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Useful Information:
Activities:
- System support:
- certification and testing of identified packages provided
by the grid development projects or other middleware providers
- packaging and configuration: to provide a packaging of the
LCG middleware that includes a configuration system, installation
instructions, system administrator and user documentation
- system administration and operation of certification testbeds
at CERN, coordination of certification and testing activities
across distributed testbed sites
- Grid operations:
- Build and operate a distributed
Grid Operations Centre, to
perform performance monitoring, problem identification, troubleshooting
and general operational oversight. The GOC will run in at least
3 sites to provide 24x7 global coverage
- Infrastructure and grid service operation: to operate the
grid-specific services (information providers, resource brokers,
authentication and authorization services, etc.)
- User Support:
- Consultancy service to provide a service directly to the experiments
to assist in integrating the experiment software with grid middleware;
liaison between experiments and LCG
- Helpdesk services: a distributed operation run in conjunction
with the operations centre providing distributed 24x7 global
helpdesk-like user support via email, telephone, web entry points.
Must provide a single point of contact to the user
- Documentation: provide up-to-date documentation for the LCG
services
- Training: organise and provide training sessions, seminars,
tutorials, etc in the use of the LCG system and services
- Resource planning and scheduling
Grid Deployment Board
See here for more
details.
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