WLCG Management Board #334

Tuesday 18 Nov 2025, 16:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

513/R-068 (CERN)

Simone Campana (CERN)

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

16:00 → 16:05 Minutes and Matters Arising

16:05 → 16:10 Action List Review

16:10 → 16:20 WLCG Service Report

Speakers: Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN), Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

WLCG-svc-report-251118-v10.pdf

WLCG-svc-report-251118-v10.pptx

16:20 → 16:30 TCB Report

Speakers: Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN), James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

WLCG Open Technical Forum [Indico Category]:

• Recent meeting at the FTS & XRootD Workshop (OTF#7) 

• Planning OTF#8 for early February, with a focus on tape performance

 

WLCG Workshop on Heterogeneous Architectures

• The Indico agenda is populated and speakers mostly confirmed: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1526077/timetable/
• 67 registrants, according to Indico

 

Work on the WLCG Technical Roadmap (TR) is progressing within the TCB:

• Data management (Ch. 3) and Network (Ch. 4) are already quite advanced.

• Most other areas have met and are discussing the path forward.

• Goal to complete in H2 of 2026.

• Question relevant for Ch. 1 of the TR: Who is the main contact for the new task force on the computing resource model for HL-LHC?

 

Technical Roadmap Chapters (for reference)

1. Experimental Computing Requirements
2. Facility Evolution
3. Data Management
4. Network Infrastructure and Management
5. Workflow Management
6. Security and Authentication & Authorization Infrastructure 
7. Services
8. New Architectures and Infrastructures
9. Sustainability

 

16:30 → 16:45 Report on the meeting with the EuroHPC Federation Platform and perspectives

Speaker: Dr Tommaso Boccali (INFN Sezione di Pisa)

EFP November 2025.pdf

EFP November 2025.pptx

16:45 → 16:55 Deadline for eliminating SHA1 from CAs

Speaker: Maarten Litmaath (CERN)

SHA-1-CAs-251118-v10.pdf

SHA-1-CAs-251118-v10.pptx

16:55 → 17:00 AOB