IPv6 in production: its deployment and usage in WLCG

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Authors

Marian Babik · European Organization for Nuclear Research

M. J. Bly · Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Tim Chown

J. Chudoba · Czech Academy of Sciences

Catalin Condurache · Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Alastair Dewhurst · Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

X. Espinal Curull · European Organization for Nuclear Research

Abstract

The fraction of general internet traffic carried over IPv6 continues to grow rapidly. The transition of WLCG central and storage services to dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 is progressing well, thus enabling the use of IPv6-only CPU resources as agreed by the WLCG Management Board and presented by us at CHEP2016. By April 2018, all WLCG Tier-1 data centres should have provided access to their services over IPv6. The LHC experiments have requested all WLCG Tier-2 centres to provide dual-stack access to their storage by the end of LHC Run 2. This paper reviews the status of IPv6 deployment in WLCG.

Topics & Keywords

Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Advanced Data Storage Technologies Superconducting Materials and Applications

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Publication Details

Published in: EPJ Web of Conferences

Volume 214, pp. 08010-08010

DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201921408010

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