MinutesJul30

Introduction

• Previous meetings and background : IntegrationProgram
• Coordinates: Wednesdays, 1:00pm Eastern
  • Phone: (605) 475-6000, Access code: 735188; Dial *6 to mute/un-mute.

Attending

• Meeting attendees:
• Apologies: Rob
• Guests: none

Integration program update (Michael)

• Overarching near term goals:
  • Complete the benchmarks of 200 MB/s sustained disk-to-disk throughput to all Tier2s
  • FDR2: data replication and analysis queues
  • OSG 1.0 deployed - nearly complete
  • LFC evaluation and deployment strategy complete on-going
  • WLCG - SAM/RSV, reliability availability metrics for CE and SE reporting >80% for all sites.
  • Provisioning of capacities according to pledges on track for September 15 2008 deployment.
  • Network performance monitoring infrastructure deployed.
  • Revision to the Tier 3 white paper, and a reference Tier 3 facility defined.
  • Analysis benchmarks demonstrated at increasing scale (100/200/500/1000 simultaneous jobs) at all Tier 2 facilities.

Next procurements

• Standing agenda item, see CapacitySummary.
• Follow-up on Dell storage offering.

Internet2 monitoring host

• We received specifications from Rich - no pricing as of yet.
• Was an action item for Rob to get a quote for a system from Koi Computers. (specs sent)

Follow-up issues

• Storage capacity recommendations/guidance for the Facility (320 TB capacity, from Kaushik's model on MinutesJune11).
• Revised WLCG pledges - need info by July 15. Action item for Rob (not done!)

Operations overview: Production (Kaushik)

Shift report

Analysis queues, FDR analysis (Nurcan)

• A wiki page was setup to show the online/offline status of the US pathena analysis queues as well as their availability for various athena releases/packages, see the page at PathenaAnalysisQueues.

RSV and WLCG SAM (Fred)

• See https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Operations/RsvSAMGridView for links to SAM and Gridview reporting consoles.
• For scheduling downtimes, the OIM system: https://oim.grid.iu.edu/

Operations: DDM (Hiro and/or Alexei)

• FT: See http://atladcops.cern.ch:8000/drmon/ftmon_T1-T2_matrix_all.html
• FDR2 data transfers:
  • http://pandamon.usatlas.bnl.gov:25880/server/pandamon/query?mode=listFDR_Tier1
  • http://pandamon.usatlas.bnl.gov:25880/server/pandamon/query?mode=listFDR
  • http://atldq2pro.cern.ch:8000/ft/mon/fdrmon_tier1s.html
  • http://atldq2pro.cern.ch:8000/ft/mon/fdrmon_tier2s.html

LFC migration (John)

• SubCommitteeLFC
• Committee has not met for a while - any update on LFC + Panda development testbed?

wlcg-client (Marco)

• There is a new version which handles protocols correctly for SRM endpoints.

OSG 1.0

• See https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/twiki/bin/view/ReleaseDocumentation/WebHome
• OSG Sites meeting this week.
• Deployed 1.0
  • AGLT2
  • MWT2_UC
  • MWT2_IU
  • UC_ATLAS_MWT2
  • PROD_SLAC
  • UTA_DPCC
  • BNL_ATLAS_1 - all BNL sites upgraded now.
• Status update since last meeting:
  • SWT2_CPB: post-integration, will be 1.0.
  • OU
  • NET2

Site news and issues (all sites)

• T1:
• AGLT2:
• NET2:
• MWT2:
• SWT2 (UTA):
• SWT2 (OU):
• WT2:

Carryover issues (any updates?)

Pilot upgrade for space tokens (Kaushik (Paul))

• Update from Shawn. lcg-cp working; still need to work on registration. Carry-over

Release installation via Pacballs (Xin)

• Need to follow-up.

Throughput initiative - status (Shawn)

• Monalisa and configuration links:
  • http://gridtest01.racf.bnl.gov:8081/display?page=network - https://svn.usatlas.bnl.gov/svn/usatlas-int/load-test/Control/conf/network_m2m
  • http://gridtest01.racf.bnl.gov:8081/display?page=gridftp - https://svn.usatlas.bnl.gov/svn/usatlas-int/load-test/Control/conf/gridftp_d2d

SRM v2 and Space Tokens (Kaushik)

• Follow-up issue of atlas versus usatlas role.
• The issue for dCache space token controlled spaces supporting multiple roles is still open.
• For the moment, the production role in use for US production remains usatlas, but this may change to get around this problem.

User LRC deletion (Charles)

• Data deletion tool still under development/testing.

WLCG accounting

• http://t2.unl.edu/gratia/wlcg_reporting

AOB

• none

-- RobertGardner - 29 Jul 2008