CTA deployment meeting

Europe/Zurich
600/R-001 (CERN)

600/R-001

CERN

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Michael Davis (CERN)
    • 14:00 14:10
      EOSCTA LHCb Post-Migration Issues 10m

      References

      Status and TO DO

      • Eviction for stage+transfer with HTTP
      • Add more tape drives
      • DAQ integration and testing, including FTS Archive Monitoring
      • Mid-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.
      • Clean up /castor/cern.ch/grid/test ?
    • 14:10 14:20
      CTA PUBLIC Migration from CASTOR 10m

      NA62

      • Requester mount rule for na62e001
      • ACLs: NA62 directories need to be configured for two service accounts
      • Write-only directory configuration

      Status Updates: Experiments

      • n_TOF (spinner space) #143
      • DUNE #213
      • COMPASS (spinner space) #69
      • AMS: auth issues #82
      • NA61/SHINE: setting up their DAQ system + storage. No schedule for testing yet.
      • 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.
      • CLIC (Dirac) - will set up a meeting in April

      Status Updates: Other Use Cases

      • Repack of LEP-era data. Half-way through the 247 tapes that need to be repacked (engineering and nomad_delayed) #240
      • UNOSAT: data in CASTOR is not needed. Procedure for deleting unneeded data.
      • /afsmigration #282.
      • CASTOR backup use cases

      TO DO

      • Finish repack of r_public_user
      • Migrate data from legacy experiments
      • Schedule next SME migrations after NA62
    • 14:20 14:30
      CTA PUBLIC New Use Cases 10m

      What is our policy when people ask for tape storage? What criteria should we apply to decide if tape is the appropriate solution?

      • #271 Spacal
      • #274 FASER experiment on CTA
    • 14:30 14:40
      CTA Software 10m
      • Tape drive statuses
      • Review of tickets tagged Tape Server
    • 14:40 14:45
      AOB 5m