Activity of the month

Tuesday 30 Jan 2007, 08:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

08:00 → 08:20 Roberta Faggian Marque

DILIGENT *WP1.8* - M1.8.2 contributions, revision, confcalls - D1.8.1 revision and contributions - 1 week TCom meeting in Budapest - reviews of M1.8.2, phone meetings - preparation for TCom f2f meeting, deployment test presentation revision - input to risks analysis document *WP3.1* - input to risks analysis document - technical student selection, confcall - investigation on WISDOM data challenge integration in DILIGENT - risks analysis document contributions, revisions, confcalls *Other* - update on project activity and deadline - IMR 13 revision - ExCom phone meeting - IMR 14 contributions - ETICS review presentation revision - IP3 revision - contributions to Jan31 deadline preparation EGEE *RPLO* - revision/finalisation of a letter about EGEE collaboration with RPs - supervision design/implementation of a database of RPs - RP database design meetings and revisions - Linga introduction to RPLO activity and EGEE - contact with RINGRID project - RPLO update and planning meeting - RPLO RPs database design meeting - support logistic for the inftastructure coordination meeting - PO meetings - RPLO meetings - PEB meeting - EGEE RP public pages re-design - registration of new RP *EGE/RP* - MAPS - preparation of CERN/IT internal meeting on FP6 projects and FP7 strategy - update of project's budget

08:20 → 08:40 Florida Estrella

BalticGrid -Post review discussions SEE-GRID-2 -Technical meeting tconf -D22 contribution Review preparations for EUChina, EUMed, EELA, Health-e-Child Health-e-Child -Technical Meeting in Paris -Tconf PMT 25.01 -Review D31 -DoWII WP5, WP14 contributions

08:40 → 09:00 Pedro Andrade

WP1.2 (1) - support to CNR on Package Repository interaction with gLite SE - support to UNIBAS: GFAL APi bugs WP1.7 (1) - support to 4DSOFT on service deployment WP1.8 (6.5) - M1.8.2 preparation and review - M1.8.2 conference call - preparation of deployment testing slides for DILIGENT TCom meeting - preparation of release ALPHA overview slides for DILIGENT TCom meeting - prepartion of release Beta meeting WP3.1 (2) - usage of EGEE recognized certificates by ENG PPS VOMS server - CNAF PPS VOMS server problems - contributions, revisions and confcalls for the risk analysis document (31 Jan deadline) WP4.2 (0) WP4.3 (0) Other (7.5) - DILIGENT TCom meeting - preparation of ETICS review slides - Widson DC meeting with Domenico - ellaboration of IMR14 for WP1.x - technical student hiring Holidays Last Update 31/01

09:00 → 09:20 Alexandre Duarte

Alexandre Duarte January, 2007 Major work for EELA; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- * SAM Maintenance (updates and reconfiguration) * EELA Grid Operation * Wrote part of the following documents, appendices to the deliverable 2.3.3 - Incident Handling and Response Guide - Site Registration Policy and Procedures - VO Security Policy - Audit Requirements * Reviewed the EU deliverables 2.1.2, 2.2.1, 2.3.1 and 2.3.3 * Preparation work for the EELA review in Madrid Major work for GD-OPS major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Writing a paper about the Service Availability Monitoring framework to be submitted to the Workshop on Grid Monitoring, held in conjunction with the HPDC 2007 Event page: http://hpdc-monitoring-ws.web.cern.ch/hpdc-monitoring-ws/ Deadline: 28/02/2007 * ROC on Duty (29/01 to 02/02) Major issues arising -------------------- Received a proposal to extend the contract until 31/12/2007. Checking with home institute. Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- WLCG Collaborations Workshop (22 to 26/01/2007) Agenda: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=3738 Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- 1st EELA Review (27 and 28/02/2007) Agenda http://indico.eu-eela.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=74 Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 3 days. TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP2/T2.1 40% WP2/T2.3.1 35% WP2/T2.3.2 25% Wp4/T4.2: 0% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ # of sites in project - 13 # of sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure - # of cpus - 572 total SE 60.8 TB ************************************************************

