UKI Monthly Operations Meeting (TB-SUPPORT)

Thursday 18 Dec 2008, 10:30 → 11:30 Europe/London

EVO - GridPP Deployment team meeting

Jeremy Coles

- This is the monthly UKI meeting - The intention is to run the meeting in EVO: http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/. Join the meeting in the GridPP Community area. - The phone bridge number is +41 22 76 71400. The phone bridge ID is 682545 with code: 4880. - If the CERN phone connection does not work please try Caltech +1 626 395 2112 or DESY +49 40 8998 1346.

Minutes Joint_Dteam181208.doc

10:30 → 10:45 Site availability

Okay, starting with the regular overview and picking out any observed problems.... SAM tests: http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~lloyd/gridpp/samtest.html UK tests: http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~lloyd/gridpp/uktest.html CMS tests: http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~lloyd/gridpp/cms_samtest.html ATLAS tests: http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~lloyd/gridpp/atest.html LHCb tests; http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~lloyd/gridpp/lhcb_samtest.html Accounting: http://www3.egee.cesga.es/gridsite/accounting/CESGA/egee_view.php

10:45 → 11:05 Experiment problems/issues

CMS: LHCb: ATLAS: - Other VO issues?? - Site and experiment plans over Christmas and New Year

11:05 → 11:15 ROC/WLCG stuff

ROC update *************** Please take a quick look at the ops agenda/minutes for issues: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=43735. T1 news ********** Over to Derek and Brian! WLCG update *************** There was a GDB this month on 10th. Graeme attended for Tier-2s and his summary is here: http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GDB_December_2008. - Any observations or questions on the status of areas covered? -- gLite 3.2 will be on SL5.

11:15 → 11:25 Accessing site data

Here is an observation from Greig that should be discussed further: "One main thing that I have noticed while being on shift is the constant problem of accessing software on the shared area at sites (RAL-PP and Glasgow are recent examples). It seems that many sites suffer from NFS (or AFS) scaling issues when there are many jobs simultaneously accessing the software. It would be good to have a discussion about what sites do to improve the reliability of this service." - What can we do to improve this area?

11:25 → 11:30 AOB

- Next meeting is on Thursday 22nd January @ 10:30am - Have a nice Christmas ... but watch those pies!