CTA deployment meeting

Monday 8 Mar 2021, 14:00 → 15:30 Europe/Zurich

600/R-001 (CERN)

Michael Davis (CERN)

1 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 Updates

• Spinner space is configured with GC. GC has been tested.
• n_TOF (spinner space): tests can proceed
• COMPASS (spinner space): queued for recall tests
• DUNE: needs XRootD TPC to be configured on PUBLIC instance.
• AMS: Vova will create a ticket for auth issues
• NA61/SHINE: setting up their DAQ system + storage
• TOTEM #277. 24 tapes from public_user need to be repacked. 0.5 PB of files in EOS need a tape copy. VM with SLC5 needs to access data on tape.
• /afsmigration #282
• Repack of LEP-era data. A further 247 tapes need to be repacked (engineering and nomad_delayed) #240

TO DO

• Finish repack of public_user (~1 month)
• Migrate data from legacy experiments
• Schedule next SME migrations after NA62

Schedule

• w/c 15 March: migrate NA62 to CTA

2 Getting LHCb into Production

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

Status

• Migration report (ongoing)
• 15 March: EOSCTA LHCb in production

Post Migration

• DAQ integration and testing, including FTS Archive Monitoring
• 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.

3 CTA Software

• Vlado and Julien to highlight high-priority issues which need development effort
• Broad review of open tickets and set priorities over next few weeks, in preparation for arrival of fellows in April

4 AOB