> Dear WLCG site admins in EGI,
>
> In the Grid Deployment Board meeting of May 2016 the afternoon was dedicated
> to a session on what could be done to allow the operation of WLCG sites to
> be made less heavy. A summary of the session and the conclusions so far are
> available here:
>
> https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/LightweightSites
>
> Now we would like to identify areas where it is worthwhile to spend effort
> such that sizable numbers of sites may profit, while at the same time
> avoiding that a lot of work is merely shifted to the experiments, CERN IT
> or the T1 sites.
>
> The aim is to get to a "matrix" of approaches that sites can choose from,
> depending on criteria that we try to cover in this questionnaire:
>
>
> http://wlcg-survey.web.cern.ch/survey/lightweight-sites
One of the things from a GridPP perspective is how would the idea of dedicated LHC
Tier-2 sites managed by CERN fit in with our model for supporting non-LHC experiments
and projects outside particle physics alongside our core LHC work.
Cheers
Andrew
> Please take some time to fill it out, you may need just a few minutes.
>
> Early trends in the responses could already be mentioned in the lightweight
> sites presentation next Monday at CHEP:
>
>
> https://indico.cern.ch/event/505613/contributions/2227413/
>
>
> Your help with the questionnaire is greatly appreciated, thanks!
>
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Cheers
Andrew
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Dr Andrew McNab
University of Manchester High Energy Physics,
LHCb@CERN (Deputy Computing Coordinator),
and GridPP (LHCb + Tier-2 Evolution)
www.hep.manchester.ac.uk/u/mcnab
Skype: andrew.mcnab.uk CERN: 2/R-006
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