CTA deployment meeting

Wednesday 3 Mar 2021, 15:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

600/R-001 (CERN)

Michael Davis (CERN)

15:00 → 15:10 Getting LHCb into Production

• See Putting EOSCTALHCB into Production (CodiMD)
• See #203 Migrate LHCb from CASTOR to CTA

Status

• HTTP TPC tests

Schedule

• 3 March: disable write access to CASTOR LHCb in preparation for migration. Check all queues are flushed and everything is written to tape. DONE
• 8 March: disable CASTOR LHCb. Migrate to CTA.
• 15 March: EOSCTA LHCb in production

To Do

• Publish CTA OTG
• Prepare EOSCTA LHCb production instance

Post Migration

• DAQ integration and testing, including FTS Archive Monitoring
• Heads-up for April: LHCb will stage small amounts of data for validation prior to reprocessing, then start pre-staging for their reprocessing campaign which will begin in May.

15:10 → 15:20 Getting PUBLIC into Production

• Migration of SMEs from CASTOR to CTA, see Putting EOSCTAPUBLIC into Production
• Schedule for migrating CASTOR PUBLIC experiments to CTA

Status Update

• TOTEM: update from today's meeting
• Spinner space, garbage collector tests
• DUNE have started testing
• AMS
• NA61/SHINE
• n_TOF (spinner space)
• COMPASS (spinner space)
• Repack of LEP-era data (this will be migrated after NA62, end March or early April)
• KB article for users was published, KB0007167

TO DO

• Finish repack of public_user
• Migrate data from legacy experiments
• Schedule next SME migrations after NA62
• FASER experiment, see RQF1756303 and #274

Schedule

• w/c 15 March: migrate NA62 to CTA

15:20 → 15:30 CTA Software

• #969 (xrdfs query prepare malformed JSON output) has been fixed

Contribution from Cédric over next couple of months

• Testing/deploying some features that are lagging because of schema v4 work
• Documentation
• Objectstore fixes if required

15:30 → 15:35 AOB