Michael - workshops up coming.  See email yesterday.

• Renovating the WLCG with promising new technologies, esp. with eye to run 3 and run 4 (Ian Bird)
• Forum - to work on these topics, to make informed decisions, working groups needed, etc.
• Nominations to represent at the upcoming meeting (end Jan).  US Facilities role -- good opportunity to avoid isolating ourselves. 
• WLCG Collaboration Workshop, Feb 1-3, 2016 in Lisbon
  • https://indico.cern.ch/event/433164/other-view?view=standard

• ATLAS Sites Jamboree Jan 27-29, 2016 at CERN

  • https://indico.cern.ch/event/440821/

    (the agenda is still evolving, typically many aspects relevant to facilities services incl. grid middleware, storage and compute are addressed)

Accounting:

• Questions from Dave regarding accounting
• Wei, Patrick, Saul - have a look at local versus WLCG accounting

Worker node benchmarking

• Regarding procurements for this RRB year in April.
• We already look good re: CPU, storage needs to be added for some sites
• at GDB meeting 

  All,

  At today’s GDB meeting Manfred Alef from the German T1 center (KIT) presented a comprehensive report about his WN benchmark activity that may be of interested to people. Find his slide deck at

  http://indico.cern.ch/event/319754/session/0/contribution/9/attachments/1202373/1750492/Results_of_HS06_Scaling_Studies_at_KIT_2015-12-09.pdf

   

  (As Manfred refers to P. Charpentier’s presentation here is the link

  http://indico.cern.ch/event/319754/session/0/contribution/8/attachments/1202029/1749779/151209-MJFUpdate-LHCb.pdf)

Broadwell processor - perhaps wait till April.