09:20 → 09:40 Domenico Vicinanza

Domenico Vicinanza January, 2007 Major work for EUMEDGRID; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - SAM Server mainainance for the EUMEDGRID installation in Malta. - SAM Client upgrade and mainainance for the EUMEDGRID installation in Greece. - Majow work as responsible for the EUMEDGRID Demo at the First Year Review in Madrid (Feb. 27th-28th, 2007): -- Preparing EUMEDGRID infrastructure taking care of the installation of the chosen application for the DEMO: CODESA-3D (an application simulating the flux of underground waters with complex numerical models and monte carlo) -- Follow up of the installation of the additional packages required by CODESA-3D on the EUMEDGRID sites -- Follow up the installation and configuration of a GENIUS (a web portal developed by INFN-NICE srl) portal in Cyprus which will be used during the Demo Major work for <GD-OPS; GD-ITR>; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Released a first version of an automated SAM tests integrator, to automatically integrate into SAM standalone tests as new sensors. The package has been tests with the Hui Min Lin's WMS tests and it worked (now the tests, correctly integrated into the Certification TestBed SAM environment, are reguraly run) - Major work regarding the SAM (as responsible for SAM documentation): -- Existing SAM manuals (already written during the past months) have been translated into LaTeX format -- Prepared an environment on LXPLUS to automatically compile User/Developer Manuals -- Preparing the website where this manuals will be regularly uploaded -- Preparing a CVS structure to host the whole SAM manuals developlment to guarantee a concurrent/collaborative approach to the future SAM documentation Working on the "SAM Users" manual -- writing a SAM Client installation manual -- completing the SAM Users manual - Attended two SAM Team Meetings Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- Attended the Operation Workshop on Thursday, January 25, 2007 within the WLCG Collaboration Workshop held on January 22th-26th, 2007 at CERN Agenda: http://indico.cern.ch/sessionDisplay.py?sessionId=21&slotId=0&confId=3738#2007-01-25 Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- First EELA, EUChinaGrid and EUMedGrid Projects' Review February 27th-28th, 2007 at CIEMAT, Madrid Agenda at: http://indico.eu-eela.org/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=74 Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 1 day TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP3/A3.2 and 4.3 70% WP4/A4.2 and 4.3 30% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ # of sites in project: 12 (10 Countries, 8 Mediterranean Countries) # of sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure: # of CPUs: 712 total SE: 18 total RB: 9 total FTS: 0 total LFC: 1 total Local LFC: 1 ************************************************************

09:40 → 10:00 Lanxin Ma

Lanxin Ma Jan. 2007 Major work for ; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Maintenance SAM server & client 2. Submit ticket in EuChinagrid ticket system 3. Contact with Beijing site to process SAM tickets 4. Investigate EUChina ticket system problem as this system does not work properly 5. Maintain 2nd voms server 5. EUChina 2nd voms server sync faild as an MySQL error, submit a help requerement in MySQL forum and solved the problem 6. Ask euchina sites to re-configure their sites with 2nd voms. Major work for ; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. vom(r)s workshop (22nd -- 26th Jan.) put Java 1.5 in LCG production server Change the connection string accessing CERN HR DB to long string try to support oracle DB OCI driver in vom(r)s and lcg-registration code VOMRS bugs disscussion nickname requirement in lhcb vo define vmors regular test plan with patched oracle DB 3. Make/summary vomrs bugs list 4. VOMRS/VOMS maintenance & troubleshooting 5. Answer all of user's request, problem, tickets about VOMRS 6. Test if vomrs work properly with patached oracle DB 7. help security team to contact LCG Beijing site to get a job trace information 8. Install a WN for PPS Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- VOM(R)S workshop http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=8592 Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- Plan to attand a euchina WP3 videoconference on 6th Feb. Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 5 days(8th-12th Jan.) TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP3/A3.3 100% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ 8 of sites in project 8 of sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure 840 of total cpus total SE: 9 total RB: 7 total FTS: 0 total LFC: 1 total Local LFC: 0 total GridICE: 8 ************************************************************

10:00 → 10:20 Rolandas Naujikas

Rolandas Naujikas 01, 2007 Major work for BalticGrid; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- SAM maintenance. Cluster VU-MIF-LCG2 updates. Investigating Quattor. Major work for ; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- PPS upgrades. Major issues arising -------------------- none Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- WLCG workshop at CERN. Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- none Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 4 TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ NA2: 0% NA3: 0% SA1: Task2: Core central grid services: 20% Task5: User support system: 20% Task7: Logging and accounting system: 10% Task8: Validation and certification of production sites: 50% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ 22 sites in project 7 sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure 739 cpus (average) 40TB of SE

10:20 → 10:40 Dusan Vudragovic

Dusan Vudragovic January, 2007 Major work for SEE-GRID; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- * testing SyslogNG tool * installation gLite3 WN on SL4 32-bit * presentation of SEE-GRID BBmSAM tool at SAM metting * creating Availability metrics for SEE sites with David Collados Polidura * update Availability metrics for SEE sites * contribution to D2.2 Major work for GD-OPS; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- * SAM support * introduction with ROC CERN * GOC wiki updates Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- WLCG Collaboration Workshop Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 3 days TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP1 A1.4 10% WP2 A2.2 20% WP3 A3.1 70% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ 29 of sites in project 9 of sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure 607 of cpus 15.75TB total SE

10:40 → 11:00 Konstantin Skaburskas

Konstantin Skaburskas January, 2007 Major work for Health-e-Child; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- preparation to HeC Technical Review in Paris - slides (integrated into A4 presentation): - 1. Grid, 2. Virtualization, 3. Deployment Architecture using Virtualization Major work for <GD-OPS; GD-ITR>; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- UPDATES 15, 16, 17 on PPS inst/conf/debugging -- Report - "Summary of Xmas GMOD coverage" -- GMOD backup 15-21 Jan. -- GMOD 22-28 Jan. (power cut at CERN... uff) Major issues arising -------------------- - Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- -- HeC Technical Review in Paris, 16th-18th Jan. -- WLCG meeting at CERN, 25th-26th Jan. Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- - Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ * days 11 days: - 5 days CERN closure - 6 days - vacation *TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP5/T5.1 00% WP5/T5.2 00% WP5/T5.3 10% WP5/T5.4 90% WP5/T5.5 00% ************************************************************

11:00 → 11:20 Marc Ozonne