Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents

Introduction
About this document
Contributions to the document
Structure of this HOWTO document

Introduction

The objective of this document is to assist system administrators with the installation of Dcache at Tier 2 sites and configuring it to work with the LHC Computing Grid.

This document may move to http://www.dcache.org/ as the principle author of this document is joining the D-Cache team.

About this document

This documentation is part of the PPARC Particle Physics Grid (GridPP) funded effort to support Grid Storage at Tier 2 sites.

Contributions to the document

Please email the author if you have comments or wish to assist in improving this document.

Structure of this HOWTO document

This document is made from many diverse sources of information from the developers system administrators and users of D-cache, primarily within the UK for LHC computing. for this reason the next section is the quick start to installing D-Cache using YAIM which gets everything working quicker for LHC required services.