(1) University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland
(2) CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organisation for
Nuclear Research, will produce unprecedented volumes of data when it
starts operation in 2007. To provide for its computational needs, the
LHC Computing Grid (LCG) is being deployed as a worldwide
computational grid service, providing the middleware upon which the
physics analysis for the LHC will be carried out.
Data management middleware will be a key component of the LCG, enabling
users to analyse their data without reference to the complex details
of the computing environment.
In this paper we review the performance tests of the LCG
File Catalog (LFC) and make comparisons
with other data management catalogs. We also survey the
deployment status of the LFC within the LCG.
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