version 0.2, 25 October 2007
The RAL CASTOR rollout schedule is given here.
The RAL CASTOR endpoints are listed here .
For LHCb, the main schedule currently stands as follows :

01 Nov 2007 Finish testing CASTOR configuration
13 Nov 2007 Stop writing to dCache
13 Nov 2007 Castor upgrade to 2.1.4 + slc4 + 64bit
Nov 2007 LHCb reconstruction and stripping
01 Dec 2007 Availability of srm2.2 instance in production
Jan 2008 Finish migration to CASTOR / stop using dCache
Feb 2008 CCRC'08 First phase (Common Computing Readiness Challenge - jointly with ATLAS and CMS)
May 2008 CCRC'08 Second phase (Common Computing Readiness Challenge - jointly with ATLAS and CMS)
→ LHCb need the final (data ready) Castor configuration for both of the above CCRC'08 challenges

Note : This colour indicates a RAL specific milestone


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