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WLCG Management Board #294 (ZOOM-ONLY meeting)
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Europe/Zurich
Simone Campana
(CERN)
Description
16:00 CERN/10:00 EDT/09:00 CDT
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Minutes: Management Board Meeting Minutes
Action List: MbActionList
See also the: WLCG Document Repository, WLCG Web Site
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Minutes and Matters Arising 5m
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Review of WLCG Web Page 1mSpeaker: Simone Campana (CERN)
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Environmental impact of WLCG 1mSpeaker: Simone Campana (CERN)
The WLCG Overview Board in June 2021 agreed to conduct a study and a prepare a statement concerning the environmental impact of LHC computing. As WLCG is a distributed infrastructure, a detailed study is very complicated and not very meaningful. We agreed to conduct a more holistic study, focusing on energy needs and efficient use of resources. This study and statement should complement the various initiatives in the different countries conducting more in-depth studies. This is getting more urgent. The proposal is to form a small editorial team producing a draft for the MB and finally the OB. Volunteers are welcome.
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Action List Review 5m
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WLCG Service Report 10mSpeakers: Miroslav Potocky (CERN), Maarten Litmaath (CERN)
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Process to review the WLCG MoU annexes 10mSpeaker: Simone Campana (CERN)
At the November 2021 WLCG Overview Board we agreed to review the WLCG MoU annexes to align the wording of the annexes with the current practice. The first step is to identify the areas that should be touched and comment on the possible change. For this, a document has been created and the link will be circulated to the MB mailing list. The proposal is to have a first round of comments by the next MB
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Input to Snowmass 10mSpeaker: Simone Campana (CERN)
The Snowmass process in the US was paused for the pandemic and now it restarted. Discussing with O. Gutsche, D. Elvira and W. Bhimji, it would be important to submit an input from the WLCG perspective, same as we did for the ESPP process in Europe. The input could be a short document with links to existing ones. The main messages would include:
* a general vision and strategy statement from WLCG for the next decade, what are the main challenges and how it sees the infrastructure evolving
* the importance of collaborating across HEP experiments on a shared computing infrastructure and the advantage of sharing the core services with other sciences (for example astronomy/astroparticle)
* State the important role of Open Science Grid in supporting the infrastructure in the US and collaborating with other international grid initiatives (such as EGI) in providing core services to WLCG.
* State the important role of investments in R&D to support the future HEP computing needs. Mention IRIS-HEP as an example
The input would target mostly the Storage and Processing Resource Access topical group (TG) but could expand broader that that in the Computing Frontier (opinions on that?). The deadline is mid-March 2022 but the title and abstract need to be available by the end of January.
If we agree we should do this, we should form a small editorial team and produce an abstract (first) and the full document in the next 30 days. The document needs to be agreed by the OB and the CB
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AOB 5m
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Next MB Meeting: Tuesday 15 February 2022 1m
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