WLCG Tier-2 site in Prague: a little bit of history, current status and future perspectives

0447872 - ÚJF 2016 RIV GB eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Adamová, Dagmar - Chudoba, Jiří - Eliáš, Marek - Fiala, Lukáš - Kouba, Tomáš - Lokajíček, Miloš - Švec, Jan
WLCG Tier-2 site in Prague: a little bit of history, current status and future perspectives.
Journal of Physics Conference Series. Vol. 608. Bristol: IOP Publishing Ltd, 2015, 012035. ISSN 1742-6588.
[International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT). Prague (CZ), 01.09.2014-05.09.2014]
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA202/97/P042; GA MŠMT(CZ) LG13031; GA MŠMT(CZ) LG13009
Institutional support: RVO:68378271 ; RVO:61389005
Keywords : LHC * WLCG * computing
Subject RIV: BG - Nuclear, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Colliders; BF - Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics (FZU-D)

High Energy Physics is one of the research areas where the accomplishment of scientific results is inconceivable without a complex computing infrastructure. This includes also the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN where the production and analysis environment is provided by the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). A very important part of this system is represented by sites classified as Tier-2s: they deliver a half of the computing and disk storage capacity of the whole WLCG. In this contribution we present an overview of the Tier-2 site praguelcg2 in Prague, the largest site in the Czech Republic providing computing and storage services for particle physics experiments. A brief history flashback, current status report and future perspectives of the site will be presented.
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