciani Diaz
Project Leader	Ian Bird
GDB Chair	John Gordon
GDB Secretary	Jeremy Coles
Grid Deployment Manager	Markus Schulz
Fabric Manager	Bernd Panzer
Application Manager	Pere Mato Vila
Security WG	David Kelsey
Quattor WG	Cal Loomis
Networking WG	David Foster
Planning Officer	Sue Foffano