PASTE meeting

Tuesday 6 Feb 2007, 10:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

Andrei Tsaregorodtsev

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Production and PASTE Meeting, 6 February 2007, CERN Chair: A.Tsaregorodtsev Minutes: S. Paterson CERN: M.Bargiotti, G.Castellani, P.Charpentier, J.Closier, M.Frank, E. Lanciotti, S.Paterson, R.Santinelli, A.Smith Phone: R.Bernet, N.Brook, R.Graciani, M.A.S.Miguelez, R.Nandakumar, A.Tsaregorodtsev 1. Offline update ( M.Frank ) Andrew reported that the machine in the pit is running 64bit SLC4 which has caused authentication issues for the LCG Utilities. Unfortunately there is no quick solution for obtaining the LCG Utilities for 64bit machines. Markus agreed to install the 32bit version of SLC4 and continue with the tests. Technical details will be discussed at the Friday Online/Offline discussion on file transfers, agenda here. 2. Production Status Report ( J.Closier ) Ricardo reported that all jobs were failing for DIRAC v2r12p7. This was caused by jobs failing to save their output and a fix is in place for v2r12p10 pending testing. ( ACTION: Joel ) Andrei also reported that fixes to properly report transfer accounting information and bandwidth monitoring have also been included in the latest release. Due to a bug in the DC06 physics version of Gauss, to do with the way the generator-level cuts are applied all production has been stopped. All DC06 samples produced to this point are affected. 3. Production Operations Issues ( J.Closier ) Joel reported that the same errors as discussed at the Monday Production meeting (minutes) are being observed. Roberto reported that a GGUS ticket had been submitted for PIC. It was discussed that a means to manage the many GGUS tickets should be introduced. ( ACTION: Roberto ). Philippe mentioned that recent problems had been caused by a confusion over modified LCG commands such as lcg-cp. It was agreed to rename the modified LCG Utilities to make the distinction clear e.g. lhcb-lcg-cp. ( ACTION: Andrei ) Raja reported that some Transfer Requests on the VO-boxes start with a valid proxy that expires before the request is satisfied. Andrei reported that the latest DIRAC version solves many problems for the VO-boxes which should be tested. ( ACTION: Raja ) Gianluca reported that the gLite Agent Director module has been committed to CVS. Ricardo has since identified two bugs which should be fixed and committed. ( ACTION: Gianluca ) The recent migration of the Test system to volhcb02 has been successful and therefore lxgate03 should be upgraded to the latest MySQL and Python versions. The proposal was made to standardise the version of Python (to 2.4) across DIRAC to avoid conflicts and remove all instances of hardcoded python 2.2. Stuart reported that the Ganga developers were in the process of testing the latest DIRAC version. Certification is required before migrating the User system. 4. DIRAC3 Tasks Andrei reported that a wiki page is being compiled with a task list and links to Savannah tasks. It is anticipated that this page will be used intensively during the DIRAC3 developments. This page should be circulated to the developers. ( ACTION: Andrei ) The first DIRAC3 action is for the new CVS repository to be set up and DIRAC release procedure to be circulated. ( ACTION: Joel ) 5. AOB Philippe mentioned that with the recent stoppage to production and >100K pending transfer requests it becomes increasingly difficult to complete the replication of useful DSTs. Andrei suggested that an agent to select proper and improper Transfer Requests based on Production ID should be put in place. ( ACTION: Andrei )

10:00 → 10:15 Production status report

- Report from the Production meeting:

10:15 → 10:45 Production operations issues

- v2r12p8 release and tests - VO-box data transfers status - gLite Director Agent - volhcb02 migration

10:45 → 10:55 DIRAC3 tasks

10:55 → 11:05 AOB