Database TEG

Scope and Mandate

The general strategy defined by the WLCG Management Board and the GDB to define the technical evolution of distributed computing tools for LHC experiments is described in this document.

The mandate of Technical Evolution Groups is described in this document.

The topics to be addressed by TEGs are listed in this document.

Meetings

• Indico page with DB TEG meetings: https://indico.cern.ch/categoryDisplay.py?categId=3754

• DB TEG workshop on 7-9 November 2011: https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=158091

• Presentations of Reports from all the WLCG Technical Evolution Groups on 7 February 2012: https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=158775

• Discussion of plans of all WLCG TEGs at GDB on 17 April 2012: https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=155067

People and communication

Dario Barberis (Genoa/ATLAS) and Dave Dykstra (FNAL/CMS) chair the DB TEG.

The group is open to all contributors. Mail exchanges use the list wlcg-teg-database at cern.ch.

Activity

The group agreed to split up the writing of the document into four subgroups:

1. Databases for conditions data (Frontier/squid/CORAL/COOL/CoralServer/POOL). Group conveners and editors: Giacomo Govi and Andrea Valassi
2. Databases for detector controls data (PVSS). Group conveners and editors: Rainer Bartoldus and XXX.
3. Database operations (Oracle). Group conveners and editors: Luca Canali and Gancho Dimitrov
4. Databases for distributed computing tools and metadata (data production & management, including NoSQL). Group conveners and editors: Mario Lassnig and Simon Metson

Links

• DB_TEG_report.doc, DB_TEG_report.pdf: Final version of the report

• DB_TEG_prelim_report.pdf: Report to the WLCG TEG Workshop on 7 February 2012

-- DarioBarberis - 22-Nov-2011