LCG Milestones

Version 2003.07/4

This is a summary of the Level-1 and Level-2 Milestones for the LHC Computing Grid Project LCG as presented in the quarterly report of July 2003.

Applications
Fabrics
GRID Technology
GRID Deployment

Level-1 Milestones

The Level-1 and Level-2 Milestones constitute the baseline planning for the LCG as of July 2003.
The unique identifier is in column 2.
The milestone level is given column 3.
The column 5 (Date_MS) gives the baseline date when the milestone is due and column 6 (MS_Done) gives the date when a milestone was achieved.

Hyperlinks to more detailed information (column 7) are currently available for the applications and Grid deployment areas and for the Level-1 milestones. For the rest this information will be provided in the near future.

Full planning information is available as MS-Project file.

The time evolution of the Milestones is given in a chart.



Applications Area
 
WBS ID_Unique MS_Lvl
Name
Date_MS MS_Done Hyperlink
1   
LHC Computing Grid Project
   
1.1   
Applications
   
1.1.1   
Software Process and Infrastructure (SPI)
   
1.1.1 1.156 2
Initial process and infrastructure team in place
15-04-2002 14-07-2002 More Info
1.1.1 1.158 2
Basic LCG code development and repository services in place
01-05-2002 02-05-2002 More Info
1.1.1 1.159 2
Software process workplan to SC2
11-10-2002 11-10-2002 More Info
1.1.1 1.16 2
All infrastructure tools and services in beta
31-12-2002 09-02-2003 More Info
1.1.1 1.161 2
All infrastructure tools and services released (SPI V1.0)
28-02-2003 28-02-2003 More Info
1.1.1 1.162 2
2003 SPI workplan complete
30-05-2003 29-06-2003 More Info
1.1.1 1.163 2
Software library complete
31-05-2003 01-05-2003 More Info
1.1.1 1.164 2
Savannah based portal complete
31-05-2003 22-12-2002 More Info
1.1.1 1.17 2
SPI support for Windows binary version of LCG software
15-08-2003  More Info
1.1.2   
Physics data management (POOL)
   
1.1.2 1.109 2
2003 persistency framework workplan complete
24-02-2003 05-03-2003 More Info
M1.2 M1.2 1
General release of POOL hybrid data store
15-06-2003 30-06-2003 More Info
1.1.2 1.176 2
CMS POOL integration: POOL persistency of CMS event
31-07-2003  More Info
1.1.2 1.177 2
ATLAS POOL integration: POOL persistency in Release 7
21-08-2003  More Info
1.1.2 1.181 2
POOL support for Windows binaries
30-09-2003  More Info
1.1.2 1.179 2
ATLAS POOL validation with DC1 data
31-10-2003  More Info
1.1.2 1.18 2
CMS POOL validation with PCP data
31-10-2003  More Info
1.1.2 1.117 2
2004-2005 persistency framework workplan complete
15-12-2003  More Info
M1.7 M1.7 1
Full function release of persistency framework
01-03-2005  More Info
1.1.2.1   
POOL Persistency Framework
   
1.1.2.1 1.101 2
Hybrid event store workshop
05-06-2002 05-06-2002 More Info
1.1.2.1 1.102 2
Persistency framework status report
18-06-2002 18-06-2002 More Info
1.1.2.1 1.103 2
Persistency framework workplan to SC2
12-07-2002 02-08-2002 More Info
1.1.2.1 1.104 2
V0.1 POOL internal release
30-09-2002 02-10-2002 More Info
1.1.2.1 1.105 2
V0.2 POOL internal release
31-10-2002 15-11-2002 More Info
1.1.2.1 1.106 2
First prototype (V0.3) release of POOL hybrid data store
15-12-2002 18-12-2002 More Info
1.1.2.1 1.108 2
SPI compliance of POOL
28-02-2003 07-03-2003 More Info
1.1.2.1 1.11 2
POOL V0.4 'interface-complete' release
28-02-2003 07-03-2003 More Info
1.1.2.1 1.111 2
Define feature set of first general release of POOL
01-03-2003 05-03-2003 More Info
1.1.2.1 1.112 2
POOL V1.0 pre-production release
30-04-2003 13-05-2003 More Info
1.1.2.1 1.113 2
Nightly builds deployed in POOL
30-05-2003 29-06-2003 More Info
1.1.2.1 1.114 2
Initial POOL deployment on LCG-1
31-07-2003  More Info
1.1.2.1 1.116 2
POOL RDBMS independence layer in beta
30-09-2003  More Info
1.1.2.1 1.121 2
POOL hierarchical cataloging production release
15-03-2004  More Info
1.1.2.1 1.12 2
Release of POOL implementation of conditions DB
31-03-2004  More Info
1.1.2.1 1.122 2
POOL meets scalability requirements
31-10-2004  
1.1.2.2   
Conditions database
   
