RAL Tier1 Experiments Liaison Meeting

Wednesday 22 Apr 2026, 13:30 → 15:50 Europe/London

Access Grid (RAL R89)

1 Site Operations

13:34 Experiment Operational Issues

2 ATLAS Operations Report

Speakers: Dr Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Jyoti Prakash Biswal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

3 CMS Operations Report

Speaker: Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

4 LHCb Operations Report

Speaker: Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

5 ALICE Operations Report

Speaker: Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

6 LSST Operations Report

Speakers: Thomas Birkett, Timothy Noble (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

• DP2_prep repo has apparently been retired and a new one is yet to be created / announced
• Mapping script complete takes 12GB dump file from echo and outputs a 40kb file of json that is human readable to identify datasets which are no longer needed and can be deleted

 

• Data Movement test completed to RAL
  
• Data movement test now to Lancs
  

14:00 Tier-1 Projects

7 XRootD Development

Speakers: Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Jyothish Thomas (STFC)

8 Utilizing GPUs

Speakers: Dr Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Thomas Birkett

14:25 AOB

9 Summary of Operational Status and Issues

Speakers: Brian Davies (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)), Darren Moore, Thomas Birkett

10 Any other Business

Speakers: Brian Davies (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)), Darren Moore