John KELLY

SFTC, Didcot – U.K.

I currently work for the tier1 at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory helping to run the tier1 infrastructure and supporting the LHC experiments. My background is a systems administrator in an ISP environment. I find the tier1 to be a very different and challenging environment. An ISP environment generally uses standard software eg apache, exim, mysql and bind. Most software is written in C and administration scripts are often written in Perl. Practically all production systems were Linux and Solaris. I find the tier1 to be very different and I feel that the CSC would give me a greater insight into how the WLCG works.