1.1.2.2 1.115 2
POOL implementation of conditions DB - beta
01-11-2003  More Info
1.1.3   
Core libraries and services (SEAL)
   
1.1.3 1.123 2
Establish core libraries and services (SEAL) project
30-10-2002 30-10-2002 More Info
1.1.3 1.125 2
Define the V1 SEAL software suite
30-11-2002 30-11-2002 More Info
1.1.3 1.107 2
Prototype object dictionary service released
01-12-2002 18-12-2002 More Info
1.1.3 1.126 2
Present the initial SEAL workplan to SC2
10-01-2003 10-01-2003 More Info
1.1.3 1.127 2
SEAL V1 essentials in alpha
31-03-2003 07-04-2003 More Info
1.1.3 1.129 2
SEAL V0.3 internal release
16-05-2003 24-05-2003 More Info
1.1.3 1.128 2
Nightly builds deployed in SEAL
30-06-2003  More Info
1.1.3 1.13 2
SEAL V1 release
30-06-2003  More Info
1.1.3 1.184 2
Math library workplan in place
31-07-2003  
1.1.3 1.124 2
Establish external software decision process
15-09-2003  More Info
1.1.3 1.187 2
SEAL support for Windows binaries
15-09-2003  More Info
1.1.3.8   
Mathematical libraries
   
1.1.3.8 1.167 2
Delivery of first round of GSL enhancements
30-05-2003  More Info
1.1.4   
Physicist Interface (PI)
   
1.1.4 1.149 2
Establish physicist interface project
19-11-2002 25-11-2002 More Info
1.1.4 1.15 2
Report on PI experiment consultations
20-01-2003 20-01-2003 More Info
1.1.4 1.151 2
Initial PI plan presented to SC2
29-01-2003 07-02-2003 More Info
1.1.4 1.152 2
AIDA interface review (developers) completed
30-05-2003 30-05-2003 More Info
1.1.4 1.153 2
Physicist interface (PI) workplan completed
01-07-2003 04-07-2003 More Info
1.1.4 1.171 2
AIDA interface review (users) completed
15-09-2003  More Info
1.1.5   
Simulation
   
1.1.5 1.131 2
SC2 mandate for simulation project
07-12-2002 07-12-2002 More Info
1.1.5 1.132 2
Simulation project structure defined
28-01-2003 28-01-2003 More Info
1.1.5 1.133 2
Simulation project draft workplan
28-02-2003 28-02-2003 More Info
1.1.5 1.134 2
Simulation project initial workplan approved
14-03-2003 19-03-2003 More Info
1.1.5.1   
Generic simulation framework
   
1.1.5.1 1.139 2
Generic framework high level design and implementation approach defined
31-07-2003  More Info
1.1.5.1 1.144 2
Generic simulation framework prototype available (G4 and FLUKA)
31-12-2003  More Info
1.1.5.1 1.147 2
First generic simulation framework production release
01-10-2004  More Info
1.1.5.4   
Physics validation
   
1.1.5.4 1.136 2
Test beam setup of the four experiments available in G4
31-05-2003 31-05-2003 More Info
1.1.5.4 1.14 2
Simulation physics requirements revisited
31-07-2003  More Info
1.1.5.4 1.143 2
First cycle of EM physics validation complete
30-09-2003  More Info
1.1.5.4 1.145 2
First cycle of hadronic physics validation complete
31-01-2004  More Info
1.1.5.4 1.146 2
Simulation test and benchmark suite available
31-03-2004  More Info
1.1.5.4 1.148 2
Final physics validation document complete
31-12-2004  More Info
1.1.5.6   
Generator services
   
