Description
Over the last few months, the pre-production service (PPS) has slowly but steadily been replaced by two new processes: the staged roll-out and the pilot services.
Although the permanent PPS infrastructure was unsupported during EGEE III some of the services have been kept running on a best-efforts basis in support of the transition to the new model. Now that the transition is fully established, with LIP taking on the coordination role, it’s a good time to “formally” release these resources.
The site CERN_PPS has been offering so far some ‘gluing’ services to the infrastructure which won’t be supported anymore starting from the beginning of April. They are:
* Top-level BDII (a new instance is now available at LIP in the context of the support to staged roll-out )
* PPS AFS UI (not supported elsewhere)
* SAM PPS (will run on best effort until the end of the project but then will stop)
* PPS website (this will be supported by LIP across the end of the project specifically in the sections regarding pilot services and staged roll-out until a corresponding EGI site is set-up)
Centres that still want to run PPS sites or that are in the process of integrating them in the production system will have eventually to negotiate through their ROC/NGI with the Ibergrid/Spanish NGI for possible extensions to the above services.
