Deployment team

Tuesday 14 Dec 2010, 11:00 → 12:16 Europe/London

EVO - GridPP Deployment team meeting

Jeremy Coles

- This is the biweekly DTEAM 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 +44 (0)161 306 6802 (CERN number +41 22 76 71400). The phone bridge ID is 78425 with code: 4880. Apologies: Kashif & David

Minutes dteam_minutes141210.txt

11:00 → 11:20 Experiment problems/issues

Review of weekly issues by experiment/VO - LHCb - CMS From SW: In January cms will start requiring sites to have a cream ce. Thus there will be some sort of debugging / commissioning campaign after which cream ce sam tests will be marked as critical. - ATLAS - inc. T2-T2 mesh plans. - Other - Experiment blacklisted sites - Experiment known events affecting job slot requirements - Site performance/accounting issues - Metrics review -- Availability/reliability

11:20 → 11:40 Meetings & updates

- ROD team status (any points to raise to sites or issues to follow up?) -- Rota going forward & cover for Christmas/New Year. 13th: J - 20th D - 27th S - 3rd S?/D - 10th A - Tier-1 - PMB F2F last Thursday - Follow up from the Grid Deployment Board http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=83606. See Duncan's notes http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GDB_8th_December_2010. The next GDB is on 12th January - http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=106639. Graeme: Feb; June; Nov Pete: Feb or Jan D: All -> March! - Escalated tickets https://gus.fzk.de/download/escalationreports/roc/html/20101213_EscalationReport_ROCs.html ... tickets never seem to change suggesting this is broken. - Recent ops issues: -- APEL publishing http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gocwiki/glite-APEL -- Security (cleaning up when someone leaves & RV Exim) -- B Still T2K copying files -- Adding a new site -- ATLAS data not in spacetokens (QMUL) -- Early adopter sites

11:40 → 11:50 GridPP metrics + Nagios framework & security

- The Tier-2 and ops QRs were recently in the PMB in the context of making reporting more frequent in GridPP4. Formal reports aside, is there a subset of metrics we should review more frequently in this meeting (perhaps monthly)? - News on use of VMs, WMS+LB machine requirements and physical machine requirements. CREAM status: Installed: RAL T1; Glasgow; Manchester; Oxford; Birmingham; Imperial; Liverpool; RALPP; QMUL and Sheffield Not installed: UKI-LT2-Brunel UKI-LT2-RHUL UKI-SCOTGRID-DURHAM UKI-SCOTGRID-ECDF UKI-SOUTHGRID-CAM-HEP APEL status: - Pakiti alerts & reminders.

11:50 → 11:55 EMI questionniare

The EMI project is coordinating the maintenance and evolution of distributed computing middleware for major European infrastructures like EGI and PRACE. EMI is a joint initiative of ARC, dCache, gLite and UNICORE to simplify and make more efficient, stable and reliable the existing middleware services, while evolving them to take into account your requirements as researcher, application developer or system manager. http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22BM76DA78L/

11:55 → 12:00 Actions

- http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Deployment_Team_Action_items

12:00 → 12:01 AOB

- Christmas running (at risk?) -- CERN shutdown Wednesday 22nd - Tuesday 4th inclusive. http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2010/50/Official%20News/1311531?ln=en