1.1.5.6 1.138 2
Generator librarian and alpha version of support infrastructure in place
30-06-2003 30-06-2003 More Info
             


Fabrics Area
 
WBS ID_Unique MS_Lvl
Name
Date_MS MS_Done Hyperlink
1.2   
Fabrics
   
1.2.1   
Repositories and Managed Storage
   
1.2.1.1   
Castor
   
1.2.1.1.1 2.521 2
Concept of pluggable scheduler and high rate request handling demonstrated
01-10-2003  
1.2.1.1.2 2.520 2
Integrated prototype of the whole system
02-02-2004  
1.2.1.1.3 2.519 2
Production system ready for deployment
01-04-2004  
1.2.1.1.4 2.518 2
Full functional CASTOR release available
01-03-2005  
1.2.1.2   
Data Recording Challenges
   
1.2.1.2.1 2.516 2
ALICE DC5 (300 MB/sec)
01-10-2003  
1.2.1.2.2 2.515 2
ALICE DC6 (450 MB/sec)
01-10-2004  
1.2.1.2.3 2.514 2
ALICE DC7 (750 MB/sec)
03-10-2005  
1.2.1.3   
Evaluation of new tape hardware
   
1.2.1.3.1 2.526 2
Report on LTO evaluation delivered
01-03-2004  
1.2.1.3.2 2.525 2
Report on high-end tape drive evaluation delivered
01-12-2004  
1.2.1.3.3 2.524 2
Proposal on storage architecture and implementation of disk storage system for Phase 2 made
01-06-2004  
1.2.2   
Fabric Management
   
1.2.2.1 2.538 2
SPMA – full production
01-08-2003  
1.2.2.2 2.537 2
NCM – full production
03-11-2003  
1.2.2.3 2.536 2
SMS – initial system
01-10-2003  
1.2.2.4 2.535 2
SMS – full production
07-01-2004  
1.2.2.5 2.534 2
Monitoring – Systems monitor displays operational
01-10-2003  
1.2.2.6 2.533 2
Monitoring – No further need for private (experiment) monitoring
01-03-2004  
1.2.2.7 2.532 2
FT – development started
01-09-2003  
1.2.2.8 2.531 2
FT – Initial system available
01-03-2004  
1.2.2.9 2.530 2
FT – Deployment complete
01-09-2004  
1.2.2.10 2.529 2
HSM ops display – development started
01-10-2003  
1.2.2.11 2.528 2
HSM ops display – system complete
01-12-2003  
1.2.3   
Computer Centre Upgrade
   
1.2.3.1 2.553 2
Vault converted to machine room
01-11-2002 01-11-2002 
1.2.3.2 2.552 2
Right half of m/c room migrated to vault
01-08-2003  
1.2.3.3 2.551 2
Sub-station civil engineering starts
01-09-2003  
1.2.3.4 2.550 2
Sub-station civil engineering finishes
01-03-2004  
1.2.3.5 2.549 2
Sub-station electrical installation starts
01-04-2004  
1.2.3.6 2.548 2
Sub-station commissioned
07-01-2005  
1.2.3.7 2.547 2
Electrical distribution on right side of m/c room upgraded
02-02-2004  
1.2.3.8 2.546 2
Left half of m/c room emptied
02-08-2004  
1.2.3.9 2.545 2
Electrical distribution on left side of m/c room upgraded
01-06-2005  
1.2.3.10 2.544 2
Machine room HVAC upgraded
01-03-2005  
1.2.3.11 2.543 2
New 800KW UPS for physics installed
03-04-2006  
1.2.3.12 2.542 2
Current UPS area re-modelled
01-01-2007  
1.2.3.13 2.541 2
2nd 800 KW UPS added
02-04-2007  
1.2.3.14 2.540 2
3rd 800 KW UPS added
01-04-2008  
1.2.4   
Batch Computing
   
1.2.4.1 2.564 2
Baseline plan for Phase 2 agreed (architecture + technology)
01-06-2004  
1.2.4.2   
Grid Integration
   
