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Documentation

The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) has been operating since 2004 and has accumulated a substantial body of documentation across multiple platforms. This page provides a guide to the principal documentation repositories and reference resources used by the WLCG community.

Primary Documentation Sources

WLCG Document Repository

The central repository for WLCG operational and management documentation.

Contents include:

  • Policies and procedures
  • Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs)
  • Meeting minutes
  • Accounting reports
  • Availability and reliability reports
  • Resource planning documents

Access: WLCG Document Repository

Reporting

Reporting resources covering accounting, reliability, availability, pledges, and status reports.

Access: Reporting Page

CERN Document Server (CDS)

The primary archive for official CERN and WLCG publications.

Typical content includes:

  • Technical reports
  • Working group reports
  • Review documents
  • Conference proceedings
  • Historical WLCG and LCG documentation

For historical material, search using:

  • LCG (older documents)
  • WLCG (more recent documents)

Access: CERN Document Server (CDS)

WLCG Zenodo Community

A collection of WLCG publications, technical documents, presentations, and other openly accessible materials.

Access: WLCG Community on Zenodo

Reference Documents

WLCG Computing Model

Key documents describing the evolution of the WLCG computing architecture:

WLCG Risk Register

The WLCG Risk Register identifies and tracks strategic and operational risks relevant to the collaboration.

HEP-SPEC06 Benchmarking

HEP-SPEC06 remains an important reference benchmark for WLCG resource planning and comparison.

Resources:

LHCC Documentation

Resources relating to reviews and oversight by the LHC Experiments Committee (LHCC).