WLCG
Name
Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG)
Area
Virtual Research Community (VRC)
Agreement
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 24 January 2012
About WLCG
The WLCG is a global collaboration that links grid infrastructures and computer centres worldwide. Its purpose is to distribute, store and analyse the immense amounts of data generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Working closely with EGEE and other projects, WLCG pioneered the development or co-development of a number of scientific computing and research strategies, policies and tools that remain in use today. Since entering operation, the LHC produces roughly 15 Petabytes of data annually. The mission of the WLCG is to build and maintain a data storage and analysis infrastructure for the entire high energy physics community that will use the LHC. Today, the WLCG combines the computing resources of more than 250,000 processors, and close to 100 PB disk from over 130 sites in 34 countries, producing a massive distributed computing infrastructure that provides more than 8,000 physicists around the world with near real-time access to LHC data and the power to process it.
Overview of the collaboration
The specific goals of the collaboration are to:
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Enhance the capacities of both infrastructures.
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Provide local and global operational services as needed to support the international user community and the EGI operational needs.
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Subscribe to a mandatory set of policies, procedures and OLAs.
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Comply with the operations interfaces required by the EGI Operations Architecture10, which are needed to ensure seamless and interoperable access to resources.
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Participate in the Operations Management Board to contribute to the EGI operations agenda.
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Participate in the Security Policy Team to contribute to the development of the security policies fabric of the infrastructure
Resources
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(news item) EGI signs agreement with the LHC computing grid