1.2.4.2.1 2.562 2
10 LXBATCH nodes integrated in LCG-1 (isolated from main LXBATCH)
01-08-2003  
1.2.4.2.2 2.561 2
100 LXBATCH nodes integrated in LCG-1 (isolated from main LXBATCH)
01-10-2003  
1.2.4.2.3 2.560 2
Full integration of LXBATCH worker nodes in LCG-1 completed
01-12-2003  
1.2.4.3   
Batch Scheduling
   
1.2.4.3.1 2.557 2
Decision on Phase 2 Batch Scheduling System made
01-12-2004  
1.2.5   
Installation Schedule (short term)
   
1.2.5.9   
Networking infrastructure
   
1.2.5.9.3 2.580 2
Integration of 10 Gbit equipment into the Prototype done
01-07-2003 01-07-2003 
1.2.5.9.5 2.582 2
First phase of backbone replacement by 10 Gbit equipment
01-07-2004  
1.2.5.9.6 2.583 2
Backbone fully upgraded to 10 Gbit
01-07-2005  
1.2.6   
Phase 2 Acquisition Process
   
1.2.6.1 2.591 2
Decisions on the equipment selection criteria made
01-12-2003  
1.2.6.2 2.590 2
Agreement with SPL on acquisition strategy ready
01-12-2003  
1.2.6.3 2.589 2
Market survey issued for cpu and disk
01-07-2004  
1.2.6.4 2.588 2
Market survey issued for tape system
01-12-2004  
1.2.6.5 2.587 2
Phase 2 TDR ready
01-07-2005  
1.2.6.6 2.586 2
Finance Committee for cpu & disk vendor selection passed
01-09-2005  
1.2.6.7 2.585 2
Finance Committee for tape system selection passed
01-12-2005  
1.2.6.8 2.584 2
All orders placed for 2006 equipment
01-03-2006  
1.2.6.9 2.575 2
Order placed for tape system
09-01-2006  
1.2.6.10 2.574 2
2006 system installation and commissioning complete
01-08-2006  
1.2.6.11 2.573 2
Phase 2 service in production
01-09-2006  
1.2.7   
Milestones prior to June 2003
   
1.2.1.7 2.599 2
L2M Production Pilot I starts
15-01-2003 06-01-2003 
             

Grid Technology Area
 
WBS ID_Unique MS_Lvl
Name
Date_MS MS_Done Hyperlink
1.3   
Grid Technology Area
   
1.3.1   
Technology Review
   
1.3.1.3 3.496 2
Report on the Review of Grid Technologies 2003 ready
06-10-2003  
1.3.1.5 3.498 2
Report on the Review of Grid Technologies 2004 ready
02-11-2004  
1.3.2   
System Modeling
   
1.3.2.2 3.337 2
Modeling plan for work during 2003 created
15-07-2003  
1.3.4   
LCG Technology Evolution
   
1.3.4.2 3.344 2
Report on GT3 capabilities ready
01-09-2003  
    
LCG - EGEE Coordination
   
1.3.4.1 3.501 2
EGEE senior management appointed
15-07-2003  
1.3.4.2 3.502 2
Technical design eam established
01-09-2003  
1.3.4.3 3.503 2
2004 "blueprint" architecture published
01-10-2003  
1.3.4.4 3.504 2
Work packages definition published
03-11-2003  
1.3.4.5 3.505 2
Implementation teams, allocations to work packages, team management and job descriptions identified
03-11-2003  
1.3.4.6 3.506 2
2004 work plan and system performance goals for 2004 by trimester published
01-12-2003  
1.3.4.7 3.507 2
Work plan formally agreed
15-12-2003  
1.3.5   
TDR Planning
   
1.3.5.2 3.347 2
Plan and outline for the TDR available
01-10-2004  
1.3.5.3 3.348 2
Proposal for review created
01-03-2005  
1.3.5.4 3.349 2
LCG TDR completed
01-06-2005  
1.3.7   
Milestones prior to June 03
   
1.3.7.3  0
Deliver initial software packages
   
1.3.7.3.2 3.494 2
Initial software packages delivered
30-05-2003 30-05-2003 
             

Grid Deployment Area
 
WBS ID_Unique MS_Lvl
Name
Date_MS MS_Done Hyperlink
1.4   
Grid Deployment
   
1.4.1   
First Global Service Initial Availability
   
1.4.1.1 4.353 2
Initial middleware for LCG-1 delivered
30-04-2003  More Info
1.4.1.2 4.354 2
LCG-1 security model implemented
30-06-2003 30-06-2003 More Info
1.4.1.3 4.355 2
First prototype operations & user support service in place
30-06-2003 30-06-2003 More Info
1.4.1.4 4.356 2
LCG-1 m/w to agreed 10 Tier 1 sites deployed
15-07-2003  More Info
1.4.1.6 4.956 2
LCG-1 certified and commissioned
01-08-2003  More Info
1.4.1.7 4.358 2
Experiment verification of LCG-1 (to be defined)
01-10-2003  More Info
1.4.2   
Full Operational LCG-1 Service
   
1.4.2.2 4.957 2
LCG-1 performance goals defined
01-09-2003  More Info
1.4.2.3   
Expand Service to include Tier2 centres
   
1.4.2.3.1 4.958 2
Tier2 centres included in service
31-10-2003  More Info
1.4.2.4   
Middleware functionality complete
   
1.4.2.4.6 4.965 2
Middleware functionality complete
01-10-2003  More Info
1.4.2.5 4.369 2
Job Execution model defined
30-09-2003  More Info
1.4.2.6 4.370 2
Second prototype Operations and User Support Service operational
30-10-2003  More Info
1.4.2.8 4.963 2
Deployed to agreed sites
15-10-2003  More Info
1.4.2.9   
Security Procedures for 2004 in place
   
1.4.2.9.3 4.969 2
Security Procedures for 2004 in place
01-12-2003  More Info
1.4.2.11 4.966 2
Service Review completed
24-11-2003  More Info
M1.4 M1.4 2
LCG-1 Service fully operational
28-11-2003  More Info
1.4.3   
Fully Operational LCG-3 Service
   More Info
1.4.3.2 4.961 2
LCG-3 functionality defined
31-03-2004  More Info
1.4.3.3 4.378 2
LCG-3 Pilot system available
01-07-2004  More Info
1.4.3.5 4.962 2
LCG-2 upgraded to LCG-3
17-01-2005  More Info
M1.6 M1.6 1
LCG-3 Service fully operational
28-01-2005  More Info
1.4.4   
Completion of Computing Service TDR
   
1.4.4.2 4.382 2
Experience with LCG-2 reviewed
01-07-2005  More Info
M1.8 M1.8 1
Completion of Computing Service TDR
30-06-2005  More Info
             

Level-1 Milestones
 
WBS ID_Unique MS_Lvl
Name
Date_MS MS_Done Hyperlink
1.5   
Global Milestones/Goals/Targets
   
M1.1   
First Global Service - Initial Availability
   
M1.1 M1.1 1
First Global Service (LCG-1) - Initial Availability
01-07-2003  More Info
M1.2 M1.2 1
General release of POOL hybrid data store
02-06-2003 30-06-2003 More Info
M1.3 M1.3 1
Distributed production environment using grid services
03-11-2003  More Info
M1.4   
Fully Operational LCG-1 Service
   More Info
M1.4 M1.4 1
Fully operational LCG-1 Service
28-11-2003  More Info
M1.5 M1.5 1
Distributed end-user analysis from a Tier-3 Regional Centre
03-05-2004  More Info
M1.6   
Fully Operational LCG-3 Service
   More Info
1.5.6.1 5.401 0
Define LCG-3
02-02-2004  
1.5.6.2 5.402 0
LCG-3 pilot system available
01-07-2004  
1.5.6.3 5.403 0
Decision on new batch system software (CERN)
31-12-2004  
M1.6 M1.6 1
Fully operational LCG-3 Service
28-01-2005  More Info
M1.7 M1.7 1
Full function release of persistency framework
01-03-2005  More Info
M1.8   
Completion of the Computing Service TDR
   More Info
M1.8 M1.8 1
Completion of Computing Service TDR
30-06-2005  More Info